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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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| 887 |
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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| 888 |
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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| 890 |
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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| 891 |
Belgians, Robert Morrissey and Christina A. Reynen(
Authored Entry
) ...consecrated the second bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago in 1849, was among the...
...first Belgians to arrive in Chicago. The Henrotin family ( Joseph and Ferdinand) arrived around the...
...businessmen established an early presence in Chicago, opening a consulate office in 1854 that...
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Americanization, James R. Barrett(
Authored Entry
) ...Each of Chicago's immigrants has had to come to terms with a new life in a large American city....
...born people. Formal Americanization efforts in Chicago were sparse and rather subdued until 1917–...
...citizen and a loyal, efficient worker. By 1922 the Chicago Board of Education, which provided most...
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| 893 |
Pakistanis, Ajay K. Mehrotra(
Authored Entry
) ...and first head of state. On that same weekend, Chicago's Indians celebrate their independence day (...
...by-side coexistence of Pakistanis and Indians in Chicago is a remarkable contrast to the strife that...
...has riddled the two nations since their founding. Chicago's Pakistanis have established a number of...
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Grocery Stores and Supermarkets, Paul Gilmore(
Authored Entry
) ...building codes in the city center following the Chicago Fire forced residents and small retailers...
...Thousands of small neighborhood stores dotted Chicago's urban landscape until the 1950s. Families...
...fierce competition that characterized their industry, Chicago's retail food store owners formed many...
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| 895 |
Russians, Katarzyna Zechenter(
Authored Entry
) ...precisely how many Russian immigrants have made Chicago home over the course of the city's history....
...and Russian Jews settled on the East Coast, Chicago became the largest center of Russian Jews and...
...a small number of Russian Jews immigrated to Chicago's South Side , where they were left relatively...
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Labor Law, Andrew Wender Cohen(
Authored Entry
) ...local commentators attribute the waning power of unions in Chicago to the vitiation of the NLRA....
...labor organizations, and employees. In Chicago, the law has determined the outcome of many struggles...
...in conviction, both financially weakened the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) and discouraged labor...
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| 897 |
Lacustrine System, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...The landscape that greeted early settlers to the Chicago area was filled with lakes, sloughs, and...
...melted away and left a huge lake called Lake Chicago. The surface of this glacial lake lay 60 feet...
...Lake Michigan, and it overlay much of the future Chicago area. The lake was dammed behind ridges of...
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Industry, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...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 Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...
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Housekeeping, Glenna Matthews(
Authored Entry
) ...From all over the world, Chicago's many in-migrants have brought with them an immense variety in...
...another set that might be very different in Chicago. Thus, the pace of a family's assimilation to...
...family's holiday dinner? Hundreds of thousands of Chicago women have pondered such issues over the...
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Fur Trade, B. Pierre Lebeau(
Authored Entry
) ...of the company in Illinois, the fur trade at Chicago was measured in hundreds instead of thousands...
...of the fur trade as a significant part of the Chicago economy. Diminishing profits convinced Astor...
...to the Far West. Fur trading disappeared from Chicago as the population boomed and land speculation...
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Postcards, Katherine Hamilton-Smith(
Authored Entry
) ...postcard company C. R. Childs, which specialized in views of Chicago's neighborhoods and suburbs....
...about their origins, or are aware that Chicago figured prominently in the history of postcards....
...in 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The set of 10 cards, produced by Charles W....
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Mormons, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1839. In its prime, Nauvoo rivaled Chicago in size and population, and Mormon activities,...
...of polygamy among the church's hierarchy, attracted the notice of Chicago journalists . Part of...
...between church founder Joseph Smith and the Chicago Democrat's John Wentworth became the...
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