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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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Jamaicans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...and Evanston. In 1982, the Jamaican Consulate in Chicago began publishing a nationally circulated...
...The consular office has also published a newsletter for the Chicago community, the Jamaica Bridge....
...1940s saw the first major influx of Jamaicans to Chicago. Like other West Indians, Jamaican men were...
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Musical Instrument Manufacturing, Craig H. Roell(
Authored Entry
) ...After the Great Fire of 1871 , Chicago quickly became a national center in musical instrument...
...especially organs and pianos. Indeed, by 1910 Chicago manufacturers were supplying about half of all...
...magnitude of the trade. Significantly, the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 sparked a...
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| 755 |
Rock Music, Clark “Bucky” Halker(
Authored Entry
) ...collar credentials became a liability. Fewer Chicago artists got record contracts. Nevertheless, a...
...format in the 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1990s Chicago experienced a rock renaissance. Punk rock...
...and the critical arbiters of taste deemed Chicago “hip. ” The Smashing Pumpkins and rich-kid-turned-...
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| 756 |
Chemicals, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...making corporations with headquarters in the Chicago area at this time were IMC Global, a leading...
...and CBI Industries (a descendant of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company), which produced carbon...
...represented one of the leading economic sectors in Chicago, the metropolitan region has been home to...
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| 757 |
Rush Street Bridge, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...in use on the night of October 8, 1871, when it was destroyed by the Chicago Fire. See also: Fire of...
...Rush Street, c.1900 Photographer: Mellen Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-00170) The swing...
...bridge at Rush Street was rebuilt after the 1871 Chicago Fire. At the turn of the last century, the...
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| 758 |
Kane County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...west bank awaited primarily Yankee- and New York–born settlers who edged out of Chicago after 1832....
...Easy fording sites concentrated road traffic from Chicago to the northwest (U.S. 20), west (Illinois...
...The third, a limestone building designed by Chicago architect John M. Van Osdel, served the county...
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| 759 |
Building a Bridge, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...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 Reserved. Portions are...
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| 760 |
Rescue Missions, R. Jonathan Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...prostitutes, and saloon frequenters. By 1871, Chicago had over 33 rescue missions. The nonsectarian...
...the Salvation Army began its ongoing mission to Chicago's poor. Both organizations revealed a trend...
...Garden Mission , perhaps the most visible Chicago rescue mission and the site of evangelist Billy...
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| 761 |
Cross of Gold, Charles Postel(
Authored Entry
) ...Party from the Northeast to the South and West. Chicago served as the financial and commercial...
...hub of America's agricultural heartland, and Chicago reformers hoped to forge an alliance with...
...of Illinois. Bryan and Altgeld were colleagues of Chicago's William “Coin” Harvey, whose book Coin's...
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| 762 |
Guyanese, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Guyanese immigrants continued to arrive in Chicago while many others struggled to obtain immigration...
...war industries during World War II . Some settled in Chicago after the war, joined by other Guyanese...
...which assisted West Indian immigrants in Chicago. The McCarran-Walter Act (1952) placed a quota on...
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| 763 |
Moroccans, Stephen R. Porter(
Authored Entry
) ...Ramadan, have been central in unifying both Chicago Moroccans and other area North African Muslims....
...degrees. From the mid-1960s through 1980, Chicago's Moroccan population seldom exceeded 15, with...
...Moroccans and non-Moroccans. The children of Chicago Moroccans provided the impetus for some parents...
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| 764 |
Record Publishing, Mark Clague(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's performers drive its record industry....
...maintain regional distribution offices in Chicago, their studios are in New York or Los Angeles....
...of Midwest piano manufacturers, recorded Chicago's leading blues and jazz talents, making the city a...
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| 765 |
Treaties, Helen Hornbeck Tanner(
Authored Entry
) ...provisions granted sections of land along the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers to several people of...
...Potawatomi wife of Antoine. The famous Treaty of Chicago (1833) brought an estimated three thousand...
...The Chicago area was directly affected by five of the approximately 370 ratified treaties between...
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| 766 |
Flags and Symbols, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...may not be apparent without explanation. On Chicago's seemingly straightforward flag, five stripes...
...and West Sides, Lake Michigan , and the Chicago River . Four stars stand for important moments in...
...Like Fort Dearborn itself, each of these helps answer the question “Why is Chicago here? ”...
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Ethiopians, D. Bradford Hunt(
Authored Entry
) ...Orthodox Church in Evanston remain important congregations in Chicago's Ethiopian community....
...The Ethiopian Soccer League connects the Chicago community with Ethiopian Americans in other cities...
...and social events. Five Ethiopian restaurants in Chicago also serve as informal networking sites....
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Publishing, Book, Connie Goddard(
Authored Entry
) ...Book publishing in Chicago, a business almost as old as the city itself, established its basic...
...timetables, and the railroads also made possible Chicago's early emergence as a distribution point...
...and school texts. Though for brief periods Chicago flourished as a writers' town, the trade book and...
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Commuting, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...The emergence of commuting in Chicago and its ever-growing importance in the daily urban experience...
...the rise of a metropolitan commuter culture. As Chicago became metropolitan, commuting involved more...
...ride away on a street with social cachet. Chicago's bankers at that time, except for a very few who...
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Uruguayans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...increasing population of roughly 500 Uruguayans in Chicago, with an additional 100 or 200 living in...
...Although some Uruguayans came to Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and...
...Eucharistic Congress of 1926, very few settled in Chicago permanently before 1940. The first influx...
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