| 1903 |
United Center, Daniel Greene(
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) ...on West Madison Avenue in 1994, replacing the Chicago Stadium as the home of the Bulls (National...
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| 1904 |
Wigwam, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...a month entirely of wood, on Lake Street near the Chicago River. The hall was packed with more than...
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| 1905 |
WLS, Douglas Gomery(
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) ...headquartered on North State across from the Chicago Theater, channel 7 became most famous for its...
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| 1906 |
WMAQ, Douglas Gomery(
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) ...on the air in 1922, when it was owned by the Chicago Daily News. In 1929, WMAQ-AM moved to the just-...
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| 1907 |
Woodlawn Organization, The, John Hall Fish(
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) ...its South Side neighbor, the University of Chicago , and with the city administration, TWO developed...
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| 1908 |
Royko: What Clout Is, (
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) ...a definition of clout: [W]hat clout is in Chicago is political influence, as exercised through...
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| 1909 |
Chicagoland, Jack W. Fuller(
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) ...Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune for most of the first half of the...
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| 1910 |
Purdue University Calumet, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...of the Illinois border and 25 miles southeast of Chicago—began offering courses to students working...
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| 1911 |
Bruce Graham on Modernism, (
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) ...and imperial avenues. To look for the character of Chicago, for example. This is what I would call a...
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| 1912 |
Samuel Eberly Gross's Subdivisions, Emily Clark(
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) ...As a real-estate developer in Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Gross...
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| 1913 |
Ardis Joan Krainik and the Lyric Opera, John von Rhein(
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) ...Ardis Joan Krainik followed in the tradition of Chicago's great female opera company directors, a...
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| 1914 |
Walter Dyett: Music Educator, Kathleen Zygmun(
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) ...the growth of jazz and black musicians in Chicago. In 1922, putting aside medical school and violin,...
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| 1915 |
Calumet Region, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...the two definitions was apparent in a 1957 Chicago report that described the region as lying south...
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| 1916 |
Collar Counties, Richard D. Mariner(
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) ...the centrally located Cook County in the Chicago metropolitan area: DuPage County, Kane County, Lake...
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| 1917 |
Smoke-Filled Room, Christopher Thale(
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) ...The original smokefilled room was in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, where, according to an enduring...
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| 1918 |
Fibber McGee and Molly, Spencer Downing(
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) ...NBC broadcast the weekly comedy from WMAQ -Chicago. The good-natured, disorganized McGee, named for...
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| 1919 |
Hobo College, Roger Bruns(
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) ...To the hobo population Chicago was “Big Chi,” the place where thousands of migratory workers in the...
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| 1920 |
Jane, Sara M. Evans(
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) ...abortion referral service in 1969 linked to a Chicago consciousness-raising group. Because abortions...
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| 1921 |
La Leche League, Lynn Y. Weiner(
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) ...of women established in 1956 in a Near West Chicago suburb, to promote “good mothering through...
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| 1922 |
Lexington Hotel, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...the Lexington Hotel mirrors the fortunes of Chicago's once fashionable Near South Side . Completed...
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