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2. Robert Taylor Homes - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Parkway Garden Homes - Wikipedia

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   November 22, 2011. Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, commonly known as O-Block, is a 694-unit privately owned apartment complex located in Greater Grand Crossing area, and is on the border of Woodlawn and Washington Park. [2] Chicago's Greater Grand Crossing, Woodlawn, and Washington Park community areas are located on the South Side of Chicago ...

4. Tenement housing in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Tenement housing in Chicago. Tenement housing in Chicago was established in the late 19th and into the early 20th centuries. [1] A majority of tenement complexes in Chicago were constructed in the interest of using land space and boosting the economy. These tenements were built quite tall, often exceeding 3 stories, to accommodate as many low ...

5. Marina City - Wikipedia

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   Marina City. Marina City is a mixed-use residential-commercial building complex in Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America, designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg. The multi-building complex on State Street on the north bank of the Chicago River on the Near North Side, directly across from the Loop, opened between 1963 and 1967.

6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Central Chicago

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   The Chicago central city area includes many early classic skyscrapers of the Chicago School of Architecture, such as Burnham and Root's Monadnock and the Reliance Buildings, as well as buildings from the early Modernist period, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's IBM Building and 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments. Chicago's earliest ...

7. National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side ...

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   There are 105 sites on the National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side Chicago — of more than 350 total listings within the City of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois . The South Side district is defined for this article as the area west of Lake Michigan, and south of 26th Street and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, to the ...