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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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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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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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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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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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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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Illinois Central Railroad, John P. Hankey(
Authored Entry
) ...the economic and physical development of Illinois and Chicago. It was the primary link between the...
...Gulf of Mexico, providing access to the South for Chicago products and culture and a route north for...
...the IC, but its functions, routes, and franchise have remained important to Chicago's economy....
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Japanese, Charlotte Brooks(
Authored Entry
) ...maintained their community connections through Chicago's Buddhist and Christian churches, the JASC,...
...Coast. But the Japanese American community in Chicago continues to support religious institutions ,...
...Japanese Americans first settled in Chicago in the late 1890s, establishing small businesses such as...
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Antecedents and Inspirations, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...We are merged into nature and become part of her." 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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Calumet River System, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...of this river through the marshes to South Chicago . Now the southern part of the Konomick—or the...
...new channel and emptied into the lake at South Chicago. Another channel linked it to Lake Calumet as...
...Lake Michigan and the Illinois River at South Chicago, but this plan for the Illinois & Michigan...
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DuPage County, Steph McGrath(
Authored Entry
) ...County's growth and development have been linked to Chicago and to transportation routes in northern...
...In the 1830s stage routes radiating out of Chicago were established, with way stations in the area...
...in Naperville. After the 1833 Treaty of Chicago forced the Indians to move west of the Mississippi...
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Slovenes, Emily Brunner(
Authored Entry
) ...lodges in the city and suburbs. Unlike South Chicago and Pilsen, Joliet continues to be home to a...
...Although a few individual Slovenes came to Chicago before the Civil War , the bulk of the population...
...arrived after the 1880s. Most settled in South Chicago , Pullman , and especially in Joliet and...
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Muslims, Paul D. Numrich(
Authored Entry
) ...festivals, devout Muslims face northeast from Chicago toward the sacred city of Mecca. The ritual...
...The Muslim community of metropolitan Chicago reflects the ethnic and theological diversity of global...
...called the Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago, has served a multiethnic constituency, though...
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Grain Trade, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Water Supply Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | 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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| 889 |
Television, Talk, Douglas Gomery and Chuck Howell(
Authored Entry
) ...for ratings and advertising time sold. She had come to Chicago from Baltimore in 1983, joining...
...A.M. Chicago on WLS -TV. Soon...
...surpassing Donahue by 1986 and, from her Chicago base, becoming one of the most popular and wealthy...
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Progressive Education, Arthur Zilversmit(
Authored Entry
) ...Late-nineteenth-century Chicago, home of a new university and one of the first settlement houses ,...
...teach them about Native American culture. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society....
...FIGURE 1 Parker came to Chicago in 1883 as principal of Cook County Normal School and its Practice...
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