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By the 1950s and 1960s, the disease incidence was drastically reduced through improved public hygiene, vaccines and antimicrobial drugs. When the sanitarium became under-used by the 1970s, the city of Chicago decided to redevelop the property as North Park Village, to include senior citizen housing, a school for the developmentally disabled, a ...
The Gold Coast Historic District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois. Part of Chicago's Near North Side community area, it is roughly bounded by North Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, Oak Street, and Clark Street. The Gold Coast neighborhood grew in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire.
The Norwood Park Historical District (also known as Old Norwood) is a historic district in the Norwood Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is bordered by Bryn Mawr, Avondale, and Harlem Avenues, and is home to the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House, which was built in 1833 and is widely considered to be the oldest house in Chicago. (However, it ...
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PCC streetcar, Chicago, 1950. 1950 Chess Records in business. [50] Population: 3,620,962. This was the peak of Chicago's population, which has been declining ever since. [51] 1951 December 20: The Edens Expressway, Chicago's first expressway, opened. 1953: American Indian Center, the oldest urban Native American center in the United States, opened.
Maxwell Street is an east–west street in Chicago, Illinois, that intersects with Halsted Street just south of Roosevelt Road.It runs at 1330 South in the numbering system running from 500 West to 1126 West. [1]
English: Expansion of the Chicago metropolitan area in Illinois, 1950-2010. Red is Cook County, Orange is the rest of the metropolitan area as of 1950, and yellow is the counties that have been added to the metropolitan area as of 2010.
Whitney Houston would have turned 51 today, August 9th, and we're paying a tribute by taking a look back at her career that spanned decades and delighted fans around the world in the slideshow above.