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2. LaSalle Street Auto Row Historic District - Wikipedia

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   56-84 LaSalle St. and 57-83 S. LaSalle St., Aurora, Illinois: ... The buildings reflect the growth of automobile retail in Aurora in the early 20th century.

3. Victory Auto Wreckers - Wikipedia

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   Victory Auto Wreckers was an auto salvage yard in Bensenville, Illinois, near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It is well known in the Chicago area for its former television commercial, in which a young man struggles with a car door that has just detached from its hinges. The commercial aired with limited changes from 1985 to 2015 ...

4. Middle Avenue Historic District - Wikipedia

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   The Middle Avenue Historic District is an industrial historic district located on two square blocks in downtown Aurora, Illinois.The district includes eleven buildings, eight of which are contributing buildings to its historic nature.

5. Wrecking yard - Wikipedia

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   At the salvage yard, the automobiles are typically arranged in rows, often stacked on top of one another. Some yards keep inventories in their offices, as to the usable parts in each car, as well as the car's location in the yard. Many yards have computerized inventory systems. About 75% of any given vehicle can be recycled and used for other ...

6. Two Brothers Roundhouse - Wikipedia

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   The roundhouse was designed by Levi Hull Waterhouse, who designed several important structures in the Aurora vicinity. [3] The walls of the structure were constructed with locally quarried limestone from Batavia, Illinois. [3] There were originally twenty-two stalls in the roundhouse, with an additional eight added three years after completion.

7. West Side Historic District (Aurora, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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   Aurora indeed expanded rapidly during that period, almost doubling in population from 1860 to 1874. Most of the new lands were along the river, with a section following several streets westward. Industrial growth followed in the 1880s, spurring a need for developed city services. Aurora became the first city to have electric street lighting in ...