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Untouchables, David E. Ruth(
Authored Entry
) ...denounced a large bribe offer early in 1930, a Chicago Tribune reporter gave the group its popular...
...leaders chose for its head Eliot Ness, a Chicago-based Prohibition Bureau agent with a reputation...
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Black Panther Party, Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly(
Authored Entry
) ...The Black Panther Party of Chicago emerged on the city's West Side in the autumn of 1968. As one of...
...police brutality. By the middle of 1969, the Chicago Panthers' neighborhood roots and class-based...
...Rainbow Coalition. ” This coalition targeted Chicago's structural inequalities by placing programs...
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City News Bureau, Richard A. Schwarzlose(
Authored Entry
) ...In 1890 Chicago Daily News publisher Victor Lawson, having persuaded local newspaper competitors...
...for their newsrooms, organized the City Press Association of Chicago, supported in the beginning...
...by 8 publishers of 10 Chicago dailies. Renamed City News Bureau in 1910, the agency was fulfilling...
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Assassination of Carter Harrison, Edward M. Burke(
Authored Entry
) ...blank range. The mayor's wounds were fatal. Chicago was plunged into mourning. Even Clarence Darrow...
...of easy availability would ultimately prove his demise. Chicago was enjoying an unbounded period of...
...commitment to the world's fair had permitted Chicago to showcase its rise to modernity in the 20...
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Annie McClure Hitchcock, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...that she wrote and her efforts in the wake of the Chicago Fire of 1871 provide glimpses of her as a...
...Hitchcock grew with the city. When she came to Chicago in 1844 it was so small that she remembered...
...fields down to the lake on the east and to the Chicago River on the west. ” She also witnessed the...
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Georgians, Emily Brunner(
Authored Entry
) ...southwestern Asia. However, most members of Chicago's Georgian community did not arrive in the city...
...1991. Many are scientists or doctors who came to Chicago to take advantage of economic opportunities...
...city; others drive taxis or work in construction . Chicago's Georgians have not congregated in any...
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Gambling, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...Americans were tolerant of gambling when Chicago was founded, and Mark Beaubien's Sauganash featured...
...off-track betting. Mont Tennes emerged as Chicago's most important gambler. While big gambling...
...achieved total dominance. Mob gambling reached Chicago Heights , Brookfield , Glenview , and other...
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Goodman Theatre, Richard Christiansen(
Authored Entry
) ...when the parents of Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, a Chicago playwright who died of influenza while in the...
...DePaul University ), the Goodman formed its own board, the Chicago Theatre Group. The era of William...
...in 1973, was marked by the emergence of Chicago playwright David Mamet, whose American Buffalo had...
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Hyde Park Art Center, Judith Russi Kirshner(
Authored Entry
) ...One of the oldest arts organizations in Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) is notable because...
...Douglas, author Helen Gardner, and University of Chicago art historian Ulrich Middeldorf. HPAC built...
...who came to be known internationally as the Chicago Imagists—Roger Brown, Christina Ramberg, and Jim...
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Lincoln Park, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...as a special district , one of three Chicago-area park districts , in 1869, with authority over...
...the consolidation of park districts that created the Chicago Park District in 1934. In addition to...
...theater , Lincoln Park has become home to the Chicago Academy of Sciences , which relocated in 1893...
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Conservatories, Julia Sniderman Bachrach(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1897. Photographer: J. W. Nolan. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Owing to political...
...in the eastern states in the late 1860s. In Chicago, soon after the city's three park commissions...
...Conservatory, 1906. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 The West and...
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Lemont, IL, John D. Schroeder(
Authored Entry
) ...collar and professional families moving from Chicago to an expanding suburbia. With its inexpensive...
...bank of the Illinois & Michigan Canal . Few of Chicago's suburbs have been as strongly influ- enced...
...Niagaran dolomite) soon became a major export. Chicago's Water Tower is built of this stone. Work in...
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Lincoln Square, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...reflecting the fact that Latinos and Asians in Chicago found the family-friendly housing of Lincoln...
...Fort Road (Lincoln Avenue) to market in Chicago. The celery crop gained such broad distribution that...
...in 1880. They employed Polish workers from Chicago on a seasonal basis. The increasing traffic along...
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Drug Retailing, Rick Kogan(
Authored Entry
) ...increasingly computerized) pharmacy business in Chicago, it is still possible to find, tucked into...
...or of Mark Beaubien's hotel in frontier Chicago who would have touted the “medicinal benefits” of...
...counter, the business of drug retailing in early Chicago consisted primarily of odd elixirs, suspect...
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Edgewater, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...Edgewater's property owners persuaded the city of Chicago to make a rare change in its community...
...the Edgewater subdivision, 1888. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 John Lewis Cochran (...
...transportation to the area. He persuaded the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad to open a stop...
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Jails and Prisons, Jess Maghan(
Authored Entry
) ...and California Avenue, ca. 1903. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...of censuring and punishing criminals in early Chicago. In 1831, revisions in the Illinois Criminal...
...century. In 1832, the newly chartered town of Chicago constructed an “estray pen” at the town...
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The Press and Labor in the 1880s, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...of urban community best exemplified by the Chicago Daily News , which, by the 1890s, had become the...
...both a labor and a socialist press continued in Chicago, the balance between its readership and that...
...Monthly Magazine , essayist A. L. White described Chicago journalism in 1888 as being like the city...
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Panamanians, Stephen R. Porter(
Authored Entry
) ...climates of the American South, preferring its accessibility to their Chicago families over Panama....
...Chicago's first Panamanians arrived shortly after World War II as brides of American servicemen...
...of Afro-Panamanians settled mostly on Chicago's South Side in the 1970s. While many Panamanians from...
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Arlington Heights, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...ownership, together with the expansion of the Chicago-area economy, drove the number of people in...
...was at first a potato farmer, supplying the Chicago market, and in 1856 began a nursery for cherry,...
...sending dairy products as well as vegetables to Chicago on the railroad. The little town at the...
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Tunnels, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...Chicago has been able to use tunnels to solve various infrastructure problems, thanks to an easily...
...alignment. This tunnel supplied water to the new Chicago Avenue pumping station and water tower. By...
...River Tunnels The low bridges crossing the Chicago River were frequently opened for the passage of...
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