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College All-Star Football Game, Raymond Schmidt(
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) ...Initiated in 1934 by Arch Ward of the Chicago Tribune, the College All-Star Game...
...football series was played annually in Chicago through 1976. Soon achieving status...
...of each football season, the game placed Chicago in the national sporting limelight each year as...
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The Negotiations Proceed, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Creator: Daniel H. Burnham Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 1465 2346 Burnham Plan...
...club backing an effort to offer a plan for Chicago, expresses his approval that Burnham will work...
...Franklin MacVeagh Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2559 3308 Burnham Plan Commercial...
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Popular Diversions, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...to feature "exotic" dancers from the Midway at Chicago's World's Fair), and penny arcades catered to...
...limited means. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-04793) Illustration...
...Chicagoans. Cartographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37088) Illustration 1800...
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Yemenis, Manfred Wenner(
Authored Entry
) ...activities which developed in other centers of Yemeni emigrants has not developed in Chicago....
...Chicago never acquired a critical mass of Yemenis sufficient for it to become a preferred...
...census reported approximately 2,000 Yemenis in Chicago (many of whom were not permanent residents),...
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Press: Neighborhood Press, Jon Bekken(
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) ...Press Suburban Press NEIGHBORHOOD PRESS. As Chicago expanded its boundaries in the late nineteenth...
...converted to daily publication as the South Chicago Post in 1883, changing its name to the Daily...
...conglomerates. Field Enterprises (publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times ) launched the Day chain in...
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Prostitution, Cynthia M. Blair(
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) ...Chicago owes its reputation as a corrupt city in part to the...
...of one “vice” in particular—prostitution. Chicago's sex trade has been an adaptable industry and has...
...in an enclave of brothels just north of the Chicago River . However, as Chicago's prominence as a...
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Balloon Frame Construction, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...A popular myth suggests that a Chicago carpenter, George W. Snow, invented the balloon...
...and revolutionized construction practice. Chicago architect John M. Van Osdel erroneously attributed...
...The oldest buildings that remain in metropolitan Chicago suggest that the balloon frame was not a...
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Barbadians, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...professionals, students, and entrepreneurs moved to the Chicago area in the 1910s and 1920s....
...of Barbadians, however, did not arrive in Chicago until World War II , when many were recruited,...
...on the island of Barbados, opportunities in Chicago attracted emigrants, the majority of whom were...
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St. Vincent DePaul Society, Deborah Ann Skok(
Authored Entry
) ...St. Patrick's Church, brought the society to Chicago during the economic depression of 1857 in order...
...it spread to nine other parishes in the city. In Chicago, as in the rest of the United States, the...
...Finally, it sent representatives to other Chicago charities , such asthe Chicago Relief and Aid...
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Villa Park, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...Villa Park represents a good example of Chicago suburban de- velopment in the early twentieth...
...St. Charles Road in 1843, while the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad began service in 1849. In 1900,...
...Meyer, two area farm owners, sold land to the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railway, setting in motion the...
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World War II, Perry R. Duis(
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) ...Between September 1939 and December 7, 1941, Chicago was the scene of a vigorous debate over whether...
...should become involved in the European War. Chicago Tribune publisher R. R. McCormick led the...
...World War II. By D-Day in 1944, the average Chicago block had given seven residents to the military....
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Bosnians, Asad Husain(
Authored Entry
) ...Bosnians first migrated to Chicago in the late nineteenth century with other South Slavic...
...roads, downtown buildings, and tunnels for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). Bosnian Serbs and...
...were early leaders in the establishment of Chicago's Muslim community. In 1906, they established...
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Cary, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Wisconsin Railroad began grading a line from Chicago to Janesville, Wisconsin. The following year...
...stalled construction. Reorganized as the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac, the railroad resumed...
...the pits for the railroad, which had become the Chicago & North Western Railway in 1859. In the late...
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Eritreans, Tricia Redeker Hepner(
Authored Entry
) ...in the United States, with fewer than 800 in Chicago. A precise count has been difficult in part...
...number were veterans of the conflict. The Chicago Eritrean community began with less than a half-...
...of origin) created challenges for the small Chicago community. The Association of the Eritrean...
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Justice, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...Stagecoaches traveling along Archer Avenue linked the area with Chicago. When the I&M Canal opened...
...barges carried passengers and freight eastward to Chicago and westward to the Illinois River. By the...
...opened to cater to cemetery visitors from Chicago. In 1901, streetcars began running from Chicago to...
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Mobile Homes, Anna Holian(
Authored Entry
) ...behind California, Indiana, and Michigan. Chicago was the center of Illinois' mobile home industry....
...The high cost of labor and factory space in Chicago and difficulties transporting the ever-larger...
...the 1950s, the number of mobile homes in the Chicago metropolitan area has grown from around 8,000...
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Orphanages, Kenneth Cmiel(
Authored Entry
) ...The first Chicago orphanages,...
...the Chicago Orphan Asylum and the Catholic Orphan Asylum, opened their doors in 1849 in the...
...along Roman Catholic and Protestant lines. Chicago had no Jewish orphanages until the 1890s. Until...
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Skokie, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...Howell has facilities in other suburban areas of Chicago, they are headquartered in Skokie. Although...
...villages along the banks of the North Branch of the Chicago River , which bounds Skokie to the west....
...incorporated. Without rail connections to Chicago, farming remained the principal source of income...
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Bolingbrook, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...called Bolingbrook home. In 1975, the Old Chicago entertainment complex opened for business in...
...shopping center/amusement ride park,” Old Chicago combined vaudevillian themes with county fair–type...
...northern Will County more accessible to Chicago, attracting developers and residents. Incorporated...
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Evergreen Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...88 percent white) by 2000. Most of the village's residents commute to Chicago or elsewhere to work....
...Loop. Evergreen Park is bordered by the city of Chicago on the north, east, and south, and Oak Lawn...
...opened, and mourners traveled by train from Chicago. Restaurants and taverns sprang up to provide...
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