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Ashburn, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...railroads , just after the area was annexed to Chicago as part of the town of Lake . The original...
...platted near 83rd and Central Park along the new Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway in the hope that the...
...later just 18 more residences had been added. Chicago's first airport, Ashburn Flying Field, opened...
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Aurora, IL, Catherine Bruck(
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) ...a self-sufficient community, independent of Chicago for its identity, but connected to it through...
...together. Aurora is frequently referred to as a Chicago suburb, most often by the nonlocal media or...
...of heavy-machine building equipment. In 1856 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad located its...
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Posen, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...98 percent Polish ) reflects the enterprise of a Chicago real-estate agent, whose 75 Polish salesmen...
...lots were concentrated in an area south of Chicago, and the name Posen was chosen to remember the...
...petitioned the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago for a church of their own, a mission was...
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Roosevelt University, Lynn Y. Weiner(
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) ...By 2004 the 65,000 alumni included the late Chicago mayor Harold Washington, jazz great Ramsey...
...In 1945, 68 professors from Chicago's Central YMCA College, protesting racial quotas imposed on...
...repairing the grand old facility. In 1954, the Chicago Musical College (founded by Florenz Ziegfeld...
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Tollway Authority, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...suburban development, however, and soon became Chicago-area commuter routes. When the system opened,...
...a bypass route running south and west of Chicago as I-294, continuing north to the Wisconsin border...
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Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Paul Finkelman(
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) ...was convicted in federal district court in Chicago of aiding a fugitive slave who had escaped to...
...by northerners, many with antislavery sentiments, Chicago was a relatively safe haven for fugitive...
...runaway also escaped. On October 21, 1850, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution condemning...
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Jolliet and La Salle's Canal Plans, Charles J. Balesi(
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) ...the mouth of the Mississippi, went through the Chicago Portage. La Salle did not favor the portage...
...on the Illinois River to the mouth of the Chicago River. Jolliet made a careful notation of the...
...his companions spent several days there. The Chicago Portage fascinated Jolliet. He recognized the...
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Copperheads, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...but this effort went nowhere. Luckily for Chicago, conscription occurred peacefully, with no...
...order to charge the Democrats with disloyalty. In Chicago, there were many Democrats, but few openly...
...an upsurge of antiwar feeling. Wilbur Storey's Chicago Times was nationally famous for its strident...
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Willie Dixon and the Blues, Adam Green(
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) ...continuing his festival work and organizing the Chicago Blues All-Stars touring group. In 1982, he...
...musicians. His first motivation for coming to Chicago in 1936 was boxing: Dixon won a Golden Gloves...
...with the emerging blues recording industry in Chicago. Dixon's best work came during his years at...
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Company Housing, Anna Holian(
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) ...it sold lots and built houses for employees of the steelworking industries south of Chicago....
...directly intervened to provide housing. In Chicago, company housing dates from the great industrial...
...who in 1880 founded the town of Pullman on Chicago's southern suburban fringe. As part of Pullman's...
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Gentrification, Larry Bennett(
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) ...Near West Side , and the South Loop in central Chicago, and to the Gap in the Douglas Community Area...
...the downtown Loop. In the late 1950s the city of Chicago initiated a major urban renewal project in...
...area's historic ambience. Old Town was Chicago's first neighborhood to experience gentrification, as...
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West Garfield Park, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...southwest to Lyons . Truck farmers going to Chicago and stagecoaches traveling west to Moreland (...
...Park took the Elgin Road (Lake Street). The West Chicago Park Commission established three West Side...
...Park course or the Hawthorne track. In 1892, the Chicago police raided the Garfield Park track three...
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Oak Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier and Camille Henderson Zorich(
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) ...Des Plaines River in 1835. He erected a house on the stagecoach route from Galena to Chicago. The...
...area was sparsely populated when the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad laid tracks parallel to the...
...the century linked Oak Park more closely to Chicago. It was one of only a few suburban stops in the...
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Washington Park, Robin F. Bachin(
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) ...pool. By the 1990s, Washington Park boasted some of the premier aquatics facilities in Chicago....
...and gathering spots for picnics. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the building that housed...
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Libraries, Suburban, Sarah Ann Long(
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) ...in 1965. Three library systems serve the Chicago suburban area, North Suburban Library System to the...
...subsequently became tax supported. Some of Chicago's earliest suburban libraries were started by...
...of library systems, Project PLUS helped the Chicago suburbs build libraries to fill the noticeable...
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Hilton Hotels Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...At the end of the 1990s, Hilton, based in California, still owned luxury hotels in downtown Chicago....
...Hotels Corp. , his company bought two large Chicago luxury properties: the Palmer House and the...
...became the Conrad Hilton). Together, the two Chicago hotels had about 5,300 rooms and employed 4,500...
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St. Charles, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...bridge over Fox River, 1932. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...rail service did not come until 1871 when the Chicago, Saint Paul & Kansas City Railroad established...
...the 1920s drew St. Charles into the expanding Chicago market. The population grew from 2,675 in 1900...
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Streets, One-Way, Christopher Miller(
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) ...maze of narrow, car-filled streets confronted by Chicago residents each night as they return home....
...One-way streets in Chicago took on citywide significance with the passage of the Uniform Vehicle...
...on left turns, one-way streets in downtown Chicago were an integral part of the city's response to a...
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Dolton, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...improved automobile and truck access to Chicago by two interchanges serving Dolton. In recent years...
...of Riverdale and the Riverdale community of Chicago and was known as “Riverdale Crossing. ” Dolton's...
...for producing agricultural products for Chicago, such as potatoes, asparagus, cabbage, onions, sugar...
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Burnside, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...11 miles S of the Loop. Burnside, the smallest of Chicago's community areas, is bounded entirely by...
...and Chatham . Only with the mapping of University of Chicago sociologists did the area once known as...
...of 95th Street on what is now the site of Chicago State University , did developer W. V. Jacobs...
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