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This building on the northwest corner of Thirty-first and Halsted stands
out at first notice due to its height -- which owes to its being built at
a street-car intersection. It may have been over-built. The Bridgeport
business district (a relatively minor one considering the population of
the area) developed at Thirty-fifth and Halsted streets instead. So was
the placement of this building a failed gamble of locational strategy?
Possibly in terms of its size, but business in Bridgeport was diffused --
found in various sized clumps and in scattered or even isolated spots
throughout the community. Reasons for this are that Bridgeport had many
ethnic shops and several street-car streets. Just north of this
intersection was a business district on Halsted between Archer and
Twenty-sixth street. Directly south was the Lithuanian business area and
the Thirty-fifth/Halsted district. East and west along Thirty-first were
German and Polish shops.
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