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Chicago's shopping districts
Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker showing the locations of Chicago's shopping districts.
1981
Chicago neighborhoods
Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker showing 100 Chicago neighborhoods.
1980
Chicago police districts
Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker showing Chicago's twenty-four police districts, circa 1980.
1980
Street railways, Chicago 1870
Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker showing the system of street railways in the city of Chicago in 1870.
1981
Work crew on street
Work crew on a residential street using heavy equipment to clean up branches trimmed from trees.
1960
Street grid system, Chicago
Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker showing the City of Chicago's street grid system.
1980
Lake Michigan and U. S. Steel South Works
View looking south on Lake Michigan close to the shore. On the horizon, the United States Steel Corporation's South Works occupies a large area of land jutting out into the lake.
1981
Population breakdowns, Chicago
Hand-lettered sign by C. William Brubaker, listing estimated population breakdowns across the city's development areas, wards, community areas, and neighborhoods.
1980
Development areas, Chicago
Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker, dividing the city of Chicago into sixteen development areas.
1980
Interior of a conservatory
View showing two children next to plants inside a Chicago conservatory.
1967
Midtown Terrace Garden Apartments
View of the Midtown Terrace Garden Apartments, a row house style residential development, with driveways and garages.
1976
Plan of a typical office building of the 1960s
Sketch by C. William Brubaker showing a typical floor plan for an office building of the 1960s.
1960
Mixed use development plan
Hand-drawn chart by C. William Brubaker showing possibilities for mixed use development in a quarter square mile of a grid block area, combining residential, office, commercial, light industry, and recreational space.
1981
Mixed use development plan
Hand-drawn sketch by C. William Brubaker showing a land use plan for a quarter square mile mixed use development area, including commercial, residential, and recreational areas.
1981
Typical one square mile grid block
Detail of a land use map showing a typical one square mile grid block in the City of Chicago. The dark green blocks indicate the locations of schools, and the red blocks indicate commercial development.
1980
Midtown Terrace Garden Apartments
View of the Midtown Terrace Garden Apartments, a row house style residential development, with driveways and garages.
1976
Farmers' Market banners
Farmers' Market banners on a utility pole. Text on the banners reads "Farmers' Market/ Freshly picked produce at farm stand prices/ Tuesdays at 8:00 a.m./ City of Chicago/ Jane M. Byrne, Mayor".
1981
Street plan for residential grid block
Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker showing a proposal for creating cul-de-sacs on residential streets in a typical grid block area instead of allowing them to intersect with major streets. Through traffic is thereby channeled onto major streets.
1981
Chicago ward map
Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker showing the boundaries of Chicago's 50 municipal wards, circa 1980.
1980
Chicago windows
Sketch by C. William Brubaker of a typical grouping of "Chicago windows".
1960

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Geographic Location: Chicago (Ill.)   Source: C. William Brubaker Collection   Remove all