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Two-Flats and Three-Flats

f necessity is the mother of invention, then thank Chicago’s dramatic population boom between the fire of 1871 and the 1933 world’s fair — a period that saw the arrival of nearly three million new residents — for the multifamily flat. The innovation of balloon-frame construction allowed housing to be easily built, enabling developers to cram blocks

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