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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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| 894 |
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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| 896 |
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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| 898 |
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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| 899 |
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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| 900 |
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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| 901 |
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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| 902 |
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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| 903 |
McCormicks, Kevin Davis(
Authored Entry
) ...cultural, and philanthropic life and history of the Chicago metropolitan area for over 150 years....
...Cyrus McCormick relocated his reaper work to Chicago from Virginia in 1847....
...market was on the plains and prairies of Chicago's growing hinterland. Cyrus McCormick became one of...
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| 904 |
Australians, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...Australians in other major U.S. cities, most of Chicago's Australians have assimilated easily owing...
...other ethnic groups, Australians living in Chicago have maintained neither an active organizational...
...neighborhood or occupational concentration. Chicago's small Australian population increased soon...
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| 905 |
Private and Public Beaches, Page 2, 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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| 906 |
Yankees, Richard Jensen(
Authored Entry
) ...merge through intermarriage. The University of Chicago brought newer Yankee arrivals, such as Edith...
...a Yankee ethic—values and virtues that remained deeply embedded in Chicago's leading institutions....
...via New England or New York, began moving to Chicago in the 1830s and infused it with a peculiar...
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| 907 |
Clinics and Dispensaries, Paul A. Buelow(
Authored Entry
) ...every city had at least one dispensary. In Chicago in the early 1840s, the sick poor could visit...
...treated the indigent poor. Later medical schools in Chicago also established dispensaries....
...Chicago's growing population of poorly paid and ill-housed workers provided a large and needy...
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| 908 |
Folk and Traditional Dance, Susan K. Eleuterio and Paul Tyler(
Authored Entry
) ...folk dance, promulgated by groups such as the Chicago Barn Dance Company (established in 1977) in...
...1951. Photographer: Victor T. Gorecki, Jr. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...Social dancing in early Chicago was neither wild nor undisciplined, as frontier stereotypes suggest....
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| 909 |
Interurbans, Ronald Dale Karr(
Authored Entry
) ...and local streetcar tracks to reach downtown. Three interurbans once served Chicago's Loop . Closest...
...to the typical Midwestern interurban was the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad . Constructed...
...operating rights through to the Loop over the Chicago Elevated Railway's Northwestern line until...
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| 910 |
Lake Michigan, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...the United States. At least since 1670, when Marquette and Joliet crossed the Chicago Portage , Lake...
...Michigan has been Chicago's link to the wider world. A resource...
...the lake has served at various times as Chicago's dumping ground, a place from which to reclaim...
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| 911 |
Legal Aid, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...Office has grown. With 460 attorneys in 1996, it was one of Chicago's largest legal organizations....
...legal system. The two groups combined in 1905 to form the Chicago Legal Aid Society (later the Legal...
...Aid Bureau of United Charities of Chicago). The organization, with a staff of 16 in 1915, gradually...
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| 912 |
Libertyville, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...side of the upper Des Plaines River along the Chicago-Milwaukee Road in 1835. Vardin thought that he...
...a sidewalk contractor and president of the Chicago City Council, constructed a large, porticoed...
...on Cook's horse farm, which provided power for Chicago horsecar lines. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St....
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