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The Emerson is Oak Park’s newest full- amenity apartment community , boasting a steps-to-everything location and Target on-site. The Emerson offers a range of studio to 2-bedroom, 2-bath apartments in a mid-rise building and a 20-story tower that boasts views of the Chicago skyline. Studios rent from $1,712 a month, 1-bedrooms from $1,920 and 2-bedroom, 2-baths from $2,812. Floor plans and near real-time rent and availability info are online. [embedded content] Apartments have plank flooring in living areas, upscale kitchen and bath finishes, individual heating and air-conditioning, and in-unit washer / dryers. [embedded content] [embedded content] Join us in the videos for narrated tours of two 1- bedroom model apartments and a 2-bedroom, 2-bath model. The Emerson’s amenities include an expansive club room with a kitchen and dining area, a resort- style pool deck with grilling stations and a fire pit, and a fully- equipped fitness center with a separate group fitness area . The...

The Late Victorian period in the United States—roughly the last third of the 19th century—produced some of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the history of Western civilization . It also produced some of the most hopeless slums. In response to the crisis of industrial cities, the modern discipline of city planning emerged . The tools of this new profession helped clean up many unhealthy aspects of urban industry , but also stifled some of the best innovations of Late Victorian urbanism . By the 1920s, planners in the industrial world had established the legal authority to promulgate land-use regulations, and over the next generation, they succeeded at slowing the construction of slum housing and segregating noxious industries from incompatible activities, such as housing and office space. Through some of the same devices, however, planners curtailed some positive features of 19th- century urbanism , including the rich variety of free- form industrial development and the adaptiv...