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Danes, J. R. Christianson(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Vaudeville, Douglas Gomery(
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) ...in 1921 with the opening of Balaban and Katz 's Chicago theater, which offered both movies and live...
...the first acknowledged vaudeville entertainment in Chicago, their West Side Museum. In 1883 the pair...
...were making so much money they leased the Chicago Opera House; three years later they acquired the...
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Near North Side, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...North area became a center for art galleries . The Chicago Dock and Canal Trust, still controlled by...
...Community Area 8, 1 mile N of the Loop. The Chicago River and Lake Michigan form three edges of the...
...had bought on the Near North Side of the Chicago River, he was appalled by the swampy condition of...
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Englewood, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...was annexed to the Town of Lake and then Chicago in 1889. In 1868 Henry B. Lewis, a wool merchant in...
...gave 10 acres to Englewood for the Cook County Normal School ( later Chicago State University), a...
...teacher's college serving the Chicago region. Normal Park developed around the school, paving the...
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Woodstock, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...became a destination for new residents fleeing Chicago's congestion. Residential construction boomed...
...it is now privately owned. In 1855 the Chicago & North Western Railroad passed through Woodstock....
...to send their dairy production quickly to Chicago. The Borden Company opened a dairy processing...
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Blue Island, IL, Martin Tuohy(
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) ...annexation while nearby Morgan Park joined Chicago. Italians , Poles , and Slovaks settled in Blue...
...The ridge stood as an island in glacial Lake Chicago, the predecessor of Lake Michigan . Bands of...
...glacial bluff that rose out of the prairie south of Chicago took on a bluish hue from haze or blue...
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Burr Ridge, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...towns in the industrial corridor southwest of Chicago, close proximity to Interstates 294 and 55...
...After 1848, farmers shipped their goods to Chicago along the Illinois & Michigan Canal . A small...
...by 1975 it had soared to over 2,200. In 1969 Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley floated a proposal to...
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Oak Lawn, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...and Medical Center, most residents work in Chicago. Oak Lawn Lake is administered by the Oak Lawn...
...Lawn lies just outside the southwestern edge of Chicago, and is one of the largest municipalities in...
...The Wabash Railroad connected the area with Chicago; the first subdivision was platted near the...
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Saloons, Perry R. Duis(
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) ...The saloon in Chicago had its origin in two places. The oldest was the inn or tavern, a combination...
...future growth, along with easy rail access to Chicago for St. Louis and Milwaukee brewers, left all...
...in Lake View on North Southport Avenue. The Chicago City Council also contributed to the brewery...
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Houses and Water, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...fixtures modern kitchen, bathroom and laundry room The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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Tap Dance, Anthea Kraut(
Authored Entry
) ...by its rhythms, has a long history in Chicago, one made apparent by a resurgence of the genre in the...
...Paralleling the international growth of tap dance, Chicago's revival grew out of an alliance between...
...Jimmy Payne, a tap performer and teacher in Chicago since the 1940s, provided living links to the...
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