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Iraqis, Asad Husain and Khoshaba Jasim(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Whigs, Thomas F. Schwartz and Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...Whig party collapsed in the mid-1850s, many of Chicago's former Whigs joined a new party: the...
...temperance and other moral-reform laws. In Chicago, as in the nation as a whole, this platform often...
...The Whig party attracted some of early Chicago's leading businessmen and lawyers, including John H....
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Armory Show of 1913, Paul Kruty(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Arts Club in 1916; and the growth of Chicago's many radical exhibition societies of the...
...24 and April 16, 1913, the Art Institute of Chicago hosted the International Exposition of Modern...
...from Goya to the Cubists. The show arrived in Chicago fresh from its first, month-long showing in...
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Swimming in the Lakes and Streams, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Fitness and Athletic Clubs 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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Koreans, Youn-Jin Kim(
Authored Entry
) ...to 428 in 1991, an estimated 70 percent of Chicago's Korean businesses. Korean community life has...
...Ilbo, Chung'ang Ilbo, Hangyore Sinmun, Chicago Sinbo), social service centers (Korean American...
...while solidifying ethnic ties. However, Chicago's Korean community is neither as harmonious nor...
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| 815 |
French Missionaries and Traders, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...missionary. So he spent the winter in the Chicago area along the south branch of the Chicago River....
...His account of his months in Chicago show the importance of the river and Lake Michigan on the...
...Indians toward this lonely man. See also: Chicago in the Middle Ground The Electronic Encyclopedia...
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School Districts, Kenneth K. Wong(
Authored Entry
) ...were reconstituted. The mayoral management model in Chicago soon spread to several cities across the...
...the state legislature transferred control of Chicago's school affairs to the city council, which...
...largely unincorporated farmland outside of Chicago, a few schoolhouses were built by early settlers....
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Government, Suburban, Jon C. Teaford(
Authored Entry
) ...were ever suspicious of the motives of Chicago city officials. At the close of the twentieth...
...authority. The fragmentation of suburban Chicago was an entrenched fact of political life. i3496...
...Building, 1973. Photographer: Casey Prunchunas. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Jazz Dance, Anthea Kraut(
Authored Entry
) ...jazz-based vocabulary with ballet and modern techniques, emerged on the Chicago scene. The founding...
...dance companies like Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago (1968), Joel Hall Dancers (1974), Joseph Holmes...
...Theatre (1974–1995), and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (1977) exemplified this trend. In the 1990s,...
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Urban Renewal, Arnold R. Hirsch(
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) ...acknowledged in deciding the 1966 suit brought by Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) resident Dorothy...
...of heading off an urban crisis. As early as 1943 a Chicago Plan Commission survey had found 242,000...
...Another 100,000 such units were scattered across Chicago in “non-blighted” areas. Such conditions,...
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Creating the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...their approval. Finally, on July 4, 1909, the Plan of Chicago was ready for all the world to see....
...The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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