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Stone Park, IL, Richard Harris(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1472 |
Summer Theater, Andrea Telli(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1473 |
Taxis, Liveries, and Limousines, Joshua M. Lupkin(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1474 |
Mary Thompson Hospital, Eve Fine(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1475 |
Young Women's Christian Association, Anne Meis Knupfer(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1476 |
Bloomingdale, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1477 |
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Eric R. Smith(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1478 |
Adler Planetarium, Bruce Stephenson(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1479 |
Chico Carrasquel, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1480 |
Eight-Hour Movement, John B. Jentz(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1481 |
English, June Skinner Sawyers(
Authored Entry
) ...descendants have been a significant presence in Chicago since the early nineteenth century. Great...
...English-born inhabitants constituted 3 percent of Chicago's population by 1890. Trying to...
...bit of the old country's traditions, members of Chicago's English community formed, in the spring of...
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| 1482 |
Hoboes, Chad Heap(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago became the “Hobo Capital of America” during the late nineteenth century, as migratory...
...white men, this mobile community established a “hobohemian” district in Chicago. Its “main stem”...
...a stretch of West Madison Street from the Chicago River to Halsted Street, where inexpensive...
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| 1483 |
Norridge, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Norridge shares 70 percent of its border with Chicago, but prefers not to be identified with the...
...Road. In 1948 Norridge was about to be annexed to Chicago when a local improvement association moved...
...to incorporate as a village, stymieing Chicago's efforts at annexation . The 1950s ushered in an era...
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| 1484 |
Northwest Ordinance, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...the Illinois River, working up toward the site of Chicago. Meanwhile, the United Tribes had in 1816...
...corridor of land stretching southwestward from Chicago; between these Indian Boundary Lines a canal...
...link up with the Bounty Lands. By 1830, the site of Chicago itself had been surveyed, as the eastern...
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West Lawn, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...9 miles SW of the Loop. West Lawn is west of Chicago Lawn , from which it is divided by the Grand...
...resumed with World War II . The nearby Chicago Municipal Airport ( Midway ) expanded. Industrial...
...automobile manufacturing after the war. In 1946 the Chicago Housing Authority constructed housing in...
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| 1486 |
Douglas, Adrian Capehart(
Authored Entry
) ...the Baptists who opened the first University of Chicago in 1860. At the beginning of the Civil War (...
...of the area, businessman Jesse Binga opened Chicago's first black-owned bank in 1908. During the...
...housed in the Jordan, Overton Hygienic, and Chicago Bee Buildings, and at night they went to clubs...
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| 1487 |
McHenry County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...pushed out along Indian trails radiating away from Chicago in search of farm sites. To the north and...
...along well-established Indian trails from Chicago. County voters established a township system of...
...of railroads brought great changes. The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad blanketed the county. One...
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| 1488 |
Implementation Map (Congress Parkway), (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Special Feature)
) ...Implementation Interpretive Digital Essay : The Plan of Chicago...
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| 1489 |
Implementation Map (Civic Center), (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Special Feature)
) ...Implementation Interpretive Digital Essay : The Plan of Chicago...
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| 1490 |
Implementation Map (Roosevelt Road), (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Special Feature)
) ...Implementation Interpretive Digital Essay : The Plan of Chicago...
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