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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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| 1562 |
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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| 1563 |
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(
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) ...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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| 1565 |
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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| 1566 |
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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| 1568 |
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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| 1569 |
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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| 1570 |
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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| 1571 |
Preston Bradley, Martin E. Marty(
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) ...early rejected the fundamentalism he learned at Chicago's Moody Bible Institute and, with it, all...
...the North Side's Peoples Church into a major Chicago institution until it numbered four thousand...
...listeners. The civic-minded pastor served on the Chicago Public Library board for a half century...
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| 1572 |
Emil Gustav Hirsch, Richard Sobel(
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) ...congregations in Baltimore and Louisville, he led the Chicago Sinai Congregation from 1880 to 1923...
...and built it into the largest in Chicago. By 1900, Hirsch was rabbi for life and was the highest...
...in 1891 and was the first University of Chicago professor of rabbinical philosophy and literature by...
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| 1573 |
Guineans, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...professionals, the majority of Guineans migrated to Chicago in the 1990s from New York. Political...
...moved to other American cities, including Chicago. Friends and family have followed, as immigrants...
...in 2002 estimated approximately 200 Guineans in Chicago. The Guinean community gathers for Muslim...
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| 1574 |
American Giants, Rob Ruck(
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) ...who, for four decades, were central to black Chicago, especially as the Great Migration swelled...
...its ranks. Chicago, in turn, was the center of black baseball during the 1920s and home to its most...
...were a source of pride and cohesion to black Chicago. After the 1952 season, in the wake of major...
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| 1575 |
Federal Art Project, Diane Dillon(
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) ...and research as well as art making into the FAP. In Chicago, Cahill's liberal notions met challenges...
...the project came under fire again when the Chicago Tribune pronounced much of the art “incompetent...
...motifs. ” The FAP's legacy endures in Chicago. Numerous works remain in schools and other public...
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| 1576 |
Fine Arts Building, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...to the atmosphere as well, among them the Chicago Woman's Club and the Illinois Equal Suffrage...
...1898, it immediately became the hub of Chicago's Arts and Crafts movement as well as a headquarters...
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| 1577 |
Metropolitan Community Church, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...The Good Shepherd Parish MCC, chartered in Chicago in 1970, was the first MCC congregation outside...
...more than 300 churches in 19 countries. The Chicago congregation's initial meetings took place in...
...Church of Christ. The first MCC parish in Chicago has in turn nurtured others in the area, and MCC...
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| 1578 |
Nommo, Ronne Hartfield(
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) ...black aesthetic. Nearly every 1960s black Chicago poet also wrote prose, and felt compelled to...
...bringing major figures like Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) to Chicago as advisors. The Reagan years saw...
...collectives throughout the United States, and Chicago was no exception, as Nommo closed its doors in...
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| 1579 |
Prairie Avenue, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
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) ...purchased by a group of architects called the Chicago School of Architecture Foundation. The home is...
...Prairie Avenue was an exclusive address for Chicago's elite in the late nineteenth century. This...
...did not require its residents to cross the Chicago River . The first large home on the upper portion...
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| 1580 |
Calumet City, IL, Dominic Candeloro(
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) ...the Bishop Ford Freeway, brought customers from Chicago's South Side , and a renovation in the early...
...across the southeast boundary of the city of Chicago at the state line between 143rd Street and...
...of West Hammond, just 30 minutes from downtown Chicago, gained a reputation as a “Sin City,” where...
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