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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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Building a Bridge, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...November 1959 view looks northwest across the Chicago River to the Central Cold Storage Building....
...1960 Photographer: J. Sherwin Murphy Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37378) By April...
...Improvement, Dearborn St. Bascule Bridge, City of Chicago, Richard J. Daley, Mayor. ” See...
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Fire of 1871, Karen Sawislak(
Authored Entry
) ...place of opportunity, renewal, and future promise. i3524 Aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire, 1871....
...Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Public Library. FIGURE 1...
...gale-force wind, this blaze grew into the Great Chicago Fire. Advancing northward for 36 hours, the...
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Crib Tenders, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...South Shore ; Water Supply 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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Will County, Sarah S. Marcus(
Authored Entry
) ...transportation ties that had linked the town of Chicago with the communities of Will County—walking...
...inconvenience of day-long trips to and from Chicago for legal transactions, settlers soon demanded...
...economic and social ties with their neighbors in Chicago. Even before 1834, when Joliet served as a...
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Colleges, Junior and Community, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...public junior college movement was born in the Chicago area due to the leadership of William Rainey...
...the first president of the University of Chicago , distinguished between the general education of...
...community college. With Harper's successors at Chicago uninterested in the junior colleges, their...
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Industry, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...innovative neighbors. 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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Street Naming, Michael Paul Wakeford(
Authored Entry
) ...Of the more than a thousand streets within Chicago's city limits today, the greatest number—more...
...of real-estate developers. English towns and Chicago's former mayors and aldermen have provided the...
...The street names of Chicago offer a rich record of the city's spatial and social development. In...
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Children's Museums, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...recycling, while Kohl's “All Aboard” took children on a mock Chicago Transit Authority train ride...
...through the streets of Chicago. Other children's museums include the Dupage Children's Museum (1987)...
...Chicago is home to a number of museums designed especially foryoung people, including the Chicago...
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Groundwater System, James J. Miner and Richard J. Rice(
Authored Entry
) ...has been used by industries throughout the Chicago region and for drinking water in most suburban...
...in the southern and eastern parts of the Chicago region. Cambrian and Ordovician rocks, including...
...Counties flows eastward and southward toward Chicago; west of that line, groundwater flows generally...
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Nicaraguans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...census counted 778 Nicaraguans in the city of Chicago and 1,465 in the metropolitan area. Given the...
...Nicaraguan laborers probably trickled into Chicago along with Mexicans and other Latin Americans in...
...the 1940s. By the late 1950s, Chicago Nicaraguans and their consulate had established the Sociedad...
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