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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...
571 Housing Types, Joseph C. Bigott( Authored Entry )
...brick cottages became common. As immigrant populations increased, the cottage form adapted to new...
572 Hungarians, Eva Becsei( Authored Entry )
...From only 159 in 1870, Chicago's Hungarian population increased dramatically, to 1,841 in 1890,...
573 Photography, Larry Viskochil( Authored Entry )
...on the city's growing African American population. The result combined photographic recording with...
574 Court System, R. Ben Brown( Authored Entry )
...it was inadequate for Chicago's large and diverse population and problems. The city, home to a well-...
575 Land Use, Richard D. Mariner( Authored Entry )
...land area in the region, while the region's population increased by only 4 percent. More than four...
576 Meatpacking, Louise Carroll Wade( Authored Entry )
...needed. Commercial butchering began when population increased in the towns. Since beef was difficult...
577 Houses and Water, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...for drinking and fire protection. As the city population grew to the point where residents did not...
578 Mapping Chicago, Old and New, ( Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery) )
...Circulation and Parks in Relation to the Population One of the goals of the planners was to improve...
579 Architecture: The First Chicago School, David Garrard Lowe( Authored Entry )
...Chicago was a boomtown. By 1890 it had a population of more than a million people and had surpassed...
580 Sacred Music, Philip V. Bohlman( Authored Entry )
...In the continuously changing interaction between populations and spaces, identity and belief, and...

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