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Old Posted Sep 19, 2019, 6:59 PM
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because of the great depression, chicago (as i'm sure in many other cities) has a very noticeable dearth of housing constructed in the 30s.

there was an absolute shit-load of stuff built in the '20s, but that all came to a screeching halt, and didn't really fully pick back up again until after the war.

it's why you see a lot of this in certain sections of chicago: random lots that didn't get built before the depression struck that then laid fallow for a couple decades until they were finally developed alongside their noticeably older neighbors in a radical new style

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9588...7i16384!8i8192
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"Missing middle" housing can be a great middle ground for many middle class families.

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