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Powwows, Jerry W. Lewis(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...University. Today the university also has satellite professional programs in Chicago and Wisconsin....
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Heat Wave of 1995, Eric Klinenberg(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Commercial Buildings, Vincent L. Michael(
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) ...Chicago was founded for and by commerce. Perhaps its...
...DuSable's trading post at the mouth of the Chicago River , was a commercial structure. When the city...
...and enough space on the facade for a sign. Chicago's first commercial district was Lake Street, near...
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Section between Summit and Willow Springs, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...2 June, 1896 Photographers: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society Most of the photographs in...
...African-Americans Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Bulgarians, Daniela S. Hristova(
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) ...of the donation of the bust of Aleko Konstantinov to the University of Chicago in November 1996....
...that his remarkable book Do Chikago i nazad (To Chicago and Back) would become instrumental in the...
...of generations of Bulgarians. By the year 2000 the Chicago area was among the largest Bulgarian...
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Illinois and Michigan Canal, John Lamb(
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) ...Randolph Street Station, 1893. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Upon its completion in 1848, the Illinois & Michigan Canal joined the Chicago River at...
...Bridgeport near Chicago with the Illinois River at LaSalle, 96 miles distant. The canal provided a...
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Ford Heights, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...called the “Park Addition” on a farm road from Chicago Heights to Indiana. Acting together in 1924,...
...had telephone service and was known as East Chicago Heights. Early settlers included the family of...
...truck, and by 1948 this group became the East Chicago Heights Citizens Association. In 1949, East...
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Frankfort, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...rail ties to the expanding metropolis of Chicago, the village remained a small community, surrounded...
...and a bedroom community for commuters to Chicago and Joliet. Officials and residents in Frankfort...
...tributary of the Des Plaines River southwest of Chicago, long attracted Native Americans . Following...
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Gun Control, Eli Rubin(
Authored Entry
) ...the ban, which failed narrowly. The impact of the Chicago freeze was felt far away, as Mayor Diane...
...1989. In 1992, led by Mayor Richard M. Daley, the Chicago City Council voted to ban assault weapons....
...Since the early 1970s, Chicago and its suburban municipalities have taken a national lead in...
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Music Publishing, Dena J. Epstein(
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) ...Chicago's music publishing has mirrored the cultural history of the city and the nation through...
...like “The Battle Cry of Freedom” (1862) made Chicago a national center. Earlier, music had been...
...Company (1910). Clayton F. Summy was one of Chicago's longest-lived music publishers, specializing...
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Auditorium Building, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
Authored Entry
) ...and constructed in 1889. Photographer: J. W. Taylor. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...The Auditorium is one of Chicago's architectural masterpieces. Built in 1888 on the northwest corner...
...It was the brainchild of Ferdinand Peck, a Chicago impresario devoted to bringing the city a world-...
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First National Park in the Middle West, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...minute drive of the Dunes National Park. See Also: Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad Co. ;...
...Lake Michigan ; Michigan City, IN ; Vacation Spots The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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