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West Argyle Street Historic District (also known as Little Saigon, [1] New Chinatown, and Asia on Argyle) is a historic district in northern Uptown, Chicago, Illinois.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 2010.
The Brickyard; Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Address: 2600 North Narragansett Avenue: Opening date: 1977; 48 years ago (): Developer: Maisel and Associates: Management: CBRE Group: Owner: CBRE Group: No. of stores and services: 100+ (original mall): No. of anchor tenants: 3: Total retail floor area: 876,000 square feet (81,400 m 2) (original mall) [2] 261,369 ...
In 1936, developer Arthur Rubloff conceived a shopping mall in the Evergreen Park area located between the corners of W 95th Street and Western Ave, 98th Street and Western Ave., 98th Street slightly west of Campbell Ave., 96th Street and Campbell Ave., and 95th and Campbell Ave. [4] Opened to the public in August 1952, the mall was originally an 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m 2) open-air ...
Goldblatt's was an American chain of local discount stores that operated in Chicago, Illinois, as well as Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin.Founded in 1914, the chain grew to more than twenty stores at its peak, gradually closing some stores in the 1990s and selling others to Ames before finally closing completely in 2000.
The University of Illinois at Chicago was established at the Harrison/Halsted area in 1965, the location chosen by Mayor Richard J. Daley. This was unpopular with the locals, who had been promised more low-income housing by the city, and there were numerous protests, especially by the Italian-American and Mexican-American communities.
Both the salad dressing and meat sauce won the International Epicurian Award of France. [2] It was cited by Chicago Magazine as one of the top 40 Chicago restaurants ever. [3] According to that same Chicago Magazine article Kraft Foods offered $75,000 in 1948 to buy Fanny's salad dressing recipe. This offer was refused.
The area's name is from the intersection of three streets—Irving Park Road, Cicero Avenue and Milwaukee Avenue. [1] Its history as an urban center began in the 1840s, eventually becoming the largest commercial center in Chicago , outside of the Loop . [ 2 ]
Old Town is a neighborhood and historic district in Near North Side and Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, [2] [3] home to many of Chicago's older, Victorian-era buildings, including St. Michael's Church, one of seven buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire.