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191 Using the Chicago River, David Solzman( Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay) )
...1911 The new residences stand where past industries slaughtered cattle , tanned hides , rolled...
...of moveable bridges . They serve the tourist industry that is key to Chicago's economy. Barge and...
...and petroleum and building materials to the many industries that still operate along the river....
192 Julius Rosenwald: Chicago Businessman and Philanthropist, Peter M. Ascoli( Authored Entry )
...the building of the Museum of Science and Industry, which he initiated and to which he, his estate,...
193 Purdue University Calumet, Sarah Fenton( Authored Entry )
...this extension campus in Hammond, Indiana—the industry-heavy corridor 3 miles east of the Illinois...
194 Union Stock Yard, Dominic A. Pacyga( Authored Entry )
...the resulting decentralization of the meat industry brought its decline. The market closed on August...
195 Erring Women's Refuge, Mary Linehan( Authored Entry )
...and resources necessary to leave the sex industry: education, job training, obstetric care, and the...
196 Museums in the Park, Dennis H. Cremin( Authored Entry )
...of Sciences , the Museum of Science and Industry , the DuSable Museum of African American History,...
197 Bicycling, Allyson Hobbs( Authored Entry )
...a spin on the wheel. ” While the women's clothing industry enjoyed a cycling-induced boon, not all...
...Co. The company withstood many of the industry's booms and busts and, when adults' attention shifted...
198 Bridgeport, Dominic A. Pacyga( Authored Entry )
...the Union Stock Yard after 1865 but the meatpacking industry remained a major employer of Bridgeport...
...residents, while primarily working in local industries, often looked beyond the factories. After the...
199 African Americans, Christopher Manning( Authored Entry )
...racial ideologies that had excluded blacks from industry. With the cessation of Southern and Eastern...
...racial discord in two of Chicago's major industries, steel and meatpacking, enabling some blacks to...
...notably suffered from the decline of local industries in the final third of the twentieth century....
200 East Garfield Park, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...erected to house the population working in local industry. East Garfield Park's early residents were...
...By 1914, modest homes, commercial buildings, and industry intermixed in East Garfield Park. A brief...
201 Lumber, Theodore J. Karamanski( Authored Entry )
...Joseph, Michigan. During the 1830s and 1840s the industry was largely focused on supplying the local...
...was clear that the future of Chicago's lumber industry was in supplying the still considerable local...
202 North Lawndale, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...find work in the neighborhood. North Lawndale's industries now employed people who commuted to the...
...Corporation—tried but failed to attract new industries to employ North Lawndale's residents and new...
203 Automobile Manufacturing, David M. Young( Authored Entry )
...the beginning of Chicago's auto manufacturing industry; at least six local tinkerers tried to build...
...Corporation autos. The auto manufacturing industry in the Windy City began to decline by World War I...
204 Sleepy Hollow, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...town remained residential without business or industry for many years. In 1979 the first annexation...
205 Germans, Christiane Harzig( Authored Entry )
...to find in the city's increasingly mechanizing industries. If generational distinctions help us to...
...unskilled laborers in the textile and tobacco industries. By 1900, these sectors of the economy had...
...Federation of Labor. Over-represented in Chicago industry, they were organized to an unusually high...
206 Norridge, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...ranch houses, Norridge has more shopping and industry than its neighbor. Residents in the 1990s were...
207 Restaurants, Bruce Kraig( Authored Entry )
...or have been critical segments of the dining industry. Because dining enterprises mirror the city's...
...made Chicago's eating places elements of a major industry. By 2000, the Chicago area's dining...
208 Retail Workers, Daniel A. Graff( Authored Entry )
...as a legitimate profession in the eyes of the industry. Though still underpaid in comparison to men,...
...War II era, the changing nature of the retail industry reshaped the character of retail work . While...
209 Advertising, Quentin J. Schultze( Authored Entry )
...Bob Hope. Cone also led the Chicago advertising industry into public philanthropy , supporting the...
...By 1980, advertising was among the largest industries in Chicago, with 8,000 employees in over 500...
210 Hegewisch, Erik Gellman( Authored Entry )
...Expressway (I-94) and numerous railway lines, industry (including DMC, a major Midwest distributor...

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