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Back of the Yards, James R. Barrett(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Monee, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...traffic that had previously gone uphill from both Chicago and Kankakee. The Illinois Central built a...
...Boosters hoped that Monee, midway between Chicago and Kankakee, would become a major city. Residents...
...in 1907 by a stop on the interurban line from Chicago to Kankakee. Monee also had a picnic ground...
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Navy Pier, Douglas Bukowski(
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) ...Located just to the north of the mouth of the Chicago River , Navy Pier endures as a...
...3,000-foot-long exclamation mark in the Chicago tradition of public works . Municipal Pier (renamed...
...the hopes of Daniel Burnham in his Plan of Chicago for two recreational piers and the city's desire...
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New Lenox, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...tributary of the Des Plaines River southwest of Chicago. For more than a century, Potawatomi and...
...government's forced expulsion of Potawatomi from the area. In the 1850s, the Chicago & Rock Island...
...Railroad (later the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific) began offering service from Chicago through New...
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North Riverside, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...located approximately 10 miles west of downtown Chicago, the mall attracts customers through- out...
...in 1835. David A. Gage, treasurer of the city of Chicago, purchased approximately 1,600 acres along...
...this property was turned over to the city of Chicago. Part of this land was used for the Cook County...
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Sting, Mike Conklin(
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) ...Chicago witnessed several attempts for professional soccer to gain a toehold in the local scene...
...and 1984. These were the first titles won by a Chicago pro franchise in any sport since the Bears...
...crowds of 20,000 or more for the first time in Chicago soccer. The Sting stopped playing after the...
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Westinghouse Broadcasting, Douglas Gomery(
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) ...set manufacturer began operating a radio station in Chicago in 1921. On Armistice day, Westinghouse...
...Monday, enabling 1,300 “radio homes” in the Chicago area to hear opera . But profits proved elusive,...
...KYW-AM to Philadelphia and did not re-enter the Chicago market until late in 1956, when it purchased...
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Robert Morris College, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...in liberal arts and business from its campus in Carthage, Illinois, 250 miles southwest of Chicago....
...In 1975, Robert Morris merged with Chicago's Moser School (a private business college founded in...
...of Robert Morris College moved into the landmark building at 401 South State Street in Chicago....
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Catholic Worker Movement, Steve Rosswurm(
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) ...its heyday in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Chicago Catholic Worker was the most significant...
...the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Chicago distinguished it from its parent organization....
...The Chicago Catholic Worker, especially its newspaper published from 1938 to 1941, launched the...
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John and Mary Jones: Early Civil Rights Activists, (
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) ...side—her husband John Jones—when their early Chicago home became one of the Underground Railway...
...residents. The couple worked tirelessly in Chicago during the late 1840s and 1850s against slavery...
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Townships, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...The federal government surveyed the Chicago area, as part of the Northwest Territory, into townships...
...mid-nineteenth century, the townships ringing Chicago— Lake View , Jefferson , Cicero, Lake , and...
...proved too unwieldy and most were annexed into Chicago in 1889. Townships continue to provide basic...
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