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Zoning, Joseph P. Schwieterman and Dana Caspall(
Authored Entry
) ...and concerns for the quality of life. Although Chicago has many neighborhood and area plans to guide...
...Controls on land use in Chicago began during the mid-nineteenth century in response to concerns over...
...the possibility of a similar ordinance for Chicago. The city formed a Zoning Commission that year...
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| 1592 |
Airports, Commuter, David Brodherson(
Authored Entry
) ...use the roof as intended. To the north of Chicago, Sky Harbor Airport opened in 1929. The facility,...
...personal commuter vehicle. In 1948 the city of Chicago opened a commuter airport for wide public use...
...emerged as the most important one to serve Chicago over the long run. In 1920 the city of Chicago...
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| 1593 |
East Side, Kristina M. Bas and David Bensman(
Authored Entry
) ...for their food. Located just south of South Chicago and east of South Deering , the region's natural...
...Side has long been considered a suburb of South Chicago, and its residents have a profound sense of...
...plant. As 1,000 people approached the mill gates, Chicago police ordered their retreat. The crowd...
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| 1594 |
Gathering Information, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...H. Burnham Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2530 3272 Burnham Plan Infrastructure...
...1906 Author: Commerce and Labor Department Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2350 3134...
...Burnham Plan Infrastructure Planning Chicago...
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| 1595 |
Round Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...in exchange for a station. He also drew up a town plat to show railroad officials that profitable...
...they could not craft on the farm. In the 1890s, when officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul...
...extended a branch line from their Milwaukee–Chicago main line at Libertyville Junction (later...
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| 1596 |
Melrose Park, IL, Richard Harris(
Authored Entry
) ...as an industrial, working-class suburb. By 1940 the town offered 38 jobs for every 100 residents (...
...miles W of the Loop. Melrose Park is one of Chicago's many pre–World War II suburbs that do not fit...
...subdivided a large tract almost due west of Chicago, well beyond city limits. At first the company...
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| 1597 |
School Architecture, Arthur Zilversmit(
Authored Entry
) ...The architecture of Chicago's schools has been dominated by an often desperate need to find places...
...and a strictly utilitarian architecture. The Chicago Fire of 1871 exacerbated the problem. One-third...
...for 54–63 students. The innovations of the “Chicago School” of architecture were first applied to...
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| 1598 |
South Shore, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...desiring a congenial middle-class community on Chicago's South Side. i3484 Golfers at South Shore...
...Country Club, 1908. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...area's high ground to transport his goods to Chicago. Before the community came to be known as South...
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| 1599 |
Lager Beer Riot, Robin Einhorn(
Authored Entry
) ...first time, and directing them to enforce an old, previously ignored ordinance requiring the Sunday...
...riot ended in minutes. The riot mobilized Chicago's immigrant voters. In March 1856, a heavy German...
...Chicago's first civil disturbance, on April 21, 1855, resulted in 1 death, 60 arrests, and the...
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| 1600 |
Restrictive Covenants, Arnold R. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...people, usually African Americans . Rare in Chicago before the 1920s, their widespread use followed...
...paved the way for their proliferation. The Chicago Real Estate Board (CREB) campaigned to blanket...
...by Nathan William MacChesney, a member of the Chicago Plan Commission. In the fall of 1927, the CREB...
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Vice Commissions, Mary Linehan(
Authored Entry
) ...prostitution throughout the city? At first, the Chicago Vice Commission members—including Frank...
...report, published in 1911 as The Social Evil in Chicago, also included a statistical section, which...
...that 5,000 professional prostitutes worked in Chicago, serving over 5 million men every year. These...
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| 1602 |
Crystal Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...River's rails. The consolidated line known as the Chicago & North Western erected a station near the...
...of the Crystal Lake rail spur, Charles Dole of Chicago's Armour and Dole established an expansive...
...had ice cut from the lake, which he shipped to Chicago even during summer months; well-insulated ice...
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Algonquin, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...traveled trail (now Illinois Highway 62) between Chicago and the Indian settlements at Lake Geneva....
...returning home to Portage, Wisconsin, from Chicago in 1830. Her description (Wau-Bun) of crossing...
...farmers along the Fox River Valley Railroad (Chicago & North Western Railway), which entered the...
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| 1604 |
Illinois, Raymond E. Hauser(
Authored Entry
) ...Illinois country, including the entire greater Chicago area. Tribal members divided themselves into...
...streams explain their residency in greater Chicago. The Illinois living on the Illinois River across...
...Influential tribal leaders included Rouensa, Chicago, and Jean Baptiste Ducoigne. During the late...
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| 1605 |
Northwestern University, Patrick M. Quinn(
Authored Entry
) ...of land located on Lake Michigan 12 miles north of Chicago. Here, during the winter of 1853–54, the...
...with several professional schools located in Chicago, including a law school and a medical school....
...had grown rapidly, both in Evanston and in Chicago, but remained a relatively loose federation of...
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| 1606 |
O'Hare, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...became a commercial airport , and in 1947 the Chicago City Council picked it as the site for the...
...to consolidate its control over the airport area, Chicago annexed it in March 1956, including the...
...required that annexed areas be contiguous with Chicago, the city council also annexed a narrow...
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| 1607 |
Black Belt, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...identify the predominately African American community on Chicago's South Side . Originally a narrow...
...22nd to 31st Streets along State Street, Chicago's South Side African American community expanded...
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| 1608 |
Greektown, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...In the late nineteenth century, Chicago's Greek population began to coalesce in the area surrounded...
...the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago is now located. Greektown (also known as “the...
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| 1609 |
Hyde Park Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...unit separate from, and geographically larger than, Chicago. The township population grew more than...
...1880 and 1889 (15,716 to 85,000). In 1889, Chicago annexed Hyde Park, which ceased to function as an...
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Jefferson Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...an independent political unit separate from Chicago. In 1872 Norwood Park Township was created...
...the northwest corner of Jefferson. In 1889, Chicago annexed the rest of the township and it ceased...
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