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Chicago's Street Railways in 1890, (
Map
) ...Chicago's Street Railways in 1890...
...replaced the complicated cable technology, and Chicago's last cable car ran in 1906. It was this...
...Chicago grew by leaps and bounds and by 1890 was a sprawling metropolis, its residents held together...
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| 482 |
Chicago's Railroad Pattern in 1950, (
Map
) ...Chicago's Railroad Pattern in 1950...
...Chicago in 1950 was at the height of its power as the railroad center of the United States....
...independent railroad companies, fanned out from Chicago in all landward directions, connecting with...
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Chicago's Retail Centers in 2000, (
Map
) ...Chicago's Retail Centers in 2000...
...By century's end, shopping in metropolitan Chicago had been revolutionized. First, shopping plazas...
...foot traffic remained strong, and downtown Chicago retail businesses faced severe competition from...
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The Chicago Area Before Human Transformation, (
Map
) ...The Chicago Area Before Human Transformation...
...region destined to be covered by metropolitan Chicago took natural form following the retreat of the...
...at the ice sheet's margins, formed glacial Lake Chicago and drained southwestward, scouring what is...
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Chicago Housing Authority Family Projects, (
Map
) ...Chicago Housing Authority Family Projects...
...The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) was established in 1937 to provide housing for poor and low-...
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| 486 |
Illinois Central Railroad Links to Chicago, (
Map
) ...Illinois Central Railroad Links to Chicago...
...South generally followed water and rail routes. Chicago's popularity as a destination rested in part...
...Other railroad lines also offered access to Chicago from these and other parts of the South. Until...
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| 487 |
Ancient Indian Earthworks in the Chicago Region, (
Map
) ...Ancient Indian Earthworks in the Chicago Region...
...distribution of Indian earthworks in the Chicago region dating from ancient times. Many sites are...
...longer survive, such as the mound that was once near the 79th Street beach on Chicago's South Side....
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Chicago's Non-Judeo-Christian Congregations in 2002, (
Map
) ...Chicago's Non-Judeo-Christian Congregations in 2002...
...most significant development in metropolitan Chicago's religious landscape has been the appearance...
...two dimensions: strong concentrations on Chicago's North Side, which represents the latest "port of...
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Women's Garment Factories in Chicago in 1925, (
Map
) ...Women's Garment Factories in Chicago in 1925...
...Chicago once had a thriving women's garment manufacturing industry. In 1925, during its heyday, it...
...downtown and around Milwaukee Avenue between Chicago and North Avenues. The industry declined with...
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Railroads and Chicago's Loop, circa 1930, (
Map
) ...Railroads and Chicago's Loop, circa 1930...
...pivot between the East and the great West, Chicago developed an extraordinary concentration of...
...flank where Grant Park (white) was laid out between the Illinois Central tracks and Chicago Harbor....
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Railroad Commuting to Chicago in 1934, (
Map
) ...Railroad Commuting to Chicago in 1934...
...with daily trains from Hyde Park in 1856, Chicago's railroads developed a complex octopus-like...
...from suburbs within a one-hour ride of Chicago's Loop, as reflected in the number of daily trains on...
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Indian Settlement Pattern in the Chicago Region, circa 1830, (
Map
) ...Indian Settlement Pattern in the Chicago Region, circa 1830...
...As Euro-Americans penetrated the Chicago region in the 1820s, they encountered a widespread network...
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Southern Distribution of the Chicago Defender, 1919, (
Map
) ...Southern Distribution of the Chicago Defender, 1919...
...Southerners to northern cities. "I bought a Chicago Defender and after reading it and seeing the...
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| 494 |
Chicago's Deep Tunnel System in 2003, (
Map
) ...Chicago's Deep Tunnel System in 2003...
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Development of Railroad Lines from Chicago, (
Table
) ...Development of Railroad Lines from Chicago...
...The Soo Line connected upper-Midwest farmers first with Canada then with Chicago after 1909 lease of...
...Wisconsin Central line into Chicago built in 1886. Wabash Wabash Railroad (1877) St. Louis —...
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| 496 |
Classical Music, Mark Clague and J. Kimo Williams(
Authored Entry
) ...The development of classical music in Chicago has followed the growth of the city, including its...
...and competitive needs, classical music has secured a place in Chicago's multifaceted cultural life....
...C. Deagan & Co. as well as Ludwig, active in Chicago from 1909 to 1930. Piano makers have included...
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Transportation, H. Roger Grant(
Authored Entry
) ...in intracity transport. By 1945 the city's private transit companies, the Chicago Surface Lines...
...and the Chicago Rapid Transit Company, could no longer economically survive....
...They were replaced in 1947 by the Chicago Transit Authority , a state-chartered organization, which...
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| 498 |
The Chicago Area's Iron and Steel Industry, (
Map
) ...The Chicago Area's Iron and Steel Industry...
...scattered along the region's railways. By 2000 most steel making in the City of Chicago had ceased....
...Chicago's earliest metal-working industries were small in scale, and located near the Chicago River...
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| 499 |
Churches of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in the Chicago Area, (
Map
) ...Churches of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in the Chicago Area...
...in the region were located in the city of Chicago or in outlying satellite cities and the larger...
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| 500 |
Chicago's Residential Patterns According to Census Racial Categories in 2000, (
Map
) ...Chicago's Residential Patterns According to Census Racial Categories in 2000...
...can be seen east of Midway Airport and in the northern neighborhoods of Chicago south of Evanston....
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