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Refugees, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...Peruvians , and Haitians to seek asylum in Chicago. Thanks to its cosmopolitan, multiethnic...
...social services and community organizations, Chicago remains an attractive destination for refugees...
...war, famine, or civil strife. In that sense, Chicago has become home to many different groups of...
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Calumet Harbor, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Anticipating greater shipping on the Great Lakes, Chicago sought to capture more than its share of...
...1956 Photographer: William Siegel Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37360) Mayor Richard J....
...Seaway in 1959. See also: Water ; Planning Chicago Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Forward The...
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Riverine Systems, Daniel Schneider and Glenn Sandiford(
Authored Entry
) ...exacerbated by the low gradient of the Chicago River and the paving of vast areas of wetlands and...
...Compared to other areas of Illinois, the Chicago region boasts few rivers and streams. However,...
...these rivers figure largely in the city's history. Chicago is located at the divide between the St....
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Baths, Public, Marilyn Thornton Williams(
Authored Entry
) ...in public bath usage. After World War II , Chicago began to close down its public bathhouses. By the...
...the still-operating William Mavor bath, constructed in 1900 and named after a Chicago alderman. The...
...third municipal bath opened by the city of Chicago, it was located at 4645 Gross (later McDowell)...
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Ivorians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...While a small number of students came to Chicago in the 1970s and settled permanently...
...as professionals, most Ivorians migrated to Chicago in the 1990s. The United States was not a...
...large in the 1990s, Ivorians began to migrate to Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and other major cities in...
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Ice Hockey, Seth Brady(
Authored Entry
) ...Ice Hockey and Polo Guide reported in 1898 that Chicago had a significant interest in hockey....
...The first clear institutional indication of Chicago's interest in ice hockey, however, came much...
...from Portland, Oregon, and transplanted it in Chicago as the Blackhawks . Ice hockey came to Chicago...
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World's Columbian Exposition, Robert W. Rydell(
Authored Entry
) ...congresses would become the Art Institute of Chicago . On another level, the triumph of the World's...
...left Arcturus the same year that the World's Columbian Exposition had illuminated Chicago's skies....
...Exposition became a defining moment in Chicago's history and the history of the United States as a...
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Environmental Politics, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...of law and politics defined land use patterns in Chicago from the first plat of 1830 to the present...
...Some of the most critical challenges facing Chicago at the close of the twentieth century are the...
...political formation of urban space in metropolitan Chicago is set within a larger ecological context...
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Basic Bridge Types, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...bridge is 269 feet long and cost $33 million. See also: Bridges ; Chicago River 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...
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Afghans, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...Day in September. Afghan elders in the Chicago area have been concerned with younger Afghans' lack...
...Pakistanis and Bosnians . But, although many of Chicago's Afghans speak English as well as Dari (...
...Although a few Afghans came to Chicago for university education in the 1930s, they did not have a...
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Other Winter Water Sports, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Growing Up Along Water 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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Hungarians, Eva Becsei(
Authored Entry
) ...number of scholars of Hungarian origin work at Chicago's institutions in medical research, computer...
...Chicago emerged as a primary destination for Hungarian immigrants at the end of...
...nineteenth century. From only 159 in 1870, Chicago's Hungarian population increased dramatically, to...
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Midway Airport, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...to the Loop , Midway has again become a vital circuit in Chicago's transportation system. i3283...
...Municipal Airport, 1929. Photographer: Chicago Aerial Survey Co....
...Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Unemployment, Alan Harris Stein(
Authored Entry
) ...competition, devastated some long-established Chicago industries and the industries dependent on...
...2002, 261,600 workers were unemployed in metropolitan Chicago, or 6.3 percent of the civilian...
...workforce. i2469 Chicago area unemployment, 1950–2000. Sources: Illinois Department of Labor and...
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Sporting Goods Manufacturing, Timothy E. Sullivan(
Authored Entry
) ...and activities pursued by the residents of Chicago provide insight into shifting social and economic...
...income levels began to rise, the citizens of Chicago and the nation experienced expanding levels of...
...Wilson, Brunswick, Schwinn, and Kiefer, Chicago has been home to many of the most recognizable...
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Czechs and Bohemians, Alicia Cozine(
Authored Entry
) ...Czech immigration to Chicago began in the 1850s, after the railroads had linked the city to the East...
...facilitated that leg of the journey as well. Chicago's Czech-born population reached its peak in the...
...restrictions were imposed in the 1920s. Chicago's Czech community followed a common pattern of...
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Clothing and Garment Manufacturing, Youngsoo Bae(
Authored Entry
) ...produced in the early nineteenth century. In Chicago this industry developed rapidly after the Great...
...Joseph Beifeld began producing ready-made cloaks. Chicago was increasingly involved in nationwide...
...engaged in an anti-sweatshop campaign in Chicago and across the country. By that time, however,...
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Railroad Workers, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...after the company had stopped operations. Chicago's railroad workers' neighborhood communities broke...
...working on the railroad in 1848, when building began on the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad. By the...
...employed some 2,700 workers, about 9 percent of Chicago's labor force. Over 15,000 Chicagoans worked...
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Israelis, Adam H. Stewart(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1948, some of the first immigrants to Chicago from the area that became Israel were displaced...
...New York City, a significant number came to Chicago. These immigrants generally had a higher level...
...of graduate and professional programs at Chicago universities. The number of Israelis living in...
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Open Housing, James Ralph(
Authored Entry
) ...moved into traditionally white communities throughout metropolitan Chicago. Nevertheless, a late...
...twentieth-century report on open housing in the Chicago area concluded that “race and ethnicity (and...
...achieve it were undertaken. Many minorities in Chicago—especially Mexicans , Puerto Ricans , Jews ,...
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