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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Garfield Ridge, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...Michigan Canal (completed 1848), and the Chicago & Alton Railroad (1850s). William B. Archer, I&M...
...John “Long John” Wentworth, one-time mayor of Chicago, farmer, and fellow land speculator, purchased...
...name occupies ground once owned by Wentworth. Chicago annexed the area in bits and pieces in 1889,...
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Greater Grand Crossing, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...community areas . The entire area was annexed to Chicago in 1889 as part of Hyde Park Township ....
...40 others. The accident occurred at what is now 75th Street and South Chicago Avenue when Roswell B....
...Mason, who was to become a Chicago mayor , secretly had intersecting tracks built for the Illinois...
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Archer Heights, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...as a part of the passage that connected the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers . The swamps and prairies...
...where the Stevenson Expressway does now; the Chicago & Alton Railroad , which paralleled the canal;...
...and Archer Road were the first thoroughfares to Chicago, but they had little effect on the area's...
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Armour Square, David M. Solzman(
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) ...expressways , and the South Branch of the Chicago River . It contains three distinct neighborhoods....
...Square lay south of the burned area during the Chicago Fire of 1871 but was nonetheless greatly...
...Comiskey built a new baseball park for the Chicago White Sox between 34th and 35th Streets. The old...
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Lake View, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...name Lake View has referred in turn to the first of Chicago's North Shore suburban developments, an...
...township , a city in its own right, and a community area within Chicago. All of the Lake Views...
...land between two and eight miles north of Chicago's center. As one official incarnation of Lake View...
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Montclare, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...main thoroughfare to the downtown markets in Chicago, where many hawked their produce from wagons at...
...hit by a train. In 1872 Sayre allowed the Chicago & Pacific Railroad Company right-of-way over his...
...the rail line failed and was taken over by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad (CM&SP). As a...
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North Center, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...on the west by the North Branch of the Chicago River , North Center developed after industrialists'...
...the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Chicago's industrialists realized the potential of the...
...wood intensified the demand for brick buildings in Chicago. As the riverbanks yielded more and more...
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Rainbow Beach, Charles E. Clifton(
Authored Entry
) ...and challenge de facto segregationist policies in Chicago. On Sunday, despite the presence of the...
...Dating back to the race riots of 1919, Chicago has had a history of youth violence connected to the...
...families had lived near the steel mills of South Chicago . However, black families had for the most...
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Salvation Army, Jonathan H. Ebel(
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) ...At the close of the twentieth century, Chicago's Salvation Army maintained nearly two hundred...
...and Edwin Gay, the Salvation Army came to Chicago. Upon arrival, the small corps of Salvationists...
...volunteers provided valuable assistance to Chicago's needy during the panic of 1893 and the Great...
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Streeterville, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...court ruled Streeter's claims invalid. Some of Chicago's most expensive land and famous buildings,...
...Neighborhood in the Near North Side Community Area. Early maps of Chicago showed little but lake...
...immediately north of the Chicago River and east of Pine Street (Michigan Avenue) where Streeterville...
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