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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 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.
Dearborn was the first Chicago housing project built after World War II, as housing for blacks on part of the Federal Street slum within the "black belt". [3] It was the start of the Chicago Housing Authority's post-war use of high-rise buildings to accommodate more units at a lower overall cost, [6] and when it opened in 1950, the first to have elevators.
Ravenswood is a neighborhood located on the North Side of the city of Chicago, Illinois.Lacking designation as one of Chicago's 77 well-defined community areas, it is mostly situated in the Lincoln Square community area, with the portion east of Ravenswood Avenue and the Chicago & Northwestern/Union Pacific North Line railroad tracks being situated in the Uptown community area.
Chicago is also divided into 77 community areas which were drawn by University of Chicago researchers in the late 1920s. [3] Chicago's community areas are well-defined, generally contain multiple neighborhoods, and depending on the neighborhood, less commonly used by residents. [2] [4]
With the exception of 1970 (whose data was published in 1980 [2]), it continued this publication for every subsequent census through 1990, expanding in the 1960s to also cover major suburbs of Chicago. [2] [3] The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning continues this work by periodically publishing "Community Snapshots" of the community areas ...
Engraving of the Hyde Park Water Works, 1882. In 1853, Paul Cornell, a real estate speculator and cousin of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell, purchased 300 acres (1.2 km 2) of land [9] between 51st and 55th streets along the shore of Lake Michigan, [10] with the idea of attracting other Chicago businessmen and their families to the area. [9]
Each of the 52 residential floors had an identical layout, originally consisting of 14 units each. The original units range from 565 to 1,258 square feet (52.5 to 116.9 m 2). The four legally merged units range from 1,815 to 2,516 square feet (168.6 to 233.7 m 2). Total residential space is over 580,000 square feet (54,000 m 2). [citation needed]
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