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Chicago Title and Trust, Ross Miller(
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) ...Chicago Title and Trust...
...company had a discreet and nearly invisible role in the planning and development of modern Chicago....
...The Chicago Title and Trust Company was born of disaster and grew from unrivaled opportunity. The...
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Chicago Academy of Sciences, Paul Heltne(
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) ...Chicago Academy of Sciences...
...Foundation. The academy was also home to the Chicago Peregrine Release and Restoration Project,...
...Founded in 1857 and chartered in 1865, the Chicago Academy of Sciences was guided in its early years...
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City Club of Chicago, Susan Marie Wirka(
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) ...City Club of Chicago...
...Founded in 1903, the City Club of Chicago was established as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization...
...and improve urban conditions and affairs in Chicago. Like most Progressive-era urban reform...
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East Chicago, IN, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...East Chicago, IN...
...Lake County, 19 miles SE of the Loop. East Chicago became a leading industrial center by...
...than 12 square miles. The Potawatomi hunted East Chicago's white pine and oak forests and fished its...
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Lloyd Lewis: A Chicago Journalist, Richard H. Brown(
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) ...Lloyd Lewis: A Chicago Journalist...
...Wright, Sinclair Lewis, and Adlai Stevenson. Chicago's Newberry Library was his second home; drawing...
...world of arts and letters that flourished in Chicago following World War I. After 12 years as...
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Ruth Page: A Chicago Dance Institution, Ann Barzel(
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) ...Ruth Page: A Chicago Dance Institution...
...and directing the ballet ensemble for the Chicago Opera Company (from 1934 to 1945, with several...
...From 1954 to 1969 she directed the ballet for Chicago Lyric Opera and toured America in the company...
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Mary McDowell and Chicago Settlement Houses, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...Mary McDowell and Chicago Settlement Houses...
...Women's Trade Union League and an officer of the Chicago League, and was one of the initiators of...
...the City Waste Commission, she helped force Chicago to modernize its waste collection and disposal...
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Martin Luther King, Jr., in Chicago, James Ralph(
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) ...Martin Luther King, Jr. , in Chicago...
...to produce results, settled on a focus for the Chicago movement. King himself participated in two...
...accord would be an important step toward making Chicago an open city, but black militants denounced...
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Lorado Taft and Chicago Sculpture, Timothy J. Garvey(
Authored Entry
) ...Lorado Taft and Chicago Sculpture...
...field. Taft was also an integral part of the Chicago cultural community that included such figures...
...the Central Arts Association of America, the Chicago Society of Artists, the Little Room Studio...
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George A. Poole, a Chicago Collector, Paul Saenger(
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) ...George A. Poole, a Chicago Collector...
...George A. Poole III, born in Chicago in 1907, attended...
...the University of Chicago and graduated from Yale in 1930. He directed Poole Brothers, one of...
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Judith Waller and Chicago Radio, Rich Samuels(
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) ...Judith Waller and Chicago Radio...
...Judith Waller—Chicago's “First Lady of Radio”—believed that broadcasting's potential as an...
...programs that ranged from radio's University of Chicago Roundtable to television's Ding Dong School....
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Julius Rosenwald: Chicago Businessman and Philanthropist, Peter M. Ascoli(
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) ...Julius Rosenwald: Chicago Businessman and Philanthropist...
...spearhead the construction of black YMCAs in Chicago and throughout the nation, and he helped to...
...family's clothing business. In 1885, he returned to Chicago and opened his own clothing firm, which...
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Bessie Louise Pierce and Chicago History, Walter Nugent(
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) ...Bessie Louise Pierce and Chicago History...
...celebration, she brought out As Others See Chicago, compiling the views of visitors to the city from...
...44 of her 86 years to writing a history of Chicago. A native of rural Michigan, she taught in Iowa...
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Ring Lardner and Chicago Sports Reporting, James Diedrick(
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) ...Ring Lardner and Chicago Sports Reporting...
...his craft and rose to fame while working as a sportswriter on a series of Chicago newspapers ....
...Lardner came to Chicago in the fall of 1907 and began a 12-year Chicago sportswriting career that...
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If Christ Came to Chicago, Timothy J. Gilfoyle(
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) ...If Christ Came to Chicago...
...journalist William T. Stead and published by Laird & Lee in 1894, If Christ Came to Chicago was an...
...inflammatory exposé of Chicago's political corruption and the underground economy . Mixing radical...
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Chicago Harbors, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Chicago Harbors...
...the Civil War in 1865. Cargo traffic on the Chicago River peaked in 1889, just as the Calumet Harbor...
...traffic exceeded that handled in the rest of the Chicago region. With the expansion of the Cal-Sag...
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Chicago Literary Renaissance, Carlo Rotella(
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) ...Chicago Literary Renaissance...
...century, there were at least three surges of Chicago writing that helped shape the development of...
...Gwendolyn Brooks and Saul Bellow. But the term “Chicago Renaissance,” as it is usually used, applies...
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Chicago Black Renaissance, Darlene Clark Hine(
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) ...Chicago Black Renaissance...
...aesthetic movement in mid-twentieth-century Chicago also produced an influential flowering in the...
...and performing arts, literature, and music. Chicago became a pioneering center for recording and...
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University of Chicago, Robin F. Bachin(
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) ...University of Chicago...
...The University of Chicago opened in 1892 under the auspices of the American Baptist Education...
...sociology departments in the nation, as the “ Chicago School ” pioneered research in immigration,...
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Chicago Times-Herald Race of 1895, Keith R. Gill(
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) ...Chicago Times-Herald Race of 1895...
...America's first auto race was held in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1895. The race was...
...the idea of H. H. Kohlsaat, the publisher of the Chicago Times-Herald. Hoping to promote this new...
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