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A. Finkl & Sons Steel operated a mill along a roughly 22-acre lot along the eastern portion of the Chicago River in the Lincoln Park neighborhood from 1902 until it was demolished in 2012. [2] The Lincoln Park location was Chicago's oldest steel mill. [3] In 2006, it bought the site of the former Verson Steel on Chicago's South Side. [4]
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
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.
The plant later moved to South Chicago because raw materials could be shipped in via Lake Michigan, as well as an existing labor pool and available fresh water from the lake and the Calumet River. [1] In 1889, the facility merged with three other steel mills to form a new company called Illinois Steel, which later became part of Federal Steel. [1]
Riteway Construction Services Inc. was the general contractor for Cook County Hospital. [1] His company's role with the County Hospital was controversial when Riteway missed filing its 1997 corporate annual report, leading the Illinois Secretary of State to dissolve the company on January 2, 1998 just prior to the spring 1998 groundbreaking for ...
UCLA redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Niki Prongos, a walk-on who recently earned a scholarship, has quickly developed into an NFL prospect. How UCLA's Niki Prongos went from unknown to NFL ...
Construction has not yet started. [16] [17] In 2023, the developer posted official plans on construction dates, with February 2024 beginning construction, with a conclusion in September 2027. The final plans, as of 2023, include 426 parking spaces, a 250-unit hotel, and 564-units, made up of 125 condos and 439 rentals, including 10% affordable ...
Students learn to make scale model aircraft for the war effort in a class at the Ida B. Wells Homes community center (March 1942) Named for African American journalist and newspaper editor Ida B. Wells, [1] the housing project was constructed between 1939 and 1941 as a Public Works Administration project to house black families in the "ghetto", in accordance with federal regulations requiring ...