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Mayors, Melvin G. Holli(
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) ...for his leadership in school reform, with Chicago's model emulated by several other big city mayors....
...Chicago's mayors from incorporation in 1837 through the Great Fire of 1871 were drawn...
...of the socioeconomic registers. Although Chicago was not old enough to have a patrician class...
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Railroads, John C. Hudson(
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) ...Chicago is the most important railroad center in North America....
...More lines of track radiate in more directions from Chicago than from any other city....
...Chicago has long been the most important interchange point for freight traffic between the nation's...
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Trade Publications, Kathleen L. Endres(
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) ...widely read magazine on law in the nation. Chicago's trade publishing picture differs considerably...
...of the diversity of the economic base of Chicago, the trade press has never been dominated by a...
...single industry, business, or association. The Chicago Daily Hide & Tallow Bulletin, Bowling Center...
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Water, Louis P. Cain(
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) ...Chicago's unusual wastewater disposal history was conditioned by the location of...
...city at the juncture of Lake Michigan and the Chicago River . Initially, the city used the lake to...
...informal basis, and in 1871 on a formal basis, Chicago flushed its wastewater into the Mississippi...
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Iranians, James S. Kessler(
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) ...on their faculty. The majority of Iranians in Chicago live in the northern suburbs but are not...
...While the Iranian community of Chicago is not large, it reflects the diversity of Iran, with...
...Iranian Jews . However, most Iranians in Chicago are Persian-speaking Shī’ī Muslims. The majority of...
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Germans, Christiane Harzig(
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) ...culturally, and economically active among Chicago's Germans in the late twentieth century were, for...
...after generation of German immigrants came to Chicago, constructing a multifaceted, vibrant ethnic...
...Chicago's initial period of rapid growth in the mid-nineteenth century coincided with the...
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Refining, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...the same facility that had brought refining to Chicago in 1890. Now owned by BP Amoco (Standard of...
...Chicago was not among the earliest locations of the petroleum industry, but when oil refining...
...stood among the largest in the world, and the Chicago region remained an important refining center....
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Civil War, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...in the development of nineteenth-century Chicago. The war came at a time when the city's commercial...
...Yard on Christmas Day, 1865, is symbolic of the Civil War's impact on Chicago. The war directed...
...the flow of vital food commodities away from Chicago's most persistent urban rivals, which were too...
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Palestinians, Louise Cainkar(
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) ...Palestinians formed about 60 percent of the Arab population of the Chicago metropolitan area....
...Palestinians began migrating to Chicago in the late nineteenth century. They were a significant part...
...Arab migration to the United States and Chicago increased between 1890 and 1921, until overseas...
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Art Criticism and Scholarship, David M. Sokol(
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) ...has been especially influential in defining and promoting the Chicago School of local artists....
...The history of art criticism in Chicago starts with Art Review (1870), which closed after the Great...
...and it survived from 1899 to 1919; the Chicago Evening Post started to offer serious literary and...
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Clout, Daniel Greene(
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) ...to reach and persuade those in power—had found wide national usage beyond its Chicago origins....
...In the mid-twentieth century, Chicago writers coined the term “clout” to mean political power and...
...In Harold Gosnell's Machine Politics (1937), a Chicago precinct captain claimed that no one could “...
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Commodities Markets, Owen K. Gregory(
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) ...at Board of Trade, 1948. Photographer: Gordon Coster. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago's ascendant commodity markets were the result of the city's strategic position within the...
...production of corn, wheat, and hogs within Chicago's immediate environs plus the cattle and lumber...
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Furniture, John B. Jentz(
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) ...Photographer: Kroehler Furniture Co. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3589 Employees at...
...maker of piano stools, 1893. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago's furniture industry expanded in the mid-nineteenth century by serving a regional rural...
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Football, Gerald R. Gems(
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) ...in 1974, but survived only a short time. The Chicago Bears Super Bowl championship of 1986 revived...
...participation of its earlier heyday. i3354 Stagg Field, University of Chicago, November 1927....
...Named after legendary Chicago coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the now-demolished stadium eventually became...
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Republican Party, Paul Green and Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...Party remained a major political force in the Chicago region because of its considerable support in...
...suburbs contained more voters than the city of Chicago; these voters were sending large numbers of...
...efforts in the suburbs; within the city of the Chicago, they were faced with the prospect of a long...
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Foodways, Tracy N. Poe(
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) ...Edwin Rosskam. Source: Library of Congress. FIGURE 1 i3553 Replica of Chicago's Water Tower made...
...of Dunkin' Donuts, Chicago's 163rd Birthday Celebration, March 4, 2000, at the Water Tower....
...twentieth century, the multiethnic essence of Chicago's foodways was reflected in one of its most...
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Croatians, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...with Croatian nationalists who held six hostages at Chicago's West German consulate in August 1978....
...the LaSalle Hotel. In the 1990s Croatia and Chicago continued to feel one another's influence. One...
...the original concentrations of Croatians in Chicago have dispersed, the city's role as a political...
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Ballet, Diana Haskell(
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) ...and popular recognition. i3301 Ruth Page's Chicago Ballet Company performing a scene from Camille...
...Although European ballet dancers visited Chicago as early as 1838, a local company was not formed...
...Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet was associated with the Chicago Grand Opera and toured for the next dozen...
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Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow(
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) ...in 1888, joined Passavant as part of Northwestern's Chicago campus in 1941. i3438 Private room, St....
...no date). Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3436 Technicians...
...hospitals. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 The Alexian Brothers,...
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Contested Spaces, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...Sunday, July 27, 1919, dawned hot in Chicago. As the day wore on, city dwellers crowded onto the...
...late on the night of Williams's death, Chicago Tribune cartoonist John T. McCutcheon sketched a...
...widespread assumptions that divided the city of Chicago spatially into areas understood to be black...
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