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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bughouse Square, Franklin Rosemont(
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) ...mental health facility) is the popular name of Chicago's Washington Square Park, where orators (“...
...free-speech center in the nation and a popular Chicago tourist attraction. In its heyday during the...
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Ralph Metcalfe: Champion Sprinter and Free-Thinking Politician, Daniel Greene(
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) ...After excelling as a student and a sprinter at Chicago's Tilden Technical High School and Marquette...
...University in New Orleans. He returned to Chicago and, in 1952, became a Democratic committeeman for...
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Encountering the Prairie, (
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) ...business opportunities. Morris Sleight came to Chicago from Hyde Park, New York, in the summer of...
...On July 9, 1834, Sleight wrote to his wife from Chicago about a trip west to Naperville: I am highly...
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Daniel Burnham: Highway Planning, (
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) ...Burnham applied this vision to the future of the Chicago region. He diagramed a system of encircling...
...highways leading from the outlying towns to Chicago as the center are of necessity for both; and it...
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Oscar DePriest, Charles Branham(
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) ...in Florence, Alabama, to ex-slaves. He arrived in Chicago in 1889. DePriest worked as a painter and...
...first African American elected to city council in Chicago. He showed interest mainly in civil rights...
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Andrew "Rube" Foster: A Baseball Legend, Steven A. Riess(
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) ...After an outstanding career, Foster moved to Chicago and became the Leland Giants' playing manager...
...fought but unsuccessful series against the Chicago Cubs . In 1910 Foster gained control of the...
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Trumbull Park Homes Race Riots, 1953-1954, D. Bradford Hunt(
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) ...at 105th Street and Yates Avenue. Since 1937, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) had maintained an...
...South Deering leaders openly pressured Chicago politicians and the CHA to remove the Howards, while...
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Robert Taylor Homes, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Community Area. Upon completion in 1962, Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes became the largest public...
...Robert Taylor, an African American activist and Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) board member who in...
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NAES College, Robert Galler(
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) ...Services (NAES) College was established in Chicago in 1974 to promote the use of tribal knowledge,...
...leadership and development. In addition to its Chicago campus in the West Ridge neighborhood, NAES...
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Ding Dong School, James R. Belpedio(
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) ...Frances Horwich, professor of education at Chicago's Roosevelt College, to develop an on-screen...
...would appeal to preschoolers and their parents. Chicago broadcasts began on WNBQ-TV in October 1952...
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