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The district developed in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and was mainly the home to middle-class residents relocating from immigrant neighborhoods. While the district's residents were mainly Western European, particularly German and Irish, in its first decades, the area became predominantly Italian around 1900 and remained so until ...
Forgotten Chicago is an organization that seeks to discover and document little-known elements of Chicago's infrastructure, architecture, neighborhoods, and general cityscape, existing or historical. The organization exposes many of these often-overlooked elements of Chicago's built environment to a wide audience to increase interest in their ...
The Book of Treasure Maps is a supplement which contains five short dungeon scenarios that the player characters find using treasure maps. Each of these dungeons includes a hand-drawn map to be given to the players as well as a complete map of the dungeon for the gamemaster to use.
This would usually be with the intention of later recovery by the hoarder; hoarders sometimes died or were unable to return for other reasons (forgetfulness or physical displacement from its location) before retrieving the hoard, and these surviving hoards might then be uncovered much later by metal detector hobbyists, members of the public ...
The first Code of Chicago was adopted in 1837. [3] The current Code, adopted 28 February 1990, wholly replaced and renumbered the previous Code adopted 30 August 1939. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is the responsibility of the City Clerk of Chicago to maintain a current copy of the Code, [ 5 ] and revisions to the Code must be published at least every six months.
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The Sheffield Historic District is a national historic district in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.The district is primarily a residential area, though it also includes multiple small commercial areas.
The neighborhood is roughly bounded by 67th Street to the north, 71st Street to the south, Cregier Avenue to the west, and Jeffery Boulevard to the east. Directly north of the neighborhood lies the 18-hole Jackson Park Golf Course, a part of the Chicago Park District's Jackson Park, the third largest park in the city and home of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893.