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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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Modern Residence Architectural Drawing
Description
An account of the resource
Architectural drawing for Modern two-story house. 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.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/71">View the full record</a>.
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1938 circa
prior to 1940
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architectural drawings
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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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>.
1930s (1930-1939)
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houses
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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>
Text
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Blank real estate contract for Foreman-State Trust and Savings Bank, 1929
Description
An account of the resource
Real estate contract sent to Eugene L. Swenson to complete, regarding land that would be in possession of Foreman-State Trust and Savings Bank. The contract contains a Caucasian clause, stating that no one who is not Caucasian is allowed to lease or occupy the premise in question.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/59">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1929
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contract documents
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>.
Spatial Coverage
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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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)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISdoc
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Developers-Swenson Brothers
Niles Center History
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
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Title
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Workers laying sewer pipes in College Hill, 1920
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the laying of sewer pipes in College Hill Subdivision in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie).
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1807">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1920
Medium
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black and white photographs
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/
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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)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
College Hill Subdivision
Developers-Swenson Brothers
Niles Center History
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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Tudor Style Home at 5300 Galitz Street, 1932
Description
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Tudor-style home at 5300 Galitz Street on the Northwest corner of Park Avenue and Galitz Street in Skokie. The construction was completed in 1932. The house belonged to the Langfeld family.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1948">View the full record</a>.
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1932; photo taken 1987
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black and white photographs
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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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1930s (1930-1939)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
real estate development
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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Tolzien Family Home at 7914 Babb Street, Built in 1923
Description
An account of the resource
Color photograph of the Tolzien family home located at 7914 Babb Street in Skokie, Illinois. The house was moved from the Tolzien farm on the 4900 block of Kostner Avenue. In 1923. The home was used by the newlywed Tolzien couple, while the father-in-law built the brick bungalow next door, in the lot which he owned.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1725">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1923
1980
Medium
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color photographs
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>.
1900s (1900-1909)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHIS-bungalows
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
Niles Center History
real estate development
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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Title
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Three Bungalows in College Hill, 1927
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of three bungalows in College Hill in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). There is a sign for W. Koch & Son, General Contractors in front of the bungalow on the right side.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2346">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1927-02-20
Medium
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black and white 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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1920s (1920-1929)
AHIS-Between the Wars
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AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
College Hill Subdivision
houses
Niles Center History
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
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Title
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Sixth Annual Banquet for A. A. Lewis Realty Association at the Gold Room of the Congress Hotel, 1926
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of a large group of people attending the Sixth Annual Banquet for A. A. Lewis Realty Association at the Gold Room of the Congress Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. There are two signs on the balcony, which say, A. A. Lewis Assn. $500,000 Sweepstakes Race. They're Off. Watch them go. $500,000 12 Weeks Contest, Feb. 17th to May 18th. Banquet May 20. and $829,545 closed business, Feb. 17 to May 18, 1926.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2118">View the full record</a>.
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1926-05-20
Medium
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black and white photographs
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/
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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)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Niles Center History
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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Sign for Swenson Brothers, College Hill Properties, late 1920s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the sign for Swenson Brothers, College Hill Properties in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). Eugene L. Swenson and Albert O. Swenson, Estate, Owners.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1771">View the full record</a>.
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1928 circa; c. late 1920s
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black and white photographs
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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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Niles Center 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>
Still Image
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Sales board for Eugene L. Swenson's Department of Swenson Brothers, 1920
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the sales board for Eugene L. Swenson's Department of Swenson Brothers. The total sales in 1918 were $367,845, in 1919 they were $1,088,260, and the quota to be reached in 1920 was 1.5 million dollars. The sales managers listed on the board were Brown, Brussell, Zuckerman, Young, Thanos, Swenson and Sharp.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1792">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1920-02
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black and white photographs
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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>.
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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>.
1910s (1910-1919)
1920s (1920-1929)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Developers-Swenson Brothers
Niles Center History
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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Residences in College Hill, late 1920s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photographs of residences in College Hill: an apartment building and a home, in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie).
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2361">View the full record</a>.
