Figure 1.8 Kinzie's Addition to Chicago, 1834. Redrawn by author from the Cook County Tract Records.

Figure 1.7
Map of Chicago in 1855. Redrawn by author from map in collection of Chicago Historical Society.

Chicago Annexations

ANNEXATIONS TO JUNE 1, 1893

<table><thead><tr><th>Key</th><th>Year</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1. Town of Chicago as organized (platted by Canal Commissioners three years earlier)</td><td>1833</td></tr><tr><td>2.</td><td>1833</td></tr><tr><td>3.</td><td>1833</td></tr><tr><td>4. Town of Chicago as incorporated</td><td>1835</td></tr><tr><td>5. City of Chicago as incorporated</td><td>1837</td></tr><tr><td>6. Withdrawn 1843 and reannexed</td><td>1851</td></tr><tr><td>7. Withdrawn 1843 and reannexed</td><td>1851</td></tr><tr><td>8.</td><td>1851</td></tr><tr><td>9.</td><td>1851</td></tr><tr><td>10.</td><td>1853</td></tr><tr><td>11.</td><td>1853</td></tr><tr><td>12.</td><td>1863</td></tr><tr><td>13.</td><td>1863</td></tr><tr><td>14. Part of Lincoln Park</td><td>1869</td></tr><tr><td>15.</td><td>1869</td></tr><tr><td>16.</td><td>1869</td></tr><tr><td>17.</td><td>1887</td></tr><tr><td>18.</td><td>1889</td></tr><tr><td>19.</td><td>1889</td></tr><tr><td>20.</td><td>1889</td></tr><tr><td>21. Part of Town of Cicero</td><td>1889</td></tr><tr><td>22. Town of Jefferson</td><td>1889</td></tr><tr><td>23. City of Lake View</td><td>1889</td></tr><tr><td>24. Town of Lake</td><td>1889</td></tr><tr><td>25. Village of Hyde Park</td><td>1889</td></tr><tr><td>26. Part of Village of Gano</td><td>1890</td></tr><tr><td>27. South Englewood</td><td>1890</td></tr><tr><td>28. Village of Washington Heights</td><td>1890</td></tr><tr><td>29. Village of West Roseland</td><td>1890</td></tr><tr><td>30.</td><td>1890</td></tr><tr><td>31. Village of Fernwood</td><td>1891</td></tr><tr><td>32. Village of Rogers Park</td><td>1893</td></tr><tr><td>33. Village of West Ridge</td><td>1893</td></tr></tbody></table>

acter of the development. The City
, as part of its Housing Exhibition in
ch, 1913, held a competition for the
model suburb. Entrants included
itects and engineers from many
rent states and one foreign country,
Frank Lloyd Wright submitted a
competitive design. A pencil manuscript
tion identifies these two designs as

homes" thinking of the time, with a core
containing the utility buildings and
administrative center, surrounded by curved
garden-like streets where homes, schools,
and churches were located. Griffin's design
had a greater area of open space—parks
and playgrounds—than any other design
that is known to have been submitted.

(Courtesy Chicago Historical Society.)

## 2. Chicago Heights, 1923

By 1920 Chicago Heights was a firmly established industrial city of almost 20,000 people. A deliberate policy of gradual growth was adopted by the city in the 1920's, and Chicago Heights' population was only 22,300 by 1930. Six railroads, connected by the Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer belt line, made most locations in

the community accessible as industrial sites. However, the depression struck hard. The upward trend continued after the war. A 1958 census of manufacturers listed eighty-two manufacturing establishments in the city; together they employed over 7,000 persons.

## 3. Growth Areas of Chicago, to 1945

3

3. Before and after Views of the
Dan Ryan Expressway on the
South Side, 1943 and 1963

In the top photograph, along both sides
the Rock Island and New York Central
railroads are slums of the South Side,
cluding the notorious Federal Street with
back against the railroad embankment.
Chicago's expressway development
between 1948 and 1966 was the single
cause for family relocation in the

city, though redevelopment and public
housing developments ran close seconds.
These two photographs illustrate why.
The Dan Ryan expressway eliminated a
block-wide swath through some of the
city's worst housing. Access ramps and
parallel streets added further to the cleared
numbers. To the east of the expressway is
the Stateway Gardens project.

(Courtesy Gordon Coster Collection.)