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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Title
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Skokie Population Distribution in 1945, 1955 and 1964
Description
An account of the resource
This poster shows the population distribution in Skokie in 1945, 1955 and 1964 using maps and aerial photographs from 1928 and 1964. The population grew from 9,570 in 1945 to 67,895 in 1964. The largest concentrations of people appear to be near transportation, both the Edens Expressway and the Skokie Swift L Line (the Northshore Railway).
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1593">View the full record</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
population maps
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
Rights
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Copyright Undetermined https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Access Rights
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1920s (1920-1929)
1940s (1940-1949)
1950s (1950-1959)
1960s (1960-1969)
AHIS
AHISmap
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
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Niles Center History
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Crowdus English Residence Architectural Drawing, 1940s
Description
An account of the resource
Architectural drawing for English style house for Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Crowdus of Skokie, Illinois. The pages include two images of the front of the house, each with slight variations including the brick face and siding design. Also included in the pages are the interior floor plans. The scale of the drawings is 14 inch is equal to 1 foot. The builder and contractor was Joseph J. Hansen.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1521">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1945 circa
Medium
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architectural drawings
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Skokie--Illinois--United States
Rights
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Copyright Undetermined https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Access Rights
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1940s (1940-1949)
AHIS-After World War II
AHISdraw
architectural drawings
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Developers-Joseph J. Hansen
houses
real estate development
skokie history
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Stroemer Residence Architectural Drawing, circa 1945
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Architectural drawing for house of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Stroemer. The pages include the front of the house and the interior floor plans. The scale of the drawings is 14 inch is equal to 1 foot. The builder and contractor was Joseph J. Hansen, 7721 N. Kostner Ave., and the designer was Frank G. Eischen.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1529">View the full record</a>.
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schweisthal Front Elevation Residence Architectural Drawing, circa 1945
Description
An account of the resource
Architectural drawing for Front Elevation house for Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schweisthal of Skokie, Illinois. The pages include the front of the house, a side view of the front of the house including the porch, and the interior floor plans. The scale of the drawings is 14 inch is equal to 1 foot. The builder and contractor was Joseph J. Hansen, 7721 N. Kostner Ave., and the designer was Frank G. Eischen.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1525">View the full record</a>.
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1945 circa
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architectural drawings
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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1940s (1940-1949)
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skokie history
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hansen Residence Architectural Drawing, 1940s
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An account of the resource
Architectural drawing for the house of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hansen of Skokie, Illinois. The two pages include the front of the house and the interior floor plan.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/26">View the full record</a>.
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1945 circa
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architectural drawings
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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skokie history
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Wolfgram Colonial Residence Architectural Drawing, circa 1945
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An account of the resource
Architectural drawing for Colonial house of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Wolfgram. The pages include the front of the house and interior floor plans. There are also additional notes regarding the roof, exterior lights and windows. The scale of the drawings is 14 inch is equal to 1 foot. The builder and general contractor was Joseph J. Hansen, 7721 N. Kostner Ave., and the designer was Frank G. Eischen.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/95">View the full record</a>.
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1947 circa
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architectural drawings
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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skokie history
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Meyer Cape Cod Residence Architectural Drawing, circa 1945
Description
An account of the resource
Architectural drawing for Cape Cod house for Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Meyer of Edgebrook, Illinois. The pages include the front of the house and interior floor plans. The scale of the drawings is 14 inch is equal to 1 foot. The builder and contractor was Joseph J. Hansen, 7721 N. Kostner Ave.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/20">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1945 circa
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architectural drawings
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1940s (1940-1949)
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AHISdraw
architectural drawings
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Developers-Joseph J. Hansen
houses
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skokie history
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Title
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Colonial Residence Architectural Drawing, 1940s
Description
An account of the resource
Architectural drawing of a Colonial house. The three pages include the front of the house and interior floor plans. The scale of the drawings is 14 inch is equal to 1 foot. The builder and contractor was Joseph J. Hansen, 7721 N. Kostner Ave., and the designer was Frank G. Eischen.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1517">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1945 circa
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architectural drawings
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1940s (1940-1949)
AHIS-After World War II
AHISdraw
architectural drawings
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Developers-Joseph J. Hansen
houses
real estate development
skokie history
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Title
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Colonial Residence Architectural Drawing, 1940s
Description
An account of the resource
Architectural drawing of a Colonial house. The page includes the front of the house and interior floor plans and landscaping plans. The scale of the drawing is 18 inch is equal to 1 foot.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1860">View the full record</a>.