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1928 circa; c. late 1920s
Medium
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black and white photographs
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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>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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1920s (1920-1929)
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At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
College Hill Subdivision
houses
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
subdivisions
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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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Portrait of Albert O. Swenson
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the portrait of real estate developer Albert O. Swenson. Albert Swenson died in an auto accident in November of 1924. On the back of the photo is written, Return to E. L. Swenson, 5531 N. Clark St. and crossed out, A. O. Swenson Auto Death.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1811">View the full record</a>.
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1915 circa; pre 1924
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black and white photographs
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>.
1920s (1920-1929)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Developers-Swenson Brothers
Niles Center History
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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Map of Swenson Brothers' College Hill Subdivision and Evanston, late 1920s
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Oversized map of Swenson Brothers College Hill and Evanston Manor Subdivisions and surrounding areas in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). The boundaries of the subdivision are Dempster Street to the South; McDaniel Avenue to the East or the Niles Center Village Limits; Emerson Street to the North; and Hamlin Avenue to the West. this area included the north Shore Channel to the East.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1883">View the full record</a>.
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1929 circa; c. late 1920s
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real estate maps
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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real estate development
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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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North Shore Lutheran Church College Hill Chapel, late 1920s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the North Shore Lutheran Church College Hill Chapel in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). It was later converted into the College Hill Public School. According to the sign, church school began at 10:00 a.m. and worship at 11:00 a.m. The building was located at the Southeast corner of Church Street and Prairie Road, two blocks West of McCormick Boulevard.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2013">View the full record</a>.
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1928 circa; c. late 1920s
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black and white 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>.
1920s (1920-1929)
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At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
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Niles Center History
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schools
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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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North Shore Channel, with bridge in the distance, late 1920s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the North Shore Channel, with bridge in the distance in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). There are homes to right.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2200">View the full record</a>.
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1928 circa; c. late 1920s
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black and white 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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1920s (1920-1929)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Niles Center 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>
Still Image
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Men standing in a College Hill construction site, late 1920s
Description
An account of the resource
Color-tinted photograph of men standing in a College Hill construction site in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). The men are standing with construction machinery and materials.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2045">View the full record</a>.
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1929 circa; c. late 1920s
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manipulated photographs
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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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>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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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)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
College Hill Subdivision
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
subdivisions
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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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Members of Swenson Brothers next to College Hill Properties Sign, late 1920s
Description
An account of the resource
Color-tinted photograph of the members of Swenson Brothers next to College Hill Properties Sign in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). Eugene L. Swenson is standing on far left. The sign reads, New Addition Now Open. Swenson Brothers College Hill Properties. Large Lots 177 Feet Deep. 30 ft., 40 ft. 60 Ft. Frontage. Sewer, Water, Cement Walks in- Now Ready to Build Your Home. Choice Dempster Business Lots. Office 5531 N. Clark Street- Sunnyside 6465. Eugene L. Swenson, Albert O. Swenson, Estate, Owners.
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1928 circa; c. late 1920s
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manipulated 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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1920s (1920-1929)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
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Niles Center History
real estate development
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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Map of Peter Dahm's Addition to Niles Center, 1924
Description
An account of the resource
This map is a survey of land owned by Peter Dahm and his wife, Wilhelmina Gertrude Dahm. The 23.99 acres were subdivided into lots by the surveyor, Fred Norlin. The triangular shaped area owned by the Dahm's was bordered by the Chicago Northwest Railway to the East, Dempster Street to the South and Gross Point Road to the West in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). The map was approved by the Village President, John E. Brown, the Village Clerk, Charles Langfeld, and the Village Engineer, A. W. Consoer.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1840">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1924-03-24-26
Medium
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survey maps
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>.
1920s (1920-1929)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISmap
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
maps
Niles Center History
real estate development
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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Title
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Map of Niles Center (Skokie), Illinois, 1939
Description
An account of the resource
This map, which was part of a W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) project in June of 1939, was an Index to an Atlas of Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). The street map identifies all of the streets in Skokie in 1939, as well as the Chicago and Northwest Railway and the Skokie Swift L Line. However the Edens Expressway is not yet present. Also indicated is Oakton Park, the Evanston Golf Club, Memorial Park Cemetery and property owned by a public service company.
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Date
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1939-06
Medium
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street 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>.
