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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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| 1082 |
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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| 1085 |
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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| 1087 |
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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| 1089 |
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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| 1090 |
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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| 1091 |
Birthing Practices, Lynne Curry(
Authored Entry
) ...the well-being of the mothers and babies of Chicago prompted a vigorous movement for more hygienic...
...the 1930s, Joseph B. De Lee, director of the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, spearheaded a major campaign...
...Throughoutthenineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Chicago, childbirth customarily occurred at...
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| 1092 |
Condominiums and Cooperatives, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...and offices in 1979. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...after World War I , the first cooperatives in Chicago offered middle-income and well-to-do city...
...bankrupted over 75 percent of the cooperatives in Chicago, but housing shortages after World War II...
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| 1093 |
Folk Music, Stephen Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...other institutions, such as the University of Chicago Folk Festival (1961) and Flying Fish Records (...
...in traditional music—just a few pieces of Chicago's enduring yet evolving mosaic of folk music...
...Folk music in Chicago is tied to the city's role as a national crossroads. In its neighborhood...
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| 1094 |
Indians, Vinay Lal(
Authored Entry
) ...and may well be the element that cements Chicago's diverse Indian population into a more cohesive...
...2542 West Devon Avenue, 1984. Photographer: Mukul Roy. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...century, the first major influx of Indians into Chicago awaited the arrival of graduate students and...
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| 1095 |
Mesquakie (Fox), R. David Edmunds(
Authored Entry
) ...A small village of Mesquakies reoccupied the Chicago region during 1741, but one year later they...
...Iowa, form part of the modern Native American community clustered in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood....
...of Mesquakies also passed through the Chicago region in 1710 when part of the tribe temporarily...
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| 1096 |
Mutual Benefit Societies, John Bodnar(
Authored Entry
) ...halls. In the aftermath of World War II , Chicago's Greek societies raised money and foodstuffs for...
...Americanization . The Ukrainian Women's Alliance in Chicago attempted to promote a more active role...
...Immigrant groups that entered cities like Chicago throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth...
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| 1097 |
Set Design, Robert R. Boyle(
Authored Entry
) ...to traditional operas. New York is no longer an inhibiting force, and two Chicago productions...
...transferred from Chicago to Broadway with great success—Kevin Rigdon's set for Grapes of Wrath, in...
...set for Death of a Salesman, in 1999. As Chicago theater has gained more international recognition—...
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| 1098 |
Tennis, John H. Long(
Authored Entry
) ...one federal jobs program paved more than 330 Chicago parks courts with asphalt, creating precursors...
...in popularity during the 1970s, the decade when Chicago-based Wilson Sporting Goods saw its tennis...
...volume exceed that of golf . Students from Chicago won nearly every one of the state high-school...
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| 1099 |
Sanitary and Ship Canal, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...and Lockport , linking the South Branch of the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River . With the...
...Ship Canal permanently reversed the flow of the Chicago River in 1900. The canal was designed both...
...a means to improve water quality by sending Chicago's sewage south into the Illinois River instead...
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| 1100 |
The Boulevard and the Bridge, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...on view remain today. Photographer: Fred Korth Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-22457)...
...Illustration 3433 4253 Bridges Chicago River Magnificent Mile...
...Michigan Avenue at the Chicago River, View South This photograph was probably taken in 1925, since...
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