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1945 circa; c. 1940s
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architectural drawings
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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AHIS-After World War II
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architectural drawings
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
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skokie history
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Colonial Paul Revere Family Residence Architectural Drawing, 1940s
Description
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Architectural drawing for Colonial Paul Revere style house. Included on the page are the front and back of the house, as well as the interior floor plans and landscaping plans. The scale of the drawing is 18 inch is equal to 1 foot. The builder and contractor was Joseph J. Hansen, and the designer was Frank G. Eischen.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1612">View the full record</a>.
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1945 circa; c. 1940s
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architectural drawings
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
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At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
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skokie history
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Aerial View of Skokie area, 1949
Description
An account of the resource
Aerial view of the Skokie area with the following boundaries: Skokie Boulevard to the East, Crawford Avenue to the West, Golf Road to the South and Old Glenview Road to the North. View includes Westmoreland Golf Course, Memorial Park Cemetery, the future site of Old Orchard Shopping Center and the future site of the Skokie Valley Community Hospital (Rush North Shore Medical Center). Also visible are various residences and farmland.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1902">View the full record</a>.
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1949
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aerial photographs
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real estate listing for brick New Orleans style house at 73 Salem Lane, built in 1947
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Real estate listing for brick New Orleans style house at 73 Salem Lane in Skokie, Illinois. Has 4 bedrooms and 1 and a half bathrooms and a concrete porch. The house is in the Evanston-Skokie area and was built in 1947 by Blietz. The price was originally $69,500 and lowered, with a hand written note, to $67,500.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/62">View the full record</a>.
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1947
1974-08-22
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advertisements
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real estate listing for brick Georgian house at 7857 East Prairie Road, built in 1945
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Real estate listing for brick Georgian house at 7857 East Prairie Road in Skokie, Illinois. Has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, and the yard is enclosed with a white picket fence. The house was built in 1945. The price was $49,900.
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At Home in Skokie
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An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real estate listing for brick Georgian house at 3757 W. Greenleaf Avenue, built in 1949
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Real estate listing for brick Georgian house at 3757 W. Greenleaf Avenue in Skokie, Illinois. Has 3 bedrooms and 2 and a half bathrooms. The house was built in 1949 with two additions done prior to November 1975. The price was originally $79,900 and then lowered, with a handwritten note, to $74,900.
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At Home in Skokie
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An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real estate listing for brick Contemporary (Modern) house at 8100 Kostner Avenue, built in 1949
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Real estate listing for brick Contemporary (Modern) house at 8100 Kostner Avenue in Skokie, Illinois. Has 3 bedrooms and 1 and a half plus bathrooms and 2 sun decks. The house was built in 1949. The price was $85,000.
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At Home in Skokie
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An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real estate listing for brick and aluminum siding Dutch Colonial house at 8130 Lorel Avenue, built in 1941
Description
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Real estate listing for brick and aluminum siding Dutch Colonial house at 8130 Lorel Avenue in Skokie, Illinois. Has 3 bedrooms and 1 and a half bathrooms. The house was built in 1941 for the seller by Kurt Olson. It is located near Lorel Park and is within walking distance of the library and downtown Skokie. The price was $72,500.
