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Altgeld Gardens Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States, on the border of Chicago and Riverdale, Illinois. The residents are 97% African-American according to the 2000 United States Census . [ 1 ]
Altgeld Gardens Homes: Riverdale (Far South Side) 1944–46; 1954: Named for Illinois politician John Peter Altgeld and Labor movement leader Philip Murray. 1,971 units of 2-story row houses; renovated. Bridgeport Homes: Bridgeport (Southwest Side) 1943–44: Named after its neighborhood location, consist of 115 units of 2-story row houses ...
Riverdale is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois and is located on the city's far south side.. As originally designated by the Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago and officially adopted by the City of Chicago, the Riverdale community area extends from 115th Street south to the city boundary at 138th Street and from the Illinois Central ...
Chicago's Altgeld Gardens Homes, one of the first housing projects in the United States, was named after the former governor as well as the street located at 2500 North in Chicago's grid system, Altgeld Street. There is a statue of Altgeld in Lincoln Park in Chicago at 2045 Lincoln Park West; east of Lincoln Park West, south of Dickens St.
There are 105 sites on the National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side Chicago — of more than 350 total listings within the City of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois. The South Side district is defined for this article as the area west of Lake Michigan , and south of 26th Street and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal , to the ...
The Garden Homes Historic District is a residential historic district located in the Chatham neighborhood of the South Side, Chicago, Illinois. The district includes 152 residential buildings, 88 of which are contributing buildings , built in 1919-20 as Chicago's first large housing project.
As originally designed, the building housed the university library and laboratories for the departments of physics, chemistry and biological science, as well as a gymnasium. Following a major remodeling project in 1958, Altgeld Hall became the home of the SIUC School of Music. From 2002 to 2004 the building underwent a major restoration and ...
Century of Progress Anticipates Homes of Tomorrow. American Home, 10:18-19, June 1933. Chicago and Tomorrow's House? Pencil Points, 14:245-251, June 1933. Exhibits at Century of Progress Exhibition: Houses Constructed for the Home and Industrial Arts Exhibit (Floor Plans). Architectural Record, 73: supplement, May 1933.