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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Cicero, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's earliest airfields. Cicero's position at the edge of Chicago attracted criminal elements...
...wishing to evade Chicago's law enforcement agencies. In the mid to late 1920s, the gangster Al...
...of Cicero, bordered on the north and east by Chicago, is the suburb nearest to downtown. Named for a...
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| 692 |
Costa Ricans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Small businesses undertaken by Costa Ricans in Chicago have included restaurants , clothing stores,...
...as spiritual centers for Costa Ricans in Chicago, including St. Ita's Church (5500 N. Broadway) and...
...in Costa Rica. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Chicago Costa Rican community organized two soccer teams,...
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| 693 |
Corporate Headquarters and Industrial Relics, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Preservation ; Iron and Steel ; Pullman 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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| 694 |
Park Districts, Julia Sniderman Bachrach(
Authored Entry
) ...of Lake Shore Drive. By the 1950s, the Chicago Park District was responsible for 169 parks totaling...
...200 small play lots were operated by the city of Chicago. In 1959, the two agencies entered into...
...park police were consolidated into the Chicago Police Department, the boulevards were transferred to...
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| 695 |
Agriculture, Chas. P. Raleigh(
Authored Entry
) ...so seasonal farmers' markets throughout the Chicago region. Specialized products such as free-range...
...and independent, up-scale food stores. And the Chicago Board of Trade remains a powerful influence...
...vastness of the world's grain trade that will define Chicago's agricultural industry for the future....
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| 696 |
Airlines, Liesl M. Orenic(
Authored Entry
) ...Jobs at the airports are split between Chicago residents and suburbanites, although suburbanites...
...Despite the economic benefits to suburban Chicago, its relationship with O'Hare has grown tense over...
...at Midway Airport, ca. 1940s. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Environmental Regulation, Betsy Mendelsohn(
Authored Entry
) ...for environmental quality traveled indoors, as the Chicago Housing Authority reduced pesticide use,...
...agencies. This access increased in 1992, when Chicago created a Department of the Environment, which...
...in the small city government of early Chicago, but residents increasingly hold them accountable to...
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| 698 |
Nigerians, Charles Adams Cogan and Cyril Ibe(
Authored Entry
) ...America, the African presence has created within Chicago's black community a diversity comparable to...
...Chicago's 30,000...
...Nigerians constitute Chicago's largest African community. The first major influx of Nigerians to the...
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Boxing, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...boxing matches at the Stadium, and thereafter Chicago declined as a boxing town. Since the early...
...the nineteenth century, boxing was part of Chicago's bachelor subculture where bouts for small bets...
...city, however, by such organizations as the Chicago Athletic Association (CAA). Following agitation...
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Golf, Howard N. Rabinowitz(
Authored Entry
) ...profusion of courses, however, metropolitan Chicago, with more than 850,000 golfers, was still well...
...at Midlothian Golf Club, 1907. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...and country clubs in the late 1880s. Metropolitan Chicago was ideally suited for golf. Its booming...
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