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Chicago Relief and Aid Society, Karen Sawislak(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Relief and Aid Society...
...until the mid-1880s. In 1909, the society was absorbed into the United Charities of Chicago....
...The Chicago Relief and Aid Society, founded in 1851, sought to exercise a “scientific” and “...
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John Kikulski and Chicago Labor, Dominic A. Pacyga(
Authored Entry
) ...John Kikulski and Chicago Labor...
...1919. Later that year he became entangled in Chicago's labor wars. Various factions accused him of...
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Amos Alonzo Stagg and Football at Chicago, Robin Lester(
Authored Entry
) ...Amos Alonzo Stagg and Football at Chicago...
...the Pacific, retiring at 84. Stagg's years as Chicago's football coach included several milestones....
...The University of Chicago pioneered the postseason “bowl” idea by sending its Maroons on a six-...
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Louis Henri Sullivan and the Chicago School, David Garrard Lowe(
Authored Entry
) ...Louis Henri Sullivan and the Chicago School...
...At the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893, Sullivan's Transportation Building,...
...including the Schlesinger & Mayer Store in Chicago—now Carson Pirie Scott & Co. He also wrote The...
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James Farmer: A Chicago Lunch Counter Sit-In, (
Authored Entry
) ...James Farmer: A Chicago Lunch Counter Sit-In...
...James Farmer came to Chicago in 1941 to work as the race-relations secretary with the Fellowship of...
...an interracial group, mostly University of Chicago graduate students, to study Gandhi and his...
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Robert Maynard Hutchins and the University of Chicago, Leon Botstein(
Authored Entry
) ...Robert Maynard Hutchins and the University of Chicago...
...to college. Under his watch, the University of Chicago became a unique community of scholars and...
...universities. After leaving the University of Chicago, Hutchins became the guiding force at the...
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Implementation Map (Chicago River Straightening), (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Special Feature)
) ...Implementation Map (Chicago River Straightening)...
...Implementation Interpretive Digital Essay : The Plan of Chicago...
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University of Illinois at Chicago, Gerald A. Danzer(
Authored Entry
) ...University of Illinois at Chicago...
...The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) originated in 1982 with the consolidation of the two...
...Medical Center and the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. The former, which became the West...
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Art Institute of Chicago, Diane Dillon(
Authored Entry
) ...Art Institute of Chicago...
...as a tiny academy, the Art Institute of Chicago has grown into an internationally renowned...
...served as a barometer of the role of art in Chicago. The institute traces its origins to the Chicago...
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Chicago Housing Authority, Harvey M. Choldin(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Housing Authority...
...demolition of failed high-rise buildings. Chicago demolished several high-rise buildings in 1996 and...
...have been two categories of public housing in Chicago: for families and for the elderly. Founded in...
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Architecture: The Second Chicago School, Franz Schulze(
Authored Entry
) ...The Second Chicago School...
...began to persuade many observers that the Chicago frame, whose structural neutrality differentiated...
...of World War II , residential architecture in Chicago began to reappear as early as the late 1940s,...
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Architecture: The First Chicago School, David Garrard Lowe(
Authored Entry
) ...The First Chicago School...
...overwhelmingly Beaux-Arts. Nonetheless, the First Chicago School was an astonishing and a profoundly...
...and aesthetic boldness would surface again in Chicago in the 1930s with the arrival of the Bauhaus,...
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Government, City of Chicago, Loomis Mayfield(
Authored Entry
) ...Government, City of Chicago...
...aldermanic candidates. i3732 The state legislature, which had incorporated Chicago as a town...
...in 1833, approved Chicago's incorporation as a city four years later. Source: Chicago Historical...
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Crime and Chicago's Image, David E. Ruth(
Authored Entry
) ...Crime and Chicago's Image...
...Chicago's criminal reputation long preceded Al Capone and the beer wars. Born in the same years as...
...the city's criminal reputation. At midcentury, Chicago reportedly had more gambling establishments...
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House of the Good Shepherd / Chicago Industrial School for Girls, Suellen Hoy(
Authored Entry
) ...House of the Good Shepherd/Chicago Industrial School for Girls...
...the first nuns to serve African Americans on Chicago's South Side . In 1953, this “school-home”...
...Irish Sisters of the Good Shepherd arrived in Chicago from St. Louis to care for “abandoned women. ”...
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Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...Global Chicago...
...century? How much more difficult is it to realistically imagine the Chicago world they inhabited?...
...on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan . Chicago arose there within the thinnest sliver of human...
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Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...Global Chicago...
...Cermak possibly have imagined the character of Chicago as it existed at the opening of the twenty-...
...difficult is it to realistically imagine the Chicago world they inhabited? i3485 Gold Coast aerial...
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Planning Chicago, Carl Abbott(
Authored Entry
) ...Planning Chicago...
...to reinvigorate the civic-mindedness that has served Chicago well in the past and to craft political...
...everything from Pullman and Hyde Park to the Chicago park system and the web of highways that knit...
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Early Thoughts on Remaking Chicago, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Early Thoughts on Remaking Chicago...
...in support of remaking the lakefront. Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2499 3211...
...Daniel H. Burnham Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2467 3205 Speech to the Commercial...
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Mapping Chicago, Old and New, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Mapping Chicago, Old and New...
...One of the many maps adapted from the Sanitary District Map of Chicago. Areas covered by...
...located mostly along the branches of the Chicago River) are in red, railroad properties and lines (...
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