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Council Wars, Vernon Jarrett(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Danes, J. R. Christianson(
Authored Entry
) ...the American Academy of Brewing and made Chicago an international center of the brewing industry....
...and Swedes. The earliest Danish community in Chicago was around Randolph and LaSalle Streets in the...
...Danish and Norwegian settlement crossed the Chicago River and moved northwest along Milwaukee Avenue...
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Occupational Safety and Health, Tom Hafen(
Authored Entry
) ...Much of Chicago's explosive nineteenth-century economic growth occurred in transportation and heavy...
...of railroads and industrial corporations in Chicago, many journalists and social reformers focused...
...Men” focused on United States Steel's South Chicago plant, where 46 workers were killed and 368...
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Avondale, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...Area lies west of the North Branch of the Chicago River between Addison on the north and Diversey on...
...of the Soo Line Railroad (originally the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Pacific). At the beginning of...
...that subsequently paralleled it west of the Chicago River. The Milwaukee road's planks, however,...
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Industrial Expansion, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...than the Northwestern controversy, the city of Chicago soon thereafter purchased Dunes sand for use...
...Spaces ; Northwestern University ; Swimming ; Waterfront The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Sanitary Commission, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...thousands of dollars for the war effort. The Chicago office became the funnel through which most aid...
...Created in October 1861, the Chicago branch (later known as the Northwestern branch) of the United...
...the organization. In the spring of 1862, the Chicago branch's operations were taken over by Mary A....
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Woman's Hospital Medical College, Eve Fine(
Authored Entry
) ...resources diminished and other medical schools in Chicago and in the nation began accepting women,...
...after failing to gain acceptance for women in Chicago's male medical colleges, Mary H. Thompson and...
...William H. Byford, a faculty member of the Chicago Medical College, established a women's medical...
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James C. Petrillo: The Man Behind the Petrillo Band Shell, Dennis H. Cremin(
Authored Entry
) ...Born in Chicago, James C....
...Petrillo became active in the Chicago Federation of Musicians , Local 10 of the AFM. He served as...
...In 1935, Petrillo's free concert series in Chicago's Grant Park began, and the park's band shell...
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"L", Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's rapid transit system has been known as the “L” since before the...
...first line opened in 1892. The peculiar Chicago spelling was used by all of the city's elevated...
...i3750 South Side “L,” 1893. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Lake View Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...an independent political unit separate from Chicago. The area population grew from 2,000 in 1870 to...
...public service demands the township annexed to Chicago in 1889. i3497 Lake View town hall, built in...
...corner of Halsted and Addison. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Department Stores, Jeffrey A. Brune(
Authored Entry
) ...have lost none of their popularity, but today Chicago has far fewer locally owned department stores...
...two decades of the nineteenth century, Chicago established itself as a leader in the development of...
...In the mid-1850s the young Field moved to Chicago and worked his way through various retail...
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