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From Industrial Village to Suburban Enclave: How Chrysler Village fits into the History of Company Town Design

October 29, 2015March 25, 2016

Ruby Oram situates Chrysler Village within Chicago’s history of planned worker communities, including Pullman and Altgeld Garden.

 

Posted in: Topics in Chrysler Village History | Tagged: 1940s, Altgeld Gardens, architecture, Chrysler Village, family life, housing, industrialization, planned community, Pullman, suburb, World War II

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 How do the built environments of Chrysler Village and Altgeld Gardens express middle class ideals and racial segregation?
What commonalities do planned worker communities in the Chicagoland area share, and how have they evolved from 1880 to 1945? 

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