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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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McKinley Park, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...Michigan Canal in 1848 and the coming of the Chicago & Alton Railroad in 1857 spurred further...
...in the early 1860s along the south fork of the Chicago River and produced 50 tons of rails per day....
...these problems, McKinley Park was annexed to Chicago in 1863. The fire of 1871 displaced numerous...
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New City, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...61, 5 miles SW of the Loop. University of Chicago sociologists established boundaries for community...
...named a large section of land around the Chicago stockyards New City. Yet the area designated as New...
...for business on December 25, 1865, outside Chicago's city boundaries in Lake Township . In 1889,...
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Playgrounds and Small Parks, Dominic A. Pacyga(
Authored Entry
) ...hundred small parks and playgrounds that dot Chicago's neighborhoods are a distinctive legacy of...
...1890s, streets , empty lots (“prairies” in Chicago parlance), and occasional playgrounds adjacent to...
...back to a free-speech tradition established in Chicago's oldest extant small park. Washington Square...
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Teamsters, Andrew Wender Cohen(
Authored Entry
) ...locally, driving “teams” of horses throughout Chicago. By the late twentieth century, national road...
...the IBT had established a joint council in Chicago, with 45 affiliates and 30,825 members. These...
...some locals deserted the IBT, forming a rival Chicago Teamsters' Union (CTU). Critics dogged the...
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Zimbabweans, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...have made it difficult for Zimbabweans in Chicago to find one another and organize as a single...
...Zimbabweans in the area. Many Zimbabweans in Chicago maintain close ties with the large and well-...
...major wave of Zimbabwean migration arrived in Chicago during and after the War for Independence in...
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Agrarian Movements, Chas. P. Raleigh(
Authored Entry
) ...mass meetings and torchlight parades in Chicago in support of the alliance, the party received...
...many blamed the middlemen. As early as 1849, the Chicago-based Prairie Farmer began urging northern...
...monopolies, grain elevator owners, and the Chicago Board of Trade for the declining fortunes of...
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Labor Songs, Clark “Bucky” Halker(
Authored Entry
) ...tradition, producing important work. The Chicago-based Industrial Workers of the World (“Wobblies”)...
...continue into the 1940s, as workers still sang Chicago “Wobbly” Ralph Chaplin's famous 1915 labor...
...Between 1865 and 1920 Chicago served as a center for working-class protest songs and poetry. Labor...
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White Sox, David M. Oshinsky(
Authored Entry
) ...the new owners brought a division title to Chicago in 1983. But the erosion of fan support and media...
...and St. Paul, Minnesota, the White Sox came to Chicago in 1900 to play in the new American League....
...league owner and major league star player from Chicago's West Side, the White Stockings—shortened to...
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Redlining, D. Bradford Hunt(
Authored Entry
) ...and minority neighborhoods in cities like Chicago. The relative lack of investment in new housing,...
...older urban neighborhoods and compounded Chicago's decline in relation to its suburbs. Redlining's...
...results of these laws, community activists in Chicago spearheaded further reform, leading the nation...
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Richton Park, IL, Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...homes, which approach the median value for Chicago's south suburbs. Like many other south suburbs,...
...by farms heavily planted with asparagus. When Chicago's suburban sprawl finally pushed into the area...
...if at times somewhat congested, access to Chicago. The residents of Richton Park are, on average,...
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