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Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Nancy Daffner(
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) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Parking, Nasutsa M. Mabwa(
Authored Entry
) ...342 public parking garages and lots in the Chicago Central Area, which includes the Loop, Lakefront,...
...Near West Side areas. The largest parking garage in the Chicago area is located at O'Hare Airport ....
...in the architectural tradition of the First Chicago School. The original ramp is still in use. The...
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Motor Sports, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...huge television ratings for their product in the Chicago area. In 1998, the Route 66 Raceway complex...
...stock, and truck racing. During 1999–2001, the Chicago Motor Speedway hosted NASCAR truck races in...
...In 1895 Chicago hosted America's first auto race, a road race running between Jackson Park and...
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Civic Federation, Georg Leidenberger(
Authored Entry
) ...the Civic Federation operated increasingly on the state level, it omitted “Chicago” from its name....
...Three years later, it merged with the Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency, founded in 1910....
...1893 economic depression, the Civic Federation of Chicago began as a relief organization but soon...
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Art Fairs, Stephanie Skestos(
Authored Entry
) ...300 artists. The art fair system has developed into an important Chicago tradition that links both...
...amateur and professional artists to Chicago communities. Based on the models of the 57th Street and...
...and nonprofit groups in neighborhoods in and around Chicago, have enabled local artists to exhibit,...
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Manhattan Project, Sean J. LaBat(
Authored Entry
) ...World War II , Met Lab committees led by Chicago scientists Zay Jeffries and James Franck attempted...
...Eugene Rabinowitch founded the Atomic Scientists of Chicago and the monthly Bulletin of the Atomic...
...Laboratory (Met Lab) at the University of Chicago , and at an affiliated site in the Western suburbs...
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Police, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...Policing in the Nineteenth Century Chicago elected its first constable in 1828, and Cook County its...
...The city council quickly established the Chicago Police Department, organized into three precincts...
...to work with women and children. In 1895, Chicago adopted civil service procedures, and written...
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Retail Workers, Daniel A. Graff(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's explosive development in the wake of the Civil War propelled the city to preeminence as...
...giants Marshall Field & Co. , Sears, Roebuck & Co. , and Montgomery Ward all called Chicago home....
...These and other Chicago firms played leading roles in the creation of American consumer society;...
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Urban League, Preston H. Smith II(
Authored Entry
) ...Throughout the twentieth century, the Chicago Urban League has advanced racial democracy, although...
...affiliate of the National Urban League (NUL), the Chicago branch was neither a mass-membership nor...
...board's first president was University of Chicago sociologist Robert Park, and it set a lasting...
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Building Codes and Standards, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...From the city's inception in 1837, Chicago's Health Department regulated the built environment to...
...set a limit upon the height of tenements in Chicago. After 1920, major advances occurred in the...
...in the codes of the nation's largest cities. Chicago also accepted the recommendations from...
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Wrestling, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's wrestling tradition began in 1887, at Battery D Armory, where Evan “Strangler” Lewis beat...
...Coliseum. From the 1930s through the 1950s, the Chicago Stadium hosted famous matches featuring such...
...YMCA s, settlement houses , and ethnic clubs. The Chicago Hebrew Institute produced several national...
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