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21 Department Stores, Jeffrey A. Brune( Authored Entry )
...locally owned department stores than it did in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
...In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Chicago established itself as a leader in the...
...Field's, other establishments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also thrived in...
22 St. Charles, IL, David Buisseret( Authored Entry )
...influence remained strong throughout the nineteenth century. From 1849 to about 1859 St. Charles was...
...Belgians , and Danes . By the end of the nineteenth century the built-up area of the town extended...
23 Vice Districts, Peter C. Baldwin( Authored Entry )
...A nineteenth-century Chicagoan looking for a prostitute could easily find one in any of the city's...
...Side . Intermittent raids through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries aimed not at...
24 Waukegan, IL, Wallace Best( Authored Entry )
...and the railroads . Toward the middle of the nineteenth century, Waukegan became a thriving center...
...population developed in the area. At mid-nineteenth century, Waukegan harbor was one of the busiest...
25 Construction, Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...posts and beams. During the latter part of the nineteenth century, Chicago developers such as Samuel...
...industrialization of construction. The late-nineteenth-century revolution in construction methods,...
...were no less important. By the middle of the nineteenth century, a few buildings were starting to be...
26 Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow( Authored Entry )
...following in Chicago and elsewhere in the nineteenth century, and this was not surprising, since...
...or adopted traditional techniques. During the mid-nineteenth century, however, homeopaths in Chicago...
...learn. Beginning in the last decade of the nineteenth century, groups of physicians and physician-...
27 Iron and Steel, David Bensman and Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...the Civil War . During the second half of the nineteenth century, the area became one of the world's...
...steel industry in the Chicago region during the nineteenth century was a function of entrepreneurial...
...of steel rails. In the final years of the nineteenth century, the steel industry in Chicago and...
28 Convents, Suellen Hoy( Authored Entry )
...and other industrial cities early in the nineteenth century. The first ones, like that established...
...first Magdalen Asylum. Some of these mid-nineteenth-century institutions, such as Mercy Hospital and...
...resulted in efficacious service. During the nineteenth century, Protestant women such as educator...
29 Funeral Service Industry, Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...specialized and professionalized in the late nineteenth century. During the city's first decades,...
...supported the emergence during the late nineteenth century of more specialized funeral service...
...health regulatory activity during the late nineteenth century, was led by many individuals and...
30 Moving Days, Emily Clark( Authored Entry )
...be found as early as the 1840s. In the late nineteenth century as many as one-third of all Chicago...
31 Multicentered Chicago, Henry C. Binford( Authored Entry )
...into three parts, which by the early nineteenth century would be known as the North, West, and...
...people who settled permanently in the early nineteenth century built little clusters of dwellings in...
...that Chicago became not only the first of the nineteenth century's “instant cities” but also a city...
32 Landscape, Gerald A. Danzer( Authored Entry )
...park movement in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the subsequent creation of a greenbelt...
...again into woodlands and grasslands, which nineteenth-century Americans respectively labeled groves...
...prime sites for pioneer settlement. These nineteenth-century Americans settlers took on the massive...
33 Lumber, Theodore J. Karamanski( Authored Entry )
...and meatpacking , was one of the “big three” commodities of nineteenth-century Chicago commerce....
...Through the second half of the nineteenth century, Chicago was the world's greatest lumber market....
...a rite of passage for many immigrants to the nineteenth-century city. Lumber yards hired the fastest...
34 Greektown, Max Grinnell( Authored Entry )
...In the late nineteenth century, Chicago's Greek population began to coalesce in the area surrounded...
35 Polonia, Wallace Best( Authored Entry )
...community of Polish Americans. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Chicago's Polonia has been centered...
36 Frankfort, IL, Sarah S. Marcus( Authored Entry )
...economy by offering tours of the village's nineteenth-century architecture and developing a retail...
...Will County . By the second half of the nineteenth century, railroad expansion was transforming the...
37 Powwows, Jerry W. Lewis( Authored Entry )
...and Potawatomi. The last large powwow of the nineteenth century in Chicago, with about five thousand...
...activity recorded in the Chicago area in the nineteenth century took place as part of the 1893...
38 Turnvereins, John B. Jentz( Authored Entry )
...abroad, Chicago's Turnvereins grew out of the nineteenth-century liberal German effort to unite the...
...of new groups of German immigrants. By the late nineteenth century Chicago's Turnvereins ranged from...
39 Canaryville, James R. Barrett( Authored Entry )
...toughest neighborhoods in the city from the late nineteenth through much of the twentieth century. A...
...who populated the area at the end of the nineteenth century, feeding off stockyard refuse and grain...
40 Children, Dependent, Kenneth Cmiel( Authored Entry )
...disease, desertion, and poverty—the three nineteenth-century sources of dependent children—were...
...University of Chicago began attacking the nineteenth-century institutional system. In general, they...
...system between 1955 and 1970. Second, the nineteenth-century orphanages closed and home foster care...

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