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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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, (
Authored Entry
) ...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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Conservation Areas, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...near-blighted” and “stable. ” The 1943 Master Plan of Residential Land Use of Chicago found that 56...
...square miles of Chicago constituted conservation areas. After...
...Conservation Act of 1953 became Illinois law, Chicago established the Community Conservation Board,...
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Garfield Goose and Friends, Philip T. Hoffman(
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) ...A children's television show produced in Chicago, Garfield Goose and Friends captivated young...
...by Frazier Thomas, who introduced the show in Cincinnati. After Thomas moved to Chicago in 1951, the...
...show began appearing on Chicago television. From 1955 to 1976, it ran on WGN-TV , where it was one...
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Constructing an Infrastructure, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...of protecting the city's drinking supply by directing the Chicago River away from Lake Michigan....
...Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-05859) Illustration 2986 1741...
...Raising the Grade Chicago's swampy setting led to its literally raising itself out of the mud....
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Publishing and Media, Religious, R. Jonathan Moore(
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) ...radio. The “Sunday Evening Club” has long been a Chicago broadcasting staple. Founded in 1908 as a “...
...The middle and late nineteenth century was the golden age of religious publishing in Chicago....
...Because of Chicago's central location, many denominational headquarters have been located in the...
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Riverside, IL, Joseph L. Arnold(
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) ...the wealthy children and grandchildren of Chicago's old ethnic working class. The entire village was...
...American residential planning . In 1863 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad was built through...
...center they designed for Riverside, attracted Chicago's elite. By the fall of 1871 a number of...
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Park Ridge, IL, John R. Schmidt(
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) ...Lutheran General Hospital relocated from Chicago, and a second high school (Maine South) opened in...
...came to Maine Township in 1854 with the opening of George Penny's brickworks. When the Chicago, St....
...Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad (later the Chicago & North Western) began running shortly afterward,...
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Museum of Science and Industry, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...the Museum of Science and Industry as one of Chicago's premier tourist attractions and attesting to...
...and philanthropy of Julius Rosenwald, one of Chicago's wealthiest merchandisers. In 1911, while...
...the museum's director convinced Rosenwald that Chicago should have such an institution. In 1921 he...
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WTTW: The Beginning of Public Broadcasting, Newton Minow(
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) ...When WTTW sought community support, 500,000 Chicago-area citizens responded. After a temporary start...
...Assured by Lowell that this would be good for Chicago, Ryerson created WTTW-TV (its call letters...
...DC, Philadelphia, and other large cities, so Chicago got a head start on September 6, 1955, by...
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Steppenwolf Theatre, Richard Christiansen(
Authored Entry
) ...though its star members no longer lived in Chicago, they regularly returned to the home base for...
...to international fame, Steppenwolf became a Chicago cultural icon, symbolic of the heights of high-...
...of gritty contemporary drama. Moving into Chicago in 1980, the company achieved major breakthroughs...
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Bud Billiken Day Parade, Wallace Best(
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) ...Billiken Day Parade has been sponsored by the Chicago Defender Charities, and has become known as...
...In 1923 Chicago Defender founder Robert S. Abbott and his managing editor, Lucius Harper,...
...Club. Abbott had long expressed a concern for Chicago's African American youth, and the success of...
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