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281 Political Culture, Robin Einhorn( Authored Entry )
...a certain amount of political corruption, in the nineteenth century and most of the twentieth. There...
...district ) and Johnny Powers of the West Side Nineteenth (Powers is most often remembered today as...
282 Progressive Education, Arthur Zilversmit( Authored Entry )
...Late-nineteenth-century Chicago, home of a new university and one of the first settlement houses ,...
283 Rogers Park, Patricia Mooney-Melvin( Authored Entry )
...to downtown Chicago. By the end of the nineteenth century large houses on sizable lots clustered...
284 Baseball, Raymond Schmidt( Authored Entry )
...baseball. The Chicago City League reached its nineteenth-century peak in popularity in 1890, but the...
285 Shipbuilding, Theodore J. Karamanski( Authored Entry )
...by the grain and iron ore trade in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chicago River...
286 Uptown, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...N of the Loop. Only sparsely settled in the nineteenth century, Uptown has become one of the densest...
287 Vacation Spots, Derek Vaillant( Authored Entry )
...to make the vacation widely attainable. Nineteenth-century vacations demanded large resources of...
288 Washington Park, Wallace Best( Authored Entry )
...Washington Park during the latter part of the nineteenth century. By 1887 cable cars reached 63rd on...
289 West Lawn, Douglas Knox( Authored Entry )
...of 67th and Central Park in the late nineteenth century, but both projects were soon abandoned,...
290 Will County, Sarah S. Marcus( Authored Entry )
...of settlement, commerce, and industry. In the mid-nineteenth century, mining augmented the county's...
291 Bicycling, Allyson Hobbs( Authored Entry )
...boom reached its peak at the end of the nineteenth century. The first bicycles, known as velocipedes...
292 Young Men's Christian Association, Paula R. Lupkin( Authored Entry )
...V. Farwell, Jr. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the organization grew in size and...
293 Zoning, Joseph P. Schwieterman and Dana Caspall( Authored Entry )
...on land use in Chicago began during the mid-nineteenth century in response to concerns over public...
294 Railroad Stations, Max Grinnell( Authored Entry )
...built in Chicago during the mid to late nineteenth century were somewhat more elaborate. The Central...
295 Civil War, Theodore J. Karamanski( Authored Entry )
...was a crucial event in the development of nineteenth-century Chicago. The war came at a time when...
296 Climate, Wayne M. Wendland( Authored Entry )
...five inches from the second half of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth, with...
297 Community Service Organizations, Jeffrey Charles( Authored Entry )
...upper classes to serve the poor. The late nineteenth century saw more generalized service efforts,...
298 Albany Park, Timothy B. Neary( Authored Entry )
...River and the Rusk Race Track, where late-nineteenth-century Chicagoans often took day excursions to...
299 Environmentalism, David Stradling( Authored Entry )
...it has roots in much earlier efforts, including nineteenth-century conservation and antipollution...
300 French and French Canadians, Charles J. Balesi( Authored Entry )
...French culture. During the second part of the nineteenth century, French Canadians migrating in the...

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