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Concordia University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...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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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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| 1600 |
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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| 1601 |
Harris Trust & Savings Bank, (
Business Dictionary
) ...when assets passed $4 billion, Harris employed about 3,500 people in the Chicago area. In 1984,...
...Harris ranked as the third-largest bank in Chicago, it was purchased by the Bank of Montreal. By...
...of its Canadian parent) remained one of Chicago's largest banks, boasting $1.3 billion in revenues...
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| 1602 |
Street Grades, Raising, Robin Einhorn(
Authored Entry
) ...and loam soil that absorbed little moisture, Chicago lacked natural means of drainage. It also was...
...steep enough to drain their contents into the Chicago River without raising the streets. The first...
...sleeping car fame, made his initial reputation in Chicago raising buildings. i3292 View of block on...
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Western Springs, IL, Tom Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...Cook County, 15 miles W of the Loop. Western Springs, located along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy...
...Railroad between Chicago and Aurora, encompasses roughly the area between Willow Springs Road, Ogden...
...alcohol. In 1872 Hill moved to the area from Chicago, and the community began organizing to attract...
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| 1604 |
Catholic Charities, Ellen Skerrett(
Authored Entry
) ...efforts in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago for relief work among the poor. It has grown...
...and economic backgrounds. ” Since the 1840s, Chicago's Roman Catholics had sustained a multitude of...
...in obtaining financial assistance through the Chicago Relief Administration. Maternal and child care...
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| 1605 |
Crerar Library, John, Jane Aikin(
Authored Entry
) ...opened April 1, 1897. John Crerar came to Chicago from his native New York City in 1862 to establish...
...resources attracted a large clientele from Chicago-area business and industry. Its equally...
...the collection with the University of Chicago's science collection in a new building opened in 1984....
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| 1606 |
Gated Communities, Patrick M. McMullen(
Authored Entry
) ...definition, gated communities have existed in Chicago and throughout the United States for over a...
...are not without controversy. Rosemont , a suburb of Chicago, illustrates some of the issues gated...
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| 1607 |
Great Lakes System, Jerry L. Foust(
Authored Entry
) ...to rivers of the great Mississippi River basin, Chicago is the world’s largest metropolis to sit...
...resource region of major significance for Chicago’s strategic position and historic growth. Rich...
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| 1608 |
Homelessness and Shelters, Robert Slayton(
Authored Entry
) ...There have always been people in Chicago who could not find housing on a given night, going back to...
...of the nineteenth century, a product of both Chicago's massive industrial growth and its position as...
...the nation's railroad hub. Chicago became the central way station for thousands of largely native-...
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| 1609 |
Illinois Institute of Technology, Wilbur Applebaum(
Authored Entry
) ...played a significant role in the shaping of Chicago's skyline. The Stuart School of Management and...
...acres about three miles south of the Loop . Chicago-Kent College of Law, the Institute of Design,...
...with industry and the business community of the Chicago area, and, beginning in 1936, added several...
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International Amphitheater, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...the International Live Stock Exhibition when Chicago was hog butcher to the world, the amphitheater...
...and Halsted Streets, on the east side of the Chicago Union Stock Yard, four miles from the Loop ....
...convention halls; when construction finished, Chicago's reign as a convention capital began. Among...
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