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Whigs, Thomas F. Schwartz and Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...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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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Skyscrapers, Charles Laurier(
Authored Entry
) ...Saarinen design in scintillating contemporary garb. Chicago continues to be a living museum of the...
...of business and services that have in turn made Chicago the great metropolis of the interior United...
...Chase. Source: The Newberry Library. FIGURE 1 Chicago has been the site of many of the skyscraper's...
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Fishermen, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...the Calumet River (Ewing and 92nd). See also: Calumet River 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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Topography, John C. Hudson(
Authored Entry
) ...Illinois–Mississippi system to the west and the Chicago River–Lake Michigan–St. Lawrence River...
...Metropolitan Chicago's topography is almost entirely a product of glaciation . Only in scattered...
...hills. The bedrock layers under the city of Chicago include massive reefs of limestone that are...
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People and the Port, Theodore Karamanski(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...J. Karamanski Bibliography Hill, Libby. The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History. 2000....
...Michigan Frontier. 2000. Solzman, David. The Chicago River: An Illustrated History and Guide to the...
...Karamanski, Theodore and Deane Tanke. Maritime Chicago. 2000. Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis....
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Graphic Design, Victor Margolin(
Authored Entry
) ...but succeeded only to a modest degree. Although Chicago has remained a large and active center of...
...i3453 The Society of Typographic Arts was Chicago's premier design professional organization from...
...Chicago's flourishing graphic design practice owes largely to the communication needs of a large...
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Industrial Art and Design, Victoria Kasuba Matranga(
Authored Entry
) ...base has continued to attract corporate headquarters and production facilities to the Chicago area....
...design in their curricula. Since the 1930s, Chicago's manufacturers and merchandisers have provided...
...designers from nearby Detroit transferred to Chicago-area employers. A typical career path for the...
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Century of Progress Exposition, Robert W. Rydell(
Authored Entry
) ...1934–October 31, 1934) Originally intended to commemorate Chicago's past, the Century of Progress...
...Exposition came to symbolize hope for Chicago's and America's future in the midst of the Great...
...Depression . This was the second world's fair that Chicago had hosted, and by the time it closed, it...
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Industrial Workers of the World, Melvyn Dubofsky(
Authored Entry
) ...however, the IWW held national conventions in Chicago and kept its national headquarters there,...
...by such famous radicals as Joe Hill and Ralph Chaplin. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago has played a central role in the history of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In...
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Typhoid, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Water-Related Epidemics 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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Serbs, Peter T. Alter(
Authored Entry
) ...worked to improve their own lives in the Chicago region. With the growth in suburbs and prosperity...
...Serbian immigrants first came to the Chicago region along with thousands of other Southern and...
...Serbian immigrants in the United States and the Chicago area did not come from Serbia proper, but...
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