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====City hall==== The oldest portion of Blue Island's city hall was built in 1891 and designed by Edmund R. Krause, a prominent Chicago architect who among other buildings designed the 20-story Majestic Theatre building in [[Chicago Loop|Chicago's Loop]] at what is now 22 W. Monroe Street (the theater, whose interiors were designed by [[Rapp and Rapp]], has been [[Naming rights|renamed]] several time in the last fifty years β most recently in 2015 when it became the [[PrivateBank Theatre]]). An annex to city hall was built in 1925 according to plans by the Chicago architectural firm of Doerr, Lindquist and Doerr.<ref>{{cite web |last=Curt Teich & Co. |author2=North Suburban Library System |title=Postcard depicting Blue Island's City Hall, Police Dept. & Fire Dept. |publisher=Aero Distributing Co., Chicago, IL |year=1951 |url=http://www.digitalpast.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/lakecoun004&CISOPTR=5032&REC=3 |access-date=2009-02-16}}</ref> The design for the annex was apparently a conscious effort to complement the post office building across the street and built using similar brick and a closely related architectural style, although not on as grand a scale. The Blue Island Post Office was designed by [[Oscar Wenderoth]] and built in 1914. Wenderoth was associated with the building of many government buildings of the period, including the Senate and House Office Buildings in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wenderoth Selected to Succeed James Taylor as Architect of the Treasury Department |newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=June 7, 1912 |pages=3}}</ref> Beginning in the 1870s, the water supply for Blue Island was supplied by three [[Artesian aquifer|artesian wells]], whose water was pumped by a windmill to a {{convert|10|ST}} storage tank that sat on top of a {{convert|50|ft|adj=on}} high stone tower behind the City Hall building.<ref name="Spears 9">{{cite news |last=Spears |first=Charles|title= La Julia Rhea Gets Singular Recognition|newspaper=Pittsburgh Courier|date=October 30, 1937|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Miniature Water-Works |newspaper=The American Architect and Building News |volume=III |issue=112 |date=16 February 1878 |pages=60}}</ref> The city began to receive its water from [[Lake Michigan]] in August 1915 after the water from the wells began to acquire a gaseous odor whose source was apparently the Public Service Company whose facilities were located about a quarter mile to the southwest,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Chemical Character of Chicago Waters β Niagara Formation β Local Supplies β Vicinity of Chicago β Blue Island |journal=The Illinois State Geological Survey: The Artesian Waters of Northeastern Illinois |volume=34 |year=1919 |pages=102β3}}</ref> and the tank was subsequently removed.
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