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Banking, Commercial, Larry E. Schweikart(
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) ...and did not mature fast enough to keep the large Chicago banks independent of outside interests....
...Chicago's economic growth reached the point that it needed banking institutions just at the time...
...State Bank, created in 1835 with a branch in Chicago, also failed. Most Chicago banks failed during,...
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Dance Companies, Carolyn A. Sheehy(
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) ...dance companies, such as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, have a strong history of cooperation between...
...From Akasha to XSIGHT! , Chicago has a rich dance history, comprising a variety of different types...
...of dance companies. The 1900 edition of the Chicago Business Directory listed 35 “Dancing Academies”...
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Artists, Education and Culture of, George H. Roeder, Jr.(
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) ...community” for nurturing his own work, and many Chicago artists thrived on their interactions with...
...be set aside to purchase art for the site. Various gigantic exhibitions such as Art Chicago...
...and Chicago International Art Exposition have given Chicago artists additional exposure and made art...
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Iron and Steel, David Bensman and Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...longer the powerhouse that had been a crucial part of the Chicago-area economy for over a century....
...among the largest economic enterprises in the Chicago region since before the Civil War . During the...
...suffered a sudden decline in the 1970s did Chicago-area mills begin to shut down and lay off...
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Politics, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...Party suggest that patronage politics is enough of a way of life in Chicago that it will never die....
...Chicago politics is a national cliché, evoking images of a one-party system, dominated by a boss-...
...belong the spoils,” explained Powers. Chicago women entered the fray upon obtaining municipal...
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County Boundaries in the Chicago Area, (
Map
) ...County Boundaries in the Chicago Area...
...organize county government for what became the Chicago metropolitan region. In December 1778, based...
...authorities that were given jurisdiction over the Chicago area were Indiana Territory (1800) and...
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Universities and Their Cities, Steven J. Diner and Harold S. Wechsler(
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) ...their neighborhoods. Constructing the Chicago Circle campus meant destroying ethnic neighborhoods...
...satellites but retained a basic commitment to Chicago. By the end of the twentieth century, over 30...
...1867 left the work of college founding in Chicago to religious denominations and to local boosters...
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Choral Music, Mark Clague(
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) ...1982 over 25 nationalities were represented by Chicago's ethnic choirs, including the Lira Singers (...
...Amerikanischer Kinderchor—continue to thrive. Chicago's volunteer men's choruses, the Windy City Gay...
...directed by Jay Giallombardo), and the Chicago Gay Men's Chorus (1983–), have also experienced an...
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Real Estate, Pierre deVise(
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) ...the first time in almost half a century, Chicago's population increased. The suburban real-estate...
...closely connected to the development of the Chicago metropolitan region and the daily lives of its...
...contours of the entire metropolitan area. Chicago's real-estate activities divide into several...
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Film, J. A. Lindstrom(
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) ...Argyle, ca. 1910. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3629 Filming...
...Western and Irving Park, 1914. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...From the beginning, the film industry in Chicago had many supporters. The inaugural June 1907 issue...
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African Americans, Christopher Manning(
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) ...the 1780s, blacks have had a long history in Chicago. Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the...
...efforts within the city until his death in 1879. Chicago's white abolitionists were also active, but...
...of black southerners made their way to Chicago, pushing the city's African American population from...
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Protestants, Martin E. Marty(
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) ...and educational agencies, an expression—at least in Chicago—of anti-Catholicism, or a gathering of...
...well poised to establish themselves at and after the birth of Chicago in 1833. The Episcopalians...
...established church in the southern colonies, but Chicago benefited from the westward migration of...
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Broadcasting, Rich Samuels(
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) ...profitable. Popular music dominated the dial. But Chicago's audience still supported two fine-arts...
...stations, WFMT and WNIB. Paul Harvey remained Chicago's lone network radio personality. His daily...
...dishes supplanted the network lines that once made Chicago a broadcasting hub, tens of millions of...
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Shipbuilding, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...to be an important activity not only in Chicago but on Lake Michigan. i3041 U.S. Navy minesweeper...
...on the west bank of the North Branch of the Chicago River, June 1952. Photographer: Louis F....
...Zimmerman. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Baseball, Raymond Schmidt(
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) ...its first annual state baseball tournament in 1940. Cicero Morton in 1943 and Chicago Lane Tech in...
...1945 were the first Chicago-area schools to win the state championship. The American Legion...
...II , Little League baseball spread throughout Chicago and its suburbs, bringing thousands of boys—...
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Poetry, David Starkey and Bill Savage(
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) ...has also generated a number of publishers which, along with Poetry and Chicago's academic poets...
...and presses, perpetuate Chicago's role as a center of the writing, teaching, and publishing of...
...Chicago's long tradition as a center of poetic culture has two key aspects: Chicago has been a...
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Irish, Ellen Skerrett(
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) ...From a few hundred residents in the 1830s, Chicago emerged as the fourth largest Irish city in...
...in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, however, Chicago's Irish grew up with their city and exerted...
...stockyards, and steel mills—contributed to Chicago's phenomenal growth from frontier town to urban...
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Prohibition and Temperance, Rachel E. Bohlmann(
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) ...In September 1997 and again in February 1998 the Chicago City Council passed ordinances to ban...
...area precincts banned alcohol sales. As a whole, Chicago has become drier: in 1998 a total of 468 of...
...of temperance ideas first appeared in Chicago in 1833 with the Chicago Temperance Society, a branch...
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Construction, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...most remarkable aspects of the history of the Chicago region has been the rapid development of the...
...by human settlements. Only a few decades later, Chicago stood as a thoroughly constructed place, in...
...of government. Virtually every piece of Chicago's modern landscape stands as a testament to decades...
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Basketball, Robert Pruter(
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) ...through a network of YMCA s. By February of 1893, teams at Chicago-area Ys had formed into a league....
...Collegiate basketball also came to Chicago from Springfield College in the person...
...of Amos Alonzo Stagg, the University of Chicago 's new faculty coach, who had played on the...
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