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St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Christopher P. Thale(
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) ...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,...
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Beat Generation, Bill Savage(
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) ...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...
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Woman's City Club, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...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...
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Zionism, Adam H. Stewart(
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) ...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...
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Archibald John Motley, Jr., Jontyle Theresa Robinson(
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) ...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...
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City Homes Association, Wendy Plotkin(
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) ...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...
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Daily Southtown, Richard Junger(
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) ...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...
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Dziennik Zwizkowy, Joseph John Parot(
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) ...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...
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Austin High Gang, Richard A. Wang(
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) ...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...
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Olivet Baptist Church, Wallace Best(
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) ...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...
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Forest Glen, David M. Solzman(
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) ...comfortable, and wealthy relative to most of Chicago, and it holds an aura of political power. The...
...is perhaps the most stereotypically suburban of Chicago's community areas. This well-to-do and well-...
...cemeteries . Here, the monotonous flatness of the Chicago lake plain gives way to very attractive...
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Worlds of Prairie Avenue (Essay), Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...the nineteenth century, residents of six blocks of Chicago's Prairie Avenue played central roles in...
...massive corporations providing thousands of jobs and helped to transform Chicago into a global city....
...Retailer Marshall Field (1905), eventually Chicago's richest man, shaped the city's buying habits by...
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Chicagoans Who Rejected the Railroad, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...rectify its mistake by successfully courting the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad when it ran...
...to its advantages. In the 1830s, the future of Chicago seemed to rest on the proposed Illinois &...
...Surveys had been made by the railroad (now the Chicago & Northwestern) and if they had built it,...
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Fort Dearborn, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...barracks of Fort Dearborn, 1856. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...acquired a parcel of land at the mouth of the Chicago River from Native Americans. Strategically...
...and in that year Capt. John Whistler arrived in Chicago to build a fort named after Henry Dearborn,...
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Ravenswood, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...of Lake View , was designed to be one of Chicago's first and most exclusive commuter suburbs. In...
...Land Company and purchased 194 acres of farm and wooded land eight miles north of Chicago. The...
...company made a deal with the Chicago & North Western Railroad guaranteeing them a certain number of...
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South Loop, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...Side Community Areas. The South Loop was one of Chicago's first residential districts, which recent...
...Michigan and Wabash Avenues. Railroads entering Chicago in the 1850s established passenger stations...
...southern edge of the business district. The Chicago Fire of 1871 spared the area, but displaced Loop...
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Congolese, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...Congolese migration to Chicago has been shaped by the political situation in the Democratic Republic...
...While a few Congolese might have arrived in Chicago following Congolese independence in 1960, the...
...swelled the size of the Congolese community in Chicago from around 50 to several hundred, according...
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Bronzeville, Dempsey J. Travis(
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) ...In 1920 the African American population in Chicago was 109,894. Republican -oriented Negro leaders...
...Overton, the cosmetic king and publisher of the Chicago Bee, suggested that they use his coined word...
...Bronzeville contest. In 1932 Gentry left the Chicago Bee and carried his Mayor of Bronzeville idea...
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Sierra Leoneans, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...The first Sierra Leoneans to migrate to Chicago came as students in the 1970s and were attracted to...
...estimate that the Sierra Leonean community in Chicago more than tripled during that decade, from an...
...nursing , and engineering. Sierra Leoneans in Chicago come from a variety of ethnic and religious...
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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Preston H. Smith II(
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) ...James Farmer and George Houser, created the Chicago Committee of Racial Equality, the first chapter...
...disobedience for civil rights causes, the Chicago chapter reached a high point when the organization...
...the 1950s until its disaffiliation. A reorganized Chicago chapter benefited from CORE's nationally...
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