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2021 Clubs, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...and skills they needed to cope with life in Chicago and the United States. As immigration slowed,...
2022 Deep Tunnel, David L. Schein( Authored Entry )
...Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's answer to water pollution and sewer backup problems...
2023 Dick Tracy, Dick Locher( Authored Entry )
...strip, “Plainclothes Tracy,” to enthusiastic Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Patterson. Renamed “Dick...
2024 DuPage River, David M. Solzman( Authored Entry )
...one of the most rapidly developing areas in the Chicago region. This sprawling development tends to...
2025 Eastland, George W. Hilton( Authored Entry )
...for Michigan City , Indiana, capsized into the Chicago River on July 24, 1915, killing a reported...
2026 American Planning Association, Ruth Eckdish Knack( Authored Entry )
...associations on the campus of the University of Chicago in Hyde Park . The location owed much to the...
2027 Federal Writers' Project, Carlo Rotella( Authored Entry )
...The Illinois Writers' Project, based in downtown Chicago, distinguished itself as one of the most...
2028 Angel Guardian Orphanage, Paula F. Pfeffer( Authored Entry )
...the largest residential child care homes in Chicago. Initially, the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ...
2029 Gray Wolves, Maureen A. Flanagan( Authored Entry )
...The 1890s Chicago City Council was notorious for corrupt political practices orchestrated by a...
2030 Hodgkins, IL, Ronald S. Vasile( Authored Entry )
...others arrived in the 1890s to help build the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal . The quarry continued...
2031 Humboldt Park, Max Grinnell( Authored Entry )
...Park began life as North Park in the 1860s on Chicago's Northwest Side as a tract of relatively flat...
2032 Institute of Design, Stephen Daiter( Authored Entry )
...The landmark Chicago institution consecutively known as the New Bauhaus (1937–1938), the School of...
2033 Jackson Park, David M. Solzman( Authored Entry )
...located south of 57th Street by Lake Michigan on Chicago's South Side , is the third largest of the...
2034 Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) v. Arlington Heights, F. Willis Caruso( Authored Entry )
...to build affordable open housing throughout the Chicago area and other parts of the country. In 1970...
2035 Jewish Community Centers, Gerald R. Gems( Authored Entry )
...and Reform rabbis supported the founding of the Chicago Hebrew Institute (CHI), whose extensive...
2036 Madonna Center, Deborah Ann Skok( Authored Entry )
...Catholic mission to Italian immigrants on Chicago's Near West Side . Its original name was Guardian...
2037 Moody Bible Institute, James Gilbert( Authored Entry )
...to work among the “neglected masses of Chicago. ” Founded during the city's most dynamic period of...
2038 Old Town, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...Park Community Area. During World War II, Chicago's Civil Defense Agency designated the triangle...
2039 Poetry Slam, Marc Smith( Authored Entry )
...The term “poetry slam” was coined by Chicago native Marc Smith to describe the cabaret-style poetry...
2040 Fuller (George A.) Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...This construction company was founded in Chicago in 1882 as Clark & Fuller by C. E. Clark and George...
...the world's first skyscrapers going up around Chicago. By 1890, when Fuller's company became one of...
...among the many structures the company built in Chicago were the Marquette, Pontiac, and Rand-McNally...

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