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Public road planning in Chicago began in 1910 when the Chicago Plan Commission was created to implement Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett's plan. [ 5 ] The double-decked portion of Wabash Avenue north of the Chicago River was built in 1930, in conjunction with the single-level Wabash Avenue Bridge .
0–9. 1910 Chicago garment workers' strike; 1910 World Series; 1911 Chicago mayoral election; 1912 Progressive National Convention; 1912 Republican National Convention
While all north–south streets within city limits are named, rather than numbered, smaller streets in some areas are named in groups all starting with the same letter; thus, when traveling westward on a Chicago street, starting just past Pulaski Road (4000 W), one will cross a mile-long stretch of streets which have names starting with the letter K (From east to west: Keystone (North Side ...
The Krause Music Store in Lincoln Square 26th Street in Little Village A woodblock print (1925) of Maxwell Street by Todros Geller A Portage Park two-flat, or Polish flat, in Chicago's Bungalow Belt Wacławowo is derived from the Polish name for the church of St. Wenceslaus. Photographer Richard Nickel was married here in 1950.
The West Loop–LaSalle Street Historic District is a historic district centered on LaSalle Street in the western Chicago Loop. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 1, 2013. [1] A boundary increase on July 24, 2017, added two buildings at 330 S. Wells Street and 212 W. Van Buren Street to the district. [2]
By 1910, the black population in Chicago reached 40,000, with 78% residing in the Black Belt. [24] [25] Extending 30 blocks, mostly between 31st and 55th Streets, [26] along State Street, but only a few blocks wide, [24] it developed into a vibrant community dominated by black businesses, music, food and culture. [25]
The south end of the channel flows into the North Branch at approximately 5100 north and 3000 west in the Chicago street-address numbering system. A concrete low head dam , 82 feet (25 m) in width and 8 feet (2.4 m) in height, was constructed at the confluence of the channel and river in 1910, creating Chicago's only waterfall within the city ...
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.