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Libraries, Suburban, Sarah Ann Long(
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) ...surrounding major cities began opening public libraries as early as the mid-nineteenth century....
...In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women's clubs , churches, the YMCA , and other...
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Literary Cultures, Timothy B. Spears(
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) ...raw social climate belonged especially to the nineteenth century and paralleled the establishment of...
...expression not in literary societies, but in nineteenth-century newspapers . Beginning in the 1870s...
...Lee Masters and Clarence Darrow. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Chicago had been home to a robust...
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Rockdale, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Slovenian and Lithuanian immigrants in the nineteenth century, Rockdale now includes a significant...
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Virgil, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Kane County, 47 miles W of the Loop. Nineteenth-century settlers traveled the Oregon and St. Charles...
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Little Italy, Max Grinnell(
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) ...near Jane Addams's Hull House in the late nineteenth century. Upon their arrival in the area,...
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Mayors, Melvin G. Holli(
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) ...and economic titans who ran the office in the nineteenth century. i3634 Campaign ad for mayoral...
...Mayors began to resemble the voters more than had been the case in the nineteenth century....
...Whereas in the nineteenth century politics had often been a civic avocation, after the Great Fire it...
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Medical Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals, Beatrix Hoffman(
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) ...and Surgical Manufacturing For most of the nineteenth century, American physicians designed their...
...part of Chicago's economy by the end of the nineteenth century. One of the nation's largest drug...
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Porter, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...of brickyards were active in the late nineteenth century. By the end of the twentieth century, some...
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Italians, Rudolph J. Vecoli(
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) ...L'Unione Italiana (1867–69). In the late nineteenth century, mass migration from Italy accelerated....
...by Irish bosses such as Johnny Powers of the Nineteenth Ward, Italians initially traded their votes...
...Italian was well established by the late nineteenth century. Numerous crimes attributed to the Mafia...
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Richton Park, IL, Ian McGiver(
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) ...depot village that was platted on the mid-nineteenth-century prairie. The Sauk Trail is a commercial...
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Snow Removal, Joel Mendes(
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) ...infrastructure throughout the year. Until the late nineteenth century there was little concern for...
...Rapid growth toward the close of the nineteenth century brought expanded municipal responsibilities,...
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South Chicago Heights, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...Corner remained well known. By the end of the nineteenth century, the trails were wagon and coach...
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Zion, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...many American cities in the last part of the nineteenth century, Dowie desired that Zion City be...
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Community Areas, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...In the nineteenth century, the United States Bureau of the Census used the ward system to break down...
...great wave of annexations at the end of the nineteenth century, O'Hare (CA 76) was the only addition...
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La Grange, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...13 miles W of the Loop. Throughout the mid-nineteenth century, the expansion of the rail system...
...real-estate developers. By the end of the nineteenth century, when the suburban electric railway...
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Métis, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy(
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) ...especially during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Fur traders from Europe, Canada,...
...traders, guides, and so forth. By the early nineteenth century, many of these mixed fur trade...
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Demography, Walter Nugent(
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) ...times in a few decades was not rare in the nineteenth century: Detroit expanded 13 times over, from...
...high birth rate. The national rate in the mid-nineteenth century hovered around 50 (live births per...
...States grew enormously fast. But Chicago's nineteenth-century fertility rates will never be known...
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Underground Economy, Christopher Thale(
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) ...temperance society was founded in 1833. Nineteenth-century Chicago also attracted disproportionate...
...prostitution made no headway. By the late nineteenth century, the illegal sector of the underground...
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Grocery Stores and Supermarkets, Paul Gilmore(
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) ...first municipal structure, the Market Building. Mid-nineteenth-century wholesale and retail grocers...
...growth of the city in the second half of the nineteenth century meant that city markets became less...
...in the surrounding neighborhoods. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were the age of...
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Creation of Chicago Sports, Elliott J. Gorn(
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) ...here. During the final decades of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the twentieth, a...
...sport throughout America for most of the nineteenth century, and occasional furtive bouts held in or...
...Clean sports, reformers argued in the late nineteenth century, taught lessons in teamwork and self-...
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