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Midway Airport, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...itself following the deregulation of the airline industry in 1978. By the 1980s and 1990s, Chicago's...
...the fallen giant. Deregulation of the airline industry spurred entrepreneurship by new carriers and...
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Mongolians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...status, forcing them to enter trades and service industries, including rug and carpet cleaning,...
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Movie Palaces, Douglas Gomery(
Authored Entry
) ...on the experience of Chicago's meat packing industry with cooling, Barney Balaban convinced the...
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Pacific Islanders, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...the military, airline , and entertainment industries began to settle in Chicago and attract friends...
...are not involved in the entertainment industry, music has been a primary way that the community has...
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Classical Music, Mark Clague and J. Kimo Williams(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago had become the third largest music industry center in the United States by grossing over $7...
...Chicago entrepreneurs invested heavily in the music industry, and the city's manufacturing and...
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Multicentered Chicago, Henry C. Binford(
Authored Entry
) ...economy was driven by railroads , heavy industry, and European immigration. The city did not share...
...huge numbers of both. The expansion of heavy industry and the flood of newcomers, combined with the...
...with the rise of railroads and heavy industry, the post–World War II transformation coincided with...
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Mexicans, Gabriela F. Arredondo and Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...and semiskilled laborers in agriculture and heavy industry, including the Rock Island, Santa Fe, and...
...as word spread of ready work in Chicago and as industry successfully lobbied to exempt Mexicans from...
...primarily in steel, meatpacking , and railroad industries. Mexican life in Chicago transcended the...
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Quarrying, Stone Cutting, and Brick Making, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...lime production. In Chicago's building materials industry, no less important than the quarrying and...
...of thousands of local buildings and homes stood as evidence of the past vitality of the industry....
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Rock Music, Clark “Bucky” Halker(
Authored Entry
) ...company rapidly emerged as major force in the industry. The owners received skillful assistance from...
...music scene continued to flourish, but within industry circles the city's blue-collar credentials...
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World War I, Sean J. LaBat(
Authored Entry
) ...men. These new opportunities, mainly in heavy industry, stimulated the Great Migration of African...
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Burmese, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...dictatorship in 1962. Nationalizing businesses and industry, the military regime prompted thousands...
...century. Many were working in service industries or in professions and generally considered...
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Danes, J. R. Christianson(
Authored Entry
) ...the American Academy of Brewing and made Chicago an international center of the brewing industry....
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Groundwater System, James J. Miner and Richard J. Rice(
Authored Entry
) ...a century, groundwater has been used by industries throughout the Chicago region and for drinking...
...naturally. Although withdrawals by Chicago industry began to decline in the 1970s, drinking water...
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Jamaicans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Jamaican men were recruited to work in war industries by the War Manpower Commission and the Farm...
...to work in carpentry, domestic work , and various industries. Although many Jamaicans at first came...
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Movies, Going to the, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago helped launch the movie industry in the United States in the early 1900s, so it is no...
...changing economic status of the motion picture industry and new leisure-time opportunities signaled...
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North Center, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...earning the area the nickname “Bricktown. ” These industries provided work for skilled and unskilled...
...economic subsistence did not depend on local industries increased public objection to the noisome,...
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Opera, Thomas Bauman(
Authored Entry
) ...and his puppets were recruited by the Gas Industries of America to perform at the 1939 New York...
...on permanent exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago...
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Avondale, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...the rail lines and the river served to attract industry. Numerous clay pits and brick factories were...
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Introduction, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...included the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry (later known as the Chicagoland Chamber of...
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Early Lakeshore Development, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...land be dedicated for public use. Despite these dedications private industries, most prominently the...
...railroads and steel industries, vied for control of the lakeshore. Canal Commissioner Map, 1836...
...the growth and development of the railroad industry were the iron and steel mills that businessmen...
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