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In the early 1960s, Bob Chase began developing a plan for a fine art gallery. [5] He had recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison [6] [5] and convinced his father, Merrill Chase, who owned a portrait photography business, [1] to join him in opening a fine art gallery that would focus on emerging artists, mid-career artists, and works of art on paper by masters.
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The Monadnock was commissioned by Boston real estate developers Peter and Shepherd Brooks in the building boom following the Depression of 1873–79. [5] The Brooks family, which had amassed a fortune in the shipping insurance business and had been investing in Chicago real estate since 1863, had retained Chicago property manager Owen F. Aldis to manage the construction of the seven-story ...
East Side is Metra territory, as the nearest Chicago Transit Authority train station is the 95th/Dan Ryan terminal on the Red Line, 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the neighborhood. Residents utilize 93rd Street station on the Metra Electric District's South Chicago branch and Hegewisch station on the South Shore Line.
Illustration of various examples of balusters, in A Handbook of Ornament, by Franz S. Meyer The term derives from the swelling form of the half-open flower of Punica granatum, in Italian balaustra A baluster ( / ˈ b æ l ə s t ər / ⓘ ) is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe -turned form found in stairways ...
Originally intended for retailers and services targeting Park Tower residents, including Jonathan Livingston Seafood, Edgewater Market Ltd. , The Bike Stop, Brass Bed Emporium, and a pharmacy, [3] the only remaining retailer is family-owned Chicago-area supermarket chain Go Grocer. [4]
Trumbull Park Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the South Deering neighborhood on the Far-South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Built in 1938, it consists of 55 buildings and 434 apartments. [2] Its chief architect was John A. Holabird.
Portage Park is the childhood home of Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., the late Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago (1937-2015; served 1997–2014; cardinal, 1998; president of the U.S. bishops, 2007–2010; formerly, Bishop of Yakima, WA, and Archbishop of Portland, OR). He grew up in a working class area of the neighborhood in a small red ...