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2. Maxwell Street - Wikipedia

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   The professional wrestler Colt Cabana is billed as being from "Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois". The Maxwell Street market of the 1960s/1970s is mentioned in the short story "Barbie-Q", by Sandra Cisneros, in her 1991 collection, Woman Hollering Creek. The story is about two Chicana girls who buy fire-damaged Barbie dolls sold at a discount ...

3. Chicago real estate bubble of the 1830s - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago real estate bubble of the 1830s was a real estate bubble, during which time the per acre prices (in 2012 dollars) in the future Chicago Loop increased from $800 in 1830 to $327,000 in 1836, before falling to $38,000 per acre by 1841. The Bank of Illinois began foreclosing on large amounts of real estate in the aftermath of the bust ...

4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Chicago

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   The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...

5. Twelve Maxwell Street houses in danger of demolition. Again ...

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   These projects, however, pale in comparison to a scheme for the E. Maxwell Street corridor that calls for the demolition of at least 12 historic buildings dating from the 1880s to the 1920s.

6. Near West Side, Chicago - Wikipedia

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   PepsiCo's Chicago offices are in the Near West Side. [40] Aeroméxico operates the Chicago Downtown Location on the first floor at 954 West Washington Boulevard. [41] The Consulate-General of Mexico in Chicago is located at 204 South Ashland Avenue. [42] Previously, Trizec Properties's headquarters and Chicago-area offices were in 10 S ...

7. Loop Retail Historic District - Wikipedia

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   United States historic place Loop Retail Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district State Street in 1907 Show map of Chicago metropolitan area Show map of Illinois Show map of the United States Location Chicago, Illinois Coordinates 41°53′N 87°38′W  /  41.883°N 87.633°W  / 41.883; -87.633 Area 26 acres (11 ha) Built 1871 Architect ...

8. ABLA Homes - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

9. Robert Taylor Homes - Wikipedia

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   Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The 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.