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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 |...
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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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Entertaining Chicagoans, Lewis A. Erenberg(
Authored Entry
) ...their own. Their creative revenge was jazz, and Chicago became a capital of the new music. The Great...
...amusements had already been established in Chicago in the preceding decades and over the preceding...
...the earliest dances at Sauganash Tavern in 1833, Chicago's entertainment history divides into three...
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Antiunionism, David Moberg(
Authored Entry
) ...the 1985 printing unions' strike at the Chicago Tribune. At the close of the twentieth century,...
...From the late nineteenth century on, Chicago was one of the most heavily unionized American cities,...
...reaction to the radicalism and militancy of Chicago's workers, often made the city as much a global...
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Architecture: The City Beautiful Movement, Thomas S. Hines(
Authored Entry
) ...a prolonged grand tour, looked upon his native Chicago as a “hideous monster, a piteous, floundering...
...would reach its apogee in his epochal Plan of Chicago (1909). Burnham's importance as an architect...
...indeed. Burnham moved with his parents to Chicago in 1854. He became an architect by apprenticing...
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Norwegians, Odd S. Lovoll(
Authored Entry
) ...faiths, however, gained a following. Although Chicago became the center of Methodism for Norwegian...
...Norwegian settlement in Chicago had its beginning in 1836 when a few families decided to remain in...
...founded two years earlier southwest of Chicago. Chicago was the third Norwegian settlement in...
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Blues, Adam Green(
Authored Entry
) ...As legendary guitarist Robert Johnson put it, Chicago has been a “sweet home” for the blues....
...cultural signature this city has produced, Chicago blues has diverse and contradictory roots:...
...American South near the turn of the century. In Chicago, the emergence of blues culture in the 1920s...
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Senegalese, Beth Anne Buggenhagen(
Authored Entry
) ...Murid tariqa has also initiated an exchange program with the American Islamic College in Chicago....
...Senegalese have immigrated to Chicago since the 1970s as students, wage laborers, and itinerant...
...worked in hotels and retail establishments. Chicago also boasts a sizable population of Senegalese...
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South Africans, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...working with the South African consulate in Chicago, aims to increase awareness and exchange between...
...the areas. In addition, the Chicago Sister Cities International Program maintains an official...
...The first South Africans to migrate to Chicago were primarily academics and doctors in the 1960s....
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Tibetans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Lama visited Chicago and gave audiences to the Chicago Tibetan community. As part of its religious...
...Tibetans began arriving in Chicago in 1992. After Chinese forces invaded and occupied Tibet in the...
...exiles as part of the Immigration Act of 1990. Chicago was one of several destinations for Tibetan...
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