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Woman's Hospital Medical College, Eve Fine(
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) ...In 1870, after failing to gain acceptance for women in Chicago's male medical colleges, Mary H....
...loaned money to the school to purchase a school building in 1877, eased the financial woes of the...
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Mary McDowell and Chicago Settlement Houses, Louise Carroll Wade(
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) ...McDowell arrived in Chicago with her family in 1870. A devout Methodist, she worked with the Woman's...
...and auditorium, and built a three-story building to accommodate the residents and programs. For the...
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Free Thought, Bruce C. Nelson(
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) ...of Chicago, Svobodna obec Chicagu, founded in 1870, became a central community institution. That...
...newspaper in the city. These freethinkers set up building and benevolent societies, maintained a...
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Religion, Chicago's Influence on, Martin E. Marty(
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) ...the neighborhoods. The first Catholic church building in America considered “modern” was St. Thomas...
...architecture, however, the eye falls chiefly on buildings of Protestants and Jews that were designed...
...architects who are identified with Chicago. The buildings they designed in Chicago might not have...
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Plainfield, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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Strikes, Richard Schneirov(
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) ...and regional markets. A metropolitan unionism took hold particularly among the building trades ,...
...the building service workers, and the teamsters . For the most part, strikes were not spontaneous...
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Tunnels, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...from department stores , coal to Loop office buildings, and ash and excavation spoil to fill in the...
...off important parts of the network, and Loop buildings shifted to coal delivery by truck and then to...
...most of the system and two dozen downtown buildings with open tunnel connections. Subway Tunnels...
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Artists, Education and Culture of, George H. Roeder, Jr.(
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) ...in 1916, brought Fernand Léger to Chicago in 1930 to show his film Le Ballet Mécanique. As encoded...
...required 1 percent of the cost of new public buildings be set aside to purchase art for the site....
...by Judge Lambert Tree and the Fine Arts Building , designed to bring together artists, musicians,...
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Sandburg Village, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...Rubloff to erect high-rise rental apartment buildings on cleared urban renewal land located between...
...the complex for poet Carl Sandburg and the buildings for other literary luminaries. Although less...
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Jewelers' Row, Eli Rubin(
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) ...and Wabash Streets in the Loop . In 1912 the Mallers Building at 5 S. Wabash began to house jewelry...
...In 2002, plans to convert the 5 S. Wabash building into condominiums forced many jewelers to find...
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Moody Bible Institute, James Gilbert(
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) ...institute had expanded into several impressive buildings on the Near North Side . Training students...
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Al Capone, David E. Ruth(
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) ...underworld in the “ beer wars” of 1924 to 1930. The hundreds of casualties included Dion O'Banion,...
...and Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle (1930), both posthumously regarded as corrupt, illuminated...
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Alsip, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...1,228 in 1950, but explosive growth came with building of the Tri-State Tollway in the late 1950s,...
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Woodlawn, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...arsons destroyed a reported 362 abandoned buildings between 1968 and 1971. Unemployment , poverty,...
...and entrepreneurs to Woodlawn. In the subsequent building boom, developers landscaped Jackson Park,...
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Movies, Going to the, Max Grinnell(
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) ...seat 3,600 in its one-screen auditorium. The building featured a mansard roof and an interior lobby...
...Chicago Theater at 175 N. State Street. The building was executed by the well-known movie theater...
...would ever visit. The exteriors of these buildings were elaborately detailed, transporting the...
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Rear Houses, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...in Chicago. Typically one-story, rectangular buildings of four to six rooms, these cottages often...
...of their lots and then constructed larger brick buildings on the front of the lot. Chicago's housing...
...in dangerous passageways and foul alleys . Despite building codes , these conditions persisted. In...
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Religious Institutions, Virginia Lieson Brereton(
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) ...persisted at deeper levels. The institution building of Chicago's religious groups was accomplished...
...Presbyterian , by the time it moved into its new building on Michigan Avenue in 1914, provided a...
...new synagogue on the South Side in 1912, the building included a gymnasium, a pool, classrooms, and...
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Subdivisions, Carolyn Loeb(
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) ...improvements, and the use of restrictions, building codes , and zoning contributed to the creation...
...subdivisions with new houses, apartment buildings, and industries, urbanizing the inner suburbs...
...by increased auto ownership, produced building lots for three times the existing population. These...
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University of Illinois at Chicago, Gerald A. Danzer(
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) ...over age 21 was a UIC graduate. The oldest building on campus, Hull House , erected in 1856, has...
...neighborhood, but in 1965 classes opened in modern buildings designed by Walter Netsch. By the time...
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Mapping Chicago, Robert W. Karrow, Jr.(
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) ...time and shows the footprints of individual buildings. The first land-ownership map of Cook County ,...
...insurance atlases, which show the outlines of all buildings, name businesses, and are color coded to...
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