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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-...
561 Government, Suburban, Jon C. Teaford( Authored Entry )
...the responsibility for governing the vast population beyond Chicago's limits. This proliferation of...
562 Great Depression, Tracey Deutsch( Authored Entry )
...a fully solvent city government, and a population that, while still heavily segregated racially, had...
563 Saloons, Perry R. Duis( Authored Entry )
...to the city. The rapidly growing ethnic population swelled the saloon ranks through the mid-...
564 Seminaries, Martin E. Marty( Authored Entry )
...for example in Philadelphia and Baltimore. As populations and churches moved west, Chicago became a...
565 Foodways, Tracy N. Poe( Authored Entry )
...for less than one percent of Chicago's population, they owned one-quarter of its fruit businesses...
566 Hotels, Molly W. Berger( Authored Entry )
...a view of the lake. The economic boom and population growth of the 1920s and Chicago's increasing...
567 Housing Reform, Gail Radford( Authored Entry )
...the city's poor sections, where roughly half the population resided. Over the next several decades,...
568 Austrians, Philip V. Bohlman( Authored Entry )
...mosaic of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whose populations spoke various Slavic, Hungarian, Romanian,...
569 Special Districts, Donald F. Stetzer( Authored Entry )
...district in the region in 1992. As suburban population density increased after World War II , people...
570 Firefighting, Mark Tebeau( Authored Entry )
...fire department increased with the size of the population. As a result, the number of fire companies...

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