Temporary Community Housing Rent Commission records, 1935-1951

  • IdentificationMSTCHR68
  • TitleTemporary Community Housing Rent Commission records MSTCHR68
  • PublisherSpecial Collections
  • LanguageEnglish
  • RepositorySpecial Collections
  • Physical Description1.5 Linear feet
  • Date1935-1951
  • AbstractThe City Council of Chicago, Illinois, enacted an Ordinance on July 25, 1947, creating the Temporary Community Housing Rent Commission to cope with the rapid rise in rents on certain hotel accommodations in Chicago after World War II. The papers consist of correspondence, reports, proceedings, lists, minutes, statements, memoranda, clippings, notes, legal documents, bulletins, forms, telegrams, and manuals pertaining to the regulation, control, and stabilization of rents in temporary housing accommodations, redevelopment of blighted areas to provide housing for evicted tenants, housing and labor force characteristics of Chicago's Metropolitan District, and policies, procedures, and information on temporary city housing rent commissions in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Philadelphia, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
  • OriginationTemporary Community Housing Rent Commission (Chicago, Ill.).

Old Resource ID was TCHRC

The City Council of Chicago, Illinois, enacted an Ordinance on July 25, 1947, creating the Temporary Community Housing Rent Commission to cope with the rapid rise in rents on certain hotel accommodations in Chicago after World War II. This control was challenged in the courts by hotels, and in March 1948, the Illinois Supreme Court declared the city rent ordinance invalid. The Commissioners, Alex Elson, chairman, Arthur Rubloff, realtor, and Henry A. Kruse, secretary-treasurer of the Flat Janitor's Union of Chicago, submitted their resignations to Mayor Martin H. Kennelly and the commission ceased to exist.

The papers consist of correspondence, reports, proceedings, lists, minutes, statements, memoranda, clippings, notes, legal documents, bulletins, forms, telegrams, and manuals pertaining to the regulation, control, and stabilization of rents in temporary housing accommodations, redevelopment of blighted areas to provide housing for evicted tenants, housing and labor force characteristics of Chicago's Metropolitan District, and policies, procedures, and information on temporary city housing rent commissions in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Philadelphia, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Temporary Community Housing Rent Commission records, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • NamesTemporary Community Housing Rent Commission (Chicago, Ill.). -- Archives
  • Subject
    • Chicago Political and Civic Life.
    • Hotels--Law and legislation.
    • Housing policy.
    • Rent control.
  • Geographic CoverageIllinois--Chicago.