| 1231 |
Dune System, Noel B. Pavlovic(
Authored Entry
) ...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...
|
| 1232 |
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...
|
| 1233 |
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...
|
| 1234 |
Assyrians, Daniel P. Wolk(
Authored Entry
) ...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...
|
| 1235 |
Morgan Park, Ellen Skerrett(
Authored Entry
) ...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...
|
| 1236 |
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...
|
| 1237 |
Toll Roads, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...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...
|
| 1238 |
American West Indian Association, Robert Morrissey and Frances Matlock(
Authored Entry
) ...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...
|
| 1239 |
Alleys, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...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,...
|
| 1240 |
Red Squad, Randi Storch(
Authored Entry
) ...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...
|
| 1241 |
St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Christopher P. Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...It confirmed popular images associating Chicago with mobsters, crime, and spectacular carnage. The...
...Day Massacre, 1929. Photographer: Jun Fujita. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...fire. The prime suspect was Al Capone, head of Chicago's crime syndicate. Moran's North Side gang,...
|
| 1242 |
Beat Generation, Bill Savage(
Authored Entry
) ...Judge Julius J. Hoffman, better known for the Chicago Conspiracy Trial , found Big Table 1 not...
...roles in the emergence of the Beat Generation. The editors of the University of Chicago 's student-...
...run literary magazine , Chicago Review, planned in their Winter 1959 issue to continue their...
|
| 1243 |
Woman's City Club, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...in the Woman's City Club's campaign against litter, 1940. Photographer: Chicago Park District....
...Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...The Woman's City Club of Chicago was founded in 1910, before women could vote, to initiate and...
|
| 1244 |
Zionism, Adam H. Stewart(
Authored Entry
) ...leaders, including Rabbi Emil Hirsch of the Chicago Sinai Congregation. That opposition began to...
...Chicago's Zionists claim the first organized Zionist...
...group in the United States, the Chicago Zion Society (later the Knights of Zion), which first met in...
|
| 1245 |
Archibald John Motley, Jr., Jontyle Theresa Robinson(
Authored Entry
) ...of the black experience in genre scenes of Chicago's Black Belt . His work fell into obscurity at...
...resurgence in the 1990s, marked by a 1991 retrospective exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society ....
...Creole roots, Mexican culture, and life in Chicago's “Bronzeville. ” Born in New Orleans, Motley...
|
| 1246 |
City Homes Association, Wendy Plotkin(
Authored Entry
) ...in New York, the study deplored conditions in Chicago's dense and dilapidated one- to four-story...
...populations. The findings led to the enactment of Chicago's 1902 Tenement House Ordinance, covering...
...as establishing small parks and playgrounds in Chicago. Emerging from the earlier Improved Housing...
|
| 1247 |
Daily Southtown, Richard Junger(
Authored Entry
) ...Company, hoping to enter the lucrative Chicago market, purchased it from owner Bruce Sagan in 1986....
...it the fifth-largest circulating daily in the Chicago metropolitan area. It moved to a new editorial...
...community newspapers. The demise of the afternoon Chicago Daily News spurred the Economist to become...
|
| 1248 |
Dziennik Zwizkowy, Joseph John Parot(
Authored Entry
) ...emphasis shifted to strengthening America's and Chicago's Polish communities. Between 1978 and 1990,...
...twentieth century, Dziennik Związkowy still reached 25,000 subscribers in the greater Chicago area....
...with Francis Jablonski as its editor. Eventually Chicago's largest Polish -language newspaper , it...
|
| 1249 |
Austin High Gang, Richard A. Wang(
Authored Entry
) ...1927 recordings of the McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans in which the Chicago style is documented....
...Chicago-style jazz began on the far West Side when six student musicians from Austin High School got...
|
| 1250 |
Olivet Baptist Church, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...of its Bethlehem Baptist Association and the Chicago Defender, Olivet stimulated the migration with...
...50 years, Olivet struggled to reclaim its former prominence in Chicago's African American community....
...oldest African American Baptist church in Chicago. It was organized first as Xenia Baptist Church on...
|