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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(
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) ...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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| 1581 |
Wicker Park, Wallace Best(
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) ...Division and North Avenues, the neighborhood had become again one of the most desirable in Chicago....
...of the Fire of 1871 , the abode of Chicago's wealthy Germans and Scandinavians. Uninhabited, and on...
...Anglo- Protestant establishment residing on Chicago's lakefront. The fire of 1871 also influenced...
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| 1582 |
Golf, IL, Howard N. Rabinowitz(
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) ...placed it ninth out of 263 in the six-county Chicago area. Protected from the mushrooming growth of...
...however, Albert J. Earling, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad , took his...
...soon moved its headquarters from downtown Chicago to the village's all-purpose post office. From...
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| 1583 |
Lynwood, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...Highway (which was also the old route of the Vincennes/Hubbard's Trail) in South Chicago Heights ....
...agricultural use. Because of its easy access to Chicago and the industries of the Calumet region ,...
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| 1584 |
WBBM, Douglas Gomery(
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) ...radio (and later television) station has long been Chicago's link to CBS. WBBM-AM went on the air in...
...WBBM-TV, and ABC took over WLS-TV. WBBM's McClurg Court studios have long been a Chicago fixture....
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| 1585 |
WCFL, Nathan Godfried(
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) ...surviving labor radio station. Created by the Chicago Federation of Labor in 1926, WCFL initially...
...60s and, from 1966 to 1976, challenged WLS for Chicago's rock music title. The labor federation sold...
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| 1586 |
Bungalow Belt, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...politics , “bungalow belt” is a quintessential Chicago term, referring generally to the bungalow-...
...a collar just inside the limits of the city of Chicago. A variety of racial and ethnic groups have...
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| 1587 |
Sister Carrie, John Mack Faragher(
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) ...in 1900, tells the story of young Carrie Meeber, who comes to Chicago from rural Wisconsin. The...
...book paints a rich portrait of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Carrie finds work in a shoe factory and...
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| 1588 |
Boys Town, Erik Gellman(
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) ...the first annual Gay Pride Parade. The city of Chicago proposed a $3.2 million facelift for the area...
...mirror similar efforts on behalf of residents in Chicago's ethnic-identified neighborhoods. The city...
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| 1589 |
Saint Xavier University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...In 1846, Chicago's first Roman Catholic bishop invited the order of the Sisters of Mercy, who had...
...years before, to open a grade school for girls in Chicago. The result, Saint Xavier, was granted an...
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| 1590 |
Benedictine University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...Slovak immigrants who had begun settling in Chicago at midcentury. They named their new parish St....
...purchased by the monks 30 miles west of Chicago—in 1901, the school began to extend its reach beyond...
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