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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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Pinkertons, J. Anthony Lukas(
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) ...Pinkerton National Detective Agency, founded in Chicago in 1850, was long the nation's largest and...
...as a cooper at West Dundee (40 miles northwest of Chicago), then broke into law enforcement when he...
...intentions than he had been in apprehending Chicago's footpads (he absorbed McClellan's obsessive...
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Firefighting, Mark Tebeau(
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) ...From Chicago's incorporation in 1833, volunteer laborers protected the city from fire. Sanctioned by...
...owners, and insurance companies. By 1853, over 500 Chicago volunteer firemen worked in 12 separate...
...100 by century's end. Over the same period of time, Chicago's fire department became increasingly...
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French and French Canadians, Charles J. Balesi(
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) ...culture was paradoxically maintained by Chicago society, who, in the 1890s, traveled extensively to...
...during high water from the South Branch of the Chicago River through Mud Lake, into the Des Plaines...
...day Arkansas and back up the Illinois and Chicago Rivers to Lake Michigan. But many individual...
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Regional Transportation Authority, David M. Young(
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) ...a referendum in 1974. A strong plurality in Chicago overcame opposition in the suburbs. The RTA was...
...public transportation systems in the six-county Chicago metropolitan area. Because of a decline in...
...reductions. The RTA's divisions include the older Chicago Transit Authority , created in 1945, as...
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Humboldt Park, David A. Badillo(
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) ...remains the symbolic nucleus of Puerto Rican Chicago. Park thoroughfares have been renamed in honor...
...Chicago's Humboldt Park community, on the city's Northwest Side, centers on the 207-acre park named...
...Alexander von Humboldt in 1869. Annexed to Chicago the same year, the sparsely settled prairie...
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Lombard, IL, Elizabeth M. Holland(
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) ...In 1837, Babcock's Grove was connected to Chicago by a stagecoach line which stopped at Stacy's...
...Historical Society. In 1849, the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad ran two trains daily each way...
...Grove. Farmers began to send their goods to Chicago along the railroad, quickly putting the...
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Portage Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...inhabitants could paddle their canoes from the Chicago River to the Des Plaines on a minor portage...
...hall. The township became part of the city of Chicago in an 1889 annexation . Farming in the area...
...an estimated 40,000 persons, who came from numerous Chicago neighborhoods. In 1934 Portage Park was...
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Community Organizing, Larry Bennett(
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) ...subsequent organizing campaigns. Since the 1970s Chicago has been the site of numerous organizing...
...Alinsky had come to Packingtown representing the Chicago Area Project, a program sponsored by the...
...initiated other important organizing efforts in Chicago, notably the Organization for the Southwest...
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Snow Removal, Joel Mendes(
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) ...winter of 1967 had been a relatively mild one in Chicago, with unusually warm temperatures. Early in...
...had fallen on the city. It was the most severe snowstorm Chicago had experienced in the century....
...In 1979, Chicago was again brought to a standstill with another unusually severe January snowstorm....
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Winnetka, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo(
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) ...along the Green Bay Trail, which connected Chicago to Fort Howard in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Eighteen...
...Walter S. Gurnee, president of the newly formed Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad , platted three hundred...
...to mean “beautiful place. ” That year, the Chicago & Milwaukee began servicing Winnetka and other...
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