Building Owners
and Managers Association of Chicago records, 1903-1992
Descriptive Inventory for the Collection at Chicago History Museum, Research Center
By Freida Kraines,
1991; rev.
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Title: Building Owners
and Managers Association of Chicago records [manuscript],
1903-1992.
Main entry: Building Owners
and Managers Association of Chicago.
Inclusive dates: 1903-1992.
Size:
12.75 linear ft. (28 boxes, 1 v., & 2 pkgs.)
Access: This
collection is open for research use.
Provenance statement: Most of the
collection is a gift of John Ellis (1990.0110). An addition to the collection
related to the 1992 Chicago Loop flood is a gift of Helen Berlin, Public
Relations Manager, and Llani O'Conner, Executive Vice
President of BOMA Chicago (1992.0353).
Terms governing use: Copyright may be retained by
the creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law, unless otherwise noted.
Please cite this
collection as: Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago records (Chicago
History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder number of a
specific item.
This descriptive
inventory contains the following sections:
Historical
note,
Summary
description of the collection,
Description
of some material related to the collection,
List
of online catalog headings about the collection,
Arrangement
of the collection,
Detailed
description of archival series in the collection,
List of contents of the collection.
Historical note:
The Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago was
formerly known as the Building Managers' Association of Chicago. The Building
Owners and Managers Association International was formerly known as the
National Association of Building Owners and Managers.
Summary
description of the collection:
Summary: Bulletins, newsletters, correspondence, membership lists,
neighborhood business district profiles, litigation files, treasurer's reports,
and committee reports of the Building Owners and Managers Association of
Chicago (BOMA Chicago; formerly known as the Building Managers' Association of
Chicago), an organization which monitored developments relevant to property
management costs, such as assessments, zoning ordinances, and utility fees;
also present are information files on the construction of the State Street
subway (1930s). The collection also includes BOMA Chicago materials pertaining
to the April 13, 1992, Chicago Loop flood of the freight tunnels, including a
transcript of two "round table discussions" (14 & 21 May 1992)
organized by BOMA Chicago, in which building managers recalled experiences of
the flood (49 p.), along with BOMA Chicago press releases and data sheets (in
box 16).
Description of
some material related to the collection:
Related
materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the Chicago
properties photograph collection (1990.0110).
List of online
catalog headings about the collection:
The
following headings for this collection have been placed in the online catalog.
Subjects:
Building Owners and Managers Association
of Chicago--Archives.
Building
Managers' Association of Chicago--Archives.
Building Owners and Managers Association
International.
National Association of Building Owners
and Managers.
Building
management--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Construction
industry--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Floods--Illinois--Chicago--20th century. (in box 16)
Office
buildings--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Real estate
business--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Real property
tax--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Subways--Illinois--Chicago--20th
century.
Tunnels--Illinois--Chicago--20th
century.
Chicago
(Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--20th century.
Loop
(Chicago, Ill.)
Form/genre:
Correspondence.
Legal documents.
Membership
lists.
Newsletters.
Press releases.
Reports.
Added
entries:
Building Managers' Association of
Chicago.
Building Owners and Managers Association
International.
National Association of Building Owners
and Managers.
United
States--Illinois--Cook County--Chicago.
List of contents
of the collection:
box 1
folders:
1 Bulletin 1919-1925
2 Newsletter, etc.
1926-1927
3 Newsletter, etc.
1928
4 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-Jun 1929
5 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1929
6 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1930
7 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1930
8 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1932
9 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1932
10 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1933
11 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1933
box 2
folders:
1 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-Apr 1934
2 Newsletter, etc.
May-Aug 1934
3 Newsletter, etc.
Sept-Dec 1934
4 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-Mar 1938
5 Newsletter, etc.
Apr-Aug 1938
6 Newsletter, etc.
Sept-Dec 1938
7 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-May 1939
8 Newsletter, etc.
June-Dec 1939
box 3
folders:
