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The Frederick C. Robie House is a historic house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908-09 and constructed in 1909-10. It is located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, on the campus of the University of Chicago. Robie House is regarded as a high point of the Prairie Style and marks the end of Wright’s Oak Park years ...
May 27, 1970. President of Shimer College and Sun-Times editor. Born and worked in Chicago. [ 2 ] Saul Alinsky. Jan 30, 1909. Jun 12, 1972. Community organizer and writer; considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. Born in Chicago.
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second 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.
Henry Horner Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the Near West Side community area on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The original section of Henry Horner Homes was bordered by Oakley Boulevard to the west, Washington Boulevard to the south, Hermitage Avenue to the east, and Lake ...
Cameron was born in Panorama City, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles. [14] His parents are Barbara (née Bausmith) and Robert Cameron, a retired schoolteacher. [15] He has three sisters: Bridgette, Melissa, and actress Candace, who portrayed D.J. Tanner on the television sitcom Full House. [16]
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, commonly known as O'Block, is an apartment complex in Greater Grand Crossing, on the border of Woodlawn and Washington Park, [ 2] on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. The complex was built from 1950 to 1955; architect Henry K. Holsman, who planned several of Chicago's affordable housing developments, designed ...
Coordinates: 41.9078°N 87.6276°W. East side of Astor Street. The Astor Street District is a historic district in Central Chicago, Illinois . Constructed over a period of more than 100 years, the buildings along Astor Street reflect the fashionable styles favored by their original high-society residents. The numerous 19th-century houses are ...
Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chicago's Chinatown. St. Simeon Mirotočivi, a Serbian Orthodox church located in East Side. Greektown. Fiesta Boricua on Paseo Boricua in Humboldt Park. The Robie House in Hyde Park is a Frank Lloyd Wright design. The Gateway Theatre 's Solidarity Tower in Jefferson Park is a replica of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.