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Ecology and Conservation, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...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...
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Roseland, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...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....
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Spaniards, Robert Morrissey(
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) ...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...
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Coffeehouses, Eli Rubin(
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) ...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...
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Gurnee, IL, Mark Howard Long(
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) ...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...
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Rogers Park, Patricia Mooney-Melvin(
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) ...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...
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Toy Manufacturing, Anne Moore(
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) ...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...
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Grand Boulevard, Wallace Best(
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) ...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...
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Southerners, Chad Berry(
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) ...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...
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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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Grand Army of the Republic, David T. Thackery(
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) ...and G.A.R. meeting place, was a component of the Chicago Public Library building (1897) on Michigan...
...passing of Union veterans, but as late as 1914 Chicago had 23 posts with a combined roster of over...
...organization of Union Civil War veterans. Chicago G.A.R. posts behaved in many respects like other...
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Coal Mining, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...only a generation. By the 1960s, the last coal mining operations in the Chicago region were closed....
...carried out to a much greater extent outside the Chicago metropolitan area than inside it. Only the...
...vast deposits of bituminous coal were located near Chicago. But these Will County deposits were the...
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Nursing and Nursing Education, Wendy Burgess(
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) ...century. Early schools of nursing were based in Chicago hospitals. Prominent among them were St....
...other schools, was established in 1891 by the Chicago African American community in order to provide...
...women who were excluded from other schools in Chicago and in the nation. A small but significant...
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Goose Island Residents and Residences, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...By this point, evidence points to more familiar Chicago cottages and two-flats on Hickory, North...
...Housing, Self-Built ; Built Environment of Chicago ; Goose Island ; Housing Types Back | Page 1 |...
...Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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Plant Communities, Gerould Wilhelm(
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) ...and the earth can no longer renew itself and the ancient memory of Chicago has all but slipped away....
...The Chicago region, situated along the southwestern end of Lake Michigan , lies along the...
...hill country of the eastern states, the Chicago region is relatively well disposed with gently...
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Service Employees International Union (SEIU), D. Bradford Hunt(
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) ...invested the union's large pension fund in major Chicago real-estate developments, including Marina...
...sector workers, reaching 80,000 members in the Chicago area in 2000, roughly half of whom were women...
...washers in apartment buildings organized the Chicago Flat Janitor's Union, the nation's first union...
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Communist Party, Randi Storch(
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) ...off and formed the Committees of Correspondence, which had its founding meeting in 1994 in Chicago....
...A small Chicago Communist Party remained at the close of the twentieth century....
...The American Communist Party was born in Chicago in 1919 and headquartered there until 1927, when...
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Gas Stations, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...last states to authorize self-service, and a Chicago city ordinance required stations to offer some...
...self-service stations have taken over in Chicago and the suburbs. i3586 Standard Oil gas station,...
...Gas stations have developed in Chicago and around the nation in response to the twentieth-century...
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Haitians, William Leslie Balan-Gaubert(
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) ...strong national loyalties among Haitians in Chicago, most of whom maintain strong ties to their...
...approximately 10,000–22,000 Haitians in the Chicago metropolitan area. Community leaders estimated...
...is also reported that some Haitians lived in Chicago around 1917 during the American occupation of...
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Playwriting, Andrea Telli and Richard Pettengill(
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) ...like Victory Gardens Theater, the Goodman, Steppenwolf , and Chicago Dramatists Workshop have...
...all nurtured and developed Chicago writers, in some cases toward New York productions and national...
...the Goodman previously, furthering the nation's awareness of Chicago's role in new play development....
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