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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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| 1036 |
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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| 1037 |
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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| 1041 |
League of Women Voters, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...were headed by women active in metropolitan Chicago's suffrage and women's club movements, including...
...for voters, including Key to Government in Chicago and Suburban Cook County and Illinois Voters'...
...American Woman Suffrage Association in Chicago in 1920 following passage of national suffrage . The...
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| 1042 |
Domestic Work and Workers, Daniel A. Graff(
Authored Entry
) ...between $5 to $6 per hour on average. And in Chicago, as elsewhere in the United States, cleaning,...
...half of the nineteenth century transformed Chicago into the nation's leading interior metropolis....
...and childcare chores. By 1870, one in five Chicago households employed domestic workers, who...
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| 1043 |
Art, Public, David M. Sokol(
Authored Entry
) ...and teenagers, through such organizations as the Chicago Mural Group, the Public Art Workshop, and...
...Chicago is known for its public sculpture, though it also has a rich tradition in murals and other...
...cycle was Lawrence C. Earle's History of Chicago (1909) for the Chicago National Bank. Frederic Clay...
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| 1044 |
Indiana Dunes, J. Ronald Engel(
Authored Entry
) ...on industrializing the remaining Indiana shoreline. Chicago reformers associated with the settlement...
...40s. The urban and industrial expansion of Chicago following the Civil War established the checkered...
...in America because in 1899 University of Chicago botanist Henry C. Cowles published his classic...
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| 1045 |
Vietnamese, Mark E. Pfeifer(
Authored Entry
) ...Persons of Vietnamese origin began moving to Chicago in significant numbers in the mid to late...
...hundred Vietnamese refugees were resettled in Chicago following the fall of Saigon in 1975. While...
...family members from Vietnam to join them in Chicago. The 1990 census enumerated 4,640 persons of...
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| 1046 |
Finns, Timo Riippa(
Authored Entry
) ...why there were only four or five hundred Finns in Chicago, a figure that paled in comparison to the...
...city's other ethnic groups. Chicago seemed a mere way station for Finns on their journey to the...
...had little interest in the urban factories of Chicago or Waukegan . Those who found factory work...
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| 1047 |
Malaysians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...Malaysians have been migrating to Chicago since the 1970s for occupational and educational...
...larger ones on the West Coast and in New York. Chicago-area universities continued to draw Malaysian...
...in the United States, have transferred to Chicago through their work with large international...
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| 1048 |
Motorola Inc., Timothy J. Gilfoyle(
Authored Entry
) ...battery eliminator business from the bankrupt Stewart Storage Battery Co. of Chicago. The brothers'...
...new company, located on the West Side of Chicago, was called the Galvin Manufacturing Corp. ; it...
...Motorola slashed tens of thousands of jobs in Chicago and worldwide. Christopher Galvin was replaced...
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New Deal, Roger Biles(
Authored Entry
) ...fiscal collapse, New Deal beneficence assured Chicago's solvency. With New Deal programs aiding an...
...comparatively liberal record on race, Chicago's black voters (who also found much to admire in Mayor...
...cities. At the nadir of the Depression, Chicago's unemployed numbered 700,000 people (fully 40...
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| 1050 |
Pacific Islanders, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...The largest groups of Pacific Islanders in Chicago are Hawaiians, Samoans, Guamanians, and Chamorro,...
...2000 census identified more than 4,000 people in Chicago claiming at least partial Pacific Islander...
...meat, 1892. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 While a small number...
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