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A landmark lost to history and is considered the world's first skyscraper. Chicago Water Tower and Chicago Avenue Pumping Station, circa 1886. 1886 May 4, the Haymarket riot. [20] Chicago Evening Post published (until 1932). [1] 1887: Newberry Library established. 1888: Dearborn Observatory rebuilt. 1889 Hull House founded. [1] [21] Auditorium ...
The Motor Row District is a historic district in Chicago's Near South Side community area.Motor Row includes buildings on Michigan Avenue between 2200 and 2500 south, directly west of McCormick Place convention center, and 1444, 1454, 1737, 1925, 2000 S. Michigan Ave., as well as 2246-3453 S. Indiana Ave., and 2211-47 S. Wabash Ave. [2] The district was built between 1905 and 1936 by a number ...
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. (1991). 318 pp. excerpt and text search; Rosen, Christine Meisner. "Businessmen against pollution in late nineteenth century Chicago." Business History Review (1995) 69#3 pp: 351-397.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "History of Chicago" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
In 1900, there were three private companies operating 41 miles (66.0 km) of double track routes radiating out from Chicago's downtown area. State of the art technology when the first line opened in 1882, by 1900 electric traction had proven superior and in 1906 all cable routes were changed to electrical power.
It is one of the oldest standing stations on the El, built in 1900. [citation needed] In 1924, the first gay rights organization in American history, the Society for Human Rights, was established by Henry Gerber at his home, the Henry Gerber House, on North Crilly Court. The Henry Gerber House was designated a Chicago Landmark on June 6, 2001. [18]
The Chicago Surface Lines was primarily a trolley operation, with approximately 3100 streetcars on the roster at the time of the CTA takeover. [16] It purchased small lots of motor buses, [17] totaling 693 at the time of the CTA takeover, mostly consisting of smaller buses used on extension routes or to replace two-man streetcars on routes such as Hegewisch and 111th Street, because conductors ...