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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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| 864 |
"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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| 865 |
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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| 867 |
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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Early Lakeshore Development, 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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Private and Public Beaches, Page 3, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | 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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| 875 |
Fenianism, Randall M. Miller(
Authored Entry
) ...but its day had passed by 1871. Former Fenians in Chicago joined their compatriots across America by...
...the Fenian Brotherhood as the dominant Irish nationalist society in Chicago and the United States....
...the roughly 20,000 Irish immigrants living in Chicago on the eve of the Civil War . Initially, the...
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| 876 |
Tenements, Henry C. Binford(
Authored Entry
) ...Hull House, ca. 1910. Photographer: Unknown. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago's tenements were not like those made famous by Jacob Riis in New York City—six- or seven-...
...next to other structures of the same nature. Chicago's sprawling growth and decentralized employment...
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| 877 |
Cold War and Anti-Communism, John F. Lyons(
Authored Entry
) ...its members blacklisted by the late 1950s, the Chicago Communist Party, never larger than a couple...
...dominated American domestic politics. In Chicago, as elsewhere, conservative politicians and...
...tone of postwar anti-Communist activity in Chicago was set by the Illinois legislature. In August...
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| 878 |
La Grange, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
Authored Entry
) ...Unable to find open and affordable land in Chicago, manufacturers like General Motors Corporation...
...rates of suburbanization and exodus out of Chicago increased, the population of La Grange continued...
...the expansion of the rail system around Chicago laid the framework for a sprawling metropolis. As...
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| 879 |
Rhythm and Blues, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...Warehouse on the West Side. In the next decade, Chicago-based performers R. Kelly, Common (Rashied...
...From the first decades after World War II , Chicago was a major center for rhythm and blues, a new...
...Record Row” (Cottage Grove between 47th and 50th), Chicago's independent record companies, including...
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| 880 |
Dominicans, Rafael Nuñez-Cedeño(
Authored Entry
) ...folklore to merengue music performers to Chicago's museums, schools , parks, and libraries. The...
...owned gallery Mi Galería introduced Dominican artists and sculptors to Chicago. Dominicans have...
...found a variety of business opportunities in Chicago, including money-transfer agencies, cosmetics...
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