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Morgan Park, Ellen Skerrett(
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) ...Between 1930 and 1960, the community's population more than doubled, from 12,747 to 27,912, as new...
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| 552 |
Norwegians, Odd S. Lovoll(
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) ...Little Norway,” the third-largest Norwegian population in the world, after Oslo and Bergen. The...
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| 553 |
Outdoor Concerts, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...concerts, concerts increasingly catered to the population of Chicago-at-large. In the late 1920s,...
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| 554 |
Automobile Manufacturing, David M. Young(
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) ...epizootic diseases which decimated urban horse populations in the late nineteenth century. Several...
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| 555 |
Puerto Ricans, Gina M. Pérez(
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) ...Puerto Ricans, 15 percent of Chicago's Latino population and second only to Chicago's Mexicans among...
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| 556 |
Pullman, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...Pullman residents, largely an African American population, achieved city landmark status for their...
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| 557 |
Republican Party, Paul Green and Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...attracting enough voters from Chicago's diverse population. When Tribune owner Medill occupied the...
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| 558 |
Restaurants, Bruce Kraig(
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) ...city restaurants became magnets for urban populations. Food stands and street vendors fall into the...
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| 559 |
Calumet River System, Christopher Thale(
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) ...wastes in increasing amounts as industry and population grew. The currents flowing into the lake...
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| 560 |
Dance Companies, Carolyn A. Sheehy(
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) ...reflect the energy of the city's diverse population. Dance companies require two ingredients: well-...
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| 561 |
Government, Suburban, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...the responsibility for governing the vast population beyond Chicago's limits. This proliferation of...
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| 562 |
Great Depression, Tracey Deutsch(
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) ...a fully solvent city government, and a population that, while still heavily segregated racially, had...
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| 563 |
Saloons, Perry R. Duis(
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) ...to the city. The rapidly growing ethnic population swelled the saloon ranks through the mid-...
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| 564 |
Seminaries, Martin E. Marty(
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) ...for example in Philadelphia and Baltimore. As populations and churches moved west, Chicago became a...
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| 565 |
Foodways, Tracy N. Poe(
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) ...for less than one percent of Chicago's population, they owned one-quarter of its fruit businesses...
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| 566 |
Hotels, Molly W. Berger(
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) ...a view of the lake. The economic boom and population growth of the 1920s and Chicago's increasing...
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| 567 |
Housing Reform, Gail Radford(
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) ...the city's poor sections, where roughly half the population resided. Over the next several decades,...
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| 568 |
Austrians, Philip V. Bohlman(
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) ...mosaic of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whose populations spoke various Slavic, Hungarian, Romanian,...
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| 569 |
Special Districts, Donald F. Stetzer(
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) ...district in the region in 1992. As suburban population density increased after World War II , people...
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| 570 |
Firefighting, Mark Tebeau(
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) ...fire department increased with the size of the population. As a result, the number of fire companies...
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