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Potawatomis, R. David Edmunds(
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) ...the west. A few tribesmen, primarily Métis, remained on private tracts of land in northern Illinois,...
...Rivers. Throughout the colonial period they remained allied to the French, journeying to Montreal to...
...Revolution, most of the Potawatomis at Chicago remained neutral, or even favored the Americans,...
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Calumet Heights, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...of the twentieth century, Calumet Heights remained solidly middle class, with many professionals and...
...the area. The swampy Calumet Heights region remained largely unoccupied throughout much of the...
...followed in 1890 and 1891, residential growth remained slow for several decades. By 1920, Calumet...
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School Desegregation, John L. Rury(
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) ...program between suburban and city schools, and suburban schools remained largely segregated as well....
...boundary lines to assure that school districts remained as segregated as the housing market. Civil...
...end segregationist policies. But desegregation remained a controversial issue in Chicago, and plans...
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Chicago State University, Magne B. Olson(
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) ...to first-generation college students, working adults, and minorities has remained a high priority....
...what was renamed the Chicago Normal School. It remained a city institution, undergoing several name...
...and includes dormitories. Teacher education has remained a major focus, and expanding enrollments in...
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Ravenswood, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...its former suburb. The name Ravenswood, however, remained in popular use, even after the area was...
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Calumet River System, Christopher Thale(
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) ...River terminus. The Calumet watershed remained flat and marshy and its waterways unnavigable. Only...
...and away from Lake Michigan. But river direction remained subject to flooding and to water levels in...
...region within Illinois. Still, pollution remained a very serious problem in the Calumet river...
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Carpentersville, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Carpentersville. ” The village's population remained around 23,000 from 1970 to 1990 but grew to...
...two companies employed 2,000 people. Star Manufacturing remained in Carpentersville until 1977....
...The community remained small until the mid-1950s, when gentleman farmer Leonard W. Besinger began a...
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Telephony, Richard R. John(
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) ...upstart telephone entrepreneurs, these tunnels remained long after the firm had failed—a dramatic,...
...Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). The Bell System remained the backbone of the American communications...
...International telephony was even more unusual, and remained somewhat exotic until the rise in the...
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Police, Christopher Thale(
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) ...1881, made arrests easier, but much violence remained. Strict legality was often ignored, and police...
...Standards for recruits rose, though policing remained political. i3730 Policemen taking the...
...crime fighters. Nevertheless, foot patrol remained widespread. i3684 Mounted police, July 1941....
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Wauconda, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...living in converted summer cottages. Wauconda remained a popular vacation destination into the...
...the old mail route to Janesville, now Route 12, remained a muddy or snow-clogged track, residents...
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Lyric Opera, John von Rhein(
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) ...entered the early twenty-first century, it remained internationally respected as a theater of high...
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Broadcasting, Rich Samuels(
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) ...arts stations, WFMT and WNIB. Paul Harvey remained Chicago's lone network radio personality. His...
...into the arena of controversy. And Chicago remained a national broadcast production center....
...network broadcasts. At WGN-TV in particular, children remained a key target of local programming. A...
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Lake County, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...a high quality of housing. In 1990, Munster remained the wealthiest community per capita in Lake...
...Hanover Center, and Whiting . Germans remained the county's largest ethnic group throughout the...
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Public Health, Jennifer Koslow(
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) ...from filth; that cholera spread by water remained unclear until English physician John Snow's...
...in 1854, and the exact nature of the disease remained unidentified until German physician Robert...
...discoveries of the 1880s and 1890s, dirt remained the primary, though incorrect, explanation for...
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West Elsdon, Douglas Knox(
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) ...Streets, but most residential development remained east of the tracks, as the land in West Elsdon...
...economy suspended growth for a time. The area remained rural, and as late as 1938 cows and goats...
...Elizabeth Wood. Opposition to public housing remained strong in the area. In the early 1970s the...
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Chicago Crime Commission, David E. Ruth(
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) ...has faded in recent decades, but it has remained active—monitoring courts and police, campaigning...
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Lombard, IL, Elizabeth M. Holland(
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) ...1960 the population reached 22,561. Lombard remained primarily residential until the 1970s, when the...
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Taxation and Finance, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...Yet the various governments of the Chicago area remained solvent. The property tax survived, and...
...of the twentieth century, the property levy remained the chief source of local revenues, despite an...
...receipts to localities. School districts remained heavily dependent on the property tax, though a...
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Tuberculosis, Susan Vieweg(
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) ...Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium opened and remained in operation until the 1970s. Mortality rates...
...effectively controlled tuberculosis. Tuberculosis remained under control in Chicago until the 1980s,...
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Playboy, Max Grinnell(
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) ...activities to southern California, while production of Playboy magazine remained in Chicago....
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