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Cubs, Steven A. Riess(
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) ...known as the White Stockings, was organized in 1870 to advertise the city. The squad joined the new...
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Civil Rights Movements, James Ralph(
Authored Entry
) ...Black Chicagoans resented these restrictions. In 1870 they gained the right to vote, in 1874 they...
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Domestic Work and Workers, Daniel A. Graff(
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) ...cooking, cleaning, and childcare chores. By 1870, one in five Chicago households employed domestic...
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| 524 |
Waste Disposal, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...also eliminated standing water. Many Chicago buildings and streets now rest on as much as a dozen...
...incinerators in schools, hospitals , apartment buildings, and single-family residences began to shut...
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| 525 |
Wholesaling, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...when the company moved into a new 11-story building at the foot of State Street Bridge , it was one...
...center—that became the world's largest building when it was completed in 1931. But despite these...
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Grocery Stores and Supermarkets, Paul Gilmore(
Authored Entry
) ...city's first municipal structure, the Market Building. Mid-nineteenth-century wholesale and retail...
...Rising real-estate prices and the restrictive building codes in the city center following the...
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Creating the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...particular project. His firm had designed the buildings in which many of their set lived and worked,...
...as well as railway terminals. Railway Exchange Building The planners devoted their first and several...
...on the fourteenth floor of the Railway Exchange Building. He put a small team of draftsmen to work...
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Built Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...environment consisted of small, mostly wood building. Even facilities associated with the area's...
...in the region. By the 1850s and 1860s, some buildings incorporated more elaborate architectural...
...to remain forever Open, Clear, & free of any buildings, or other Obstructions Whatever." During the...
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Rapid Transit System, Ronald Dale Karr(
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) ...and near-suburban neighborhoods between 1892 and 1930. Similar construction and equipment standards...
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Trade Publications, Kathleen L. Endres(
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) ...tabloids that he launched, started in Chicago in 1930 but has since moved to New York City. Many of...
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Belmont Cragin, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...area more than quadrupled in the next decade. By 1930 the population escalated to 60,221, one-third...
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Muslims, Paul D. Numrich(
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) ...Nation of Islam originated in Detroit in 1930 but soon shifted its locus to Chicago's Temple No. 2...
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Contested Spaces, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...census. Beginning with the redistricting following the 1870 census, Illinois turned to a policy of...
...in which to live. With its attractive brick buildings and numerous amenities, Pullman seemed an...
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Choral Music, Mark Clague(
Authored Entry
) ...and choirs such as the Chicago Defender 's 1930 Massed Chorus or the Chicago Housing Authority 's...
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Relief and Subsistence Aid, Scott Lien(
Authored Entry
) ...of the poor. Initially, in the years between 1870 and 1890, this new method of charity was based on...
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South Holland, IL, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...zoning restrictions that disallow apartment buildings and condominiums have all helped to shape and...
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Industrial Pollution, Andrew Hurley(
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) ...host communities to contend with abandoned toxic waste dumps and vacant contaminated buildings....
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Lansing, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...In the postwar period Lansing experienced a building boom, as large numbers of white ethnics moved...
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Oak Lawn, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...killed 37 people and damaged or destroyed 900 buildings. In 1970, Oak Lawn became a home rule unit,...
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Social Services, Joanne L. Goodwin(
Authored Entry
) ...Charities of Chicago. Between the 1890s and 1930, new ideas about the cause of poverty changed the...
...the crisis by employing the unemployed on building projects. This infusion of federal funds staved...
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