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Parking, Nasutsa M. Mabwa(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Cemeteries, Helen Sclair(
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) ...In Chicago, the living and the dead have always sought the same space, high and dry land with good...
...near Lake Michigan , at the edges of town, one at Chicago Avenue and the other at Twelfth Street,...
...water supply as hazardous to public health , Chicago's sanitary superintendent, physician John...
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Edison Park, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...13 miles NW of the Loop. Edison Park lies in the far northwest corner of Chicago, a little more than...
...a mile west of the Chicago River , along a Metra commuter line. The area has changed from...
...farming community to a railroad suburb to a Chicago neighborhood. At each transition, new residents...
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Hobart, IN, Elin B. Christianson(
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) ...of Falmouth, England. Although Hobart was on the Chicago-Detroit stage route (Old Ridge Road), it...
...construction of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad (later the Pennsylvania Railroad) in...
...bricks, milk, and agricultural products to the Chicago market. In 1882 the New York, Chicago & St....
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Industrial Pollution, Andrew Hurley(
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) ...Chicago's growth as a major manufacturing center forced its citizens to contend with staggering...
...concentrated along the South Branch of the Chicago River , in part because the sluggish waterway...
...the prestigious neighborhoods close to downtown Chicago. Citizen complaints prompted a more vigorous...
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Lake Zurich, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...store on his property and invited people from Chicago to come to thevillage he platted and live by...
...refusing to join the commune, Paine returned to Chicago in 1852 to put into practice his belief that...
...Fourier's vision. He opened the Bank of Chicago, basing its loan policy on humanitarian rather than...
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Laundries and Laundering, Arwen Mohun(
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) ...of Manufacturers first included power laundries, Chicago had 226 establishments employing 6,601 wage...
...middle-class homes. Laundry was big business in Chicago for a number of reasons. As in other urban...
...difficult to get clean and stay clean. Because Chicago was located at the terminus of a number of...
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Art Colonies, Devereux Bowly, Jr.(
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) ...There is a long tradition of artist colonies in Chicago and summer outposts some distance from the...
...the Laboratory School of the University of Chicago in 1896. In the 1940s the first floor housed the...
...the 57th Street Art Fair in 1948, the first of Chicago's community art fairs . Among the artists...
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Movie Palaces, Douglas Gomery(
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) ...the movie palace as an exhibition strategy in Chicago. Barney and A. J. Balaban opened their first...
...seat Tivoli at 63rd and Cottage Grove, and the even bigger Chicago on North State Street. From this...
...and built some two dozen movie palaces in Chicago and then, later, added more throughout the Middle...
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Great Society, Nicholas Lemann(
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) ...jobs. It was instrumental to the growth of Chicago's disproportionately government-employed African...
...and more broadly with the splintering of the Chicago machine and the national New Deal coalition,...
...for his domestic works, on April 23, 1964, in Chicago, at a fund-raising dinner for Mayor Richard J....
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Somalis, Tracy N. Poe(
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) ...lived in close proximity to one another on Chicago's Northwest Side, in the Albany Park neighborhood...
...Although Somalis have been coming to Chicago as refugees since the 1970s, and ethnic networks among...
...Hope in 1992 resulted in a wave of refugees to Chicago, mostly ethnic rebels seeking asylum from...
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