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Disc Jockeys, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Park Forest, IL, Todd J. Tubutis(
Authored Entry
) ...at the present corner of Sauk Trail and Chicago Road in 1833. John and Sabra McCoy established a...
...Illinois Central in neighboring Matteson . Chicago's south suburbs experienced expansive residential...
...a press conference at the Palmer House in Chicago to announce that American Community Builders (ACB)...
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Black Belt, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...identify the predominately African American community on Chicago's South Side . Originally a narrow...
...22nd to 31st Streets along State Street, Chicago's South Side African American community expanded...
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Greektown, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...In the late nineteenth century, Chicago's Greek population began to coalesce in the area surrounded...
...the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago is now located. Greektown (also known as “the...
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Hyde Park Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...unit separate from, and geographically larger than, Chicago. The township population grew more than...
...1880 and 1889 (15,716 to 85,000). In 1889, Chicago annexed Hyde Park, which ceased to function as an...
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Jefferson Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...an independent political unit separate from Chicago. In 1872 Norwood Park Township was created...
...the northwest corner of Jefferson. In 1889, Chicago annexed the rest of the township and it ceased...
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Labor Protests, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...radicals as Joe Hill and Ralph Chaplin. Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37006) Illustration...
...were an important means of communication between downtown offices. Photographer: Chicago Daily...
...News Source: Chicago Historical Society (DN-0000022) Illustration 4243 3002 Strikes Work Garment...
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St. Lawrence Seaway, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...seaway's locks. Overseas traffic to and from Chicago via the seaway declined from 4.3 million short...
...Lawrence River in Canada via the Great Lakes to Chicago dates from 1842, when the British built a...
...the Dean Richmond in 1856 to sail from Chicago to Liverpool with a load of wheat. Chicago's role as...
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Democratic Party, Arnold R. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...leadership. i3725 Democratic National Convention, Chicago Stadium, June 27, 1932. The convention...
...Roosevelt for president. The banner honoring Chicago's Democratic mayor, Anton Cermak, was left over...
...and thousands of people again filled the Chicago Stadium for Cermak's funeral. Photographer:...
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Hearst Newspapers, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Hearst papers employed about 2,500 people in Chicago. Declining sales during the Great Depression...
...to a merger of the morning and evening papers in 1939, creating the Chicago Herald-American (later...
...reverting to the Chicago American). In 1956, the Hearst paper was purchased by the Tribune Co. ,...
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Terra Museum of American Art, Ronne Hartfield(
Authored Entry
) ...art within a four-hundred-mile radius of Chicago. Daniel J. Terra located a site in Evanston to...
...the museum began operation in the heart of Chicago's elegant shopping district , with over 60,000...
...administrative offices. Taking the success of the Chicago institution to France, Terra and his wife...
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