Research Region
Chicago works as a place-based view into the library, connecting 584 published records that show how this locality changes across type, status, and theme within Illinois.
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Corwith holds together two Chicago freight stories at once: the older railroad landscape that made the city a continental hub, and the current container...
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47th Street is one of the strongest sites for understanding how an active intermodal yard still sits inside city space. Capacity, maintenance, air-quality pressure,...
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Landers keeps global container logistics attached to a very local Chicago corridor. It is a working South Side intermodal yard whose operational changes can...
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59th Street is not a distant exurban freight park. It is a working intermodal terminal built into Chicago's South Side rail fabric, where national...
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At 3301 West Arthington Street, a former Sears building makes preservation tangible through housing: a vast industrial shell, decades of vacancy, tax-credit rehabilitation, and...
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At 931 South Homan Avenue, the Sears Power House turns hidden infrastructure into a readable research site, linking steam, electricity, compressed air, preservation awards,...
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Known locally as the original Sears Tower, the 14-story Nichols Tower compresses headquarters management, WLS radio history, campus memory, and adaptive reuse into one...
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Completed in 1907 beside the former Sears headquarters, the Sears Sunken Garden turns a mail-order campus into a landscape story, with worker respite, classical...
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Built in 1938 along the North Branch of the Chicago River, the Julia C. Lathrop Homes remain one of Chicago's most revealing public-housing landscapes....
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The Electricity Building matters because it concentrated one of the fair's most transformative claims: that electric light, communication, and corporate innovation would define the...
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William Le Baron Jenney and William B. Mundie's Horticultural Building was one of the fair's most distinctive northern halls. Khan Academy and Library of...
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Sophia Hayden's Woman's Building was one of the exposition's most symbolically charged structures. It emerged from a women-only design competition, housed exhibits and a...
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