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Magazines, Richard Junger(
Authored Entry
) ...Wrigley and Tribune buildings, 1959. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society....
...FIGURE 1 Other Chicago magazines have been equally unconventional. Arnold Gingrich and Alfred Smart...
...Court decision limiting postal censorship. Chicago native and one-time Esquire employee Hugh M....
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Metropolitan Growth, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...The history of the Chicago metropolitan area is often told in geographic fragments—...
...histories of dozens of local areas, both inside Chicago and in suburbs. Austin , Barrington , South...
...separately, however, denies the ways in which the Chicago metropolitan area operates as a whole. Few...
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Literary Cultures, Timothy B. Spears(
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) ...Between 1875 and 1893 Joseph Kirkland read 15 papers at meetings of the Chicago Literary Club....
...Not just a lone pioneer on Chicago's fledgling literary scene, Kirkland was one of several elite...
...establish oases of learning and culture in Chicago's raw social climate belonged especially to the...
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Religious Institutions, Virginia Lieson Brereton(
Authored Entry
) ...religious life, but several factors have made Chicago a particularly lively religious breeding...
...reformist bishops. In the 1930s and 1940s, Chicago was arguably the headquarters of the Catholic...
...the founder was Bishop Bernard Sheil of Chicago), the Cana Conference (founded by Monsignor John...
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Scouting, Elizabeth D. Schafer(
Authored Entry
) ...alderman Carl T. Murray, 1915. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago played a significant role in the development of youth scouting organizations. In 1909, the...
...by O. W. Kneeves which met at Hamilton Park. Chicago publisher William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy...
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Puerto Ricans, Gina M. Pérez(
Authored Entry
) ...to work in manufacturing industries, as laborers, and in the service sector of the Chicago economy....
...Despite their long history in the city, Chicago Puerto Ricans continue to maintain cultural,...
...of Puerto Rican men and women moved to Chicago from New York in the 1930s, the first significant...
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Soccer, Gabe Logan(
Authored Entry
) ...men's teams, while over 2,000 metropolitan Chicago youth teams compete in the Illinois Youth Soccer...
...the National Soccer League sponsored by Chicago's Sparta ABA (Athletic and Benevolent Association)...
...Soccer Club, a Czech organization. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Wholesaling, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...construction of Wacker Drive. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Given that Chicago long ranked as America's “second city,” it is not surprising that it has served...
...as a major wholesaling center. Like most cities, Chicago has been a place for the exchange and...
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Flood Control and Drainage, Arlan R. Juhl(
Authored Entry
) ...regions of the Des Plaines, North Branch Chicago, and Fox River watersheds. Flooding in rivers and...
...The Chicago area is topographically dominated...
...by the glacial Lake Chicago plain. This plain encompasses the Chicago River , Des Plaines River ,...
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Mexicans, Gabriela F. Arredondo and Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...more than 530,000 Mexicans in the city of Chicago, with more than 1.1 million in the metropolitan...
...parade, Little Village, 1984. Photographer: Gregg Mann. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...The first major wave of Mexican migration to Chicago began in the mid to late 1910s, spurred on by...
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Potawatomis, R. David Edmunds(
Authored Entry
) ...of land in northern Illinois, but after 1840 most Potawatomis were gone from the Chicago region....
...in Wisconsin. By the 1690s Potawatomis had migrated into the Chicago region, establishing small...
...settlements along the Calumet , Chicago , and Des Plaines Rivers. Joined by kinsmen from...
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Libraries, Cook County, Alice Calabrese(
Authored Entry
) ...Cook County Libraries Suburban Libraries Chicago has been home to a great number and variety of...
...Young Men's Association (later to become the Chicago Library Association) established a reading room...
...and ethnic libraries. In 1856–57 alone, the Chicago Historical Society , Board of Trade, Chicago...
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Religious Geography, Lowell W. Livezey and Mark Bouman(
Authored Entry
) ...Wherever people have settled in metropolitan Chicago, they have built churches and synagogues, and...
...places of worship across the space of metropolitan Chicago is part of a broader story involving the...
...and geographic expansion of religion in Chicago reflected the growth, diversification, and...
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Public Health, Jennifer Koslow(
Authored Entry
) ...symptoms and high mortality rates, prompted Chicago's first official public health action in early...
...to the Black Hawk War brought cholera to Chicago, helping to spread what was already a worldwide...
...and puckered appearance and death within 24 hours. Chicago's 4,000 residents turned toward the state...
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Journalism, Bill Savage(
Authored Entry
) ...supplanted Al Capone as the personification of Chicago across the world. In whatever form—the daily...
...the alternative press and cable television, Chicago journalism has provided both the fertile ground...
...the city emerge. The unprecedented growth of Chicago made its newspapers a vital part of creating a...
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Sacred Music, Philip V. Bohlman(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's sacred music traditions have historically formed from a tension between mainline and...
...and difference, sacred music has reflected and influenced Chicago's rich religious heritage....
...During its history, Chicago has been home to numerous mainline sacred music traditions that have...
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| 577 |
Lithuanians, Alfred Erich Senn(
Authored Entry
) ...community. In 1998 Lithuanian voters elected a Chicago Lithuanian, Valdas Adamkus, as president of...
...returned to Lithuania. At the end of the 1990s, Chicago Lithuanians had closer ties to the homeland...
...metropolitan area claimed some Lithuanian ancestry. Chicago's place in Lithuanian history rests on a...
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| 578 |
Agricultural Machinery Industry, Fred Carstensen(
Authored Entry
) ...outside the Chicago area. As a result, the Chicago-area plants were increasingly outdated and...
...the agricultural machinery industry no longer held a significant place in the Chicago-area economy....
...to consolidate manufacture of his reaper in Chicago. Since developing the first successful reaper in...
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Networks of Rails, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...and its service. See also: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters ; Global Chicago ; Innovation,...
...Invention, Chicago Business ; Pullman Inc. ; Railroads Sarah...
...S. Marcus The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia...
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Roman Catholics, Steve Rosswurm(
Authored Entry
) ...rate. These issues will continue to engage the Chicago Catholic Church for the foreseeable future....
...Providence of God Church, founded in 1900 as Chicago's second Lithuanian parish. Moving west on 18th...
...Vía Crucis ends after services at St. Adalbert, Chicago's third Polish parish, formed in 1874. i3836...
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