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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Dune System, Noel B. Pavlovic(
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) ...to establish the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. i3479 Dunes on South Chicago beach, ca. 1898....
...Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...of dunes as north or southeast of the city, Chicago itself was built upon dunes. The sand dunes...
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Family Planning, Rose Holz(
Authored Entry
) ...Disputes over the distribution of condoms in Chicago's public high schools in the 1990s further...
...dramatically reduced their fertility rates. Chicago was known as a source of contraception and...
...profession and socialist in politics, visited Chicago as part of her nationwide campaign to abolish...
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Kenwood, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...moving back into the area, and an educational partnership between the Chicago Board of Education...
...and the University of Chicago resulted in the formation of a charter school....
...seeking respite from the increasing congestion of Chicago. The first of these residents was Dr. John...
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Assyrians, Daniel P. Wolk(
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) ...store franchises has become an attraction. Chicago's Assyrian families have toiled to support or...
...consciousness has deepened. The tight-knit Chicago community, numbering 15,683 according to the 2000...
...in their homeland perished. Assyrians in Chicago saw their numbers swell with refugees : from 1,422...
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Morgan Park, Ellen Skerrett(
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) ...community area of Morgan Park. Although the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad laid tracks...
...Morgan Park Baptist Church (1874); and the Chicago Female College (1875). But the company's greatest...
...became the first president of the University of Chicago in 1891. Reflecting its origins as a Baptist...
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Housing Conditions for the Working Class, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Unknown Source: University of Illinois at Chicago (Metropolitan Planning Council Collection, MPC...
...neg. 118) Illustration 3223 2483 Built Environment of the Chicago Region Housing Types...
...Unknown Source: University of Illinois at Chicago (Metropolitan Planning Council Collection, MPC...
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Toll Roads, David M. Young(
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) ...Tollway (I-294), 1964. Photographer: Casey Prunchunas. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...republic. Several plank toll roads built in the Chicago area beginning in 1848 were put out of...
...of a $1.1 billion system of five freeways in Chicago and Cook County following World War II consumed...
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American West Indian Association, Robert Morrissey and Frances Matlock(
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) ...collective activities of the West Indians in Chicago survived the AWIA's demise. Cricket and soccer...
...number of these newcomers had moved to Chicago, arousing the concern of Barbadian , Jamaican , and...
...and cultural organization for West Indians in Chicago. The AWIA served for more than 30 years as an...
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Alleys, Michael P. Conzen(
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) ...intact and contribute hugely to the pulse of Chicago's daily life. i3487 Children playing in a South...
...American urbanity, alleys have been part of Chicago's physical fabric since the beginning. Eighteen...
...land survey imposed its grid framework upon Chicago's expanding street and block pattern. Together,...
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Red Squad, Randi Storch(
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) ...litigation, a 1985 court decision ended the Chicago Police Department's Subversive Activities Unit's...
...The records that remain are housed at the Chicago Historical Society. The public requires special...
...The arm of Chicago's law enforcement known alternately as the Industrial Unit, the Intelligence...
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