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Vaudeville, Douglas Gomery(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1288 |
Saloons, Perry R. Duis(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1289 |
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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| 1291 |
Underground Railroad, Glennette Tilley Turner(
Authored Entry
) ...towns bordering the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, Chicago was a hub of antislavery activity. Workers...
...in Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee found Chicago to be a relatively safe destination. Although the...
...Black and white abolitionists converged on the Chicago Common Council to protest Senator Stephen A....
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| 1292 |
Black Hawk War, Helen Hornbeck Tanner(
Authored Entry
) ...last of their lands in northeastern Illinois, promoting the first development of the Chicago area....
...to white settlement in the region around Chicago. The famous Sauk leader, Black Hawk, and his...
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Mission of the Guardian Angel, Winstanley Briggs(
Authored Entry
) ...established the Mission of the Guardian Angel at Chicago in 1696. Its short existence left no...
...Quebec, locates it on the north bank of the Chicago River between Michigan and Rush, a “dry” area...
...agreement: the Jesuits gave up their mission at Chicago but kept their huge mission to the Kaskaskia...
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DeVry Institutes, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...DeVry has been important not only as a Chicago-area school, but also as a business enterprise...
...in 1931 by Herman DeVry as an electronics repair school, with campuses in Chicago and Toronto....
...Its main Chicago campus was built on North Campbell Ave. , west of the city's Lake View...
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| 1295 |
Jane Addams: Halsted Street around 1890, (
Authored Entry
) ...When Jane Addams arrived in Chicago in 1889 with the intention of...
...founding a settlement house in one of Chicago's immigrant neighborhoods, she...
...needed the help of Chicago reporters and businessmen to find a suitable location. Settling on a site...
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Batswana, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...While a few individuals may have settled in Chicago earlier, the majority...
...of Batswana came to Chicago in the 1990s on educational scholarships. The Botswana government has...
...suggested approximately 20 Batswana in Chicago in 2002, nearly all of them students specializing in...
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Daily Herald, Richard Junger(
Authored Entry
) ...with the suburban settlements growing along the Chicago & North Western's northwest line. By the end...
...as the Herald championed the development of Chicago's northwestern suburbs. As population followed...
...to 130,000, the publishers added news about Chicago, arts, and entertainment and initiated an...
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Eminent Domain, Pierre deVise(
Authored Entry
) ...affected businesses and citizens. Prime examples of eminent-domain controversies in Chicago were A....
...Montgomery Ward v. Chicago (1890–...
...1911), Chicago v. Illinois Central Railroad (1919), urban renewal on the South and West Sides in the...
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Garfield Park, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...i3137 Garfield Park, ca. 1885. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Park, was one of three large parks in Chicago's West Park System. The park was first formally laid...
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Home Rule, Jon C. Teaford(
Authored Entry
) ...Throughout much of its history, Chicago has sought home rule, the power to determine its structure...
...special needs, and by the turn of the century Chicago leaders were clamoring for an exception to the...
...which provided that special legislation for Chicago would take effect only if approved by the city's...
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