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Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Great Depression, Tracey Deutsch(
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) ...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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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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Latvians, Andris Straumanis(
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) ...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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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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Swiss, Leo Schelbert(
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) ...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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Veterans' Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Iraqis, Asad Husain and Khoshaba Jasim(
Authored Entry
) ...The Iraqi community of metropolitan Chicago reflects the ethnic and sectarian diversity of Iraq....
...maintain their distinct ethnic identities in Chicago, holding to traditional family values, cultural...
...The largest and oldest Iraqi community in Chicago are the Assyrians, who number in the tens of...
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Macedonians, Gregory Michaelidis(
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) ...Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece, the thousands of Chicago-area Macedonians recognized that they would...
...World War II years, and established communities in Chicago and Gary as well as downstate in Madison,...
...Macedonians and Bulgarians were living in Chicago. Early in the century, Macedonians worked almost...
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Streets and Highways, David M. Young(
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) ...trails that intersected at the confluence of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan , and that pattern...
...hard-surfaced roads occurred in the 1840s when Chicago covered some of its streets with planks, and...
...outlying areas. When they quickly deteriorated, Chicago turned to a parquet-like, wood-block paving...
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Railroad Stations, Max Grinnell(
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) ...Built by the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in 1848, the city's first railroad depot was of a...
...which was used as a watchtower. The building was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ....
...The terminal railroad stations built in Chicago during the mid to late nineteenth century were...
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Clerical Workers, Lisa Michelle Fine(
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) ...as stenographers, 1909. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago's explosive growth and economic development during the late nineteenth century multiplied...
...transition derived from a combination of Chicago's characteristics. As a terminus for immigrants and...
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Gay and Lesbian Rights Movements, Carl Nash(
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) ...rights in the United States was founded in Chicago to bring homosexuals together as well as educate...
...of another lesbian and gay rights organization in Chicago for another 30 years. In the early 1950s,...
...Local chapters of both groups existed in Chicago by 1955; these organizations attempted to secure...
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Guatemalans, Heather McClure and José L. Oliva(
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) ...Prior to the 1980s, Chicago was home to a small number of Guatemalan professionals and students. The...
...campesinos (small farmers). Later that decade, Chicago became the destination for Guatemalan Mayans...
...By the early 1990s, Guatemalans residing in Chicago included representatives from each of the 21...
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Antiwar Movements, Elizabeth McKillen(
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) ...Allen, Gordon, Schroeppel and Redlich, Inc. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...interest. From the Civil War to the Gulf Wars, Chicago has hosted powerful movements opposing...
...Particularly important were the roles played by Chicago groups in opposing World War I , World War...
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Luxembourgers, Kathleen Neils Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...Immigrants from Luxembourg created one of Chicago's smallest but most self-conscious and enduring...
...ethnic groups. Chicago's Luxembourgers also played a central role not only in the group's American...
...duchy (population 175,000 in 1839) arrived in Chicago about 1842, seeking on the American frontier...
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Romanians, Robert Morrissey(
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) ...Bucovina Mission helped Romanians settle in Chicago. Others, like the Romanian Missionary Society,...
...Community united these groups together in a Chicago-wide alliance. Mayor Richard J. Daley declared...
...and 25,050 residents of Romanian ancestry in the Chicago metropolitan region, community leaders...
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