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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Bedford Park, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...yard. In 1898 Henry H. Porter incorporated the Chicago Transfer and Clearing Company (CT&C), which...
...purchased Stickney's operation. In 1905 the Chicago & Joliet Electric Railway was extended to the...
...Avenue, making it possible for workers from Chicago to commute to jobs in the area. In 1906 the Corn...
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Anarchists, Bruce C. Nelson(
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) ...leaders, anarchism could no longer claim to be a mass movement in Chicago and the United States....
...favor of voluntary association and cooperation. Chicago's anarchists were largely skilled, immigrant...
...1880s the IWPA published seven newspapers in Chicago, in German , Czech , Norwegian , and English....
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Merchandise Mart, Michael Paul Wakeford(
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) ...White, it still stands downtown along the Chicago River . Though increasingly servicing commercial...
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National Association of Negro Musicians, Adam Green(
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) ...the country, and continues to be headquartered in Chicago, with two chapters still active locally....
...of Negro Musicians (NANM), headquartered in Chicago, is dedicated to conserving concert music...
...Dunbar (Washington DC) and Wendell Phillips (Chicago), worked closely with the organization, while...
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Property Assessment, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...divorce between politics and property assessment in Chicago, and taxpayers remained disgruntled and...
...Throughout Chicago's history taxpayers and good-government groups have complained about inequitable...
...were Catharine Goggin and Margaret Haley of the Chicago Teachers Federation , who claimed that the...
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Wilmette, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
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) ...residents has remained among the highest in the Chicago area throughout the twentieth century. In...
...is named for Antoine Ouilmette, a French-Canadian fur trader who settled in Chicago in 1790 on the...
...north bank of the Chicago River . Ouilmetteand his part- Potawatomi wife, Archange Chevallier, moved...
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Comiskey Park, Robin F. Bachin(
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) ...for permission to build a new stadium in Chicago. The problem of displacing residents and politics...
...i3495 Comiskey Park, 1910. Photographer: Barnes-Crosby. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...2003) is home to American League baseball 's Chicago White Sox . The original Comiskey Park, built...
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Glenview, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...6,142. In 1967 the University of Illinois at Chicago purchased a five-acre parcel west of Greenwood...
...of institutions like the Smithsonian and the Chicago Academy of Sciences . The Kennicotts' 82-acre...
...originally called South Northfield. In 1872 the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad laid a single track to...
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Lyons, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...are still many taverns. Metra's Burlington Northern Santa Fe line provides easy access to Chicago....
...The Chicago Portage National Historic Site, located in Ottawa Trail Woods, is a place where the...
...could travel from the South Branch of the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River through an area...
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Haymarket and May Day, Christopher Thale(
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) ...Haymarket. Toppled by student radicals in 1969 and 1970, it was moved to the Chicago Police Academy....
...On May 1, 1886, Chicago unionists, reformers, socialists, anarchists , and ordinary workers combined...
...three with shootings. i1769 Workers throughout Chicago and its suburbs took part in the nationwide...
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