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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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Colombians, A. K. Sandoval-Strausz(
Authored Entry
) ...also provided aid to Colombian newcomers to Chicago. The Colombian consulate has also served as the...
...the homeland. Among the most enduring of many Chicago Colombian organizations is Colombianos Unidos...
...the late 1990s Colombian immigrants constituted Chicago's largest group of South Americans and had...
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Estonians, Bernard Maegi(
Authored Entry
) ...much of the urgency behind the activities of Chicago's Estonian Americans. Faced moreover with a...
...and upward social mobility, the missionary zeal of Chicago's Estonian Americans began to subside....
...Estonian-speaking immigrants formed one of Chicago's most active ethnic communities in the decades...
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Leather and Tanning, David Blanke(
Authored Entry
) ...industry within the city. The closure of Chicago's meatpacking facilities added to these problems by...
...suitcases, ca. 1900. Photographer: Ed Stratton. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...as boots, shoes, horse tack, and book bindings. Chicago's proximity to oak and hemlock tanbark from...
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Portage, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...government built Fort Dearborn at the mouth of the Chicago River to guard this portage route....
...end of the old portage is marked by the Chicago Portage National Historic Site, which commemorates...
...made at various points between the Des Plaines and Chicago Rivers as well as between the Calumet and...
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Mailing To the World, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Machinery Industry ; Innovation, Invention, Chicago Business ; International Harvester Co. ;...
...Unionization 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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Chinatown, Ying-cheng (Harry) Kiang(
Authored Entry
) ...i3494 Parade in Chinatown, 1928. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Fe Railroad parallels the South Branch of the Chicago River , which forms its northwest boundary....
...critical shortage of open space, the city of Chicago is building a 12-acre park along the east bank...
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Highland Park, IL, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...concerts in a wooded outdoor setting, including performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ....
...bluffs, lake vistas,ravines, and accessibility to Chicago support the foresight of nineteenthcentury...
...this picturesque suburb as a retreat for Chicago's affluent professionals. Indian trails and mounds...
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Housing Reform, Gail Radford(
Authored Entry
) ...century neared its end, housing reformers in Chicago struggled with these issues as they sought...
...In 1878 the Chicago Board of Health published its first reports on overcrowding and lack of...
...of squalid living conditions that existed in Chicago, in hopes of building momentum for change....
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Judaism, Arnold Jacob Wolf(
Authored Entry
) ...of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago's Jewish community was solid and growing. An...
...Many, like Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati (Chicago's rival for leadership in the Reform movement),...
...where young people whose parents had come to Chicago in 1900 or slightly later could meet, court,...
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Swimming, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's elite athletic clubs and...
...YMCAs pioneered competitive swimming in Chicago during the 1890s....
...The Chicago Athletic Association, the city's principal athletic club, opened its pool in 1893,...
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Telegraph, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...its first practical demonstration in 1844, came to Chicago in 1848. Telegraphy made possible instant...
...friends and relatives that they had survived. Chicago quickly became the eastern terminus of “...
...messages. The telegraph in turn promoted Chicago's economic growth. It proved critical in managing...
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Funeral Service Industry, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...of rituals and activities connected with death. In Chicago, as in most cities, much of this work has...
...with particular religious or ethnic groups. The Chicago area is historically distinctive, however,...
...century. During the city's first decades, Chicago families who required undertaking services often...
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