| 2011 |
Folklore of the Middle Ground, (
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) ...his complex essay exploring the psyche of Chicago. He began with a common romanticized folklore of...
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| 2012 |
Governors State University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...student body in 2000. Located 30 miles south of Chicago in University Park , the school's 750-acre...
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| 2013 |
North Central College, Margaret L. Frank(
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) ...two-story frame house, 35 miles southwest of Chicago. Its founders were the Evangelical Association...
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| 2014 |
Columbia College, Christopher Thale(
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) ...open enrollment, holding classes throughout Chicago to connect learning with the city's communities....
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| 2015 |
National-Louis University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...informal lessons grew into an institution: the Chicago Kindergarten College, as it was once known....
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| 2016 |
Suburban Zoning, Judith Brodhead(
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) ...zoning as development has spread outward from Chicago. Most northern Illinois municipalities use...
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| 2017 |
Catholic Youth Organization, Gerald R. Gems(
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) ...Holy Name Societies in parishes throughout the Chicago Archdiocese. Centralized in a downtown office...
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| 2018 |
John Fitzpatrick and the CFL, Rick Halpern(
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) ...in the struggle to oust gangsters from the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL), gaining support from...
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| 2019 |
Mary Livermore and the U.S. Sanitary Commission, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...and suffragist in nineteenth-century Chicago. As a reporter for the Northwestern Christian Advocate,...
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| 2020 |
John "Mushmouth" Johnson and the Policy Racket, Douglas Knox(
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) ...education before he took a job as a porter in a Chicago gambling house in the 1880s. Though not a...
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| 2021 |
Clubs, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...and skills they needed to cope with life in Chicago and the United States. As immigration slowed,...
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| 2022 |
Deep Tunnel, David L. Schein(
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) ...Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's answer to water pollution and sewer backup problems...
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| 2023 |
Dick Tracy, Dick Locher(
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) ...strip, “Plainclothes Tracy,” to enthusiastic Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Patterson. Renamed “Dick...
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| 2024 |
DuPage River, David M. Solzman(
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) ...one of the most rapidly developing areas in the Chicago region. This sprawling development tends to...
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| 2025 |
Eastland, George W. Hilton(
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) ...for Michigan City , Indiana, capsized into the Chicago River on July 24, 1915, killing a reported...
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| 2026 |
American Planning Association, Ruth Eckdish Knack(
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) ...associations on the campus of the University of Chicago in Hyde Park . The location owed much to the...
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| 2027 |
Federal Writers' Project, Carlo Rotella(
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) ...The Illinois Writers' Project, based in downtown Chicago, distinguished itself as one of the most...
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| 2028 |
Angel Guardian Orphanage, Paula F. Pfeffer(
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) ...the largest residential child care homes in Chicago. Initially, the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ...
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| 2029 |
Gray Wolves, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...The 1890s Chicago City Council was notorious for corrupt political practices orchestrated by a...
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| 2030 |
Hodgkins, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...others arrived in the 1890s to help build the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal . The quarry continued...
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