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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Métis, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy(
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) ...who felt unwelcome in the culturally changing Chicago community joined their Indian kin in the West...
...Historically, Métis people were important to Chicago and the Great Lakes region during the fur trade...
...had gathered in their own communities, including Chicago, Green Bay, St. Louis, Mackinac, Prairie du...
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O'Hare Airport, David Brodherson(
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) ...at O'Hare Airport, March 1963. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Company, the Corps of Army Engineers, the Civil Aeronautics Authority, Chicago Association of...
...Commerce, and the Chicago Regional Planning Association selected a site on the outskirts of the...
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Pullman, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...located in Detroit, Pullman was a longtime Chicago resident. With the assistance of Colonel James...
...class men and women. By the close of the strike, even such bulwarks of Chicago's business community...
...as the Chicago Tribune and Swift & Co. publicly decried the suffering inflicted on law-abiding...
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Public Housing, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...is one kind of subsidized housing found in the Chicago metropolitan area. Subsidized housing has...
...have been targeted at different classes. The Chicago Housing Authority and similar authorities in...
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West Englewood, Franklin Forts(
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) ...tracks, junctions, and scattered farms became known as Chicago Junction, and later Junction Grove....
...job opportunities with the railroads and the Chicago stockyards just to the north of the district....
...heavily wooded. Displaced survivors of the Chicago Fire of 1871 and others seeking to escape urban...
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Almshouses, (Margaret) Dorsey Phelps(
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) ...in the nineteenth century each county in the Chicago region established its own almshouse. The Cook...
...for the most extremely destitute people in the Chicago area. These were people with chronic physical...
...to be turned over to state management. The Chicago State Hospital at Dunning, established in 1912,...
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North Park, David M. Solzman(
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) ...Avenue on the north, and the North Branch of the Chicago River on the south. The presence of the two...
...a charming and unusual ambience for the area. Chicago's only waterfall (about four feet high)...
...appears where the North Branch of the Chicago River tumbles into the North Shore Channel. North...
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Parish Life, Eileen M. McMahon(
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) ...center of a vital Roman Catholic subculture in Chicago. They created neighborhoods of shared values...
...centuries. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago initially organized parishes geographically,...
...other Catholic immigrant groups settled in Chicago, their foreign languages and different customs of...
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Radio Orchestras, Christopher Popa(
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) ...WGN (Mutual), under the same ownership as the Chicago Tribune, was financially able to maintain a...
...WBBM (CBS), and WLS (ABC), contracted with the Chicago Federation of Musicians to have their own 45-...
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Charles Tyson Yerkes and Street Railways, Harold L. Platt(
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) ...Yerkes was gaining the unenviable reputation as Chicago's most notorious “robber baron. ” He cheated...
...first common cause among civic-minded groups in Chicago. Uniting Yerkes' opponents, the battle for...
...from Philadelphia, Charles Yerkes came to Chicago in 1882 to pursue his business interests. Over the...
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