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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cypriots, Emily Brunner(
Authored Entry
) ...that there are few Turkish Cypriots in the Chicago area and that they would participate in Turkish...
...of Greece. Greek Cypriots began arriving in Chicago during the first third of the twentieth century,...
...Cypriot community outside of Cyprus. Most Chicago Cypriots have relatives in London, and some lived...
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Rap, Mark Swartz(
Authored Entry
) ...lion's share of important rap artists, whereas Chicago has contributed little to the genre—little,...
...Bowl Shuffle,” a novelty hit recorded by the Chicago Bears football team in 1985. Meanwhile, it...
...a Black Muslim organization headquartered in Chicago, as a lyrical and ideological influence, a rap...
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Rent Control, Wendy Plotkin(
Authored Entry
) ...In twentieth-century Chicago, skyrocketing rents have arisen as an issue in times of inflation and...
...shortages. In response, for short periods, Chicago has adopted rent arbitration and rent control. In...
...that, through 1921 in conjunction with the Chicago Real Estate Board, arbitrated disputes over...
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Residential Hotels, Paul Groth(
Authored Entry
) ...low-income population. Between 1973 and 1984 Chicago lost almost 23,000 hotel rooms, adding to a...
...From the very beginning of Chicago's history, hotel managers have catered both to tourists and to...
...people with comfortable incomes might move to Chicago and never live anywhere except in a hotel . A...
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Agricultural Journals, Chas. P. Raleigh(
Authored Entry
) ...and production between 1880 and 1930. While Chicago's agricultural journalists have focused on...
...information about prairie farming made Chicago a lively center for agricultural journalism. What no...
...Prairie Farmer first appeared was that Chicago would become home to more agricultural journals than...
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Openlands Project, Gerald W. Adelmann(
Authored Entry
) ...generation of neighborhood parks and gardens in Chicago, a metropolitan network of greenways, and...
...a committee of the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago “to seek preservation and development of...
...recreation and conservation resources” in the Chicago metropolitan area. Occasionally, Openlands...
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Subdivisions, Carolyn Loeb(
Authored Entry
) ...high-tech industries have converted some of Chicago's far-flung suburbs into a ring of edge cities...
...1913 City Club model suburb competition. i3600 Chicago Plan Commission diagram for a “well-designed...
...subdivision,” 1943. Creator: Chicago Plan Commission. Source: The Newberry Library. FIGURE 1...
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Catholic School System, Ellen Skerrett(
Authored Entry
) ...schools continued to be, in the words of the Chicago Defender, “a blessing especially to poor black...
...model of Catholic parish life . Since 1966, the Archdiocese of Chicago has closed more than half its...
...urban schools. Chicago's 139 Catholic elementary schools and 25 high schools enrolled 61,769...
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Goose Island, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Goose Island 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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Theater Companies, Richard Christiansen(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's position as the prime city of the Midwest has made it both a necessary stopover on the...
...brief-lived community theater organization, the Chicago Little Theatre, seating only 91 persons, in...
...Building . Its motto, a template for future Chicago companies, was “Create your own theater with the...
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