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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...
41 Gray Wolves, Maureen A. Flanagan( Authored Entry )
...Dink” Mike Kenna, and Johnny Powers of the Nineteenth Ward. These elected officials were not only...
...operated successfully because in the late nineteenth century the city council awarded franchises to...
42 Church Architecture, George A. Lane, S.J.( Authored Entry )
...churches departed somewhat from their nineteenth-century antecedents. Several churches designed by...
...Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Many nineteenth-century churches were built of limestone....
...American congregation in the city. In the nineteenth-century, in the wake of political upheavals in...
43 Foodways, Tracy N. Poe( Authored Entry )
...very existence was generated in the mid-nineteenth century by the exchange of commodities between...
...immigrants, and American businessmen flowed into nineteenth-century Chicago, the city's taste for...
...like Morton's and Gene & Georgetti to continue the nineteenth-century culinary tradition of abundant...
44 Birthing Practices, Lynne Curry( Authored Entry )
...became life-threatening. At the turn of the nineteenth century, concerns for the well-being of the...
45 Illinois, Raymond E. Hauser( Authored Entry )
...Baptiste Ducoigne, a late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Kaskaskia Illinois chief who was...
46 Entertaining Chicagoans, Lewis A. Erenberg( Authored Entry )
...Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Chicago's nineteenth-century theatrical life exemplifies the...
...for it dramatized the official values of late-nineteenth-century Chicago by emphasizing that self-...
...minstrelsy, the most popular male form of nineteenth-century amusement, showed a gradual evolution...
47 Epidemics, Walter Nugent( Authored Entry )
...During the nineteenth century, Chicago suffered fearsome though sporadic epidemics of disease....
...and European cities in the middle of the nineteenth century, and Chicago did not escape. The threat...
...under five died in Chicago. But the close of the nineteenth century brought control of disease, in a...
48 Literary Careers, Timothy B. Spears( Authored Entry )
...In nineteenth-century Chicago, rapid urbanization created a wealth of professional writing...
...Taylor, both active participants in the late-nineteenth-century literary scene, benefited from...
...Anderson's Little Review. As they had in the nineteenth century, writers still supported literary...
49 Architecture, Ann Durkin Keating( Authored Entry )
...vision and daring. The closing decades of the nineteenth century saw the emergence of a group known...
50 La Grange Park, IL, Sarah S. Marcus( Authored Entry )
...Cook County, 13 miles W of the Loop. In the late nineteenth century, residents of the Park—a small...
...Unlike many suburban developers in the late nineteenth century, the founding residents of La Grange...

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