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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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Stone Park, IL, Richard Harris(
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) ...the Loop. One of the smallest and poorest of Chicago's suburbs, Stone Park also has one of the most...
...income out of 262 communities in the six-county Chicago area. As was common elsewhere, settlement...
...the 1930s. Property taxes were a fraction of Chicago's. “Reliefers” (people receiving welfare relief...
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Summer Theater, Andrea Telli(
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) ...The typical theater season in Chicago lasts from mid-September until late July, when theater...
...theater groups from around the world to Chicago. Bailiwick Repertory's annual Pride Performance...
...regular run. Other theater companies in the Chicago area present productions exclusively in the...
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Taxis, Liveries, and Limousines, Joshua M. Lupkin(
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) ...shortly after the founding of the city of Chicago. As early as 1853, the Parmelee Transportation...
...short-lived electric cab venture opened on Chicago's streets in 1899 with 100 vehicles. Entrepreneur...
...in half, and started the Yellow Cab Company of Chicago in 1915. Competitor Morris Markin started the...
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Mary Thompson Hospital, Eve Fine(
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) ...The Chicago Hospital for Women and Children was founded in 1865 to provide medical care to indigent...
...in Boston in 1863. Her first patients in Chicago were the wives, widows, and children of Union...
...to gain a hospital position. Neither of Chicago's two hospitals permitted women to serve on their...
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Young Women's Christian Association, Anne Meis Knupfer(
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) ...expensive than many boardinghouses . Although the Chicago YWCAs emphasized world fellowship in the...
...the Young Women's Christian Association of Chicago to promote the religious, moral, and intellectual...
...Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, accommodations at Chicago's four YWCA residencies varied tremendously by...
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Bloomingdale, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...War , easterners teemed into what would become the Chicago metropolitan area in search of farmland....
...through the settlement on its route between Chicago and Rockford. By the end of the 1830s several...
...Hough, each donated large tracts of land to the Chicago & Pacific Railroad (Chicago, Milwaukee & St....
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Eric R. Smith(
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) ...dissatisfied with their treatment by the Chicago-based Pullman Company, sought the assistance of A....
...Milton P. Webster to direct its organizing in Chicago, home to the largest number of Pullman's...
...to the union's efforts. More than half of Chicago's “Inside Committee” were women. As a black...
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Adler Planetarium, Bruce Stephenson(
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) ...he donated a Zeiss projector to the people of Chicago, with money to build an edifice to house it....
...as it does now, the best view possible of the Chicago skyline. Even before the planetarium opened...
...Webster. The Adler was operated by the Chicago Park District until 1968, when it incorporated as a...
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Chico Carrasquel, Robert Morrissey(
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) ...well, if he wants me to talk English, I know how to say ‘Chicago White Sox. ’” I played shortstop,...
...he played third base, and all game, what he said was, “Chicago White...
...Sox, Chicago White Sox. ” And I said, “Hector, please say something different. ” He said, “Chico,...
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Eight-Hour Movement, John B. Jentz(
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) ...When the Chicago labor movement emerged in 1864, the eight-hour day quickly became its central...
...longer hours. Trying to eliminate that option, Chicago labor called for a citywide strike that began...
...and unskilled workers of all nationalities. Chicago anarchists , trade unionists, and the Knights of...
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