1 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1940
2 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1940
3 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-Feb 1941
4 Newsletter, etc.
Feb-June 1941
5 Newsletter, etc.
July-Nov 1941
6 Newsletter, etc.
Dec 1941
7 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-Apr 1942
8 Newsletter, etc.
May-July 1942
9 Newsletter, etc.
Aug-Dec 1942
10 Newsletter, etc.
Jan 1943
11 Newsletter, etc.
Feb-May 1943
12 Newsletter, etc.
June-Sept 1943
13 Newsletter, etc.
Oct-Dec 1943
box 4
folders:
1 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-Mar 1944
2 Newsletter, etc.
Apr-June 1944
3 Newsletter, etc.
July-Sept 1944
4 Newsletter, etc.
Oct-Dec 1944
5 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-Mar 1945
6 Newsletter, etc.
Apr-June 1945
7 Newsletter, etc.
July-Sept 1945
8 Newsletter, etc.
Oct-Dec 1945
9 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-Mar 1946
10 Newsletter, etc. June-Sept
1946
11 Newsletter, etc.
Oct-Dec 1946
12 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-Apr 1947
13 Newsletter, etc.
May-June 1947
14 Newsletter, etc.
July-Sept 1947
15 Newsletter, etc.
Oct-Dec 1947
box 5
folders:
1 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-Mar 1948
2 Newsletter, etc.
Apr-June 1948
3 Newsletter, etc.
July-Oct 1948
4 Newsletter, etc.
Nov-Dec 1948
5 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-Mar 1949
6 Newsletter, etc.
Apr-May 1949
7 Newsletter, etc.
June-Sept 1949
8 Newsletter, etc.
Oct-Dec 1949
9 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1950
10 Newsletter, etc. July-Dec
1950
11 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1957
12 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1957
13 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1958
14 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1958
15 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1959
16 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1959
box 6
folders:
1 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1960
2 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1960
3 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1961
4 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1961
5 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1962
6 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1962
7 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1963
8 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1963
9 Newsletter, etc.
Jan-June 1963
10 Newsletter, etc.
July-Dec 1964
11 Newsletter, etc.
1965
12 Newsletter, etc.
June 7-Dec 20 1966
box 7
folders:
1 Advertising lineage
1930-1931, Annual dues 1902-1905, 1912-1931 (Ledger at end of collection)
2 Annual dues
1909-1919
3 Annual dues
1920-1927
4 Annual dues
1928-1932
5-6 Annual dues 1966
7 Annual dues 1967
8 Annual dues 1968
9 Arcade study 1956
10 Assessed Valuation
Chicago and County Towns 1919-1929
11 Assessments
1910-1919
12 Assessments
1920-1924
13 Assessments
1925-1930
14 Assessments
1965-1966, Budget 1932
box 8
folders:
1 Auditing Committee
Reports 1922-1931
2 Auditor’s Report
1950-1958
3 Building
Assessment costs 1963
4 Building Brochures
5 Buildings Chicago
Information 1956
6 Buildings Heights
1924-1928
7 Buildings Heights
Studies 1955
8 Building Sites and
Construction Studies
9 Chain Stores 1923-1936
box 9
folders:
1 Chicago
Anniversary Comm. 1952
2 Chicago Area Land
Values 1921-1930
vol. Chicago Land
Values (binder/volume at end of collection)
3 Chicago
City Council 1947-1961
4 Chicago Office
