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Ukrainians, Alexandra Hrycak(
Authored Entry
) ...to the 2000 census, 45,036 residents of the Chicago metropolitan area consider themselves to be of...
...either the Blessed Mother of God parish, Chicago's first Greek Catholic parish, founded in 1902, or...
...neighborhood surrounding the 2300 and 2400 blocks of Chicago Avenue, which has since become known as...
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Cook County, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...met in 1831 with three members: two from Chicago and one from Naperville (DuPage did not become a...
...Dearborn . The board set the county seat at Chicago, requested 10 acres of land from the state for...
...licensing of taverns and a ferry across the Chicago River , and began construction on two highways:...
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The Loop, Gerald A. Danzer(
Authored Entry
) ...Community Area 32. The Loop is the popular name for the Chicago business district located south of...
...the main stem of the Chicago River . The name apparently derives from the place where the strands...
...system that helped insure the dominance of Chicago's historic core in the development of the...
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Outdoor Concerts, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...edified, and democratized the citizens of Chicago. When not merely providing a focus for summertime...
...main gate. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 As early as 1851,...
...arrangements, for spectators wishing to dance. As Chicago urbanized, concert audiences diversified...
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Softball, 16-Inch, Jacob Austen(
Authored Entry
) ...be pitched fast or slow, the always slow-pitched Chicago softball makes for easier contact by the...
...presented with a 16-inch softball during a 1998 Chicago visit, the unfamiliar object fascinated him....
...thousands of games of 16-inch softball fill Chicago's parks every summer Sunday, the game is...
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| 1076 |
United Neighborhood Organization, Amy T. Peterson(
Authored Entry
) ...1980, the United Neighborhood Organization of Chicago (UNO) is a service organization that aims to...
...empower and improve the quality of life for Chicago's low-income Latino residents, focusing...
...Daniel Solis, hoped it would become a voice for Chicago's Latino community. UNO's voice in Chicago's...
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| 1077 |
Stephen A. Douglas, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...near 31st Street. Douglas's electoral support in Chicago remained strong until 1858. While he was...
...against Abraham Lincoln, he did not carry Chicago. Two years later, 8,094 Chicagoans voted for...
...Michigan Canal . He received strong support from Chicago voters when he entered Congress in the mid-...
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| 1078 |
Clubs, Youth, Gerald R. Gems(
Authored Entry
) ...adults. In this portrait, ca. 1915, the Chicago Hebrew Institute celebrated its sports programs and...
...young athletes. Photographer: Taylor & Lytle. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Youth clubs and sports have been a part of Chicago's social world from its earliest days. Many were...
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National Negro Congress, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Race on any single issue. ” ”The Chicago Council ranked among the most active NNC chapters....
...radical labor organizer, assumed the reins. The Chicago NNC protested against discrimination in the...
...800 delegates, 43 percent of them from Chicago and the rest from across the nation, representing 500...
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Amos 'n' Andy, Melvin Patrick Ely(
Authored Entry
) ...move to Hollywood in 1937–38 reflected Chicago's decline as a center of American broadcasting ....
...Charles Correll (Andy), 1930. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Andy, radio's first hit series, originated on Chicago station WGN as Sam 'n' Henry in 1926; it moved...
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| 1081 |
Garveyism, Christopher R. Reed(
Authored Entry
) ...enterprises on the South Side. Although Chicago Garveyites campaigned for a black congressional...
...avoided any involvement in American politics. The Chicago branch of the National Association for the...
...People and Robert S. Abbott, owner of the Chicago Defender , headed Garvey's opposition within...
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Art, Self-Taught, Lisa Stone(
Authored Entry
) ...consistent, provocative, and highly original. Chicago Imagist artists embraced self-taught art and...
...since the early 1960s included Outsider Art in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1979. In...
...Intuitive, and Visionary Art) formed, solidifying Chicago as a national center for the exhibition...
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| 1083 |
Swimming at Pools and Lagoons, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Growing Up Along 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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| 1084 |
Manufacturing Climate, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...activity exploded. By the beginning of the 1890s, Chicago had attracted the world's attention as a...
...During the 1880s, Chicago's manufacturing climate, like that of much of the industrializing world,...
...volatile. Unlike the rest of the world, however, Chicago seemed to be the epicenter of the changes...
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Lake County, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...portion of Lake County was 40 miles from Chicago, a distance requiring days of travel through...
...stations that provided farmers access to Chicago, where they could sell perishables like milk,...
...industrial towns of Hammond , Whiting, and East Chicago contained 52 percent of the county's 37,892...
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| 1086 |
Sports, Industrial League, Gerald R. Gems(
Authored Entry
) ...Armour football squad, 1896. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago businesses began fielding athletic teams as early as the 1860s, when employees banded...
...At least 60 industrial baseball leagues competed in Chicago, and the city hosted the Union Printers...
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Cambodians, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...has remained a largely separate group in Chicago. In 1999, CAI moved its headquarters to an expanded...
...many of them affiliated with the U.S. military, immigrated to Chicago prior to 1975, most...
...of the Cambodians in Chicago came as refugees in the years following 1975, when the brutal Khmer...
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| 1088 |
Des Plaines River, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...necessary to create a 100-mile canal from the Chicago River southwestward to the Illinois River near...
...is not only the longest stream within the Chicago region, it is also of great historic importance....
...River and continued along the Des Plaines to the Chicago Portage . So the Des Plaines, long traveled...
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Montgomery, IL, Sherry Meyer(
Authored Entry
) ...Counties, 38 miles W of the Loop. In 1834 the Chicago–Galena road forded the Fox River at what...
...The site was a day's stagecoach journey from Chicago and a logical place for a travelers' inn....
...landmark. The arrival of the McCormick Works at Chicago doomed Montgomery's reaper plant. Likewise,...
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Sailing and Boating, Geoffrey Baer(
Authored Entry
) ...Many lakefront communities north and south of Chicago also have harbors, boat launches, and yacht...
...River , Skokie Lagoons, upper reaches of the Chicago River, and even the old commercial waterway,...
...were airports , expressways , and railroads , Chicago was a water city. The city grew up at the...
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