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Métis, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Regal Theater, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...Considered the apex of the entertainment world in Chicago, the Regal rendered a tremendous boost to...
...the Grand Boulevard community that when the Chicago Land Clearance Commission razed the theater in...
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Ghettoization, Larry Bennett(
Authored Entry
) ...in adjoining white neighborhoods. By the 1950s, the Chicago Housing Authority's (CHA) project-siting...
...of major industries and other employers from Chicago's inner-city neighborhoods has resulted in a...
...greater city. In American cities, including Chicago, the changing dynamics of the process known as...
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House Moving, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...for permission to move a house across the Chicago River on the Kinzie Street Bridge. There are...
...nails, and large-scale milling operations near Chicago facilitated house moving by making balloon...
...them to a desired location. Chester Tupper, Chicago's first house mover, regularly moved structures...
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Steel Mills on Sand, Page 2, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Indiana Dunes 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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Privatization, Robin A. Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...uncovered contracting irregularities in Chicago that led to an upheaval in purchasing personnel and...
...but they indicate a serious effort to remove the tarnish from the contracting process in Chicago....
...the most common form of privatization. The city of Chicago, suburban municipalities, school and park...
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Wauconda, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...of the new residents were ex-soldiers from Chicago's West and Northwest Sides, living in converted...
...is now called Bangs Lake along a horse trail from Chicago to Janesville, Wisconsin. Lacking good...
...land, Bangs contracted to carry mail between Chicago and Janesville through his informal settlement...
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Burbank, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...class residents drive to their places of business; almost half work in Chicago. Although there is no...
...train service in Burbank, buses link residents to the Chicago Transit Authority ....
...Incorporated in 1970, it is bordered by Chicago on the east, Oak Lawn on the south, Bridgeview on...
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Fox River, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...dam at North Aurora, 1961. Photographer: John McCarthy. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Illinois. Farther south, it drifts through Chicago's outermost manufacturing suburbs, tumbling over...
...been engulfed by the land-hungry, sprawling Chicago metropolitan area. Today, riverboat casinos sit...
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Glenwood, IL, Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...which is reputed to be the first racially integrated cemetery in the Chicago region. During the...
...African Americans traveled by train from Chicago to bury their dead in the cemetery. Notable black...
...was surveyed along the recently completed Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad . Glenwood served as a...
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Single Room Occupancy Hotels, Robert A. Slayton(
Authored Entry
) ...Towers, 1954. Photographers: Lil and Al Bloom. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...single, poor adults. SROs began to appear in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, in response to...
...transient workforce that came in and out of Chicago on a seasonal basis. The most common facility at...
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