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251 Riverine Systems, Daniel Schneider and Glenn Sandiford( Authored Entry )
...pollution and flooding. By the end of the nineteenth century, the Chicago-area waterways were open...
252 Sunday Closings, Rachel E. Bohlmann( Authored Entry )
...had moral overtones for many Americans during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: alcohol...
253 Syrians, Sarah Gualtieri( Authored Entry )
...Americas in large numbers at the close of the nineteenth century. Included in this first wave was a...
254 Theater Buildings, Scott Fosdick( Authored Entry )
...terms of repertory. Time and again in the mid-nineteenth century, theaters were built, burned down,...
255 Theater Training, Andrea Telli( Authored Entry )
...Theatrical companies in nineteenth-century Chicago generally were run by actor-managers dedicated to...
256 Trade Publications, Kathleen L. Endres( Authored Entry )
...of Chicago trade publishing in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. G. D. Crain, Jr. , who...
257 West Ridge, Patricia Mooney-Melvin( Authored Entry )
...Ridge and Devon Avenues. During most of the nineteenth century West Ridge remained relatively rural....
258 Bowling, Raymond Schmidt( Authored Entry )
...bowling alleys, and for the balance of the nineteenth century the popularity of the game and the...
259 Bridges, Dennis McClendon( Authored Entry )
...Nineteenth-century Chicago's geography presented unusual requirements. A narrow river, with low...
260 Almshouses, (Margaret) Dorsey Phelps( Authored Entry )
...to its most destitute residents, and in the nineteenth century each county in the Chicago region...
261 Consumer Credit, Lendol Calder( Authored Entry )
...as old as the city itself. Wages for late-nineteenth-century workers were so low that the slightest...
262 Canadians, Emily Brunner( Authored Entry )
...opportunities in towns and cities. For much of the nineteenth century, travel between Canada and the...
263 Chicago River, Charles Nilon( Authored Entry )
...the lumber and meatpacking industries during the nineteenth century. Access through the Illinois &...
264 Conservatories, Julia Sniderman Bachrach( Authored Entry )
...the ill effects of industrialization, many nineteenth-century city dwellers became fascinated with...
265 Family Planning, Rose Holz( Authored Entry )
...as well as condoms, douches, and pessaries, nineteenth-century Americans dramatically reduced their...
266 Galleries, Lynne Warren( Authored Entry )
...industrialist-philanthropists in the late nineteenth century; Hull House , with its emphasis on...
267 Gardening, Ellen Eslinger( Authored Entry )
...Fashionable imports, such as dahlias, a nineteenth-century favorite, required special care. John H....
268 Garfield Ridge, Jonathan J. Keyes( Authored Entry )
...development of the soggy prairies came in the nineteenth century. Industrial development, first...
269 Great Migration, James Grossman( Authored Entry )
...they were 33 percent. What had been in the nineteenth century a largely southern and rural African...
270 Horse Racing, Steven A. Riess( Authored Entry )
...Boundless, was the second-richest race in nineteenth-century America. Racing in turn-of-the-century...

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