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Metropolitan Growth, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...Their working-class counterparts, who in the nineteenth century lived near their industrial jobs,...
...settlement patterns. By the close of the nineteenth century, streetcars and rapid transit began a...
...great waves of European emigrants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. African American...
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Kouts, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...town on the Kankakee River during theearly nineteenth century when Native Americans controlled the...
...Kouts developed around a railroad station in the nineteenth century. The town has remained sparsely...
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Work, David Moberg(
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) ...In the late nineteenth century, booming Chicago struck visitors as the “purest kind of commercial...
...of work itself. Especially in the late nineteenth century, Chicago was both shaped by and helped to...
...transportation remained key, in the mid-nineteenth century small factories first began processing...
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Business of Chicago, Peter A. Coclanis(
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) ...bound since the city's beginnings in the early nineteenth century. Although there is no truth to the...
...penetration increased markedly in the early nineteenth century, illustrated in stylized form by the...
...merely that, given American capitalism's nineteenth-century trajectory, the development of an urban...
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Work Culture, Lynn Y. Weiner(
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) ...witnessed by Carrie Meeber at the end of the nineteenth century has vanished, still new forms of...
...work cultures of the city. Throughout the nineteenth century, work for a huge pool of floating and...
...One of the transient job opportunities in mid-nineteenth-century Chicago was lumber production. Lake...
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Law, R. Ben Brown(
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) ...As Chicago's businesses grew in the late nineteenth century, so too did the city's need for a cadre...
...to-day activities of lawyers. In the mid-nineteenth century, the practice of law was largely carried...
...legal profession that occurred between the mid-nineteenth century and the twenty-first century was...
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Medical Education, Eve Fine(
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) ...time, salaried faculty. Increasingly from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, medical...
...In nineteenth-century Chicago, a medical degree was not always needed to practice medicine. No...
...enroll but not graduate from either school in the nineteenth century. In 1871, the newly established...
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North Center, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...North Center area, however, remained uncultivated and undeveloped until the late nineteenth century....
...During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Chicago's industrialists realized the potential...
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Waterfront, Dennis H. Cremin(
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) ...to commerce and industry. Near the end of the nineteenth century, concerns over cleaner water and...
...opportunities. In the early part of the nineteenth century, Chicago's riverine waterways flowed...
...of leisure activities. By the middle of the nineteenth century, promenading along the lakefront to...
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Housekeeping, Glenna Matthews(
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) ...so many thousands coming to Chicago in the late nineteenth century, frequently to confront appalling...
...stove. A dazzling array of further changes in the nineteenth century—the sewing machine and improved...
...washing machines, and ironing machines. In the nineteenth century working-class housewives struggled...
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Unionization, James R. Barrett(
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) ...organizers. Heavy immigration from the mid-nineteenth century through the early 1920s, and then...
...The city's largest employers in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century were...
...and technical workers beginning in the late nineteenth century. Such variety led to the conventional...
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Ethnic Music, Philip V. Bohlman(
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) ...not only the workers' choruses of late nineteenth-century European immigrants, but the popular dance...
...escalated during the final decades of the nineteenth century, and new immigrant groups, notably from...
...For German-speaking ethnic communities in the nineteenth century, first men's singing societies such...
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Planning Chicago, Carl Abbott(
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) ...whether Greater Grand Crossing and Austin in the nineteenth century, the Bungalow Belt of the early...
...market-driven growth. In the first half of the nineteenth century, government actions constructed a...
...Chicagoans in the second half of the nineteenth century built a set of influential communities that...
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Historic Preservation, Barbara Sciacchitano(
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) ...Aurora , or by the development of a district of nineteenth-century houses, as in Geneva . Historic...
...Prairie Avenue District. It includes two other late-nineteenth-century houses and the Clarke House ,...
...of impressive religious structures from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ten have...
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Dentistry, Harry L. Sheehy(
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) ...father of modern dentistry. At the turn of the nineteenth century, he developed dental materials,...
...journals; and Walter Webb Allport, late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century clinician, educator,...
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Sacred Music, Philip V. Bohlman(
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) ...Protestant immigrants in the mid and late nineteenth century. In twentieth-century Chicago, more...
...settled in Chicago in large numbers during the nineteenth century. Sacred musical practices in the...
...published in Europe. Only later in the nineteenth century did repertories published in America...
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Wholesaling, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...surprising that it has served since the mid-nineteenth century as a major wholesaling center. Like...
...trade in grain. During the latter part of the nineteenth century, when Chicago continued to serve as...
...that was occurring in Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the field...
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Railroad Supply Industry, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...rails made in the United States. By the late nineteenth century, the railroad equipment and supply...
...manufacturers of railcars during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Pullman was the...
...firms in the railcar business during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After the...
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Sporting Goods Manufacturing, Timothy E. Sullivan(
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) ...social and economic conditions. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as income...
...father of American baseball. ” By the late nineteenth century, Spalding had a virtual monopoly on...
...another emerging national pastime in the late nineteenth century was cycling. The popularity of...
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Taxation and Finance, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...a property tax, and by the close of the nineteenth century Chicagoans paid additional property...
...well as the county and townships. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, special...
...construction and paving. During the late nineteenth century, criticism of the property levy mounted,...
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