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Housing, Self-Built, Richard Harris(
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) ...located between 20 and 30 miles outside Chicago, self-building was routine. In places such as Blue...
...Circumstances and entrepreneurs in Chicago have encouraged owners to build their own houses, but...
...own house is fraught with difficulties, as Chicago humorist Ring Lardner caricatured in Own Your Own...
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Rapid Transit System, Ronald Dale Karr(
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) ...as did public ownership after World War II. The new Chicago Transit Authority closed several lightly...
...By the end of the nineteenth century Chicago's explosive growth had generated street traffic...
...world's first elevated railroad in 1868, but Chicago did not follow until 1892, when the Chicago &...
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Water Supply, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...highly charged debate about water in the Chicago area. i3296 Sectional view of water system, from...
...One reason for the massive 1889 annexation was the high quality of water provision within Chicago....
...It took decades for Chicago's water department to service the vastly increased territory within the...
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Consumer Credit, Lendol Calder(
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) ...1990s pawnbrokers returned in numbers and Chicago led the way in another credit innovation: high-...
...City Hall is visible in the background. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society....
...FIGURE 1 By 1906, Chicago's leading installment seller was the Spiegel House Furnishing Company....
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Hyde Park, Max Grinnell(
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) ...in 1952 helped establish the South East Chicago Commission, which was charged with monitoring...
...Exposition and the creation of the University of Chicago, Hyde Park's urban renewal was one of the...
...and the promise of daily trips to the heart of Chicago's commercial core. The community continued to...
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Sports, High-School, Robert Pruter(
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) ...The first sport that Chicago-area schools adopted for competition was baseball . The earliest match-...
...uniforms, schedules, and laid-out fields. In 1889–90, Chicago students formed one of the pioneer...
...County High School League—which embraced all Chicago and suburban public high schools. The league...
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Uptown, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...most ethnically diverse residential areas of Chicago. In 1861 Graceland Cemetery was opened in what...
...multifamily housing. Cochran convinced the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad to stop at Bryn...
...his developments. These routes made Uptown one of Chicago's most populous residential centers. A...
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Bilingual Education, Karen Sakash(
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) ...or diminishment of bilingual education in Chicago's schools . Instruction in German was common...
...Polish, and Jewish immigrants settled in Chicago, prompting increased xenophobia and Americanization...
...initiated the first modern bilingual programs in Chicago. Between 1968 and 1973 bilingual education...
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Chatham, Wallace Best(
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) ...in the words of real-estate developer Dempsey Travis, “the jewel of the Southeast Side of Chicago. ”...
...mid-1950s, Chatham has been a stronghold of Chicago's African American middle class. Defined by a...
...Avalon Park . When Chatham was annexed to Chicago as part of Hyde Park Township in 1889, Hungarian...
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Albany Park, Timothy B. Neary(
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) ...brickyard along the North Branch of the Chicago River and the Rusk Race Track, where late-...
...racing and enjoy the bucolic environs. As Chicago's population exploded in the 1870s and 1880s, the...
...community became increasingly popular. In 1889 Chicago annexed the area along with the rest of...
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Near South Side, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...seen as dramatic change and redevelopment as any Chicago community. The first settlers following the...
...and then found work in the immense lumber district along the South Branch of the Chicago River ....
...In the 1850s, railroads entering Chicago established shops and yards nearby and attracted related...
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The Campaign to Maintain Lake Front Park, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Museum ; Grant Park ; Park Districts ; Shedd Aquarium 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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Chileans, Patricio Navia(
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) ...to the Chilean Consulate, 2,500 Chileans resided in the Chicago metropolitan area by the late 1990s....
...Chileans have resided in Chicago since the late nineteenth century, but the first formal...
...Chilean economists attended the University of Chicago with the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation....
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Gas and Electricity, Harold L. Platt(
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) ...the urban environment. The “city lights” made Chicago distinctly different from more rural places....
...was introduced in the United States in 1816, Chicago had to wait until 1850 for this urban amenity....
...and less prone to ignite fires. By 1860, the Chicago Gas Light and Coke Company had hooked up 2,000...
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Section between Summit and Willow Springs, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...The Sanitary and Ship Canal 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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Section between Willow Springs and Lockport, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...The Sanitary and Ship Canal 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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Modern Kitchen, Bathroom, and Laundry Room, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Houses and 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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Cabrini-Green, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...North Side, ca. 1942. Photographer: Unknown. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...and dilapidated buildings. During World War II, the Chicago Housing Authority razed Little Hell and...
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Inland Steel Co., Jonathan Keyes(
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) ...Chicago's leading homegrown steel company, Inland...
...was founded in 1893 in Chicago Heights by Joseph Block and his son Philip....
...Philip had purchased the plant of the defunct Chicago Steel Works, a maker of farm equipment. In...
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Christopher R. Reed(
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) ...The Chicago branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was...
...Committee on the Negro. Within Progressive-era Chicago, some of the most illustrious names in reform...
...development for several decades. The growth of Chicago's NAACP branch reflected the changing class...
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