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Italians, Rudolph J. Vecoli(
Authored Entry
) ...agendas. That the roots of Italian ethnicity in Chicago remain deeply buried in the soil of the...
...Despite its interior location, in 1920 Chicago was the third-ranking city in the United States,...
...immigrants and their children in metropolitan Chicago totaled 202,373, accounting for some 3 percent...
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Social Service Education, Jeanne C. Marsh(
Authored Entry
) ...the end of the twentieth century, there were 4 graduate social work programs in Chicago (at Aurora...
...University , Loyola University Chicago, University...
...of Chicago, and University of Illinois at Chicago), 6 in Illinois, and more than 16 undergraduate...
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Brazilians, Stephen R. Porter(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's early Brazilians included a small diaspora of Southern and Eastern Europeans who, after...
...restrictive American immigration laws to settle in Chicago. From the late 1940s through the...
...a handful of Portuguese Jews , gravitated toward Chicago communities representing their birthplace...
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Kenyans, Symon Ogeto and Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...runners are world renowned and have been extremely successful in the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon ....
...The first Kenyan migration to Chicago might have occurred as early as the 1940s, when Kenyan...
...numbers of Kenyan students began arriving in Chicago, and many settled permanently because of the...
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Feminist Movements, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...Womankind, published in the early 1970s by the Chicago Women's Liberation Union; Mountain Moving,...
...newspaper,” and published briefly in the 1980s; and Catalyst: Chicago Womyn's Paper (1980). The...
...these periodicals were a manifestation of some Chicago-area feminists' desires by the late twentieth...
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Mental Health, Harold M. Visotsky(
Authored Entry
) ...programs. At the end of the twentieth century, Chicago psychiatry reflected the state of American...
...In 1847, Edward Mead, a general practitioner trained in Ohio, came to Chicago and...
...founded the Chicago Retreat for the Insane. It was set afire by a patient and burned down, and it...
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Restaurants, Bruce Kraig(
Authored Entry
) ...enterprises have extended outward, thus enriching Chicago's economy and its reputation for dining....
...Public dining has an important role in Chicago's social, cultural, and economic history....
...numbers of eating establishments are tied to Chicago's growth from village to city. Dining outside...
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Annexation, Louis P. Cain(
Authored Entry
) ...At its founding in 1837, the city of Chicago encompassed little more than 10 square miles. It was...
...elections. Over the following two decades, Chicago, like many American cities, experienced numerous...
...and tax local residents. Laid out in 1830, Chicago incorporated as a city in 1837, and by the 1870s...
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State Politics, Michael J. Devine(
Authored Entry
) ...the Loop ; at the same time many downstate view Chicago, and its increasingly affluent suburbs, with...
...as their most important urban center, and root for the Cardinals rather than the Chicago Cubs ....
...center for national and international trade, Chicago has not dominated state government in Illinois....
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Mail Order, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...Mail-order retailing became a big business in Chicago. During the half century that followed the...
...order company by Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1872, Chicago companies dominated the business of selling...
...the mail. Montgomery Ward and Sears, both based in Chicago, were the leaders of the early mail-order...
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An Upstart Behemoth, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...and May Day ; Labor Unrest, 1886 (Rich Map) Sarah S. Marcus 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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Electronics, Emily Clark and Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...late 1990s, Motorola employed roughly 25,000 Chicago-area residents, making it one of the region's...
...smaller firms in the area continued to represent Chicago in what had become a highly competitive and...
...Chicago companies and their employees have long stood as leading players in the American electronics...
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Dance, Nancy G. Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...from the Joffrey Ballet, which would relocate to Chicago in 1995, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance...
...attention at MoMing Dance and Arts Center . The Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble provided serious...
...had been approved for Music and Dance Theater Chicago, a 1,500-seat, state-of-the-art auditorium to...
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Political Conventions, R. Craig Sautter(
Authored Entry
) ...on the fourth ballot. Roosevelt flew to Chicago to deliver the first-ever convention acceptance...
...convention. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Republicans gathered...
...between thousands of antiwar protestors and Chicago police broke out on Michigan Avenue in front of...
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Book Arts, Paul F. Gehl(
Authored Entry
) ...Newberry Library. FIGURE 1 In the 1920s, big Chicago printing firms hired designers from outside the...
...Together with Ernst F. Detterer, teacher at Chicago Normal School and later the School of the Art...
...building on 26th Street. Since World War II, the Chicago Book Clinic, publisher Scott Foresman, and...
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Egyptians, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...organization established on the South Side of Chicago in 1995, and the Arab American Business and...
...at the Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago (ICC), founded in Northbrook in 1974. At the ICC,...
...the second Coptic church established in the Chicago area,built a home in Palatine during the mid-...
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Schools and Education, John L. Rury(
Authored Entry
) ...affluent clientele, while urban schools, Chicago's in particular, are largely black and Hispanic....
...By 2000 more than three-quarters of Chicago's public school students were from low-income or poor...
...structures in the early nineteenth century, Chicago's schools have performed an increasing variety...
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Turn-of-the-Century Industrialization and International Markets, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Jr. ) Co. ; Globalization (Digital Essay) Sarah S. Marcus 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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Waste Disposal, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...wastes at the worst sites. As of 2000, the Chicago area had more than 240 Superfund sites, about...
...Yards neighborhood (no date). Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Early Chicago's wastes included ashes from wood burned by households and businesses, droppings of...
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Singaporeans, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...Restaurant caters many Singaporean events and serves as a gathering place for Chicago Singaporeans....
...Singaporeans have been coming to the Chicago area for work and school since the late 1960s....
...have settled permanently, the majority of Chicago's Singaporeans remain for short periods on visas...
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