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Oakland, Claudette Tolson(
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) ...the notorious El Rukn street gang . The city of Chicago demolished dilapidated buildings, and vacant...
...homes for workers. Part of the area was annexed to Chicago in 1863; the rest in 1889. Residents were...
...five years the community became home to many of Chicago's elite. In 1881 transportation was greatly...
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Roger Ebert on Hoop Dreams, (
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) ...named William Gates and Arthur Agee, from Chicago's inner city, who are gifted basketball players...
...the Cabrini Green project, and Agee, who lives on Chicago's South Side, get up before dawn on cold...
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Little Village, Erik Gellman(
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) ...a point of entry for Latino immigrants to Chicago. A gateway on 26th Street proclaims “Bienvenidos a...
...hosts the largest annual Latino parade in Chicago, drawing hundreds of thousands of spectators each...
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Lake Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...an independent political unit separate from Chicago. More than 10,000 new residents moved to the...
...provide services to this burgeoning population, and the area was annexed to Chicago in 1889....
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Marengo, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Pleasant Grove, the village was settled along the Galena–Chicago Road after 1835 and prospered...
...with the coming of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in 1851. An important commercial center for...
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Memorial Day Massacre, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...a picket line at the front of the mill on Chicago's Southeast Side. The protesting marchers,...
...surrounding community, halted when met by a line of Chicago police officers in a field north of the...
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Burnham and Root, Commercial Architects, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...partnership. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37303) Illustration 2800...
...skyscraper." Photographer: J. W. Taylor Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38280) Illustration...
...walls. Photographer: Barnes-Crosby Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-19186) Illustration 6648...
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Dunning, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...half the buildings were razed. In that year, the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center was established,...
...club. New modern facilities were present at Chicago-Read Mental Health Center. Wright Junior College...
...was extended to the facilities in 1882, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul “crazy train” brought...
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Lake Bluff, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...on the transportation corridor connecting Chicago to Waukegan and Milwaukee, first by stagecoach (...
...to development. Walter S. Gurnee , mayor of Chicago (1851–52) and speculator, foresaw this place as...
...civic leaders lobbied in opposition. The North Chicago post office was chosen instead. Citizens...
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Cook County Hospital, John Raffensperger(
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) ...Cook County Hospital, ca. 1900. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...A permanent hospital was built by the city of Chicago in 1857 at the urging of Brockholtz McVicar,...
...result, the best surgeons and physicians in Chicago volunteered their services to care for the sick...
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Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Karen Mary Davalos(
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) ...their communities, goals the Museum pursues in Chicago. In 1994, the MFACM inaugurated Del Corazon:...
...and preserve for our people. ” Influenced by the Chicago Freedom Movement, Malcolm X's call for...
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River Forest, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...enjoys some of the highest property values in the Chicago area. Ojibwa , Menominee, and Potawatomi...
...to Noyesville, attracted by its proximity to Chicago. The area's fertile land, thick forests, and...
...the construction and opening of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in the late 1840s further helped...
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Romeoville, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...Romeoville, attracted by the village's proximity to Chicago and Joliet, the existing industry along...
...boasted the second-highest industrial tax base by percentage within the Chicago metropolitan area....
...throughout the canal corridor southwest of Chicago. Anticipating increased commerce and rising land...
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Roselle, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...son, Roselle, an army colonel, a prominent Chicago businessman, and a driving force for Roselle. As...
...linen and rope, and used his financial and political clout to persuade the Chicago & Pacific...
...Railroad (Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul) to reroute through his land. Hough hired ex-convicts and...
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Stickney, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...Cook County, 8 miles SW of Chicago. Until about 1900 most of the village...
...of Stickney was covered by Mud Lake, a large marshy area stretching from Chicago to Lyons . Across...
...Mud Lake ran a historic portage trail between the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers . Mud Lake began to...
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Warrenville, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...for the development of the 650-acre Elmhurst-Chicago Stone Company quarry . It was one of the last...
...to Naperville strengthened in 1849, when the Chicago-Southwest Plank Road linked both communities....
...Warrenville finally became a stop along the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railway between 1902 and 1959....
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Berwyn, IL, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...only via the Ogden Avenue plank road. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ran through the area...
...nearly doubling the town's size. By 1900 Chicago was hungrily annexing surrounding communities. To...
...Michigan City , Indiana, capsized in the Chicago River , drowning 812. Berwyn experienced phenomenal...
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Waukegan, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...which existed until 1760. Thomas Jenkins of Chicago constructed a two-story frame structure on Lake...
...growth of Waukegan, located 36 miles north of Chicago and 60 miles south of Milwaukee, can be...
...was further stimulated by the construction of the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad by 1855, which was...
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Wheaton, IL, Thomas O. Kay(
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) ...becoming a suburban community. The Galena & Chicago Union Railroad arrived in 1849, on land donated...
...century. In 1902 a second railroad, the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin electric line, connected Wheaton to...
...offering a course for horse racing and the Chicago Golf Club (the first 18-hole golf course in the...
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Worth, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...County, 16 miles SW of the Loop. Southwest of Chicago, Worth is bounded on the south by the Calumet-...
...Its incorporation was simultaneous with that of Chicago Ridge on its northern border. At the end of...
...as an alternative to the South Branch of the Chicago River . In the 1820s and 1830s, some Illinois...
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