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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Council Wars, Vernon Jarrett(
Authored Entry
) ...havoc throughout most of the first term of Chicago's first African American mayor, pitted Mayor...
...the “Vrdolyak 29,” sobriquet for the all-white Chicago City Council's majority bloc, led by Alderman...
...its reputation as a “boss-dominated” city, Chicago's governing structure is that of “strong council,...
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Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Perry R. Duis(
Authored Entry
) ...Great Lakes Naval Training Station, located in North Chicago , formally opened in 1911 on land...
...donated by the Merchants Club of Chicago. It was a product of the expansive nationalism of...
...War, as well as aggressive self-promotion by Chicago businessmen and Illinois politicians. Ideally...
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Nepalese, Gregory Price Grieve(
Authored Entry
) ...two hundred individuals in the late 1990s, Chicago's Nepalese have been overshadowed by South Asian...
...and Himalayan regions, most Nepalese in metropolitan Chicago tend to be Newa Bhaay (Newari)–speaking...
...policies of Nepal's Rana oligarchy (1846–1951). Chicago's Nepalese began to arrive in the mid-1970s....
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Beverly, Ellen Skerrett(
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) ...has retained its reputation as one of Chicago's most stable middle-class residential districts....
...Heights (1874), this area was annexed to Chicago by 1890 but remained sparsely settled for decades....
...west of Longwood Drive, the highest point in Chicago. Whether the community was named after Beverly,...
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Sac, R. David Edmunds(
Authored Entry
) ...postwar period they continued to pass through Chicago en route to Canada, where they would receive...
...part of the modern Native American community in Chicago, but most live in either Kansas or Oklahoma....
...they ever erected any permanent villages in the Chicago region. Between 1712 and 1733, when both the...
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Schererville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
Authored Entry
) ...agent, most of the influx came from Illinois, as Chicago commuters took advantage of Indiana's lower...
...the vicinity. At the close of the twentieth century, Schererville had become a true Chicago suburb....
...federal Swamp Land Act of 1850. Two years later the Chicago Great Eastern Ohio (Panhandle) Railroad...
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Evanston, IL, Patrick M. Quinn(
Authored Entry
) ...at the turn of the twenty-first century one of Chicago's most stable and attractive suburbs....
...Loop. On the shore of Lake Michigan just north of Chicago, the area that is now Evanston was home to...
...of Northwestern) grew slowly through the 1860s. The Chicago Fire of 1871 led thousands of well-to-do...
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Riverdale, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...a toll bridge across the river along the Chicago-Thornton Road. A second settlement grew up around...
...1852. Between the two at Wildwood, James H. Bowen of the Calumet and Chicago Canal and Dock Company...
...built a summer home where Chicago's elites gathered in the 1870s and '80s. Until 1945, however,...
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Sudanese, Elizabeth E. Prevost(
Authored Entry
) ...350 to 450 Sudanese were living in and around Chicago. Southern Sudanese immigrants began to arrive...
...of the Sudan, who began living in metropolitan Chicago in March 2001. While they neither form nor...
...significantly characterized the Sudanese impact on Chicago. Displaced from the Sudan in 1987–88 by...
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Theater Training, Andrea Telli(
Authored Entry
) ...Theatrical companies in nineteenth-century Chicago generally were run by actor-managers dedicated to...
...venues for theatrical training appeared. Young Chicago businessman Kenneth Sawyer Goodman envisioned...
...theater workshops through the Art Institute of Chicago , allowing drama students to learn alongside...
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