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Provident Hospital, Paul A. Buelow(
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) ...a well-known black surgeon and graduate of Chicago Medical College, organized Provident Hospital and...
...Dearborn in the Douglas Community Area on Chicago's near south side . His aim was to provide this...
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| 1732 |
Pullman Strike, Carl Smith(
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) ...Pullman cars. The boycott, although centered in Chicago, crippled railroad traffic nationwide, until...
...and then by dispatching regular soldiers to Chicago and elsewhere. The soldiers joined with local...
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| 1733 |
Balaban & Katz, Geoffrey Klingsporn(
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) ...of unprecedented size and splendor across the Chicago region, enjoyed a monopoly from Minneapolis to...
...1918), Tivoli (1921), Uptown (1925), and Chicago (1921)—all but one were located in outlying areas...
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| 1734 |
Michael Reese Hospital, Wallace Best(
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) ...many institutions destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was the hospital on LaSalle street (...
...named in his honor and that it serve all of Chicago without regard to race, creed, or nationality....
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| 1735 |
Renaissance Society, Lisa Meyerowitz(
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) ...The Renaissance Society, a noncollecting museum founded in 1915 at the University of Chicago ,...
...is Chicago's oldest contemporary art museum. Named for the spirit of rebirth, the society sought to...
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| 1736 |
Shakman Decrees, Roger R. Fross(
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) ...1969, one man made his stand against the Chicago political machine . Michael Shakman, an independent...
...against one of the most enduring traditions in Chicago's politics : political patronage , or the...
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| 1737 |
Smart Museum, Ronne Hartfield(
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) ...Affiliated with the University of Chicago , the Smart Museum opened as a gallery in 1974 with a one-...
...Esquire magazine here in 1933. Designed by Chicago architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, the building...
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| 1738 |
Soap Operas, Rich Samuels(
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) ...Broadcasting's most enduring genre emerged in Chicago's radio studios in the early 1930s, the...
...War II did the soaps begin their irreversible exodus from the Chicago studios where they were born....
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| 1739 |
Street Musicians, Don McLeese(
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) ...color that enhances the culture. Historically, Chicago has not been one of them. Instead, police and...
...expansion of the University of Illinois at Chicago claimed much of the prime territory. From Muddy...
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| 1740 |
Taylorism, Keith Andrew Mann(
Authored Entry
) ...the twentieth century left an indelible mark on Chicago's industrial landscape. Taylorist principles...
...that cattle entered the killing floor in the Chicago stockyards in one piece and emerged after...
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| 1741 |
Tornadoes, Thomas G. Bobula(
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) ...most evil wind, have been no strangers to the Chicago area. Over the last one hundred years, the...
...However, tornadoes can occur anywhere in the Chicago area. The downtown area and the lakefront are...
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| 1742 |
Towertown, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...North Side Community Area. Towertown was Chicago's bohemia in the early twentieth century. Lacking...
...built Tree Studios to tempt artists to stay in Chicago after the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition ....
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| 1743 |
Waldheim Cemetery, William J. Adelman(
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) ...located approximately 10 miles west of downtown Chicago on both sides of the Des Plaines River . The...
...only German nondenominational cemetery in the Chicago area, Waldheim did not discriminate based on...
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| 1744 |
Ward System, Douglas Knox(
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) ...Chicago has been divided into municipal legislative districts called wards since its first municipal...
...the underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities. Chicago is unusual in having maintained its...
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| 1745 |
Black Sox Scandal, Robin F. Bachin(
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) ...On October 1, 1919, the Chicago White Sox , whom many observers believed to be one of the best...
...out why. Several team members testified in a Chicago courtroom that they had intentionally thrown...
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| 1746 |
Mayor's Commission on Human Relations, Charles E. Clifton(
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) ...was established as public concern grew that Chicago could possibly be headed in the same direction....
...and race relations); Charles S. Johnson, coauthor of the Chicago Commission on Race Relations report...
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| 1747 |
Swing Trial, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...heresy trials in American history was the Chicago Presbytery's 1874 prosecution of the popular...
...confirmed what many had already noticed: Chicago and the Midwest were successfully challenging the...
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| 1748 |
Trinity Christian College, Jeffrey Webb(
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) ...College (Michigan). Richard Prince, principal of Chicago Christian High School, and Harold Dekker,...
...Back to God Hour” radio program, led the Chicago effort, and in 1959 the first trustees purchased...
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| 1749 |
Bozo's Circus, Beatrix Hoffman(
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) ...Chicago-based Bozo's Circus, featuring the antics of a clown with startling red hair, was the...
...to franchise the clown nationwide in 1956. Chicago's Bozo's Circus premiered on WGN-TV in 1961 with...
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Associated Negro Press, Lawrence Daniel Hogan(
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) ...and international news agency, was established in Chicago in 1919 by Claude Barnett. A graduate of...
...Insurance, the American Negro Exposition in Chicago of 1940, and Tuskegee. With correspondents and...
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