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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Nancy Daffner(
Authored Entry
) ...prior to the founding of Hull House . The Chicago Central Union reached its zenith of activity...
...The WCTU national headquarters, located in Chicago until 1900, lent the prestige of national leaders...
...undoubtedly attracted many women to the Chicago group. During the early decades of the twentieth...
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Youngsoo Bae(
Authored Entry
) ...the mid-1920s, however, ACWA membership in Chicago began to shrink. Membership dropped off further...
...never recovering except during World War II . Chicago continued to provide leadership for the...
...clothing industry. In 1976, ACWA members of Chicago, numbering less than three thousand, celebrated...
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Theater, Ethnic, Steven A. Riess and Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...repertoire, especially Schiller. By the late 1890s, Chicago had 11 German theaters, often performing...
...amusements. Although Yiddish theater persisted in Chicago, it tended to be increasingly nostalgic....
...Players and the Ethiopian Art Theatre in Chicago. Initially these theaters produced plays from...
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Calumet Heights, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...the large number of doctors from nearby South Chicago Hospital who own spacious homes perched upon...
...Area 48, 11 miles SE of the Loop. Calumet Heights lies on Chicago's Southeast Side, bounded by 87th...
...Street on the north, South Chicago Avenue on the east, and railroad lines on the west and south (...
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Mongolians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...maintains ties with Tibetan Buddhists in Chicago, and the groups sometimes celebrate holidays...
...Mongolian immigrants established communities in Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, and Washington DC....
...By 2000, Mongolian community leaders estimated a Chicago population between 500 and 700. Many of...
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Swimming at Pools and Lagoons, Page 1, 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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Settlements, Religious, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn(
Authored Entry
) ...Church , another example of religious settlement work in Chicago, had a membership of 9,069 in 1919....
...by the founding of Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago in 1889, the settlement house movement aimed...
...of the Abraham Lincoln Centre, founded in Chicago in 1905, which began as a program of the Unitarian...
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Tanzanians, Tramayne M. Butler(
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) ...30 percent followers of ethnic faiths. Some Chicago churches, such as Zion Lutheran and Augustana...
...The Tanzanian presence in Chicago is a relatively recent phenomenon, and the few Tanzanians who live...
...who have arrived since have chosen to live in Chicago. Many of the city's Tanzanians are students...
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Charity Organization Societies, Joanne L. Goodwin(
Authored Entry
) ...to universities, such as the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago ....
...as it evolved during the Progressive era. Chicago charities adopted these principles later than...
...years later it folded into the older and larger Chicago Relief and Aid Society (founded 1857) with...
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AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), Timothy F. Murphy(
Authored Entry
) ...changed both the political and literary culture of Chicago's large gay and lesbian community....
...In Chicago, AIDS has affected primarily men who have sex with men, men and women using needle-...
...and the children of infected mothers. In 1999, Chicago ranked sixth in AIDS cases among metropolitan...
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