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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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.(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Yugoslavians, D. Bradford Hunt(
Authored Entry
) ...nationalism. A handful of institutions on Chicago's Southwest Side, including the Yugoslav Hall,...
...broke apart Yugoslavia, tensions among Chicago's South Slavic communities increased, though not to...
...Bosnia, Macedonia, and Montenegro arrived in Chicago. From 1918 (the year the Treaty of Versailles...
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Agnes Nestor and the WTUL, Susan E. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...programs of courses through the WTUL and the Chicago Federation of Labor . She served on many...
...Workers Union of America (IGWU) and president of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)....
...Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nestor moved to Chicago in 1897 and worked as a glovemaker. She led...
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Real Estate Research Corporation, Loomis Mayfield(
Authored Entry
) ...with leading figures such as Holman Pettibone of Chicago Title and Trust to develop state and city...
...as liaison between the city and the University of Chicago during Hyde Park's urban renewal in the...
...Chicago's Real Estate Research Corporation (RERC) was one of the nation's first research and...
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Northeastern Illinois University, June Sochen(
Authored Entry
) ...has drawn its students from the greater Chicago area; its diverse student population, representing...
...and 10 percent Asian. Northeastern's Chicago Teachers' Center provides classroom instructional...
...elementary school teachers for the city of Chicago. Under the governance of the Chicago Board of...
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Philip Armour and the Packing Industry, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...to deliver chilled, fresh beef. Like other Chicago packers, Armour resisted trade unions and helped...
...in January 1901. His son, J. Ogden Armour, succeeded him as head of the vast enterprise in Chicago....
...Philip Armour built Chicago's largest meatpacking company and was an important philanthropist . Born...
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Homicide, Jeffrey S. Adler(
Authored Entry
) ...been related to or acquainted with one another. Chicago Homicide Rates per 100,000 residents, 1870–...
...ways. During the decades after the Civil War , Chicago killers tended to be young, unmarried, poor...
...Most Americans probably associate Chicago, the city of the Haymarket bombing, the Race Riot of 1919,...
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Icelanders, Playford V. Thorson(
Authored Entry
) ...fellow Icelander Arni Helgason, who founded the Chicago Standard Transformer Corporation in 1928....
...formed, including the Icelandic Association of Chicago, founded in 1930. Membership in 1999 numbered...
...Icelandic ancestry; 111 of these lived in Chicago, with 6 more in Country Club Hills . The first...
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Main Channel Construction, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Chief Engineer Photographers: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society Isham Randolph was the...
...project in epic terms. See also: Sanitary and Ship Canal The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Solitary Lives, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...fishermen houseboat residents environmental activists 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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Hindus, Vinay Lal(
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) ...organization that champions a militant resurgence of the faith, has won many adherents in Chicago....
...still among the most famous Hindu visitors to Chicago was Swami Vivekananda, one of the few Indian...
...considerable following among the elite; however, Chicago remained largely bereft of Hindus until the...
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