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1941
1976-03-29
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advertisements
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Text
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Title
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East Side Property Owners Association Constitution and By-laws, 1940
Description
An account of the resource
Amended constitution of the East Side Property Owners Association, which included information on the purpose, on membership, on officers, on meetings and quorum, on by-laws, on duties of officers, on election of officers, on dues, on committees, on amendments, on parliamentary authority, on suspension of by-laws, and on order of business. The members signatures are on the last page, and Howard A. Florus was the president, 7904 Kilbourne [sic] Ave., Niles Center. Also, on the first page, referring to membership, is the following statement: Membership in this Association shall be granted to any person owning a property located in the district East of Cicero Avenue and North of Touhy Avenue and South of the alley South of Dempster Street within the village limits of Niles Center, Illinois; provided, however, that the person is of the Caucasian race, is of the male sex and has attained the age of 21 years.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/134">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1940-05-01
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corporation documents
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Text
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Real estate listing postcard for wood frame house at 9040 Lockwood Avenue, 1950
Description
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Real estate listing postcard for a wood-frame house at 9040 Lockwood Avenue in Skokie, Illinois. Has 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom and was built in 1941. The price was $22,500 and according to a note on the back, it was near the Edens Expressway.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2278">View the full record</a>.
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1941
1950-04-15
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advertisements
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real estate listing postcard for wood frame Colonial house at 9557 Drake Avenue, 1947
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Real estate listing postcard for wood frame Colonial house at 9557 Drake Avenue in Skokie, Illinois. Has 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and 1 powder room. It was built in 1942. The price was $23,000.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1863">View the full record</a>.
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1942
1947-03-26
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advertisements
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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At Home in Skokie
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An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real estate listing postcard for two-story streamlined brick house at 5236 Greenwood Street, 1941
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An account of the resource
Real estate listing postcard for two story streamlined brick house at 5236 Greenwood Street in Skokie, Illinois. Has 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom and was designed and built in 1941 by an artist. The price was $25,000.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2187">View the full record</a>.
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1941
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advertisements
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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At Home in Skokie
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An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real estate listing postcard for two-story Colonial brick house at 9515 Central Park Avenue, 1946
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An account of the resource
Real estate listing postcard for two story Colonial brick house at 9515 Central Park Avenue in Skokie, Illinois. Has 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 1 powder room. It was newly built in January of 1946. The price was $30,000.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1685">View the full record</a>.
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1946-08-27
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advertisements
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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At Home in Skokie
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An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real estate listing postcard for two-story brick house with a thatched (fireproof) roof at 4947 Estes Avenue, built in 1941
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An account of the resource
Real estate listing postcard for two-story brick house with a thatched (fireproof) roof at 4947 Estes Avenue in Skokie, Illinois. Has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom and was built in 1941. The price was $19,800.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2407">View the full record</a>.
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1941
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advertisements
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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At Home in Skokie
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An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real estate listing postcard for six-apartment English Tudor style building at 8020 Kenton Avenue, 1949
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Real estate listing postcard for six-apartment English Tudor style building at 8020 Kenton Avenue in Skokie, Illinois. Has 3 four room and 3 five room apartments and a 4 car garage. The apartment building was 1 block from Davis St. Bus and North Shore Electric bus to Howard St. and Chicago, was 2 blocks from Lincoln Junior High and Niles Township High Schools, and 1 block from city park and playground. Price was $52,000 and 1 five room apartment was available for the buyer.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1970">View the full record</a>.
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1949-07-02
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advertisements
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real estate listing postcard for Normandy House with white brick and brown trim located at 9532 Avers Avenue, 1944
Description
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Real estate listing postcard for Normandy House with white brick and brown trim located at 9532 Avers Avenue in Skokie, Illinois. Has 4 bedrooms and 2 and a half bathrooms. The price was $30,000.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1605">View the full record</a>.
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1944-10-16
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advertisements
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Text
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Real estate listing postcard for large two-story brick house at 9400 Lawndale Avenue, 1947
Description
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Real estate listing postcard for large two story brick house at 9400 Lawndale Avenue in Skokie, Illinois. Has 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 1 powder room. It was built in 1941. The price was $45,000 and there was a possibility of converting the house into apartments.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2004">View the full record</a>.
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1941
1947-10-06
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advertisements
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1940s (1940-1949)
AHISreal
apartment buildings
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
real estate development
real estate listings
skokie history