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February 21, 2012 [1] Julia C. Lathrop Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located along the line between the Lincoln Park and North Center neighborhoods on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Bucktown and Roscoe Village. Completed in 1938 by the Public Works ...
ABLA Homes ( Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes, Loomis Courts, and Grace Abbott Homes) was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing development that comprised four separate public housing projects on the Near-West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The name "ABLA" was an acronym for the names of the four different housing developments that ...
D.R. Horton, Inc. is an American home construction company based in Arlington, Texas. Since 2002, the company has been the largest homebuilder by volume in the United States. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The company ranked number 194 on the 2019 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue. [ 5] The company operates in 90 markets in 29 ...
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
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The Carver Community housing project (aka "Carver Homes") in southeast Atlanta was finished on February 17, 1953, [ 2] costing $8.6 million and consisting of 990 units for African-Americans. [ 4] Named for George Washington Carver, the project was located near Joyland, an amusement park for black Atlantans. The project was demolished in 2000 ...
The history of Walmart, an American discount department store chain, began in 1950 when businessman Sam Walton purchased a store from Luther E. Harrison in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and opened Walton's 5 & 10. [ 1] The Walmart chain proper was founded in 1962 with a single store in Rogers, expanding inside Oklahoma by 1968 and throughout the ...
Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1] Sears Modern Homes were purchased primarily by customers in East Coast and Midwest states, but have been located as ...