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Underground Railroad, Glennette Tilley Turner(
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) ...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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Black Hawk War, Helen Hornbeck Tanner(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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"Windy City", Jonathan Boyd(
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) ...Chicago's exposed location between the Great Plains and the Great Lakes —and the wind swirling...
...tour guides and reference books that in fact Chicago's climate is not distinctively windy. (The same...
...use “windy” for “talkative” or “boastful. ” Chicago politicians early became famous for long-...
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Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Ronne Hartfield(
Authored Entry
) ...of contemporary prints and architectural drawings. Major Chicago-focused exhibitions have included...
...Second-Sight: Printmaking in Chicago, 1935–1995 (1996)....
...and president of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as a trustee of Northwestern University,...
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Mercy Hospital, Wallace Best(
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) ...In 1852 the charter to Chicago's first hospital , the Illinois General Hospital of the Lakes,...
...goal of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago to erect a hospital operated by the Sisters in...
...its first expansion in 1869. Although many Chicago residents disparaged Mercy for its remote...
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Our Lady of the Angels Fire, David Cowan(
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) ...the nation's third-worst school disaster and Chicago's third-deadliest fire, trailing the Iroquois...
...Theater fire (602 killed) and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (250–300 dead)....
...officials of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago for educating children in “firetraps. ” Nor...
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Water-Related Epidemics, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Water-Related Epidemics Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo...
...Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...
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Growing Up Along Water, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Growing Up Along Water Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo...
...Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...
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Vacation Spots, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...the tourism and airline industry, along with Chicago's national status as an air hub, had increased...
...In Chicago, as elsewhere in the United States, it was well into the twentieth century before the...
...resources of time as well as money, and only Chicago's elite enjoyed these in abundance. Prominent...
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West Elsdon, Douglas Knox(
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) ...Irish railroad workers . The area became part of Chicago with the annexation of the town of Lake in...
...and Clearing Industrial Districts and the opening of Chicago Municipal Airport ( Midway Airport ) in...
...immigrants. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago established St. Turibius parish in 1927 to...
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Young Men's Christian Association, Paula R. Lupkin(
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) ...The Chicago Young Men's Christian Association was founded in 1853 as an interdenominational...
...as a center for practical Christian work in Chicago, housing such groups as the Women's Christian...
...by a new set of leaders drawn from Chicago's mercantile elite, including James Houghteling, Cyrus H....
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Lincoln Park, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...the factories along the North Branch of the Chicago River . Most of the early European residents...
...and land donor Michael Diversey. The city of Chicago made the southeastern portion of the area its...
...attracted such cultural institutions as the Chicago Academy of Sciences , the Lincoln Park Zoo , and...
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