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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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Expressways, Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...Expressways have reshaped the Chicago region perhaps more than any other twentieth-century force,...
...and 1920s gave new urgency to the arterial improvements recommended in the 1909 Plan of Chicago....
...In 1927, the Chicago Plan Commission laid out a system of limited-access highways radiating from the...
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Fitness and Athletic Clubs, Tiffany L. Crate(
Authored Entry
) ...fitness, and athletic clubs are a rich part of Chicago's history because athletics, socializing, and...
...business and professional men from Boston, the Chicago Athletic Association (CAA) erected its ornate...
...the 14th floor. A premier gathering spot for Chicago's elite and visiting dignitaries, it also had a...
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Skating, Ice, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...During the nineteenth century, ice skating on Chicago's ponds, rivers, lagoons, and manufactured...
...the Catholic Youth Organization , and the Chicago Park District. The city was also home to three...
...Johnson Skate Company. By 1923 metropolitan Chicago's winter landscape was dotted with more than six...
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"Downstate", James R. Thompson(
Authored Entry
) ...agricultural produce, the Art Institute , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Lyric Opera , the...
...city. Of course, to combine all the strength of Chicago with the quiet beauty of Southern Illinois (...
...and spiritually closer to Mississippi than it is to Chicago) is to realize that Illinoisans have the...
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The Plan Comes Together, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
...The Plan Comes Together Interpretive Digital Essay : The Plan of Chicago The...
...Plan of Chicago Chicago in 1909 Planning Before the Plan Antecedents and Inspirations The City the...
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Street Life, Perry R. Duis(
Authored Entry
) ...expansion at the University of Illinois at Chicago brought an end to the storied Maxwell Street...
...Street musician, 1959. Photographer: Clarence W. Hines. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...If anything has characterized the history of Chicago's street life, it has been disagreement, as...
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Mapmaking and Map Publishing, Michael P. Conzen and Robert W. Karrow, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...promotional oil-company road map in the 1970s. Chicago also played a leading role in the production...
...east. Actual map printing and publishing in Chicago before midcentury was highly intermittent, the...
...first effort being Juliette Kinzie's sketch Chicago in 1812, which appeared in her Narrative of the...
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Native Americans, Louis Delgado(
Authored Entry
) ...Wisconsin within a half day's drive from Chicago, enabling members of those tribes, in particular,...
...Central depot and grain elevators, south of the Chicago River, north of what would, when filled with...
...Grant Park, 1858. Photographer: Alexander Hesler. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Bears, Don Pierson(
Authored Entry
) ...i3107 Team owner and head coach George Halas with members of the 1935 Chicago Bears. Photographer:...
...Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...The Chicago Bears professional football team began in 1920 as the Decatur Staleys, an industrial...
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Calumet River Bridges, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...interruption. See also: Expressways ; Transportation 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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Private and Public Beaches, Page 4, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Shoreline Development 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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Underground Economy, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...South State Street, 1930. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3664...
...Slot machines, seized in an effort to curtail gambling in Chicago, are destroyed with hammers, 1907....
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