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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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| 1049 |
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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| 1051 |
Landscape, Gerald A. Danzer(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's landscape is characterized by a flatness which reflects its underlying geology, many...
...a series of dramatic fluctuations. Lake Chicago emerged at one high point, covering an area larger...
...moraines, creating a spillway that drained Lake Chicago down to the current lake level. After the...
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| 1052 |
Machine Politics, Roger Biles(
Authored Entry
) ...clearly made the machine politics for which Chicago became famous an anachronism by the end of the...
...In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chicago sustained a strong two-party tradition that...
...any faction from establishing hegemony. Several Chicago mayors , most notably Carter H. Harrison (...
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| 1053 |
Resorts: Summer Journey to Saugatuck, (
Authored Entry
) ...The angry whitecaps that I had often seen in Chicago during the stormy weather were hidden in the...
...Haven, and Michigan City were popular with Chicago workers in the early twentieth century. Day,...
...resorts were easily made by ship from downtown Chicago. Hilda Satt Polacheck, a young Jewish woman...
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| 1054 |
Indonesians, Asad Husain(
Authored Entry
) ...Indonesians started arriving in Chicago in 1883. Immigration to the United States has...
...slow, and they do not form a sizeable or recognizable community in the Chicago area. The community...
...than 1,000 was scattered all over metropolitan Chicago in 2000. It encompassed Christians, largely...
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| 1055 |
Museums in the Park, Dennis H. Cremin(
Authored Entry
) ...maintenance and care of museums located in Chicago's parks. In 1903, voters approved the tax measure...
...the institutions would be better able to serve more of Chicago's burgeoning population. These...
...benefit nine museums: the Art Institute of Chicago , the Field Museum of Natural History, the Adler...
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| 1056 |
Two Kinds of Factories, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...was, by Chicago's old street numbering system, 377 W. Chicago Avenue, which now corresponds to 1413...
...W. Chicago, just west of Noble Street on the Northwest...
...Side. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38278) Illustration 3819 3032...
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| 1057 |
Austin, Judith A. Martin(
Authored Entry
) ...white population moved to the suburbs and to Chicago's Northwest Side. Neighborhood groups like the...
...Area 25, 7 miles W of the Loop. Austin, on Chicago's western border, evolved from a country village...
...Park 's development); transit lines, notably the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad and the Lake Street...
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| 1058 |
Trees, George H. Ware(
Authored Entry
) ...are increasingly being planted. Recent extensive tree planting has enriched the Chicago streetscape....
...Downtown Chicago has a rich matrix of honey locust, augmented generously with well-chosen newcomer...
...and towns in the Midwest, including many in the Chicago region. Insecticide application and prompt...
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| 1059 |
Armories, Eleanor Hannah(
Authored Entry
) ...new armories for all infantry regiments in Chicago, completing one for the African American Eighth...
...in 1915. The only armory with landmark status in Chicago, this facility reopened in 1999 as a public...
...continued to build or renovate armories for Chicago regiments. As ING companies followed the...
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| 1060 |
Cameroonians, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...group of mostly French-speaking Cameroonians in Chicago formed a wing of the Cameroonian People's...
...nonpolitical Cameroonian community group in Chicago. The Association of Cameroonians in Illinois...
...The first Cameroonians in Chicago came as students in the early 1960s. More permanent immigrants...
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