| 671 |
Pizza, J. S. Aubrey(
Authored Entry
) ...by the success of Uno, Sewall opened Pizzeria Due a few blocks away, and Chicago-style pizzerias...
...spread throughout Chicago and the United States....
...across the world. Some late-nineteenth-century Chicago bakeries served pizza, in sheets or in small...
|
| 672 |
Lake County, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...and manufacturing in the hinterland of Chicago's growing economy. Beginning in 1836, stagecoaches...
...Bay Road along a route paralleling Lake Michigan that connected Chicago and Milwaukee. Waukegan ,...
...along Green Bay Road 40 miles north of Chicago, became Lake County's economic and government center...
|
| 673 |
Meatpacking, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...packinghouses declined sharply in the 1960s. Chicago's Union Stock Yard closed in 1970, the same...
...demand. From the Civil War until the 1920s Chicago was the country's largest meatpacking center and...
...processing and proclaimed itself Porkopolis. Chicago won that title during the Civil War. It was...
|
| 674 |
Management Consulting, Christopher McKenna(
Authored Entry
) ...consulting has a distinguished history in Chicago. Soon after Arthur Andersen, a professor of...
...firm in the world, with its headquarters still in Chicago. In 1914, Edwin Booz, a recent graduate of...
...consulting firm of Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc . Chicago's early dominance in consulting culminated...
|
| 675 |
Bus System, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...railway routes. Surface-system ridership in Chicago, which includes both buses and streetcars but...
...and Randolph, 1992. Photographer: Janet Schleeter. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Although public transportation systems in the Chicago area at the opening of the twenty-first...
|
| 676 |
Glaciation, Ardith K. Hansel(
Authored Entry
) ...to deliver sediment to the leading edge. In the Chicago area, from oldest to youngest, are the...
...Rivers ) and/or lakes (like glacial Lake Chicago) formed between the retreating glacier margin and...
...older moraines. The city of Chicago is built on the flat plain of glacial Lake Chicago....
|
| 677 |
Lectures and Public Speaking, Lisa Krissoff Boehm(
Authored Entry
) ...longer serve as such a popular form of recreation, Chicago universities , colleges, and educational...
...organizations. Perhaps the largest current public-speaking venue is the Chicago Humanities Festival....
...neighborhood hall. Several significant events in Chicago have related closely to public lectures....
|
| 678 |
Cholera, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Hospitals ; Public Health 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...
|
| 679 |
Chinese, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...Asians. i3851 Chinese citizens registering for the draft, 1917. Photographer: Chicago Daily News....
...Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...The first Chinese immigrants to Chicago arrived in the early 1870s from the West Coast of the United...
|
| 680 |
Telephony, Richard R. John(
Authored Entry
) ...of the strangest chapters in the history of Chicago telephony unfolded in 1992, when, following a...
...network of underground tunnels that bordered the Chicago River . Built almost a century earlier by...
...after the firm had failed—a dramatic, if unfortunate, legacy of Chicago's early telephone pioneers....
|
| 681 |
Taiwanese, D. Bradford Hunt(
Authored Entry
) ...is a third; the Taiwanese largely avoided Chicago's Chinatown and instead sought campus and suburban...
...in the 1980s when the Taiwanese community in Chicago became more assertive in differentiating itself...
...for Taiwanese independence, has a chapter in Chicago. In May 1999, the city celebrated its first...
|
| 682 |
Bowling, Raymond Schmidt(
Authored Entry
) ...Until the mid-twentieth century, Chicago was one of the foremost bowling hotbeds in the United...
...States. As early as 1851 the city of Chicago had licensed five bowling alleys, and for the balance...
...among Germans living on the North Side. By 1900 Chicago newspapers were regularly reporting results...
|
| 683 |
Gays and Lesbians, Chad Heap(
Authored Entry
) ...and transportation hubs in the United States, Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century...
...neighborhoods permitted the development of Chicago's lesbian and gay subculture. During the early...
...impersonation acts. By 1911, the Vice Commission of Chicago noted the presence of “whole groups and...
|
| 684 |
Historic Preservation, Barbara Sciacchitano(
Authored Entry
) ...the 1960s and more recently in Bronzeville on Chicago's South Side . One major preservation project...
...and design. Historic preservation gained popular support in Chicago in the 1960s when public concern...
...over massive and indiscriminate destruction of Chicago's built environment developed in response to...
|
| 685 |
Unionization, James R. Barrett(
Authored Entry
) ...these questions will emerge within the context of Chicago's historic reputation as a labor town, its...
...Chicago's historic reputation as a “labor town” is somewhat misleading. Workers have built some of...
...and the diversity of its metropolitan economy, Chicago has presented both enormous challenges and...
|
| 686 |
Ferry Keepers, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...view of the Polk Street Bridge. See also: Bridges River Ferry Boat, 1922 Photographer: Chicago Daily...
...News Source: Chicago Historical Society (DN-0074514) Private...
...ferry boats also operated on the Chicago River for years after bridges eliminated the necessity of...
|
| 687 |
Built Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Interpretive Digital Essay : Globalization: Chicago and the...
...World Globalization: Chicago and the World...
...Essay: Introduction Essay: Chicago in the Middle Ground Map: Chicago's World—Within a Day's Travel...
|
| 688 |
Tourism and Conventions, Anne Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...McNally & Co. published in 1890 advertised Chicago and introduced visitors to the city's sights....
...Designer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3507...
...drawings that originally appeared first in the Chicago Tribune and then in Opera Topics, cartoonist...
|
| 689 |
Cosmetics and Hair Care Products, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...huge British-Dutch corporation. Of the several Chicago companies that had been so prominent in the...
...in annual sales and 16,000 employees worldwide—was still based in Chicago at the end of the century....
...Chicago residents participated in the rise of the cosmetics industry during the twentieth century...
|
| 690 |
Children and the Law, Kriste Lindenmeyer(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago was to Progressive-era children's rights advocates what Boston was to antebellum...
...leadership. Influential individuals from Chicago helped to redefine childhood and encouraged the...
...health , labor, education, and dependency. Chicago's meteoric growth from frontier settlement to...
|