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541 Vacation Spots, Derek Vaillant( Authored Entry )
...spiritual education and fellowship. Soaring population in the 1880s and 1890s increased demand for...
542 West Pullman, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...built in Greater Roseland . West Pullman's population fell during the Great Depression , but it...
543 Young Men's Christian Association, Paula R. Lupkin( Authored Entry )
...college students (1891), and for the general population on the West Side (1887) and in Hyde Park (...
544 Civil War, Theodore J. Karamanski( Authored Entry )
...since the outbreak of the war, and the city's population had nearly tripled as well. The Civil War...
545 Clubs, Fraternal, David M. Fahey( Authored Entry )
...28,000 members. Adapting to a changing population, the Odd Fellows chartered a Spanish-speaking...
546 Airlines, Liesl M. Orenic( Authored Entry )
...Grove Village , experienced tremendous growth in population and in light manufacturing and service...
547 Environmental Regulation, Betsy Mendelsohn( Authored Entry )
...Despite this activity, Chicago's growing population suffered decreasing environmental quality....
548 Housing for the Elderly, N. Sue Weiler( Authored Entry )
...residences serving the Irish-Roman Catholic population: Sacred Heart Home in 1876, St. Augustine's...
549 The Loop, Gerald A. Danzer( Authored Entry )
...of the river. The diverse nature of the population in the center city meant that most of Chicago's...
550 McHenry County, Craig L. Pfannkuche( Authored Entry )
...the scenic Fox River relaxing, the county's population remained stable through the 1930s. World War...
551 Morgan Park, Ellen Skerrett( Authored Entry )
...Between 1930 and 1960, the community's population more than doubled, from 12,747 to 27,912, as new...
552 Norwegians, Odd S. Lovoll( Authored Entry )
...Little Norway,” the third-largest Norwegian population in the world, after Oslo and Bergen. The...
553 Outdoor Concerts, Derek Vaillant( Authored Entry )
...concerts, concerts increasingly catered to the population of Chicago-at-large. In the late 1920s,...
554 Automobile Manufacturing, David M. Young( Authored Entry )
...epizootic diseases which decimated urban horse populations in the late nineteenth century. Several...
555 Puerto Ricans, Gina M. Pérez( Authored Entry )
...Puerto Ricans, 15 percent of Chicago's Latino population and second only to Chicago's Mexicans among...
556 Pullman, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...Pullman residents, largely an African American population, achieved city landmark status for their...
557 Republican Party, Paul Green and Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...attracting enough voters from Chicago's diverse population. When Tribune owner Medill occupied the...
558 Restaurants, Bruce Kraig( Authored Entry )
...city restaurants became magnets for urban populations. Food stands and street vendors fall into the...
559 Calumet River System, Christopher Thale( Authored Entry )
...wastes in increasing amounts as industry and population grew. The currents flowing into the lake...
560 Dance Companies, Carolyn A. Sheehy( Authored Entry )
...reflect the energy of the city's diverse population. Dance companies require two ingredients: well-...

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