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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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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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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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Ghanaians, Amy Settergren(
Authored Entry
) ...as well as those of other Africans and the wider Chicago community. These enterprises range from a...
...achieved its independence in 1957, the number of Ghanaians living in the Chicago area was small....
...During the following four decades, however, Chicago's Ghanaian community grew to between 10,000 and...
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| 772 |
Ottawas, James M. McClurken(
Authored Entry
) ...the Ottawas, Chippewas, and Potawatomis from Chicago live on a reservation near Mayetta, Kansas, and...
...Ottawas first made the Chicago region their home in the mid-1700s, when they and the Chippewas...
...Chippewas and Potawatomis in warfare against Chicago-area tribes in the late 1600s and early 1700s....
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| 773 |
Recollecting Childhood Experiences, 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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| 774 |
Housing Types, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...1959. Photographer: Clarence W. Hines. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3861 Ontario...
...1903. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3506 Bungalows, from...
...region in the 1910s and 1920s. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Softball, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...the game back to indoor baseball , invented in Chicago in 1887 using a ball with a circumference of...
...a 13-inch ball. Around 1907 indoor baseball in Chicago began to move outdoors, as the game rapidly...
...on the city's playgrounds . That same year, Chicago's park, school, and church associations formally...
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| 776 |
Kindergarten Movement, Roberta Wollons(
Authored Entry
) ...Froebel, German creator of the kindergarten. Chicago was an early center of innovations linking the...
...and settlement work, and John Dewey's progressive education reforms at the University of Chicago ....
...The Chicago founder was Alice Putnam, who began the first kindergarten study club in 1874. She...
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School Desegregation, John L. Rury(
Authored Entry
) ...halfhearted efforts in the late 1960s and 1970s, Chicago never developed an exchange program between...
...School desegregation became an issue in Chicago during the years following World War II , as the...
...remained a controversial issue in Chicago, and plans to achieve integration contributed to white...
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Public Broadcasting, Allyson Hobbs(
Authored Entry
) ...international news and its ability to reach Chicago's international listening communities. Listeners...
...radio stations, including the University of Chicago 's WHPK (88.5 FM), Loyola University 's WLUW (...
...of a noncommercial television channel in Chicago. With enthusiastic viewer support and sufficient...
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| 779 |
Overview, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...and ran the terminus of the first railroad in Chicago right to the banks of the north branch....
...He worked to gain for the Chicago Canal and Dock Company (he was a...
...major investor) control of property along the Chicago River and adjacent Lake Michigan, even hiring...
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Epidemics, Walter Nugent(
Authored Entry
) ...1980—almost 1,000 in 1993 alone; it became Chicago's last epidemic of the twentieth century. i3671...
...prevent and cure tuberculosis. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...During the nineteenth century, Chicago suffered fearsome though sporadic epidemics of disease....
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