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Advice Columns, Beth Bailey(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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School Architecture, Arthur Zilversmit(
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) ...The architecture of Chicago's schools has been dominated by an often desperate need to find places...
...and a strictly utilitarian architecture. The Chicago Fire of 1871 exacerbated the problem. One-third...
...for 54–63 students. The innovations of the “Chicago School” of architecture were first applied to...
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South Shore, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...desiring a congenial middle-class community on Chicago's South Side. i3484 Golfers at South Shore...
...Country Club, 1908. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...area's high ground to transport his goods to Chicago. Before the community came to be known as South...
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Restrictive Covenants, Arnold R. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...people, usually African Americans . Rare in Chicago before the 1920s, their widespread use followed...
...paved the way for their proliferation. The Chicago Real Estate Board (CREB) campaigned to blanket...
...by Nathan William MacChesney, a member of the Chicago Plan Commission. In the fall of 1927, the CREB...
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Riverdale, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...S of the Loop. Riverdale shares borders with Chicago to the northeast, Dolton to the east and south,...
...Calumet River, is also known as Riverdale and was annexed to Chicago in 1889. Riverdale shares...
...all these communities, and especially with Chicago and Dolton. The villages of Dolton and Riverdale...
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Bartlett, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...40 acres of property, he donated half of the land to the Chicago & Pacific Railroad (which was...
...succeeded in 1880 by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad) for a train station and switching...
...year and the broadcast went national. The Chicago Tribune later purchased the station. Two private...
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Vice Commissions, Mary Linehan(
Authored Entry
) ...prostitution throughout the city? At first, the Chicago Vice Commission members—including Frank...
...report, published in 1911 as The Social Evil in Chicago, also included a statistical section, which...
...that 5,000 professional prostitutes worked in Chicago, serving over 5 million men every year. These...
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West Town, Steven Essig(
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) ...Community Area 24, 3 miles NW of the Loop. Chicago's West Town community area, located on the city's...
...Bloomingdale on the north, Kinzie on the south, the Chicago River's North Branch to the east, and a...
...Ukrainian community settled in the section between Chicago and Division, Damen and Western—popularly...
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Chesterton, IN, Margaret D. Doyle(
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) ...Southern Railroad ran through the town toward Chicago on land donated by William Thomas II. In...
...The Hillstrom Organ Factory relocated from Chicago in 1880 and became the town's main industry. A...
...interurban transportation to nearby towns. The Chicago, South Shore & South Bend interurban still...
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Crystal Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...River's rails. The consolidated line known as the Chicago & North Western erected a station near the...
...of the Crystal Lake rail spur, Charles Dole of Chicago's Armour and Dole established an expansive...
...had ice cut from the lake, which he shipped to Chicago even during summer months; well-insulated ice...
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Algonquin, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...traveled trail (now Illinois Highway 62) between Chicago and the Indian settlements at Lake Geneva....
...returning home to Portage, Wisconsin, from Chicago in 1830. Her description (Wau-Bun) of crossing...
...farmers along the Fox River Valley Railroad (Chicago & North Western Railway), which entered the...
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