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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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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(
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) ...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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Catholic Charities, Ellen Skerrett(
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) ...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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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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Gated Communities, Patrick M. McMullen(
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) ...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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Great Lakes System, Jerry L. Foust(
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) ...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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Homelessness and Shelters, Robert Slayton(
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) ...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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Illinois Institute of Technology, Wilbur Applebaum(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Leopold and Loeb, Paula S. Fass(
Authored Entry
) ...On May 21, 1924, Chicago became the locale for an event long remembered as the “crime of the...
...19 had just graduated from the University of Chicago and was on his way to Harvard Law School, fit...
...rich, respected, and socially well connected among Chicago's Jewish business class. Because of their...
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Magnificent Mile, John W. Stamper(
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) ...Chicago's North Michigan Avenue, one of the city's most prestigious commercial and residential...
...proposed in Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, and constructed in the 1920s. The avenue replaced...
...Station, are among the oldest structures in Chicago. Buildings constructed on the avenue during the...
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Mokena, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...of a suburban fabric reaching southwest from Chicago. In the early 1830s the McGovney and Van Horne...
...Island Railroad had completed its line from Chicago through Will County, passing less than a mile...
...The growth of Mokena paralleled that of many Chicago suburbs that began as railroad stops. One of...
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Newberry Library, Martha T. Briggs and Cynthia H. Peters(
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) ...the estate of Walter Loomis Newberry, an early Chicago pioneer involved in banking, shipping, real...
...W. Blatchford established the library in 1887 on Chicago's Near North Side and hired its first...
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Old Mill Creek, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo(
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) ...the Scottish word for creek. The placement of the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad several miles east of...
...Mill Creek was incorporated in 1959. In the 1950s, Chicago millionaire Tempel Smith, of Tempel Steel...
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Operation PUSH, James Ralph(
Authored Entry
) ...movement . When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) targeted Chicago in 1965, Jesse...
...Jackson helped formally organize Chicago ministers to promote more employment opportunities for...
...it was the leading civil rights group in Chicago. In 1971, Jackson broke with SCLC, and Operation...
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Robbins, IL, Andrew Wiese(
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) ...Robbins remained one of the few places in greater Chicago where African Americans with very limited...
...is the oldest majority-black suburb in the Chicago area and one of the oldest incorporated black...
...territory. Robbins was one of few places in the Chicago suburbs where African Americans could...
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Washington Heights, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...Heights also boasts the Woodson Branch of the Chicago Public Library at 95th and Halsted. Its Vivian...
...S of the Loop. Located on the far South Side of Chicago, Washington Heights, is bounded by 89th and...
...and Brainerd were annexed to the city of Chicago, and in 1891 Fernwood was annexed and designated as...
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Willow Springs, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...commissioners built Archer Avenue to connect Chicago with Lockport . Canal construction began in...
...in the mid-nineteenth century. The Joliet & Chicago railroad arrived after 1854, and Willow Springs...
...near Willow Springs. In the fall of 1883 the Chicago, St. Louis & South-Western Railroad came...
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Lake Villa, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...service to O'Hare Airport and to downtown Chicago, opened in 1996 with a station at Lake Villa. This...
...of the Fair Department Store on State Street in Chicago. Lehmann bought land between Cedar Lake and...
...convenient transportation to the resort from Chicago. Lehmann's leadership ended in 1890, when he...
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