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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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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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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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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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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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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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Automobile Parts, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...of foreign companies. At the end of the century, Chicago-area companies continued to participate in...
...The manufacture of automobile parts was never one of Chicago's largest industries. Nevertheless, the...
...parts industry cannot be written without Chicago-based companies. The production and distribution of...
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Settlement Houses, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Chicago's Hull House was the best-known settlement in...
...1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr launched Hull House in Chicago. As word of these experiments...
...in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Hull House inspired Charles Zueblin to organize...
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Strikes, Richard Schneirov(
Authored Entry
) ...Perhaps no city in the United States exceeded Chicago in the number, breadth, intensity, and...
...six important strike waves or labor upheavals in Chicago history that were notable for their social...
...impact. On May 2, 1867, Chicago's first Trades Assembly (formed in 1864) sponsored a general strike...
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Crib Tenders, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Supply ; Housekeeping 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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Bangladeshis, Ajay K. Mehrotra(
Authored Entry
) ...the majority of Bangladeshis did not arrive in Chicago until after 1965 when the newly amended...
...its educational and economic opportunities Chicago has also developed a relatively large and vibrant...
...reported 712 Bangladeshis living in the Chicago metropolitan area. Local community leaders estimate,...
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Chambers of Commerce, Jeffrey Charles(
Authored Entry
) ...For most of the twentieth century, the city of Chicago had no organization named the Chamber of...
...and Industry played a key role in boosting Chicago and its business concerns. From its initial...
...work to strengthen the economic interests of Chicago. The association has extended the geographical...
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Edward Eggleston and Literary Realism, Bruce Levy(
Authored Entry
) ...he acknowledged Edward Eggleston's place as a precursor of the Chicago literary renaissance, the...
...movement that made Chicago and the Midwest the focal point of American writing....
...of American literary realism. Lured in 1866 to Chicago by Alfred Sewell, publisher of The Little...
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Gambians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...The first Gambians in Chicago came in the early 1970s for higher education opportunities not...
...and business, while a small number remained in Chicago and began building a community. A steady flow...
...attracted friends and other family members to Chicago in the 1990s. As a result of these migration...
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Music Clubs, Don McLeese(
Authored Entry
) ...century, rock has been a mainstay of the Chicago club circuit, with dozens of clubs competing for...
...the younger music audience. More recently, Chicago clubs have been an influential incubator in the...
...to the industrial North at the turn of the century, Chicago's position as the transportation hub and...
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Emergence of Plumbers and Specialized Fixtures, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...with among other things, plumbing arrangements in Chicago. See also: Construction ; Water Supply ;...
...Catalogues Creator: Thomas Kelly & Bros. Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37291) Creator:...
...Thomas Kelly & Bros. Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37292) By the 1890s, Chicago companies...
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