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1833 – 1903 Fire 1871 Railroad in 1850 Steal framed construction o Lighter, and thinner than stone Halabird and Rosch – Marquette, colony, manadnock buildings Adler and Sulivan – atrium o Studied acoustic o Trained Frank Lloyd Wright 1873-1879 Global economic depression 1872 chi public library Goodman – lumber, born in penn 1848, founded lumber co. in 1878 made $$$ o Son 1883 – goodman theater/ school of drama was named after

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Studabaker Theater – 1885 no theater, built carages o 1898 studabaker moves out, theater is made, fine arts building o 2005 new ownership, restoration of theater reopens in oct 2015

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50+ theaters o Persenium arch theater  Frame which separates backstage and front of house  Stage is elevated

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1870’s – becomes more realistic New genre – musical theater 1900 – musical theater has come to the “big stage” to compete with the other genres Opera has moved to specific opera house, minstral shows begin there decline, legit theater drops music (downtown theaters) Yondorf hall 1887 Thalia hall 1892 Ghosts 1881 – realistic drama, in a neighborhood hall, in Norwegian

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Settlement houses – the hull house jane Adams, star Laura Pelum – director of the Hull House theater dept.

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Iroquis theater fire of 1903 o...