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Clout, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Literary Careers, Timothy B. Spears(
Authored Entry
) ...technologies. In twenty-first-century Chicago, there should be plenty of room for small presses,...
...In nineteenth-century Chicago, rapid urbanization created a wealth of professional writing...
...profit from short-lived, local publishing ventures, Chicago writers were slow to benefit from these...
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Public Buildings in the Loop, David Garrard Lowe(
Authored Entry
) ...garden, an acknowledgment of the architects of Chicago's early steel-framed skyscrapers, such as...
...northeast corner of Clark and Randolph Streets Chicago's first courthouse, a simple but dignified...
...and Clark, 1904–5. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Chicagoans...
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Public Transportation, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago before 1848 was a “walking city” whose inhabitants could easily get anywhere in town on foot...
...people developed in France in the 1600s. In Chicago, the first omnibuses in 1852 were nothing more...
...ca. 1890s. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Poor drainage that...
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Medical Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals, Beatrix Hoffman(
Authored Entry
) ...At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Chicago-area's largest medical and pharmaceutical...
...facilities in the suburbs. Abbott, headquartered in suburban North Chicago and with 15,000 employees...
...in Illinois, was named Chicago's number one company by the Tribune in 1999. Baxter International,...
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Houseboat Residents, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...of houseboats along the north branch of the Chicago River was a semi-permanent fixture in the mid-...
...here is a houseboat at north La Salle Street along the Chicago River in 1952. See also: Water ; Near...
...1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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Iron- and Steelworkers, Jonathan Rees(
Authored Entry
) ...Company's South Works, ca. 1952. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...As early as 1847, Chicago had six iron foundries....
...Steelmaking in Chicago began in 1865. As steel production grew nationwide during the late nineteenth...
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Seminaries, Martin E. Marty(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago boasts more theological seminaries of more denominations than any other American metropolis....
...As populations and churches moved west, Chicago became a strategic center, “halfway to everywhere. ”...
...eventually, into all the nation and the world. Chicago came to prominence at a time when Protestant...
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Lighthouse Keepers, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Solitary Lives Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo...
...Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...
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Houseboat Residents, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Avondale ; North Center Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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Waterfront, Dennis H. Cremin(
Authored Entry
) ...Metropolitan Chicago's expansive waterfront includes a portion of the shores...
...of Lake Michigan and the banks of the Chicago , Des Plaines , Calumet, Fox and DuPage Rivers and...
...used for commerce, industry, and leisure . Chicago's position on a mid-continental divide between...
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