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1001 Moving Days, Emily Clark( Authored Entry )
...late nineteenth century as many as one-third of all Chicago households moved annually. It was a very...
...unpopularity of a fixed moving day, the Chicago and Cook County real-estate boards allowed leases to...
...and October remain popular moving days in Chicago. i3689 Moving day, 1907. Photographer: Unknown....
1002 Section between Robey Street (Damen) and Summit, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...The Sanitary and Ship Canal Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo...
...Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...
1003 Cholera, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...Water-Related Epidemics Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo...
...Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...
1004 Calumet Harbor, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...industrial convenience. See also: Calumet Region ; Water The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
1005 Syrians, Sarah Gualtieri( Authored Entry )
...drain. ” The majority of the immigrants who came to Chicago during this period were Palestinian and...
...these immigrants played leading roles in the Chicago Arab American community, 3 percent of whom were...
...and of work opportunities in and around Chicago reached family and friends in Ramallah, Damascus,...
1006 Buddhists, Paul D. Numrich( Authored Entry )
...of Buddhism would emerge in urban centers like Chicago, or whether Buddhism in America would remain...
...Buddhism had a minimal presence in Chicago prior to World War II. Of traditionally Buddhist...
...Maha Bodhi Society opened subsequently in Chicago, attracting a mostly professional clientele of...
1007 Children's Health, Lynne Curry( Authored Entry )
...clinic, 1930s. Photographer: Wallace Kirkland. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...highest price for poor health conditions in Chicago. In many years children under five represented...
...health measures had been put in place. In 1908 Chicago became the first city in the world to require...
1008 Gypsies, Marlene Sway( Authored Entry )
...the American Machwaya, these recent immigrants have become fully integrated into Chicago Gypsy life....
...strong ethnic identity. Gypsies first came to Chicago during the large waves of Southern and Eastern...
...Two separate Gypsy subgroups settled in Chicago. The Machwaya came from Serbia and parts of the...
1009 Movies, Going to the, Max Grinnell( Authored Entry )
...to one of the theater's two orchestras. The Chicago Defender described the theater's interior as “an...
...make 47th Street's reputation as the Harlem of Chicago. The theater was demolished in 1973, but its...
...Chicago helped launch the movie industry in the United States in the early 1900s, so it is no...
1010 Steel Mills on Sand, Page 1, Sarah S. Marcus( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
...Dunes Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water in Chicago Essay: People and the Port...
1011 Ecology and Conservation, Sarah S. Marcus( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...IN ; Dune Acres, IN ; Ogden Dunes, IN ; Real Estate The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
1012 Roseland, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...however, offer the possibility that Roseland might come to share in Chicago's new prosperity....
...Dutch families built their homes along the Chicago–Thornton Road. Perched on the ridge west of Lake...
...Prairie prospered, its farms made profitable by Chicago to its north and the stockyards to the west....
1013 Spaniards, Robert Morrissey( Authored Entry )
...Community leaders estimated approximately 500 Spaniards spread across the Chicago metropolitan area....
...Spain established a small but vibrant community in Chicago. Rural poverty and population pressure...
...a small number of Spaniards had settled in Chicago, attracted to the area by jobs in steel mills and...
1014 Coffeehouses, Eli Rubin( Authored Entry )
...politics in the coffeehouse blended with Chicago's jazz culture to produce a new tradition: the...
...such as the Interactive Bean have become central to the Chicago region's coffee-drinking habits....
...i3674 A Chicago coffee shop, 1941. Photographer: John Vachon. Source: Library of Congress. FIGURE 1...
1015 Gurnee, IL, Mark Howard Long( Authored Entry )
...a largely rural, agricultural town on the Chicago periphery until well into the latter half of the...
...Gurnee directly into a tighter orbit of Chicago. In 1976 Gurnee became home to Great America, one of...
...and 1991 the largest shopping mall in the Chicago area opened in Gurnee. The concomitant growth of...
1016 Rogers Park, Patricia Mooney-Melvin( Authored Entry )
...1, 9 miles N of the Loop. Rogers Park ranks among Chicago's most diverse and populous neighborhoods....
...growth accompanied the village's annexation to Chicago in 1893. The 1915 annexation of the area...
...and South Evanston , brought Rogers Park and Chicago a new northern boundary. Rail connections...
1017 Toy Manufacturing, Anne Moore( Authored Entry )
...Throughout the twentieth century, Chicago was home to the leading manufacturers of toys, from...
...Beanie Babies. Toy manufacturers thrived in Chicago for the same reasons makers of other products...
...variety of miniature toy got its start in Chicago, when publisher Charles O. Dowst saw a Linotype...
1018 Grand Boulevard, Wallace Best( Authored Entry )
...Township in 1861, and was annexed with Hyde Park to Chicago in 1889. The area is bounded by 39th and...
...and south, and by Cottage Grove Avenue and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad tracks to the...
...a popular carriage route on which many of Chicago's wealthy built elegant mansions. The population...
1019 Southerners, Chad Berry( Authored Entry )
...also demonstrate that white southern migrants to Chicago and other Midwestern destinations enjoyed...
...in droves between World War I and the 1970s. Chicago and other Midwest locales—both urban and rural—...
...policy halted immigration, personnel managers in Chicago eagerly invited upland southerners, who had...
1020 Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...Houses and Water Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo...
...Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...

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