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He envisioned a mall with pagodas, trees and reflecting ponds to replace the empty storefronts. [8] The Hip Sing Association , a Chinese cultural group, moved its Chicago offices to Argyle Street in 1971, [ 9 ] and by 1974 Wong and the Hip Sing Association owned 80% of the three-block stretch on Argyle.
There are 2 Chicago Public Library branches serving Belmont-Cragin The Portage-Cragin Branch first opened in a storefront in 1927, with a permanent library opening on Belmont Avenue on November 1, 1969. [6] The West Belmont Branch serves the western division of Belmont Central at 3104 N. Narragansett Ave. This location opened on October 30 ...
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Culture & the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917 (University Press of Kentucky, 1976) Jensen, Richard. "The Accomplishments of the Newberry Library Family and Community History Programs: An Interview with Richard Jensen" The Public Historian (Autumn, 1983) 5#4 pp: 49-61 in JSTOR
The Former Chicago Historical Society Building is a historic landmark located at 632 N. Dearborn Street on the northwest corner of Dearborn and Ontario streets near downtown Chicago. Built in 1892, the granite -clad building is a prime example of Henry Ives Cobb 's Richardsonian Romanesque architecture . [1]
The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is located just south of the Loop 'L', at 400 South State Street in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a full-service library and is ADA compliant. As with all libraries in the Chicago Public Library system, it has free Wi-Fi ...
Illinois Center is a mixed-use urban development in downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA, lying east of Michigan Avenue. It is notable in that the streets running through it have three levels. Elsewhere in Chicago, some streets have two levels, with the lower level for through traffic and service vehicles and the upper level for other local traffic ...
The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th (1100 south in the street numbering system) or Roosevelt Road (1200 south), depending on the source, and Randolph Streets (150 north) and named after the nearby Lake Michigan.