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Students learn to make scale model aircraft for the war effort in a class at the Ida B. Wells Homes community center (March 1942) Named for African American journalist and newspaper editor Ida B. Wells, [1] the housing project was constructed between 1939 and 1941 as a Public Works Administration project to house black families in the "ghetto", in accordance with federal regulations requiring ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Housing in Illinois" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 ...
Crown Wood is a south-eastern estate of Bracknell in the English county of Berkshire, and formerly part of the parish of Winkfield.. Crown Wood was built during the late 1970s and is bounded in by Forest Park to the east, Harmans Water to the north and Birch Hill to the west and is east of the A322 Bagshot Road.
Harold L. Ickes Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.It was bordered between Cermak Road to the north, 24th Place to the south, State Street to the east, and Federal Street to the west, making it part of the State Street Corridor that included other CHA properties: Robert Taylor Homes, Dearborn Homes ...
In contrast to these areas Wick Hill was built as privately owned, largely detached, housing. The area includes Wick Hill House, a residence of 19th-century explorer St. George Littledale, [1] [2] since converted to apartments. Other areas of housing are surrounded by the walls of former Edwardian residence built in 1835.
Hedding College (1855–1927), in Abingdon, absorbed by Illinois Wesleyan University in 1930; Hillsboro College (1847–1852), in Hillsboro, moved to Springfield in 1852 as Illinois State University (1852–1870), moved to Carthage in 1870 and became Carthage College; Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago (1916–2018, Chicago)
A map of the 77 community areas, broken down by purported regions. While the areas have official use and definition, the color groupings are unofficial, and such "regions" may be defined differently, grouped differently, or not be used at all. The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes.
Dearborn was the first Chicago housing project built after World War II, as housing for blacks on part of the Federal Street slum within the "black belt". [3] It was the start of the Chicago Housing Authority's post-war use of high-rise buildings to accommodate more units at a lower overall cost, [6] and when it opened in 1950, the first to have elevators.