| 1581 |
Wicker Park, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1591 |
Concordia University, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...Americans from around the Midwest assembled in Chicago and formed the Lutheran Church Missouri...
...students to a 40-acre campus in River Forest , a tree-lined suburb 10 miles west of Chicago....
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| 1592 |
Marquette Park, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...Residents of Chicago Lawn often refer to their neighborhood as Marquette Park, after the 300-acre...
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| 1593 |
Alpha Suffrage Club, Wanda A. Hendricks(
Authored Entry
) ...of 1913 offered African American women in Chicago the opportunity to merge their social welfare...
...pivotal role in the 1915 election of the first African American alderman in Chicago, Oscar DePriest....
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| 1594 |
Brookfield Zoo (Chicago Zoological Park), Dennis A. Meritt, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...District of Cook County and managed by the Chicago Zoological Society. With an animal collection...
...a reality and, in 1921, incorporated the Chicago Zoological Society. The following year, building...
...the walrus became a household name as hundreds of Chicago-area residents came to see her antics. The...
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| 1595 |
Country Club Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...One of the earliest congregations south of Chicago, it started with two wooden structures, built in...
...activity of Joseph E. Merrion, a major Chicago-area housing developer. In 1955, he sought to build a...
...predominantly middle-class suburbs south of Chicago that has experienced significant racial change....
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| 1596 |
Kensington, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...been Kensington voted themselves dry. As Chicago papers heralded what they called the Roselanders'...
...its largest store, Secord and Hopkins, owned by Chicago Mayor John P. Hopkins, offered credit and...
...Rosary for the Sicilians. When University of Chicago sociologists divided the city into community...
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| 1597 |
Lake Forest, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Loop. Lake Forest, a favorite retreat of Chicago's upper class, is tied to...
...the network of suburbs north of Chicago along Lake Michigan regarded as the North Shore. Earliest...
...for farming. The area was initially beyond Chicago's reach, but starting in 1855 railroads enabled...
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| 1598 |
East Garfield Park, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Loop. East Garfield Park was annexed to Chicago in 1869, but a quarter century elapsed before...
...Technical High School, a vocational school for Chicago's girls, moved from the South Side to 3545...
...East Garfield Park. Finally, a cluster of Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) projects—Harrison Courts,...
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| 1599 |
The Expanding City, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Special Feature)
) ...Planning Before the Plan Interpretive Digital Essay : The Plan of Chicago...
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Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in bankruptcy, the old Youngstown steel plants in the Chicago area laid off thousands of workers....
...By the end of the 1990s, LTV, which also owned the old Chicago plants of Republic Steel, employed...
...approximately 4,000 people in the Chicago area....
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