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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Turnvereins, John B. Jentz(
Authored Entry
) ...socialism . Like German American ethnic culture, Chicago's Turnvereins declined amid the twentieth...
...Like their counterparts here and abroad, Chicago's Turnvereins grew out of the nineteenth-century...
...the United States. Drawing on such immigrants, Chicago's Turners founded their first organization in...
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West Ridge, Patricia Mooney-Melvin(
Authored Entry
) ...Jews moved to West Ridge from other parts of Chicago and were joined by a steady stream of Russian...
...in 1890. Despite local controversy over annexation to Chicago in 1893, proponents prevailed and...
...West Ridge became part of Chicago. Unlike in Rogers Park, annexation did not bring immediate growth....
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Law, R. Ben Brown(
Authored Entry
) ...of this revolution. Law firms with ties to Chicago were leaders in developing the expertise to deal...
...As Chicago's businesses grew in the late nineteenth century, so too did the city's need for a cadre...
...in the early 1990s. Moreover, the ranks of Chicago lawyers gradually, and sometimes grudgingly,...
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Invitation and Solicitation, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...not attend, the viewings went on as scheduled. Creator: Committee on Plan of Chicago, Commercial...
...Club of Chicago Source: Art...
...Institute of Chicago Illustration 2561 3290 Burnham Plan Commercial Club of Chicago Planning Chicago...
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Race Riots, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...that the issues surrounding racial violence are by no means a finished chapter in Chicago history....
...Chicago developed a reputation as a cauldron of specifically “racial” conflict and violence largely...
...periods of economic crisis or postwar tension. Chicago's most famous race riot of this type occurred...
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Rear Houses, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...along an alley, ca. 1900. Photographer: Unknown. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...ubiquitous residences for the working class in Chicago. Typically one-story, rectangular buildings...
...brick buildings on the front of the lot. Chicago's housing reformers universally condemned rear...
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Socialist Parties, Daniel A. Graff(
Authored Entry
) ...as the left flank of the labor movement in Chicago, proving instrumental in the rise of industrial...
...as a viable leftist political presence within Chicago, but the socialist legacy continued to live on...
...Socialists first attracted notice in Chicago during the depression of the mid-1870s, when the...
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Belarusians, Vitaut Kipel(
Authored Entry
) ...a variety of ethnic community parades. Chicago's orthodox congregation, St. George Belarusian...
...Belarusian immigrants began to settle in Chicago around the end of the nineteenth century. Labeled “...
...approximately 25,000 Belarusians living in Chicago. The Republic of Belarus is located in roughly...
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Breweries, Harold L. Platt(
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) ...Eighteenth Amendment, marking the end of Chicago's role as a vibrant center of innovation . After...
...closed their doors. Industrial beer making in Chicago languished until the 1980s. Attempts to reopen...
...big business . Outside of New York City, Chicago became the nation's largest center of the malt...
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Clearing, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...Community Area 64, 10 miles SW of the Loop. Chicago annexed much of the area known as Clearing in...
...John Wentworth, a U.S. Senator and mayor of Chicago. Wentworth built a house in 1868 at the corner...
...switching yard. A. B. Stickney , president of the Chicago Great Western Railroad , laid out a plan...
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