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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Disc Jockeys, Robert Pruter(
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) ...The disc jockey became important in Chicago radio during the 1930s, well before the term “disc...
...1935 until his death in 1953. One of postwar Chicago's most notable disc jockeys was Dave Garroway,...
...the dance show Soul Train. WLS introduced Chicago in 1960 to Dick Biondi, one of America's most...
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Field Museum, Steven Conn(
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) ...and enthusiastic crowd. On opening day, the Chicago Times reported that the magic of the exposition...
...exhorted members of the Commercial Club of Chicago to establish a museum using the objects that...
...over from the fair. An aspiring city like Chicago, Putnam argued, needed a major museum of natural...
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Antioch, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...Wisconsin Central rail line in 1885, between Chicago and Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The recreational...
...Wisconsin Central trains brought hundreds from Chicago on summer Saturdays to the Chain of Lakes...
...of the area's lakes and rail service to Chicago. Employers hired hobos from Chicago as seasonal...
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Griffith, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
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) ...when Jay Dwiggins and his brother Elmer of Chicago laid out the town. Construction of factories,...
...followed. The Dwigginses advertised the town as “Chicago's Best Factory Suburb,” as it had numerous...
...Aubin moved with his family to Griffith from Chicago and oversaw the town's subdivision development...
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Homewood, IL, John H. Long(
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) ...slowly. Farmers shipped their produce to Chicago, and local businesses and some industry developed...
...1915); and Calumet (organized in 1901 in Chicago, relocated to Homewood in 1917). The Illinois...
...line so passengers could ride directly between Chicago and the track. During the Great Depression ,...
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Illinois, Raymond E. Hauser(
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) ...Illinois country, including the entire greater Chicago area. Tribal members divided themselves into...
...streams explain their residency in greater Chicago. The Illinois living on the Illinois River across...
...Influential tribal leaders included Rouensa, Chicago, and Jean Baptiste Ducoigne. During the late...
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Niles, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...travel more easily to the markets of downtown Chicago. The township of Niles formed in 1850; by 1884...
...newspaper. After the turn of the century the Chicago Surface Lines street railway traveled down the...
...Avenue to Niles, bringing immigrants from Chicago. In the 1930s Niles's population of 2,135 included...
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Northwestern University, Patrick M. Quinn(
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) ...of land located on Lake Michigan 12 miles north of Chicago. Here, during the winter of 1853–54, the...
...with several professional schools located in Chicago, including a law school and a medical school....
...had grown rapidly, both in Evanston and in Chicago, but remained a relatively loose federation of...
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Norwood Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...an oval. In 1833 Mark Noble became one of Chicago's prominent citizens when he purchased substantial...
...house, is the oldest extant house in the city of Chicago. English farmers settled in the area in the...
...the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad , eventually the Chicago & North Western Railway, installed a rail...
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O'Hare, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...became a commercial airport , and in 1947 the Chicago City Council picked it as the site for the...
...to consolidate its control over the airport area, Chicago annexed it in March 1956, including the...
...required that annexed areas be contiguous with Chicago, the city council also annexed a narrow...
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