Theatre and Amusement Building Janitors’ Union Local 25 1944
5 Citizens Civil
Service Association of Illinois 1952-1954
6 Civic Centers
1953-1954
7 Civic Centers
Report 1954
8 Civil Defense 1950
9 Civil Defense 1951
box 10
folders:
1 Civil Defense 1951
2 Civil Defense 1951
3 Civil Defense 1952-1953
4 Civil Defense 1954
5 Civil Defense 1957-1958
6 Civil Defense 1959-1960
7 Civil Defense 1962-1967
8 Civil Defense
Annual Reports 1952-1959
box 11
folders:
1 Civil Defense Blackout
1942
2 Civil Defense Bomb
Shelter Program 1954
3 Civil Defense
Building Population 1952
4 Civil Defense
Chicago Civil Defense Corps 1951
5 Fallout Shelter
1962
6 Fallout Shelter
1963
7-8 Fallout Shelter
Study 1962
9 Fallout Shelter
Handbooks 1962
10 Fallout Shelter
Manuals and Plans 1958-1961
11 Fallout Shelter
Meetings 1961
box 12
folders:
1 Civil Defense
Pamphlets and Leaflets 1951-1961
2 Papers and Reports
1950, 1941
3 Papers and Reports
1951-1954
4 Papers and Reports
1959-1961
5 Personnel Lists
1951, 1954
6 Training and Test
Exercises 1954, 1958
7 Training and Test
Exercises 1959-1960
8 Warden
Organization 1951
box 13
folders:
1 Clippings and
Bulletins 1926, 1941-1956
2 Coal Strike 1950
3 Coal Suit 1962
4 Code Data
1933-1934
5 Committee on Elevator
Enclosure Litigation 1904
6 Committee on Local
Transportation 1925
7 Committee on Local
Transportation 1926
8 Committee on
Renting 1933
9 Committee on
Rezoning 1954-1957
10 Consumers Price
Index 1949-1950
11 Consumers Price
Index 1952-1955
12-13 Convention 1952
14 Convention
Entertainment Committee 1952
15 Convention Exhibits
Committee 1952
box 14
folders:
1 Convention Finance
Committee 1952
2 Convention New
Features Committee 1952
3 Convention Program
Committee 1952
4 Convention
Publicity Committee 1952
5 Convention Thank
You Letters 1952
6 Correspondence
1903-1906
7 Correspondence
1909
8 Correspondence
1910
9 Correspondence
1910
10 Correspondence 1911
11 Correspondence 1911
box 15
folders:
1-2 Correspondence 1911
3 Correspondence
1911-1915
4 Correspondence
1922-1923
5-6 Correspondence 1924
7 Correspondence
1931-1937
8 Correspondence
1938
9 Correspondence
1938
box 16
folders:
1 Correspondence
1939-1940
2 Correspondence
1943-1949
3 Correspondence
1950
4 Correspondence
1951
5 Correspondence 1952-1954
6 Correspondence
1967
7 Daily Time Plans
1985
8 Detroit Civic
Center 1954
9 Duplicates
10 Electric Current
Rates 1922-1937
11 Elevator Operators
Manual 1948
12 Flood of freight tunnels in the Loop,
1992 (1992.0353)
box 17
folders:
1 Gas Shutoff Litigation
1912
2 Gas Shutoff
Litigation 1913
3 Gas Shutoff
Litigation 1914-1924
4 Good American
Awards Banquet 1962
5 Index to
Subscription Numbers 1951
6 Licenses City
1941-1965
7 Litigants Illinois
Trusts & Savings 1910-1930
8 Junior Real Estate
Board of Chicago 1971-1972
9 Membership List
1939
10 Monthly Statements
1960-1964
11 Monthly Statements
1965-1968
box 18
folders:
1-2 Off
Street Parking Ordinance 1953
3-4 Off
Street Parking Ordinance 1954
5 Off Street Parking
Ordinance Study 1950
6 Off Street Parking
Ordinance Office Building Occupancy Survey 1934-1950
7 Off Street Parking
Ordinance One Way Streets Chicago 1951
8 Off Street Parking
Ordinance Population Data 1930
9-10 Property Owners
Committee on Real Estate Assessments 1940
box 19
folders:
1 Property Owners
Committee On Real Estate Assessments 1940
2 Property Owners
Committee On Real Estate Assessments 1940-1943
3 Property Owners
Committee On Real Estate Assessments 1955
4 Property Owners
Committee On Real Estate Assessments 1956
5 Property Owners
Committee On Real Estate Assessments Correspondence
1940-1945
6 Property Owners
