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Birthing Practices, Lynne Curry(
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) ...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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Condominiums and Cooperatives, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...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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Folk Music, Stephen Wade(
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) ...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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Finding a Playground, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...arguments regarding the area's recreational attributes. See also: Chicago Literary Renaissance ;...
...Literary Images of Chicago ; Literary Cultures ; Poetry...
...The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of...
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Private and Public Beaches, Page 5, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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Quarrying, Stone Cutting, and Brick Making, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...and brick was a major economic activity in the Chicago area. Millions of tons of limestone quarried...
...companies over the years. During the years when Chicago grew from a small town into a metropolis,...
...were large limestone quarries southwest of Chicago, near the town of Lemont along the Illinois &...
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Woodlawn, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...sent their produce to merchants in nearby Chicago on the Illinois Central Railroad , which opened a...
...Avenue (63rd Street) in 1862. By 1889, when Chicago annexed Woodlawn along with the rest of Hyde...
...of Woodlawn was residential. University of Chicago faculty found the neighborhood congenial. When...
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Burmese, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Burmese immigrants began coming to Chicago in large numbers in the early 1960s. A nation...
...exile on the Burma/Thailand border. By 1967, Chicago had become a destination for Burmese of all...
...Wayne, Indiana, from which some later moved to Chicago. By the late 1960s, Chicago had a sizeable...
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Clubs, Women's, Anne Meis Knupfer(
Authored Entry
) ...Side Women's Federated Club, 1950s. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Public Library. FIGURE 1...
...stratified by class, ethnicity, and race, Chicago's women's clubs engaged in a wide variety of...
...resources within their own communities. The Chicago Woman's Club, of those clubs dominated by well-...
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Convents, Suellen Hoy(
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) ...live under religious vows. They became common in Chicago and other industrial cities early in the...
...The first ones, like that established on Chicago's Wabash Avenue by Mother Agatha O'Brien and four...
...working selflessly on their behalf. By 1889, Chicago had over 60 convents. Unlike most “settlers,”...
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Galleries, Lynne Warren(
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) ...The beginnings of Chicago art galleries are linked closely with the city's great mercantile...
...architecture , and design. This so-called “Chicago-style” gallery tapped into indigenous sources...
...uplift that had been promulgated by the great Chicago industrialist-philanthropists in the late...
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Naperville, IL, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...of two main stage routes that ran from Chicago to Galena and to Ottawa. By 1832, 180 residents had...
...Road, which was completed in 1851 and connected Chicago, Naperville, and Oswego . These businessmen...
...a Naperville right-of-way for the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad when its representatives came...
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Special Districts, Donald F. Stetzer(
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) ...in 1961, before that work began. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...any other state. In the six-county greater Chicago region, there were 353 special districts (other...
...the formation of three park districts in Chicago; these districts and several small park districts...
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