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Albanians, Nicholas C. Pano(
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) ...most prominent Americans with roots in the Chicago-area Albanian community are Ferid Murad, a 1998...
...in Gary and Whiting , Indiana, as well as in Chicago, Argo ( Summit ), and Madison, Illinois....
...approximately 1,000 Albanians resided in greater Chicago and northern Illinois, with an additional...
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Apartments, Carroll William Westfall(
Authored Entry
) ...east of Michigan Avenue and south of the Chicago River are numerous undistinguished apartment...
...From Chicago's earliest experience with multifamily residences until the 1930s, the single-family...
...ganged at a party wall, have been staples in Chicago. The most graceful grouping, introduced in...
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Highwood, IL, Lisa Cervac(
Authored Entry
) ...area's best restaurants outside the city of Chicago. With the closing of Fort Sheridan in 1993, the...
...Once a four block by four block anomaly on Chicago's North Shore, Highwood doubled in size with the...
...of the Skokie ravine, the highest point between Chicago and Milwaukee. Along the Green Bay Trail,...
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Lebanese, Sarah Gualtieri(
Authored Entry
) ...interests. Students, for example, came to Chicago to attend university and went on to work as...
...owned retail stores, groceries , and bakeries in Chicago are also a product of the second wave of...
...lived in the United States. The Lebanese in Chicago trace their roots to one of two large waves of...
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Art Centers, Alternative, Lynne Warren(
Authored Entry
) ...Space was no longer a viable paradigm for the promotion and exhibition of visual arts in Chicago....
...particularly museums and commercial galleries. In Chicago, many of these have taken the form of...
...gallery which later became the Art Institute of Chicago ; the Neo-Arlimusc group, founded in 1926 by...
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Mafia, G. Robert Blakey(
Authored Entry
) ...is down to 1,150, with 750 in New York and 50 in Chicago. The national commission, fearful of FBI...
...5,000, including 2,500 in New York and 300 in Chicago. It comprised 24 borgate (families), headed by...
...families in Buffalo, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago. The families engaged in illegal activities—...
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Public Works, Federal Funding for, Howard Rosen(
Authored Entry
) ...From its earliest beginnings Chicago's public works infrastructure has intermittently been the focus...
...and regional bodies. Fort Dearborn , built near what is now Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River in...
...1803, arguably was Chicago's first public work. In 1833 Congress appropriated $25,000 to enable the...
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Fuller Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...due south of Comiskey Park , the home of the American League Chicago White Sox baseball team....
...One of Chicago's smallest community areas, this narrow two-mile strip lies between the Dan Ryan...
...Island Railroad Metra lines to the east and the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad to the west. The...
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Jefferson Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...to live up to its nickname, “Gateway to Chicago. ” Located at the northwest edge of the city, the...
...English , had settled. To get their produce to the Chicago markets they traveled on often mud-filled...
...of approximately 50 buildings. When the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad (Chicago & North...
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Subsidized Housing, Devereux Bowly, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...for high-rise housing. Photographer: Clarence W. Hines. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Mention Chicago's subsidized housing and most people think...
...public housing : specifically, imposing rows of Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) high-rise buildings....
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Powwows, Jerry W. Lewis(
Authored Entry
) ...The earliest powwows in the Chicago region are unrecorded, although a 1778 proclamation issued by...
...last large powwow of the nineteenth century in Chicago, with about five thousand Indians attending,...
...substantial powwow activity recorded in the Chicago area in the nineteenth century took place as...
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Presses, University, Penny Kaiserlian(
Authored Entry
) ...Like many of their counterparts elsewhere, Chicago-area universities have established publishing...
...works of regional and general interest. The oldest university press in metropolitan Chicago is the...
...University of Chicago Press, which was established in 1891 by William Rainey Harper as one of three...
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Second City Theatre, Richard Christiansen(
Authored Entry
) ...by a group of bright young artists, including many University of Chicago alumni, who had worked...
...in such earlier, folded Chicago companies as the Playwright's Theatre Club and Compass Players....
...by A. J. Liebling, their theater quickly became a Chicago institution. The improvisational theater...
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Baseball, Indoor, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...progeny the playground game most peculiar to Chicago, 16-inch slow-pitch softball. i3359 Rube Foster...
...Giants baseball team, 1909. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Hancock in 1887 at the Farragut Boat Club on Chicago's South Side . The basic equipment was a mushy...
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Women's Trade Union League, Tobias Higbie(
Authored Entry
) ...The Chicago Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) was one of the most active branches of a national...
...1908, when it moved to the offices of the Chicago Federation of Labor . In addition to supporting...
...dramatic clubs , a national publication edited in Chicago by Alice Henry, educational programs such...
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Aurora University, Susan Palmer(
Authored Entry
) ...University. Today the university also has satellite professional programs in Chicago and Wisconsin....
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Heat Wave of 1995, Eric Klinenberg(
Authored Entry
) ...community areas on the South and West Sides of Chicago, the places that also have high mortality...
...visible some of the new dangers related to aging, isolation, and concentrated poverty in Chicago....
...a dangerous hot-air mass settled over Chicago, producing three consecutive days of temperatures over...
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Angolans, Tracy N. Poe(
Authored Entry
) ...dozen at the end of the twentieth century, Chicago's Angolans built a united, thriving community,...
...their homeland and other African immigrants in Chicago. Like the Congolese , with whom they share...
...such as Philadelphia, St. Louis, Phoenix, and Chicago. In 1992 leaders of these cities' Angolan...
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Junior Leagues, Celia Hilliard(
Authored Entry
) ...has also advanced the cultural climate of Chicago, providing music and art scholarships, initiating...
...the Express- Ways Children's Museum (renamed the Chicago Children's Museum). At the opening of the...
...The Junior League of Chicago (JLC) was founded by Lucy McCormick Blair in 1911, inspired by a New...
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Indiana Dunes, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Indiana Dunes 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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