Committee on Subway Assessments 1930
7-8 Property Owners
Committee on Subway Assessments 1931
9 Property Owners
Committee on Subway Assessments 1931-1936
10 Property Owners
Committee on Subway Assessments 1932
11-13 Property Owners
Committee on Subways 1939
box 20
folders:
1-3 Property Owners
Committee on Subway Assessments 1939
4 Property Owners
Committee on Subway Assessments 1939-1942
5 Property Owners
Committee for Uniform Assess 1928-1930
6-8 Property Owners
Committee for Uniform Assess 1930
9 Property Owners
Committee for Uniform Assess 1933-1934
box 21
folders:
1 Quasar
2 Real Estate
Assessments 1940
3 Reassessment of
Real Estate Study 1927-1928
4-5 Reports and Papers
1937
6 Sales, Advertising
1939
7 Sales Promotion
1939-1940
8 Sales Promotion or
Material 1940
9 Senate Bill 252
1911
10 Skyscraper
Management 1955
box 22
folders:
1 Street file: Belmont
& Central 1935
2 Street file: Bryn Mawr & Winthrop 1935
3 Street file: Chicago
& Ashland 1935
4 Street file: Chicago
& Clark 1935
5 Street file: Devon
& Western 1935
6 Street file: Diversey & Clark 1935
7 Street file: Grand
& Harlem 1935
8 Street file: Howard
& Paulina 1935
9 Street file: Irving,
Milwaukee & Cicero 1935
10 Street file: Lake & Harlem 1935
11 Street file: Lawrence,
Kedzie & Kimball 1935
12 Street file: Lincoln
& Belmont 1935
13 Street file: Lincoln
& Western 1935
14 Street file: Madison
& Crawford 1935
15 Street file: Madison
& Kedzie 1935
16 Street file: Milwaukee
& Ashland 1935
17 Street file: Milwaukee
& Diversey 1935
box 23
folders:
1 Street file: North
& Clark 1935
2 Street file: Roosevelt
& Kedzie 1935
3 Street file: Wilson,
Broadway & Sheridan 1935
4 Street file: 26th
& Crawford 1935
5 Street file: 47th
& Ashland 1935
6 Street file: 53rd
& Lake Park 1935
7 Street file: 63rd
& Cottage Grove 1935
8 Street file: 63rd
& Halsted 1935
9 Street file: 63rd
& Kedzie 1935
10 Street file: 71st
& South Shore Drive 1935
11 Street file: 79th
& Halsted 1935
12 Street file: 92nd
& Commercial 1935
13 Street file: 111th
& Michigan 1935
14 Street file: Evanston
1936-1937
15 Street file: Summary
Sheets of Stores
box 24
folders:
1 Subscriptions
2 Sidewalk Space
Litigation 1910-1911
3 Sidewalk Space
Litigation 1912
4 Sidewalk Space
Litigation 1920-1928
5 Sidewalk Space
Litigation Subscribers 1906-1908
6 Sidewalk Space
Litigation Subscribers 1910
7 Subway Cost
Schedule 1913
8 Subway Case 1931
9 Subway Clippings
1938-1940
10-11 Subway Drawings 1938
12 Subway Drawings
1939
box 25
folders:
1-2 Subway Drawings
1939
3-4 Subway Exhibits
5 Subway Exhibits
1-50
6 Subway Legal
Documents 1931-1932
7 Subway Legal
Payments 1932-1934
8 Ordinances 1938
9 Ordinances 1939
box 26
folders:
1 Ordinances Papers
1931
2-3 Ordinances Project
1931
4 Progress Reports
Jan-May 1940
5 Progress Reports
June-Dec 1940
6 Progress Reports
Jan-May 1941
7 Progress Reports
Sketches
8 Progress Reports
Study 1940
9 Progress Reports
Survey 1930
10 Progress Reports
Supreme Court of Illinois Booklets
11 Progress Reports
Survey of Rental Conditions 1926-1932
box 27
folders:
1 Treasurer’s
Reports 1903-1908
2 Treasurer’s
Reports 1909-1919
3 Treasurer’s
Reports 1921-1925
4 Treasurer’s
Reports 1928-1935
5 Unemployment Compensation 1936-1938
6 Unemployment Compensation 1941-1950
7 Week’s Work
1948-1950
8 Zoning Committee
Heights of Buildings 1920-1922
9-11 Zoning Committee
Heights of Buildings 1922
12 Zoning Committee Heights of Buildings
1923-1924
13 Zoning Committee Heights of Buildings
Clippings
box
28 (record carton)
Gift of Llani O'Conner, Executive Vice
President of BOMA Chicago (1992.0353)