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381 Jews, Irving Cutler( Authored Entry )
...shtetlach (small rural villages or towns) and by 1930 they constituted over 80 percent of Chicago's...
382 Children, Dependent, Kenneth Cmiel( Authored Entry )
...simulate a family environment. Between 1910 and 1930, most orphanages moved away from the center of...
...be very offensive. ” City leaders responded by building institutions for dependent children. These...
383 North Central College, Margaret L. Frank( Authored Entry )
...College thus moved northeast to Naperville in 1870. The school struggled financially for several...
384 Garfield Park, Max Grinnell( Authored Entry )
...formally laid out by William Le Baron Jenney in 1870 as an integral part of the city's emerging...
385 Home Rule, Jon C. Teaford( Authored Entry )
...from Springfield. Illinois' constitution of 1870 prohibited special legislation regarding city...
386 Record Publishing, Mark Clague( Authored Entry )
...electric recordings, on its Autograph label. By 1930, most jazz activity had moved to New York....
387 Planning Chicago, Carl Abbott( Authored Entry )
...its ideas—not Michigan Avenue or Riverside. 1930–2000: Picking up the Pieces Since the 1920s, the...
...office towers on the sites of low-rise buildings. They work within the competitive framework of the...
...graded streets, built standardized factory buildings, and leased space for factories and warehouses....
388 Hungarians, Eva Becsei( Authored Entry )
...the end of the nineteenth century. From only 159 in 1870, Chicago's Hungarian population increased...
...and banks in the region. Although community building began with the creation of social clubs and...
389 Racism, Ethnicity, and White Identity, David R. Roediger( Authored Entry )
...of racial exclusion were part and parcel of building increasingly inclusive unities among European...
...and exclusion. The sometimes hidden processes of building an overarching white identity through...
...might have found themselves speaking Gaelic, building parishes , voting, frequenting bars, and...
390 West Englewood, Franklin Forts( Authored Entry )
...to escape urban congestion prompted a slow building boom in an area that became known as West...
...administration, many abandoned homes and vacant buildings were demolished, and repairs were made on...
391 Bowling, Raymond Schmidt( Authored Entry )
...tournament on the lanes in the Welsbach Building on Wabash Avenue in the Loop . Chicago subsequently...
...a bowling alley on the second floor of a building at 2055 W. 35th Street on the South Side . That...
392 Clubs, Women's, Anne Meis Knupfer( Authored Entry )
...the late 1880s, their efforts turned to state-building reform, most notably the improvement of state...
393 Joliet, IL, Robert E. Sterling( Authored Entry )
...Canal was both a consumer of stone in the building of locks, bridges , and aqueducts and, after its...
...barrels have been manufactured in Joliet, as have building materials, oil and chemical products, and...
394 Labor Law, Andrew Wender Cohen( Authored Entry )
...power in city government. In 1897, the powerful Building Trades Council pressured the Chicago Board...
395 Lincoln Square, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...about a mile south of the cemetery inspired the building of the Ravenswood subdivision, an exclusive...
...with bungalows , two-flats, and small apartment buildings; the names of two of the new developments,...
396 Lockport, IL, John Lamb( Authored Entry )
...the Will County Historical Society opened a canal museum in the old I&M Canal headquarters building....
...The Gayload Building, built in 1837 to store canal construction materials, was acquired by the...
397 Parish Life, Eileen M. McMahon( Authored Entry )
...geographically, which laid the groundwork for building a network of churches with their respective...
...Archdiocese responded to this challenge by building the largest parochial school system in the...
398 Lake County, IN, Joseph C. Bigott( Authored Entry )
...and suburban residential opportunities. By 1930, immigrants and their children were a majority of...
...stations, farmers received cheap lumber and building materials, thereby ending the log-cabin era in...
399 Provident Hospital, Paul A. Buelow( Authored Entry )
...its doors in 1987. Cook County bought the building and opened it as a satellite medical facility in...
400 Willis Wagons, Michael W. Homel( Authored Entry )
...units to house students until a new school building opened in late 1963. Personalizing school...

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