| 2021 |
Clubs, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 2031 |
Humboldt Park, Max Grinnell(
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) ...Park began life as North Park in the 1860s on Chicago's Northwest Side as a tract of relatively flat...
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| 2032 |
Institute of Design, Stephen Daiter(
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) ...The landmark Chicago institution consecutively known as the New Bauhaus (1937–1938), the School of...
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| 2033 |
Jackson Park, David M. Solzman(
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) ...located south of 57th Street by Lake Michigan on Chicago's South Side , is the third largest of the...
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| 2034 |
Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) v. Arlington Heights, F. Willis Caruso(
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) ...to build affordable open housing throughout the Chicago area and other parts of the country. In 1970...
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| 2035 |
Jewish Community Centers, Gerald R. Gems(
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) ...and Reform rabbis supported the founding of the Chicago Hebrew Institute (CHI), whose extensive...
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| 2036 |
Madonna Center, Deborah Ann Skok(
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) ...Catholic mission to Italian immigrants on Chicago's Near West Side . Its original name was Guardian...
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| 2037 |
Moody Bible Institute, James Gilbert(
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) ...to work among the “neglected masses of Chicago. ” Founded during the city's most dynamic period of...
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| 2038 |
Old Town, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...Park Community Area. During World War II, Chicago's Civil Defense Agency designated the triangle...
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| 2039 |
Poetry Slam, Marc Smith(
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) ...The term “poetry slam” was coined by Chicago native Marc Smith to describe the cabaret-style poetry...
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| 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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