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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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Slovaks, Emily Brunner(
Authored Entry
) ...breakup of Czechoslovakia, more Slovaks moved to Chicago, settling especially in Garfield Ridge on...
...Immigrants began arriving in Chicago from Slovakia, which was then part of the Hapsburg Empire and...
...although immeasurable number migrated to Chicago. Entering the city with few marketable skills, they...
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Street Railways, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...ran on the West Town's system in 1948, and Chicago's last streetcar operated June 22, 1958, on the...
...of the streetcar companies, was acquired by the new Chicago Transit Authority in 1947 for a bargain-...
...Chicago had one of the largest street railway systems in the world before it was replaced by buses...
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Photography, Larry Viskochil(
Authored Entry
) ...and professional photographers have created a rich visual heritage of life in Chicago. Aside from...
...a few landscapes, the earliest photographs of Chicago are daguerreotype, ambrotype, and tintype...
...the growth of the photographic profession. In Chicago, the studios of Edwin Brand, John Carbutt, S....
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Ku Klux Klan, Kenneth T. Jackson(
Authored Entry
) ...American Patriots. The secret order's demise in Chicago was largely the result of the work of the...
...the names, addresses, and occupations of thousands of Chicago-area Klansmen. The tactic worked,...
...and by 1925 the Ku Klux Klan had almost disappeared from Chicago....
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Grain Trade, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
...Goose Island Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors...
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Street Peddling, Lori Grove(
Authored Entry
) ...which started with the peddling of wares on Chicago's streets. i3400 This 1959 photo of a huckster...
...located further away. Photographer: Clarence W. Hines. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...As early as 1847 the city of Chicago established official markets where peddlers could set up their...
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Gardening, Ellen Eslinger(
Authored Entry
) ...Vaughan's Seed Store, with two stores in Chicago and extensive greenhouses in Western Springs , was...
...audience through its regular radio program on Chicago station WDAP. The needs of urban gardeners...
...as “Landscaping the Small Home Grounds. ” The Chicago Park District made parallel efforts, issuing...
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Taxation and Finance, Jon C. Teaford(
Authored Entry
) ...had boasted. Yet the various governments of the Chicago area remained solvent. The property tax...
...alternate sources of revenue. From the 1830s on, Chicago's city government levied a property tax,...
...improvements supplemented the property tax. Chicago relied more heavily on such assessments than...
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Land Use, Richard D. Mariner(
Authored Entry
) ...Street Bridge, before 1952. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...The successful development of the Chicago metropolitan area is largely attributed to the region's...
...shipment of goods by all modes of transport. Chicago's locational advantage has been exploited by...
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Race Divisions on Public Beaches, Page 2, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...1980s, de facto segregation continued at many Chicago beaches. See also: Leisure ; Near South Side ;...
...Beach, 1987 Photographer: Antonio Perez Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37331) The Hispanic...
...from Calumet Park illustrates a diversity of Chicago residents that exceeds a simple black and white...
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Ice Skating, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
...Growing Up Along Water Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors...
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Work Culture, Lynn Y. Weiner(
Authored Entry
) ...train from Wisconsin onto the streets of Chicago, she enters a world of seemingly endless work...
...possibilities. An industrial behemoth, Chicago bristled with crowded factories, bustling stockyards,...
...the unique geography of the city. The centrality of Chicago to shipping and transportation routes by...
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