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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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| 784 |
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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| 791 |
Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...2 | Page 3 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
...and Water Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water in Chicago Essay: People and the Port...
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Retail Geography, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...a component of the evolving urban landscape of Chicago since the formal incorporation of the city in...
...Lake and Clark Streets was the nucleus of Chicago's retail environment. Here residents and travelers...
...Water Street Market, located on the banks of the Chicago River , emerged as an important center of...
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Dutch, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...and research facility for Dutch history in the Chicago area. This institution reflects the active...
...Dutch ethnic consciousness that takes pride in its long association with metropolitan Chicago....
...European ethnic groups to settle in the Chicago area. Through the years they left the Netherlands in...
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| 794 |
Great Depression, Tracey Deutsch(
Authored Entry
) ...When the stock market crashed in October 1929, Chicago had a Republican mayor, a virtually insolvent...
...When general prosperity returned in 1940, Chicago had an entrenched Democratic machine, a fully...
...Great Depression was particularly severe in Chicago because of the city's reliance on manufacturing,...
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| 795 |
Water and Urban Life, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History. 2000. 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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| 796 |
Latvians, Andris Straumanis(
Authored Entry
) ...capital of Riga. Ojārs Kalniņš, who grew up in Chicago, served as Latvia's ambassador to the United...
...small Latvian population in the United States, Chicago has always been an important cultural center....
...Latvians from the Chicago area often have been leaders within their national ethnic community and—in...
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| 797 |
Fishing, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...of the Des Plaines River to the northwest of Chicago in Des Plaines in 1926. A dock is visible on...
...summer camps. See also: Des Plaines River ; Des Plaines, IL The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 798 |
Swiss, Leo Schelbert(
Authored Entry
) ...life. In 1870 there were some 1,500 Swiss in Chicago out of 8,980 in Illinois; in 1930, 4,230 out of...
...more than 20,000 people in the greater Chicago metropolitan area reported some Swiss ancestry....
...The occupational status level of Chicago's Swiss resembled that of Americans at large. A 1915...
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| 799 |
Veterans' Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow(
Authored Entry
) ...care for veterans became apparent. In the Chicago area, sick and injured veterans were sent to the...
...hospitals serving veterans. Largest of the Chicago-area Veterans' Hospitals, the Edward Hines, Jr. ,...
...in France. Marshal Foch of the French Army came to Chicago for its dedication. Five years later, the...
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Algerians, Stephen R. Porter(
Authored Entry
) ...Prior to the 1990s, Chicago's small Algerian population comprised mainly students and professionals...
...to attend French and American universities. Chicago received far fewer students than New York or...
...A prominent FIS official, Anwar Haddam, came to Chicago in the mid-1990s to study computer science,...
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