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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(
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) ...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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Sri Lankans, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...meet socially throughout the year, most of the Chicago Sri Lankan community comes together a few...
...first major wave of Sri Lankan migration to Chicago began in the late 1960s and comprised primarily...
...and Sinhalese families, settled permanently in Chicago and created a strong community, attracting...
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Hardware Manufacturing, Timothy E. Sullivan(
Authored Entry
) ...Coast, True Value became a principal division of the TruServ Corporation, headquartered in Chicago....
...markets and its expanding base of foundries, Chicago was able to efficiently supply the metal and...
...widening hardware industry. The emergence of Chicago as an industrial and manufacturing center in...
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Lisle, IL, Patricia K. Kummer(
Authored Entry
) ...village as the third most popular meeting site in Illinois, following only Chicago and Springfield....
...destination. Initially, a stagecoach line between Chicago and Aurora carried mail to and from Lisle....
...In 1840, Mark Beaubien, one of Chicago's early residents, moved to Lisle, where he operated an inn....
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Race Divisions on Public Beaches, Page 1, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Beach, 1928 and 1949 Photographer: Clarence Homan Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37327)...
...Photographer: Lil & Al Bloom Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi- 37328) Located at 57th...
...Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia...
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Bridge Tenders, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Tender, 1985 Author: Kenan Heise, Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38032) Gustav Massman...
...was a longtime bridge tender in Chicago. For many years, he was in charge of the Halsted Street...
...of life as a bridge tender in twentieth-century Chicago. See also: Near North Side ; Chicago River...
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Modern Kitchen, Bathroom, and Laundry Room, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Photographer: Hedrich-Blessing (Giovanni Suter) Source: Chicago Historical Society (HB- 15359(B))...
...Hedrich-Blessing (Giovanni Suter) Source: Chicago Historical Society (HB-15359(C)) The suburban boom...
...with thousands of new houses constructed across the Chicago metropolitan area. Suburban governments...
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Shopping Districts and Malls, Larry Bennett(
Authored Entry
) ...Illinois, 1929. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3509 Pullman...
...decades of the twentieth century, many of Chicago's neighborhood shopping districts catered, in...
...By the 1850s, Chicago's principal retail shopping district had emerged along Lake Street,...
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Gangs, Andrew J. Diamond(
Authored Entry
) ...their appeal by crossing gender lines. The Chicago Crime Commission estimated that females accounted...
...Chicago's first gangs developed along ethnic lines out of the volunteer fire departments during the...
...and Italian gangs were the most numerous in Chicago. Polish gangs located in the “Pojay” colony on...
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