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Architect Charles Sumner Frost designed the homes, which were mainly brick cottages and stucco duplexes. The houses were built on unusually large lots for the time; the extra land was designed to serve as garden space for residents. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 28, 2005. [1]
Chicago and Wicker Park reached a nadir in the 1970s, a decade when the city overall lost 11% of its population. During the 1970s, hundreds of cases of insurance-motivated arson were reported in Wicker Park, near St. Elizabeth Hospital. Many small factories near the area (many in woodworking) also closed or moved away. The city increased ...
Delmar Garden St. Louis: 1908–1919 [41] The park closed due to people using their own automobiles driving out to the country instead of using the streetcar. [41] [42] Electric Park: Kansas City: 1899–1906, 1907–1925 Fairyland Park: Kansas City: 1923–1977 Forest Park Kansas City: 1903–1912 [43] Forest Park Highlands: St. Louis: 1896 ...
Owner George Lemperis said his restaurant, located blocks from Chicago’s United Center, was closed at the time and his employees had left about 3 p.m. nearly seven hours before the fire began.
Due to a grandfather clause that did not require schools to retrofit to a new standard if they already met previous regulations, the school legally complied with the State of Illinois and City of Chicago fire codes of 1958 and was generally clean and well-maintained; nonetheless, several fire hazards existed.
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Chicago Fire of 1874; Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1910) Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1934) Cook County Administration Building fire; G. Great Chicago Fire; I.
Start Date: Jan. 7, 2025. Size in Acres: 10,600. Containment %: 0%. What to know: Burning in the Altadena/Pasadena area, the Eaton Fire has claimed two civilian lives, according to Cal Fire.The ...