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Legal Aid, Christopher Thale(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Block 37, Ross Miller(
Authored Entry
) ...will continue to mirror the rise and fall of Chicago's downtown. Its long and various history is an...
...American downtown in microcosm. At the center of Chicago, this typical urban block missed no trend,...
...Its landlords, high and low, were among Chicago's first families and fabled entrepreneurs. A scene...
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Politics and the Press, Jon Bekken(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's first newspapers were firmly tied to the political parties of the 1830s, and for more than...
...inextricable part of the political process. “Long John” Wentworth's rise from editor of the Chicago...
...Democrat (Chicago's first newspaper) to political powerhouse was atypical, however; more commonly...
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City of Bridges, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...out over and over again over the course of Chicago’s history. The same conflict emerged when harbor...
...to cross them, bridges had to be movable. Chicago engineers met these challenges in innovative ways....
...calumet river bridges The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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Gospel, John Russick(
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) ...Martin and Kenneth Morris, were also located in Chicago. i3571 Promotional flyer for Spells Brothers...
...no date). Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Gradually, new...
...styles have been celebrated each summer during GospelFest, Chicago's annual salute to gospel music....
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Private and Public Beaches, Page 1, 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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The Lake Front in the 21st Century, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Park, occupied a mile and a half of lakefront property. In 2004, the city of Chicago was working...
...with South Chicago to develop public space along that stretch of lakefront. See also: Iron and...
...Corp. ; Waterfront The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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Emergence of Plumbers and Specialized Fixtures, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...heating equipment in the U.S. Headquartered in Chicago, the company manufactured valves, fittings,...
...World War II building boom that took place on Chicago’s Southwest and Northwest Sides, as well as in...
...also: Construction ; Built Environment of the Chicago Region Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The...
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Clubs, Literary, Rhonda Huber Frevert(
Authored Entry
) ...to meet weekly into the twenty-first century. Chicago's educated middle-class African Americans...
...the 1960s the formal, organized literary clubs (in Chicago as elsewhere) have had to compete with...
...or just a hospital living room. In 2000 the Chicago Public Library started a program to promote...
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