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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Housing for the Elderly, N. Sue Weiler(
Authored Entry
) ...brought to an end. It was replaced in 1980 by the Chicago Housing Authority Scattered Sites Program,...
...In 1992, IHDA listed a total of 20,818 units in Chicago, of which almost 70 percent were HUD rent-...
...26 religious- and ethnic-sponsored facilities in Chicago, 22 in Cook County, and 14 in the other...
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Press: Suburban Press, Richard Junger(
Authored Entry
) ...to hometown chroniclers to rivals once again, Chicago's suburban newspapers have persevered and...
...with the large downtown dailies. The Chicago area's oldest and the sixth-oldest newspaper in...
...1839, eight years before the founding of the Chicago Tribune. Early settlements along the Illinois...
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Accounting, Paul J. Miranti, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...global economy through the competencies of Chicago's accounting and educational organizations. In...
...professional accounting has been deeply intertwined with the developments that have shaped Chicago....
...Chicago's emergence as a major center of professional accountancy began during the 1890s. Initially,...
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Sunday Closings, Rachel E. Bohlmann(
Authored Entry
) ...In Chicago, the policy of Sunday closing, requiring commercial venues to close on the traditional...
...from opening on the first day of the week. Chicago's law resembled the state's 1845 Sunday law,...
...laws, however, proved unpopular with Chicago's Irish and German immigrants. German Americans, for...
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Bridges, Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...18th and Canal. i3185 Looking east along the Chicago River at the LaSalle Street Bridge prior to...
...completion, 1928. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Nineteenth-century Chicago's geography presented unusual requirements. A narrow river, with low...
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Filipinos, Barbara M. Posadas(
Authored Entry
) ...Spanish American War, young male Filipinos came to Chicago, first as family-supported or government...
...Sides . According to the United States census, Chicago's Filipino population grew from 154 in 1920...
...the 1930s. Before World War II , the typical Chicago Filipino was a high-school graduate with some...
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Packinghouse Unions, Rick Halpern(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's important meatpacking industry experienced three successive waves of unionization . The...
...of the nation's packinghouses, especially those in Chicago, was essential to success. Between...
...AMC built a powerful organization in the Chicago plants, especially Armour and Swift. Its strongest...
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Ice Skating, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...n.d. Photographer: John McCarthy Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37289) The redevelopment...
...Waterfront ; Skating (Ice) Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Shoreline Development, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...park private and public beaches the plan of chicago race divisions on public beaches the lakefront...
...in the 21st century The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Room for Improvement, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...prohibit the sale of liquor but found little support in Chicago's precincts. Photographer: Charles...
...R. Childs Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37018) Illustration 4050 2892 Prohibition and...
...father, served five two-year terms as mayor of Chicago, from 1897 to 1905, and then from 1911 to...
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