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91 Swimming in the Lakes and Streams, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...to rivers, streams and outlying lakes in the mid-nineteenth century. With industrialization and the...
...swimming areas, official or not, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in both the open...
92 Telephony, Richard R. John( Authored Entry )
...manufacture of telephone equipment. In the late nineteenth century, leading firms included Western...
93 Dutch, Jonathan J. Keyes( Authored Entry )
...the main attraction for Dutch emigrants. In the mid-nineteenth century, the middle-to-lower-class...
...expanded. Factory work proved attractive to late-nineteenth-century immigrants, who found employment...
94 Annexation, Louis P. Cain( Authored Entry )
...services, from better water connections in the nineteenth century to better high schools in the...
...of urban populations and technology in the late nineteenth century increased public demand for urban...
95 Government, Suburban, Jon C. Teaford( Authored Entry )
...was first evident in the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Under Illinois's permissive...
...opted for annexation . At the close of the nineteenth century, many observers regarded the suburban...
96 Antiunionism, David Moberg( Authored Entry )
...From the late nineteenth century on, Chicago was one of the most heavily unionized American cities,...
...such as banker Lyman Gage in the late nineteenth century, have argued for a détente with the unions....
97 Mail Delivery, Richard R. John( Authored Entry )
...Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Throughout the nineteenth century, the distribution of postal jobs and...
...Mail Service, a key element in the late-nineteenth-century communications infrastructure . Chicago...
98 Houses and Water, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...Chicagoans could readily afford in the mid-nineteenth century. However, mass production of fixtures...
...Growing Up Along Water Houses and Water Nineteenth-century Chicagoans needed water for many things,...
99 Religion, Chicago's Influence on, Martin E. Marty( Authored Entry )
...the three here. In the second half of the nineteenth century, Moody came as a young businessman who...
...the theological modernists. Late in the nineteenth century many of the traditional Protestant bodies...
...Mission of the Guardian Angel in 1699. In the nineteenth century the first priest was assigned to...
100 Public Buildings in the Loop, David Garrard Lowe( Authored Entry )
...more perfectly expressed Chicago's ambition in the nineteenth century to be the country's preeminent...
101 Refugees, Tracy Steffes( Authored Entry )
...pushed from their homeland by wars. In the nineteenth century, political domination by the Ottoman...
...in particular migrated to Chicago throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. After World War...
102 Government, City of Chicago, Loomis Mayfield( Authored Entry )
...government followed patterns common among nineteenth-century U.S. cities. As a commercial walking...
...American mayor, Harold Washington. Through the nineteenth century, the mayor's power was mainly as a...
103 Journalism, Bill Savage( Authored Entry )
...the expressly political newspapers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to the birth and...
...portraits of Chicago and its people. Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century writers such as...
104 Barat College, Sarah Fenton( Authored Entry )
...Barat College remains a committed heir to the nineteenth-century teaching tradition of its French...
105 Grand Army of the Republic, David T. Thackery( Authored Entry )
...posts behaved in many respects like other nineteenth-century fraternal groups, but the organization...
106 Kensington, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...In 1998, the last remnant of Kensington's nineteenth-century identity gave way as well. Led by...
107 Rush Street Bridge, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...rendered existing bridges obsolete. Twice in the nineteenth century, all of the bridges on the main...
...nearby factories (and the steamship), a mid-nineteenth-century sign of economic health. See also:...
108 Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...system grew dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century. In 1858, there were more than 72...
...s center to a growing hinterland by the mid-nineteenth century. Settlements emerged around stops...
109 Building Trades and Workers, Richard Schneirov( Authored Entry )
...and urban transformations of the early nineteenth century. As large-scale merchant builders took...
...defeat. Though most labor gains from the late nineteenth century remained, the exclusive agreements...
110 Religious Geography, Lowell W. Livezey and Mark Bouman( Authored Entry )
...s Jewish congregations founded in the nineteenth century have had the longevity and complicated...
...began to accelerate in the final decade of the nineteenth century. Excluded from most neighborhoods,...
...in agrarian and trading settlements during the nineteenth century and in “streetcar suburbs” in the...

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