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McCormicks, Kevin Davis(
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) ...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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Australians, Daniel Greene(
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) ...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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Malians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...and meetings of other West African organizations in Chicago, and, although these groups have largely...
...as students in the 1970s, most Malians in Chicago arrived in the 1990s. Famine and economic hardship...
...permanently settling in new cities including Chicago, Seattle, and Philadelphia. After the first...
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Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...land was miles beyond the built-up settlement at Chicago and was used mostly for farms, pasture, and...
...Growth 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...
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Acting, Ensemble, Andrea Telli and Richard Pettengill(
Authored Entry
) ...has established its own prominence in the Chicago theater scene. Zimmerman's commitment to ensemble...
...Her production of Ovid's Metamorphoses went from Chicago's Ivanhoe Theatre to Broadway in 2002,...
...displaying to a larger audience a prime example of Chicago ensemble work. i3312 Second City cast on...
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Swimming in the Lakes and Streams, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Waterfront Swimming Lessons, 51st Street Beach, Lake Michigan, 1917 Photographer: Chicago Daily...
...News Source: Chicago Historical Society (DN-0068604) Organized swimming experiences included lessons...
...Street Beach Photographer: John McCarthy Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37290) Back | Page...
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Water Polo, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...Water polo originated in England in 1874 and arrived in Chicago in 1893, when Englishman John...
...Robinson became swimming instructor at the Chicago Athletic Association. As codified by Americans in...
...game than that played in Europe. In 1911, Chicago amateur club teams dropped the softball style and...
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Architecture, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...Overview The First Chicago School The City Beautiful Movement...
...The Prairie School The Second Chicago School W. W....
...Van Osdel were the most prominent architects in Chicago as the city grew from less than 1,000 at its...
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Crete, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...more closely to the Chicago region. In 1926, Chicago and Kentucky businessmen built Lincoln Fields,...
...on 1,000 acres south of Crete. Also in 1926, Chicago interests purchased land east of the village...
...plant established in 1869. Also in 1869, the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad came through...
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Dime Novels, Paul J. Erickson(
Authored Entry
) ...as in The Red Flag; or, The Anarchists of Chicago, which revolves around the Haymarket and McCormick...
...Reaper Works riots of 1886. No Chicago event proved more fertile for dime novel authors than the...
...advantage of the crowds that converged upon Chicago were widespread, inspiring novels like The...
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Amusement Parks, Stan Barker(
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) ...parks, opened in East Dundee , 1959. Old Chicago, the first indoor shopping mall / theme park (...
...1976; sold to the Six Flags chain, 1984) brought Chicago into the modern theme park era. In 1995, a...
...at the renovated Navy Pier , a reminder of Chicago's past amusement greatness. i3099 Postcard of...
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New Zealanders, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...major urban centers of the United States, Chicago-area New Zealanders have assimilated relatively...
...status upon arrival. Thus, New Zealanders in the Chicago area do not constitute an extremely visible...
...dispersed and scattered. New Zealanders came to Chicago in significant numbers following World War...
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