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Marshall Field Gardens Apartments is a populated place located in Cook County at a latitude of 41.908 and longitude -87.639. The elevation is 594 feet. Marshall Field Garden Apartments appears on the Chicago Loop U.S. Geological Survey Map. Cook County is the Central Time Zone (UTC -6 hours) which Marshall Fields Gardens Apartments have. [10]
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.
In the movie, the apartments doubled as part of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. [5] In 2015, a complete renovation of the building and courtyard, which had been added to the National Register of Historic Places, began. The intention was to create a mixture of senior citizen apartments and affordable housing for families. [6] [7]
860–880 Lake Shore Drive (left) has windows attached to structure, not to mullions; Esplanade Apartments at 900–910 Lake Shore Drive (right) were first true curtain-wall high-rises. This building, like many of his Chicago high-rise structures, caused controversy in the pure minimalist community due to its mullions.
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.
Hilliard Towers Apartments, formerly known as the Raymond Hilliard Homes CHA housing project, is a residential high-rise development in the near South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by Bertrand Goldberg and is bounded by Clark Street , State Street , Cullerton Street, and Cermak Road .
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 ]
At its largest area, The Yards covered nearly 1 square mile (3 km 2) of land, from Halsted Street to Ashland Avenue and from 39th (now Pershing Rd.) to 47th Streets. [7] [10] General view of the Union Stock Yards, 1901. At one time, 500,000 US gallons (2,000 m 3) a day of Chicago River water were pumped into the