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161 Crestwood, IL, Larry A. McClellan( Authored Entry )
...from 1911 to 1922. From the middle of the nineteenth century, the area included scattered farms and...
162 Alleys, Michael P. Conzen( Authored Entry )
...Quintessential expressions of nineteenth-century American urbanity, alleys have been part of...
163 Dime Novels, Paul J. Erickson( Authored Entry )
...the dominant popular fiction form in late-nineteenth-century America. The New York firm Beadle and...
164 "Downstate", James R. Thompson( Authored Entry )
...tourist—are the architectural wonders of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Lake Michigan , the...
165 English, June Skinner Sawyers( Authored Entry )
...a significant presence in Chicago since the early nineteenth century. Great Britain's victory over...
166 Golf, IL, Howard N. Rabinowitz( Authored Entry )
...which was founded in 1897. Like other late-nineteenth-century golf clubs, Glen View had an elite...
167 Grant Park, Max Grinnell( Authored Entry )
...The area that became Grant Park at the turn of the nineteenth century was originally deeded to the...
168 Hoboes, Chad Heap( Authored Entry )
...Hobo Capital of America” during the late nineteenth century, as migratory workers hopped freight...
169 Homelessness and Shelters, Robert Slayton( Authored Entry )
...however, first developed at the close of the nineteenth century, a product of both Chicago's massive...
170 Arts Funding, Jane Preston( Authored Entry )
...business community and civic leadership of the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1860s and '70s, early...
171 Neighborhood Succession, Steven Essig( Authored Entry )
...group abandons a residential area. In late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Chicago, this...
172 New Thought, Beryl Satter( Authored Entry )
...and her ideas permeated the city's vibrant late-nineteenth-century feminist community. Although New...
173 Old Mill Creek, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo( Authored Entry )
...in the district date from the mid to late nineteenth century. In 1994, a commission outlined a...
174 Palatine, IL, David Buisseret( Authored Entry )
...County, 26 miles NW of the Loop. In the early nineteenth century, this was a rather swampy area,...
175 Patronage, David Orr( Authored Entry )
...From the late nineteenth century until the 1931 election of Anton Cermak, the ward was the locus of...
176 Pizza, J. S. Aubrey( Authored Entry )
...there, pizza spread across the world. Some late-nineteenth-century Chicago bakeries served pizza, in...
177 Playwriting, Andrea Telli and Richard Pettengill( Authored Entry )
...Throughout most of the nineteenth century, Chicagoans watched plays authored by writers from other...
178 Poles, Dominic A. Pacyga( Authored Entry )
...settlements after World War I. By the end of the nineteenth century, Polonia constituted the core of...
...group of entrepreneurs throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many served a narrow...
179 Fishermen, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...the twentieth century. Through much of the nineteenth century, they mostly caught whitefish. By the...
180 Edgewater, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...lived in the Edgewater area before the late nineteenth century. Scattered settlers farmed celery....

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