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McKinley Park, David M. Solzman(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Barrington, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...the oak grove and prairie land that lay between Chicago and the Fox River in the 1830s were both...
...Ogden became interested in connecting the developing northwest to Chicago's growing port facilities....
...He gained control of the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad (later the Chicago & North Western...
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Vice Districts, Peter C. Baldwin(
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) ...few poor neighborhoods to protect the rest of Chicago. Pockets of vice formed as early as the 1850s....
...grounds in the 1910s, most notably by the Chicago Vice Commission , which pointed out that the...
...in 1912. Vice was already scattering throughout Chicago anyway, into “call-house flats” and other...
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Wadsworth, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...and the bones of mastodons under their fields. In 1873, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad...
...the construction of a line between Milwaukee and Chicago which ran along the east bank of the Des...
...for the area's numerous large dairy farms for Chicago delivery. Because of the large amount of clay...
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Brookfield, IL, Emily Clark(
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) ...bedroom community, is a near-western suburb of Chicago. There is little industry or major business...
...settlement of the area began in 1889 when the Chicago real-estate developer S. E. Gross opened his...
...site due to its easy proximity to downtown Chicago via the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (...
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Community Areas, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...York pioneered the concept of the census tract in 1902; Chicago first used census tracts in 1910....
...Members of the University of Chicago's Local Community Research Committee wanted the information...
...social ills, regardless of who lived there. Chicago's Department of Public Health also had an...
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Glencoe, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
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) ...town planners settled and the maiden name of former Chicago mayor Walter Gurnee's wife. While there...
...subdivided the land near the railway depot on the Chicago and Milwaukee line that had been completed...
...constructed in 1900 and was connected to the Chicago Sanitary District canals by 1913. Electricity...
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Health Care Workers, Keith Andrew Mann(
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) ...including the 100,000 workers employed in Chicago's 70 hospitals in the 1990s, have been hampered by...
...while only 20 percent of their colleagues in Chicago were organized. Half of these were members of...
...feature of local health worker unionization in Chicago was a joint effort by Local 73 of the SEIU...
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Laotians, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...Between 1975 and 1983, 3,500 Laotians settled in Chicago, primarily in the Uptown and Albany Park...
...process of adjustment to life in metropolitan Chicago. Many Laotians came from rural backgrounds,...
...networks of mutual assistance, Laotians in Chicago established Lao American Community Services (...
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Miamis, Bradley J. Birzer(
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) ...woodlands, central Algonquian people for whom Chicago served as a vital way station. The Iroquois...
...zone of Illinois and Wisconsin, the pays d'en haut. Chicago was a temporary stopping point in their...
...Believing that the Miamis had settled at Chicago permanently, the Jesuits founded the Mission of the...
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Mundelein, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...opened in 1996 as the Metra North Central Service line from Chicago through Mundelein to Antioch ....
...Central Railroad built through the area to Chicago in 1880, local farmer John Holcomb donated land...
...changed in the tiny community until after the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric interurban terminated its...
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