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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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| 1555 |
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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| 1556 |
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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| 1557 |
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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| 1558 |
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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Lockport, IL, John Lamb(
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) ...early economy, and the 1858 arrival of the Chicago & Alton Railroad did little to change this. Hiram...
...of Lockport. In addition, area railroads began running commuter trains to Chicago and the 1901...
...opening of the Chicago & Joliet Interurban Electric Railway encouraged commuting between Lockport,...
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Rotary International, Jeffrey Charles(
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) ...Founded in Chicago in 1905 by lawyer Paul Harris, Rotary International is an association of clubs...
...has spawned many imitators, among them Lions Clubs International, organized in Chicago in 1917 and...
...currently headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook . Rotary, with a 1997 membership of...
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Shoreline Erosion, Karen M. Rodriguez(
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) ...Chicago's entire 28-mile Lake Michigan shoreline is man-made. The original sand dune and swale...
...the harbor entrance were built at the mouth of the Chicago River , barriers have been constructed to...
...shoreline from erosion. Throughout the 1800s, Chicago's importance as a center of commerce required...
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| 1564 |
Indiana University Northwest, Roberta Wollons(
Authored Entry
) ...and Indiana University, which offered extension courses in Hammond , Gary , and East Chicago ....
...Instructors traveled from Bloomington and Chicago, and, by 1922, students could complete the...
...its extension work at the Calumet Center in East Chicago. Unwilling to allow Depression-hit Gary...
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George Pullman and His Town, Liston E. Leyendecker(
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) ...George Pullman established himself in Chicago in March 1859, as a building raiser and mover. He soon...
...a leading industrialist, he assisted in rebuilding Chicago after the 1871 fire, and helped found and...
...also erected the Pullman Building in downtown Chicago and a home on Prairie Avenue. After 1881, when...
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Graceland Cemetery, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
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) ...as a private, parklike resting place just north of Chicago's city limits. Now situated on 121 acres...
...transit , it holds the remains of many famous Chicago personalities. Graceland also showcases an...
...would contaminate nearby Lake Michigan , the Chicago City Council decreed that all graves be moved...
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| 1567 |
Cardinals, David M. Oshinsky(
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) ...Rams for eight players and a draft pick. In 1960 the franchise deserted Chicago for St. Louis....
...franchises in professional football history, the Chicago Cardinals originated on the city's South...
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Pinstripe Patronage, Louis H. Masotti(
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) ...from the nineteenth century until the 1950s, and in Chicago until the 1980s. In a series of rulings...
...decrees the federal judiciary ruled that city of Chicago employees could not be fired or hired as...
...for electoral support at the polls. After Shakman, Chicago political leaders shifted the emphasis of...
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Lake Forest College, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...after the completion of railroads connecting Chicago to the string of towns stretching north along...
...were simultaneously established 30 miles north of Chicago. Their Presbyterian founders hired Almerin...
...coming of the Civil War and the aftermath of the Chicago Fire of 1871 . It reopened in 1876 to both...
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Shimer College, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...to ensure her school's survival, Frances Shimer allied it to the University of Chicago . The renamed...
...Frances Shimer Academy of the University of Chicago began to provide college-level courses in 1909....
...when Shimer adopted a curriculum based on then Chicago president Robert Hutchins's belief that...
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