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Gays and Lesbians, Chad Heap(
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) ...as a contest for cross-dressed patrons. In 1930, Variety estimated that there were 35 such venues on...
...drag (transvestite) balls on the South Side. Building on the success of the interracial drag balls...
...community activists and organizations each year. Building on the passage of Chicago's Human Rights...
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Commodities Markets, Owen K. Gregory(
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) ...was profitable. The Illinois Constitution of 1870 placed railroads and elevators under the control...
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Court System, R. Ben Brown(
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) ...system elaborated in the Illinois Constitution of 1870 made little provision for specialized courts,...
...copied in cities around the United States. The 1870 constitution also established for Cook County a...
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South Shore, Wallace Best(
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) ...its residents and in housing stock. Between 1920 and 1930 the population of South Shore jumped from...
...Jackson Park prompted the sale of land and building lots and subsequently housing explosion. White...
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Water Supply, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...be diverted into the Sanitary and Ship Canal (1930) and the water supply for Illinois communities (...
...had access to a single tap within the building in which they were living because of municipal...
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Jefferson Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...larger numbers of Germans, Poles, and Italians. By 1930 the population stood at 20,532. As the...
...that the town consisted of approximately 50 buildings. When the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac...
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Armour Square, David M. Solzman(
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) ...southern section, numbering about 4,000 by 1930. This figure remained stable through the Great...
...Chinese businessmen to secure 10-year leases on buildings in the new area. Chinatown became a major...
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Ravenswood, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...speculators hedged their real-estate gamble by building the Sunnyside Hotel adjacent to the village...
...whose small houses, two-flats, and apartment buildings filled in the gap between Chicago and its...
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Set Design, Robert R. Boyle(
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) ...1871 , which destroyed nearly every theater building in town, to the Iroquois Theatre fire in 1903,...
...the professional Goodman Theatre before its new building was completed in 2000). In its early days,...
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Villa District, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...vacant Villa property in 1913, subsequent building followed the same patterns. The Villa Improvement...
...1923 the league enhanced the Villa District by building six-foot-tall rock structures crowned with...
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Flags and Symbols, Christopher Thale(
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) ...flower. Aside from notifying viewers that a building, territory, vehicle, or letter is “official,”...
...the Nation,” Chicago Heights' official seal shows buildings and fields at a crossroads. A house and...
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International Amphitheater, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...Stock Yard and Transit Company. Its original building stood at 42nd and Halsted Streets, on the east...
...to maintain. Built for $1.5 million, the building sold in 1983 to a real-estate investor for $...
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Newberry Library, Martha T. Briggs and Cynthia H. Peters(
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) ...a facility to house them. The present building, designed by Poole and architect Henry Ives Cobb,...
...library's holdings and encourage their use. Building on Pargellis's foundation, librarian Lawrence...
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Old Mill Creek, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo(
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) ...comparatively undeveloped. Most of the buildings in the almost 8,000-acre area were clustered in the...
...on the National Register of Historic Places. The buildings in the district date from the mid to late...
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Polka, Philip V. Bohlman(
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) ...for publishing and recording ethnic music and for building large dance halls (e.g. , the Trianon and...
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Special Districts, Donald F. Stetzer(
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) ...tool. The Illinois Constitution that was in effect from 1870 to 1970 narrowly limited the debt that...
...approximately 50 such districts in Cook County by 1930, and 100 by 1990. In the six-county region...
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Streeterville, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...of Chicago's most expensive land and famous buildings, including the John Hancock Center and Water...
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Fenianism, Randall M. Miller(
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) ...interest. Abortive raids on Canada in 1866 and 1870 dimmed Fenianism's star. Fenianism lingered into...
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Ukrainian Village, Wallace Best(
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) ...other ethnic groups in the neighborhood. By 1930 estimates placed the Chicago Ukrainian population...
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Andrew "Rube" Foster: A Baseball Legend, Steven A. Riess(
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) ...insane asylum. His beloved league collapsed in 1930, partly due to the Great Depression , but mainly...
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