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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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Back of the Yards, James R. Barrett(
Authored Entry
) ...an array of community problems. With the end of Chicago's meatpacking industry by the 1960s, Back of...
...looking toward the southeast. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Part of the town of Lake until annexation by Chicago in 1889, Back of the Yards was settled by...
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War Monuments, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...The first war monuments in most Chicago-area communities were erected in cemeteries and dedicated to...
...men who fought in the Civil War . Typical were the Chicago Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Rosehill...
...of their comrades. In the lakefront parks of Chicago, numerous heroic equestrian bronzes commemorate...
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Blackhawks, Paul R. Greenland(
Authored Entry
) ...Professional ice hockey came to Chicago in 1926 when Major Frederick McLaughlin, a local coffee...
...Portland (Oregon) Rosebuds and moved the team to Chicago, renaming them the Blackhawks after his...
...former army division. The Blackhawks played at Chicago Coliseum, 16th and Wabash, before moving into...
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Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, James Ralph(
Authored Entry
) ...mounting dissatisfaction with the policies of Chicago school superintendent Benjamin Willis in the...
...and often quarrelsome—coalition of groups including the more militant Chicago Congress of Racial...
...Equality (CORE) and Chicago Area Friends of SNCC and the more moderate Chicago Catholic Interracial...
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Al Capone, David E. Ruth(
Authored Entry
) ...scar, probably in a bar fight. He came to Chicago, probably in 1919, to work with John Torrio, an...
...Torrio's chief assistant. When Torrio fled Chicago in 1925 after a nearly fatal attack from rivals,...
...organization consolidated its control of the Chicago-area underworld in the “ beer wars” of 1924 to...
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Dentistry, Harry L. Sheehy(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago has played a leading role, both nationally and internationally, in the development of...
...Columbian Dental Congress. Since 1918, Chicago has been home to the American Dental Association....
...headquartered here. The ADA's local affiliate—the Chicago Dental Society—has played a unique role in...
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Ecuadorians, Amalia Pallares(
Authored Entry
) ...The Ecuadorian presence in Chicago dates back to the mid-twentieth century....
...In 2000 there were 8,941 Ecuadorians in Chicago, making them the fifth largest Latin American group...
...in the city. Chicago joins New York, Miami, and Los Angeles as the four U.S. cities with the largest...
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Grant Park, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...program of park maintenance, helped make the area more amenable to Chicago residents and visitors....
...Avenue, 1880s. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3474 Michigan...
...Institute building was constructed in 1893. The Chicago South Park Commission took responsibility...
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Argonne National Laboratory, Jack M. Holl(
Authored Entry
) ...Located on 1,700 acres 25 miles southwest of Chicago on Interstate Highway 55, Argonne National...
...Established in 1941 as the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab), the...
...research and development at the University of Chicago by establishing Argonne as the first national...
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Missionary Training Schools, R. Jonathan Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago has long been home to missionary training schools, Christian institutions that train...
...to the city, the nation, and the larger world. Chicago's most prominent institution has been Moody...
...Dwight L. Moody in 1886, it began as the Chicago Evangelization Society. In 1900 MBI adopted its...
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