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Skokie's Border with Chicago, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...Skokie's Border with Chicago...
...Although Chicago's size and population make it the central city of the metropolitan region, it has...
...of all annexations. In 1954, for example, Chicago annexed land from the village of Skokie , but it...
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Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Diana Haskell(
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) ...Joffrey Ballet of Chicago...
...The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, which gave its premiere performance in 1954...
...the Robert Joffrey Ballet Concert, relocated to Chicago in 1995. An outgrowth of the American Ballet...
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Dwight L. Moody: Heaven and Chicago, (
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) ...Dwight L. Moody: Heaven and Chicago...
...rise. There is not a man here, not one in Chicago, who has not some hope of reaching Heaven. Now, if...
...all about it. I call your attention to this truth that Heaven is just as much a place as Chicago....
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Fermilab's Accelerator Ring: Metropolitan Chicago's Largest Circle, (
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) ...Fermilab's Accelerator Ring: Metropolitan Chicago's Largest Circle...
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North Chicago, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...North Chicago, IL...
...of the Loop. Incorporated as a village in 1895, North Chicago was called South Waukegan until 1901....
...Proximity to Lake Michigan and to Chicago made the area ideal for manufacturing. The fact that it...
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West Chicago, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...West Chicago, IL...
...Institute in 1853, Wheaton Academy moved to West Chicago in 1944, where it remains the oldest high...
...for community purposes. In the 1980s, West Chicago became known as the fastest-growing industrial...
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South Chicago Heights, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...South Chicago Heights, IL...
...the Hubbard's Trail, from Vincennes, Indiana, to Chicago. In 1833, Adam and Phoebe Brown, from Ohio,...
...roads, with Hubbard's Trail now better known as Chicago Road. In 1906, the Browns sold their inn to...
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Chicago Public Library, Cathleen D. Cahill(
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) ...Chicago Public Library...
...According to legend, the Chicago Public Library began with the donation of books by British citizens...
...from service to uplift. This corresponded with Chicago's larger cultural renaissance, which included...
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Social Gospel in Chicago, Martin E. Marty(
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) ...Social Gospel in Chicago...
...Jane Addams at Hull House in addition to Chicago Commons. In many of the suburban congregations,...
...reform and spread justice in the United States. Chicago was host to many Social Gospel expressions,...
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Commercial Club of Chicago, Susan Marie Wirka(
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) ...Commercial Club of Chicago...
...ambitious program of regional planning with the publication of its report Chicago Metropolis 2020:...
...Preparing Metropolitan Chicago for the 21st Century....
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Chicago Title and Trust, Ross Miller(
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) ...Chicago Title and Trust...
...company had a discreet and nearly invisible role in the planning and development of modern Chicago....
...The Chicago Title and Trust Company was born of disaster and grew from unrivaled opportunity. The...
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Chicago Academy of Sciences, Paul Heltne(
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) ...Chicago Academy of Sciences...
...Foundation. The academy was also home to the Chicago Peregrine Release and Restoration Project,...
...Founded in 1857 and chartered in 1865, the Chicago Academy of Sciences was guided in its early years...
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City Club of Chicago, Susan Marie Wirka(
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) ...City Club of Chicago...
...Founded in 1903, the City Club of Chicago was established as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization...
...and improve urban conditions and affairs in Chicago. Like most Progressive-era urban reform...
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East Chicago, IN, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...East Chicago, IN...
...Lake County, 19 miles SE of the Loop. East Chicago became a leading industrial center by...
...than 12 square miles. The Potawatomi hunted East Chicago's white pine and oak forests and fished its...
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Lloyd Lewis: A Chicago Journalist, Richard H. Brown(
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) ...Lloyd Lewis: A Chicago Journalist...
...Wright, Sinclair Lewis, and Adlai Stevenson. Chicago's Newberry Library was his second home; drawing...
...world of arts and letters that flourished in Chicago following World War I. After 12 years as...
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Ruth Page: A Chicago Dance Institution, Ann Barzel(
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) ...Ruth Page: A Chicago Dance Institution...
...and directing the ballet ensemble for the Chicago Opera Company (from 1934 to 1945, with several...
...From 1954 to 1969 she directed the ballet for Chicago Lyric Opera and toured America in the company...
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Mary McDowell and Chicago Settlement Houses, Louise Carroll Wade(
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) ...Mary McDowell and Chicago Settlement Houses...
...Women's Trade Union League and an officer of the Chicago League, and was one of the initiators of...
...the City Waste Commission, she helped force Chicago to modernize its waste collection and disposal...
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Martin Luther King, Jr., in Chicago, James Ralph(
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) ...Martin Luther King, Jr. , in Chicago...
...to produce results, settled on a focus for the Chicago movement. King himself participated in two...
...accord would be an important step toward making Chicago an open city, but black militants denounced...
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Lorado Taft and Chicago Sculpture, Timothy J. Garvey(
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) ...Lorado Taft and Chicago Sculpture...
...field. Taft was also an integral part of the Chicago cultural community that included such figures...
...the Central Arts Association of America, the Chicago Society of Artists, the Little Room Studio...
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George A. Poole, a Chicago Collector, Paul Saenger(
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) ...George A. Poole, a Chicago Collector...
...George A. Poole III, born in Chicago in 1907, attended...
...the University of Chicago and graduated from Yale in 1930. He directed Poole Brothers, one of...
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