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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Advice Columns, Beth Bailey(
Authored Entry
) ...the historically intense competition between Chicago's major newspapers. Eppie Lederer died in 2002....
...and newspapers . Yet perhaps no place rivals Chicago in the history of the newspaper advice column,...
...advice columnist in 1955 when she convinced a Chicago Sun-Times editor to give her a chance at the...
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Washington Park, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...The western edge of Washington Park is the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad . Low-lying and...
...avenues that ran northward from the area into Chicago. This amalgam of ethnicities and classes made...
...the elevated trains, provided easy access to Chicago's central business district, making Washington...
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Zoning, Joseph P. Schwieterman and Dana Caspall(
Authored Entry
) ...and concerns for the quality of life. Although Chicago has many neighborhood and area plans to guide...
...Controls on land use in Chicago began during the mid-nineteenth century in response to concerns over...
...the possibility of a similar ordinance for Chicago. The city formed a Zoning Commission that year...
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Airports, Commuter, David Brodherson(
Authored Entry
) ...use the roof as intended. To the north of Chicago, Sky Harbor Airport opened in 1929. The facility,...
...personal commuter vehicle. In 1948 the city of Chicago opened a commuter airport for wide public use...
...emerged as the most important one to serve Chicago over the long run. In 1920 the city of Chicago...
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Drugs and Alcohol, Katherine A. Chavigny(
Authored Entry
) ...easy to transport, cheap, and nonperishable—remained Chicago's most popular alcoholic drink in the...
...social scale, the lavish dinner parties of Chicago's cultural elite featured a different wine for...
...drinking among more affluent Chicagoans. Chicago was a wide-open town when it came to drinking, but...
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East Side, Kristina M. Bas and David Bensman(
Authored Entry
) ...for their food. Located just south of South Chicago and east of South Deering , the region's natural...
...Side has long been considered a suburb of South Chicago, and its residents have a profound sense of...
...plant. As 1,000 people approached the mill gates, Chicago police ordered their retreat. The crowd...
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Improvisational Theater, Tony Adler(
Authored Entry
) ...by Del Close—a Compass alumnus who taught at Chicago's ImprovOlympic and epitomized the mystical (...
...as opposed to pragmatic) strain in Chicago-style improvisation—many younger performers have carried...
...into theatrical art. That was achieved in Chicago in 1955, when David Shepherd and Paul Sills...
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Near West Side, Myriam Pauillac(
Authored Entry
) ...Area 28, 2 miles W of the Loop. is bounded by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad to the north, the...
...Railroad to the west, the South Branch of the Chicago River to the east, and 16th Street at its...
...lines. The first African American settlement in Chicago emerged around Lake and Kinzie streets in...
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Gathering Information, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...H. Burnham Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2530 3272 Burnham Plan Infrastructure...
...1906 Author: Commerce and Labor Department Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2350 3134...
...Burnham Plan Infrastructure Planning Chicago...
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Landscape Design, Kevin Harrington(
Authored Entry
) ...When Europeans first visited the Chicago region, three aspects of Indian landscape design gained...
...as it remained uncomprehended. Meanwhile, as Chicago's population grew from about 4,000 in 1840 to...
...developing and applying basic science. The Chicago Botanic Garden , in a Cook County Forest Preserve...
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