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The Central Manufacturing District of Chicago is a 265-acre (1.07 km 2) area [1] of the city in which private decision makers planned the structure of the district and its internal regulation, including the provision of vital services ordinarily considered to be outside the scope of private enterprise. [2]
In about 1935, Mills was engaged by Coca-Cola to produce a standing dry automatic cooled vendor for bottles. The result, the model 47, was the first of its kind for Cola-Cola. [1] By the late 1930s, gum vending machines were being installed by Mills Automatic Merchandising Corporation of New York. The machines made use of technology protected ...
A map of the 77 community areas, broken down by purported regions. While the areas have official use and definition, the color groupings are unofficial, and such "regions" may be defined differently, grouped differently, or not be used at all. The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes.
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A portion of the district (named the Fulton-Randolph Market District) was granted Landmark District status by the City of Chicago in 2015. [2] [3] [4] The landmarked portion of the district is around 74 acres in size. [4] It is served by the CTA's Green and Pink Lines at the Morgan 'L' station, as well as several bus routes. It borders the ...
333 Wacker Drive was featured in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off as the building containing Ferris Bueller's father's offices, and was voted "Favorite Building" by the readers of The Chicago Tribune in 1995. [5]
When economic decline in the American South after World War I caused many Delta Blues and jazz musicians—notably Louis Armstrong—to migrate north to Chicago, the first economically secure class willing to help them was the mostly Jewish merchants of the area around Maxwell Street, who by that time were able to rent or own store buildings ...
The waiting area consists of a number of benches and ticket vending machines as well as a ticket counter and information desk for Metra. [ 6 ] From the waiting room, there is a passage to the upper-level South Shore Line platforms, and along this passage is a set of ticket windows for the South Shore Line. [ 7 ]