South Route Expressway Construction Chicago, 1960

Mark, Stephen

Stephanie Smith and Steve Mark Collection

The Stephanie Smith and Steve Mark Collection primarily contains photographs taken by Stephen Mark, grandson of industrial magnate Clayton Mark, held by the Calumet Regional Archives at Indiana University Northwest. The photographs were taken in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland region and include those of residents instrumental in preserving tracts of land that received national park status in 2019 (Indiana Dunes National Park)[1]. They also include photographs of President Harry S. Truman, Indiana Representative Charles Halleck [2], and Naomi Svihla [3], as well as images of the daily life and social gatherings of the communities (Ogden Dunes [4] , Portage, Gary, Chicago, Chesterton, Valparaiso, East Chicago, and Marktown). The collection includes photographs of Clayton Mark (1858-1936), a pioneer in the steel industry, and his descendants [5]. Clayton Mark founded the Mark Manufacturing Company (1888), the Clayton Mark Company (1890), and Marktown (1917), the urban planned worker community in East Chicago designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw.

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Abstract

In 1961 the South Route Expressway was renamed the Dan Ryan after the former president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Dan Ryan Jr., who encouraged expressway development. The crane is positioned to tear down a column that was 2 inches out of plumb.

Caption

South Route Expressway Construction Chicago, 1960

City

Chicago

Country

United States

Source Identifier

VAE1588-00086

Subject

Chicago Expressway
South Route Expressway

Title

South Route Expressway Construction Chicago, 1960

Creator

Mark, Stephen

Persistent URL

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/iun/VAE1588/VAE1588-00086

Source Metadata Identifier

VAE1588-00086

Campus

IU Northwest

Date Taken

1960

Holding Location

Northwest Library (Gary)
3400 Broadway
Gary, IN 46408
Contact at https://www.iun.edu/library/ask-a-librarian.htm, 219-980-6582

State

Illinois

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Stephanie Smith and Steve Mark Collection

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