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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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Jews, Irving Cutler(
Authored Entry
) ...Jews came to Chicago from virtually every country in Europe and the Middle East, but especially from...
...even sporadic massacres. Jews began trickling into Chicago shortly after its incorporation in 1833....
...A century later Chicago's 270,000 Jews (about 9 percent of the city's population) were outnumbered...
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Environmental Activists, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Chicago Tribune Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38034) Author: Hal Dardick, Chicago Tribune...
...Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38035)...
...The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of...
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Poles, Dominic A. Pacyga(
Authored Entry
) ...educational, institutional, and cultural life of Chicago. Streets named Pulaski and Solidarity Drive...
...vital ethnic community because of the more than 150-year tradition of Polish immigration to Chicago....
...The traditional Polish community in Chicago, an organization-rich ethnic settlement that developed...
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Printing, Paul F. Gehl(
Authored Entry
) ...In the late nineteenth century, Chicago became a center for commercial printing in the United States...
...second only to New York. Chicago printers worked closely with magazine and catalog publishers; they...
...they achieved a competitive position because Chicago was the point at which zoned shipping rates for...
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Ecosystem Evolution, Eric C. Grimm(
Authored Entry
) ...When Chicago's first human inhabitants arrived at the end of the last ice age, they encountered a...
...material accumulates into hilly moraines, several of which occur in the Chicago region. The starting...
...point for the development of ecosystems in the Chicago region is the retreat of the glaciers at the...
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| 636 |
Civil Rights Movements, James Ralph(
Authored Entry
) ...civil rights has been a regular feature of the Chicago scene, and African Americans have been the...
...to speak of a civil rights movement in Chicago before World War II . Unlike white immigrants,...
...Americans and voting by blacks. And even though Chicago was a center of antislavery activity, city...
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Lumber, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...meatpacking , was one of the “big three” commodities of nineteenth-century Chicago commerce. Through...
...the second half of the nineteenth century, Chicago was the world's greatest lumber market. The city...
...transportation , and population. Geography placed Chicago in close proximity to the dense forests of...
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Racism, Ethnicity, and White Identity, David R. Roediger(
Authored Entry
) ...Amos 'n' Andy, a show that originated in Chicago. By reinjecting racism in concluding a litany of...
...achieved the inclusion the song heralded. If Chicago history is a guide, a further reminder may be...
...black violence during the 1919 race riot in Chicago is to be believed, Irish American gangs played a...
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Salvadorans, Kate Caldwell(
Authored Entry
) ...20,000 and 40,000 Salvadorans lived in the Chicago area. Many dream of returning to El Salvador, but...
...prohibited by the dependence of families in Chicago and in El Salvador on the immigrants' wages....
...Chicago's Salvadoran community dates back to the late 1920s, with a steady influx of families and...
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Opera, Thomas Bauman(
Authored Entry
) ...Depression had a major impact on opera in Chicago, putting an end to the Civic Opera and summertime...
...companies in the 1930s. Opera was reborn in Chicago with the creation of the Lyric Opera (founded as...
...opera was slow to develop as a part of Chicago's social and cultural identity. A small visiting...
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