1930s (1930-1939)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISmap
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
maps
Niles Center History
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
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Title
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Krenn & Dato Plat Map of Dempster Street L Terminal Subdivision, 1924
Description
An account of the resource
Krenn & Dato Plat Map of Dempster Street L Terminal Subdivision with all the lots indicated. The subdivision mapped is bound by Dempster Street to the North, Greenleaf Street to the South and Long Avenue to the East. Harms Road intersects through the subdivision, which includes the following streets: Carol Street, Crain Street and Dato Avenue in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie).
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2085">View the full record</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1924-06
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
cadastral 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>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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1920s (1920-1929)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISmap
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Developers-Krenn and Dato
maps
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
transportation
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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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Krenn & Dato Plat Map of Dempster Street L Terminal Subdivision 1st Addition, 1924
Description
An account of the resource
Krenn & Dato Plat Map of Dempster Street L Terminal Subdivision with all the lots indicated. The subdivision mapped is bound by Dempster Street, N. Central Avenue and Theobold Road in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie).
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1755">View the full record</a>.
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1924
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cadastral maps
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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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1900s (1900-1909)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISmap
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Developers-Krenn and Dato
maps
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
transportation
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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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Krenn & Dato Plat Map of Crawford Avenue and Oakton Street L Terminal Subdivision, 1924
Description
An account of the resource
Krenn & Dato Plat Map of Crawford Avenue and Oakton Street L Terminal Subdivision with all the lots indicated in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). The subdivision mapped is bound by Crawford Avenue to the East, Mulford Street to the South, Karlov Avenue to the West and Oakton Street to the North. Other streets included in the subdivision are: Keystone Avenue and Kirk Street. The proposed Crawford Avenue L Station (Terminal) is indicated on the map to the South of the subdivision on Mulford Street. Also included on the map are building restrictions, improvements to the area, and title information. The inset map included is of the Northside of Chicago and suburbs. It ends just North of Dempster Street.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2003">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1924-04
Medium
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real estate maps
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>.
1920s (1920-1929)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISmap
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Developers-Krenn and Dato
maps
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
transportation
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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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Krenn & Dato Plat Map of Crawford Avenue and East Prairie Road L Terminal Subdivision, 1924
Description
An account of the resource
Krenn & Dato Plat Map of Crawford Avenue and East Prairie Rd. L Terminal Subdivision with all the lots indicated in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). The subdivision mapped is bound by Crawford Avenue to the North, Hamlin Avenue to the South and Hull Street to the East. Streets included in the subdivision are: Mulford Street, East Prairie Road and Avers Avenue. To the West of the Subdivision, the proposed L Terminal is indicated on the map.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2077">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1924-06
Medium
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real estate 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)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISmap
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Developers-Krenn and Dato
maps
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
transportation
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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
A name given to the resource
Krenn & Dato Blueprint Map, 1925
Description
An account of the resource
This map is of the proposed subdivision developments of Krenn and Dato. Each subdivision is identified with a number. The majority of the subdivisions are in Niles Center (Skokie), though some are in Chicago.
Some of the Niles Center subdivisions featured are the Dempster Street L Terminal Subdivision, the Oakton L Parkview Subdivision, and the Crawford Avenue and East Prairie Road Subdivision.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1626">View the full record</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1925-06-01
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
real estate maps
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
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
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright Undetermined https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Access Rights
Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.
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)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISmap
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Developers-Krenn and Dato
maps
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
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Dublin Core
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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
A name given to the resource
Groundbreaking Ceremonies for College Hill Subdivision, 1920s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the dedication of first building in College Hill in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). Eugene L. Swenson is standing right of center woman with shovel.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2009">View the full record</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1925 circa; c. 1920s
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
black and white photographs
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
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
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright Undetermined https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Access Rights
Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.
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)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
College Hill Subdivision
Developers-Swenson Brothers
houses
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
subdivisions
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Dublin Core
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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
A name given to the resource
Groundbreaking Ceremonies for College Hill Subdivision, 1920s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the groundbreaking ceremonies for College Hill subdivision in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). Eugene L. Swenson is standing at center next to woman who is holding the horses reins. The woman is most likely Mrs. Swenson. Ernest E. Ellington is standing to the left of Mr. Swenson.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2171">View the full record</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920s circa
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
black and white photographs
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
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
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Copyright Undetermined https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Access Rights
Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.
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)
AHIS-Between the Wars
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
College Hill Subdivision
Developers-Swenson Brothers
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
subdivisions