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A suburban extension of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive to Waukegan was first promoted by the North Shore Improvement Association in the late 1880s. [4] In 1889 this road was named Sheridan Road for Philip Henry Sheridan, [5] a general in the Civil War who coordinated military relief efforts in Chicago following the Great Chicago Fire.
As early as 1985, Pilsen's proximity to the downtown area and its low-value property became an ideal neighborhood for gentrification. [2] Pilsen residents and community institutions mobilized against two major redevelopments Chicago 21 Plan (the mid-1970s) and Chicago 1992 World's Fair (early to mid-1980s). [2]
The Colvin House is a house at 5940 North Sheridan Road in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The house was built in 1909 in the Prairie Style by George W. Maher. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 5, 1994. [1] This residence was built for Edwin M. Colvin, his wife Clara and their four children.
The hotel was the first high-rise building in Uptown. The Chicago Cubs and visiting teams that played the Cubs stayed in the hotel; [2] the building was also a popular site for weddings and dances. [3] After the hotel closed, the building sat vacant and deteriorated significantly, and some of the terra cotta decorations fell off the side of the ...
5555 North Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois: Coordinates: Built: 1928 (co-op apartments) Architect: Marshall and Fox: Architectural style: Beaux-arts / Historism [4] MPS: Bryn Mawr Avenue Historic District: NRHP reference No. 94000979 [3] Added to NRHP: August 16, 1994
The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...
[6] [20] Due to the changing nature of the Rogers Park neighborhood, the house now stands among commercial properties and apartment buildings on a busy city street (North Sheridan Road). [6] The Bach House includes walnut decorations, even though it was built during World War I, when the United States Army managed the nation's supply of walnut ...
Roughly bounded by N. Sheridan Road, W. Ainslie Street, N. Broadway, and W. Winona Street; also N. Broadway & E. block face of N. Sheridan Road between W. Argyle Street & W. Winona Avenue 41°58′24″N 87°39′28″W / 41.9733°N 87.657789°W / 41.9733; -87.657789 ( West Argyle Street Historic