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531 Belmont Cragin, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...area more than quadrupled in the next decade. By 1930 the population escalated to 60,221, one-third...
532 Muslims, Paul D. Numrich( Authored Entry )
...Nation of Islam originated in Detroit in 1930 but soon shifted its locus to Chicago's Temple No. 2...
533 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...
534 Choral Music, Mark Clague( Authored Entry )
...and choirs such as the Chicago Defender 's 1930 Massed Chorus or the Chicago Housing Authority 's...
535 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...
536 South Holland, IL, Jonathan J. Keyes( Authored Entry )
...zoning restrictions that disallow apartment buildings and condominiums have all helped to shape and...
537 Industrial Pollution, Andrew Hurley( Authored Entry )
...host communities to contend with abandoned toxic waste dumps and vacant contaminated buildings....
538 Lansing, IL, Dave Bartlett( Authored Entry )
...In the postwar period Lansing experienced a building boom, as large numbers of white ethnics moved...
539 Oak Lawn, IL, Betsy Gurlacz( Authored Entry )
...killed 37 people and damaged or destroyed 900 buildings. In 1970, Oak Lawn became a home rule unit,...
540 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...
541 Postcards, Katherine Hamilton-Smith( Authored Entry )
...with artistic conceptions of the fair buildings. Since then, postcards have been unceasingly used as...
542 Bahā'ī, Douglas Knox( Authored Entry )
...in Chicago before 1910. After 1903 the project of building a major temple in Chicago served as the...
543 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Steven M. Avella( Authored Entry )
...all these Catholic groups and allowed the building of numerous churches, schools, and social welfare...
...and provide for the creation of a native clergy by building two magnificent seminaries , Quigley on...
544 Roosevelt University, Lynn Y. Weiner( Authored Entry )
...purchased the deteriorating Auditorium Building on Michigan and Congress Avenues, and faculty spent...
545 Shoreline Erosion, Karen M. Rodriguez( Authored Entry )
...storms changed the shoreline, either by building up or eroding sand. Today, step-stone and rubble...
546 Smart Museum, Ronne Hartfield( Authored Entry )
...by Chicago architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, the building and sculpture garden provide approximately...
547 Lorado Taft and Chicago Sculpture, Timothy J. Garvey( Authored Entry )
...for William Le Baron Jenney's Horticultural Building (1893) at the World's Columbian Exposition . He...
548 Lake Forest College, Sarah Fenton( Authored Entry )
...to four boys in 1858, in the town's first building. The school's growth (including the addition of...
549 Preston Bradley, Martin E. Marty( Authored Entry )
...the Cultural Center in the historic library building perpetuates his memory and name. His Peoples...
550 Chicago Conspiracy Trial, John Schultz( Authored Entry )
...and Bobby Seale went on trial in the Federal Building at Jackson and Dearborn, charged with crossing...

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