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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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Basic Bridge Types, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...replaced by a bascule bridge. See also: Bridges ; Chicago River ; Near North Side 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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Bands, Early and Golden Age, Sandy R. Mazzola(
Authored Entry
) ...only one more concert band, Bohumir Kryl's Chicago Band. By 1920, the Golden Age of Bands was over,...
...influences in the culture. Yet the early bands of Chicago had left an indelible mark on its music,...
...Band, Englewood (no date). Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...concessions. See also: Amusement Parks ; Global Chicago ; Racism, Ethnicity, and White Identity ;...
...World's Columbian Exposition Sarah S. Marcus The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Hotels, Molly W. Berger(
Authored Entry
) ...well-to-do business travelers and tourists. Chicago's ability to attract and retain large national...
...roughly 75,000 hotel and motel rooms in the Chicago area, and more space was being added to handle...
...When Chicago was a small village in 1830, the American palace hotel ideal was literally being cast...
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Medical Education, Eve Fine(
Authored Entry
) ...In nineteenth-century Chicago, a medical degree was not always needed to practice medicine. No...
...which helped them attract paying patients. Chicago's first medical school, Rush Medical College, was...
...The Lind University Medical School, later renamed the Chicago Medical College, eventually became the...
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Reading the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...the center of all the varied activities of Chicago will rise the towering dome of the Civic Center,...
...vivifying and unifying the entire composition." The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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A Cosmopolitan Frontier, 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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Bicycling, Allyson Hobbs(
Authored Entry
) ...including the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and Chicago Critical Mass have promoted the bicycle as...
...of transportation . Since September 1997, Chicago Critical Mass has sponsored monthly rides from...
...In November 2001, Bicycling magazine honored Chicago as the “Best Cycling City in the United States”...
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Automobile Manufacturing, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...maintained one in in Belvidere, but the last Chicago manufacturer of consequence was Elgin Motor Car...
...carriages didn't receive much notoriety until the Chicago Times-Herald offered $5,000 in prizes to...
...the winner of a round-trip race between Chicago and Evanston two years later. The race attracted...
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Abolitionism, Linda J. Evans(
Authored Entry
) ...best chance to elect an antislavery man and found itself in step with a majority of Chicago voters....
...Thereafter, most Chicago abolitionists who voted became a small, radical portion of the free-soil,...
...Chicago's antislavery community included a variety of activists and sympathizers, including former...
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Hondurans, Kate Caldwell(
Authored Entry
) ...populations included Logan Square , Uptown , South Chicago, West Town , Albany Park , and New City ....
...Annually in September, Hondurans unite with Chicago's other Central American communities to...
...1990s, Hondurans continued to arrive in Chicago, many migrating from the larger Honduran immigrant...
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Court System, R. Ben Brown(
Authored Entry
) ...courts were unified in 1964. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...of its first court of record in 1831, Chicago has developed an innovative and influential court...
...in the world. The federal court judges who sit in Chicago have made and continue to make major...
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