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Amusement Parks, Stan Barker(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 927 |
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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| 928 |
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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| 930 |
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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| 931 |
Opening Days, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...boat to travel along the open waterway. See also: Water 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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| 932 |
Air Quality, David Stradling(
Authored Entry
) ...New York City's air was more polluted than Chicago's. Impelled by citizen activism and new federal...
...industry and effective regulation of auto emissions combined to significantly improve Chicago's air....
...Chicago no longer ranked among the nation's most heavily polluted cities....
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| 933 |
Film Censorship, Raymond J. Haberski, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...the 1960s. In 1961, in Times Film Corp. v. Chicago, the city's censorship code was once again...
...other legal challenges. By the early 1970s, Chicago's censorship board was no longer effective,...
...and as in cities throughout the nation, Chicago residents could attend theaters that showed...
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| 934 |
Relief and Subsistence Aid, Scott Lien(
Authored Entry
) ...for mothers, 1932. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Relief and...
...so prevalent in late-nineteenth-century Chicago. Other reforms of the Progressive era included...
...H. G. Hardt. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Although important...
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Savings and Loans, Jeffrey A. Brune(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's first building and loan association (called savings and loans after the 1930s) was...
...did not offer many of the services banks did. Chicago's small associations flourished in the 1880s,...
...and by 1893, largely because of Chicago, Illinois ranked third in the nation in the number of...
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| 936 |
Cubans, Mirza L. González(
Authored Entry
) ...of Cuban American identity and political culture . Chicago has harbored various Cuban political...
...Cubans began migrating to Chicago during the 1950s. A few were attracted by economic opportunities,...
...stayed, leaving approximately 2,500 Cubans in Chicago in 1960. Opposition to the Castro government...
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| 937 |
Water Quality in the 1830s, (
Authored Entry
) ...nothing you know where they are in such a great way of doing business as they are here at Chicago....
...When Caroline Palmer Clarke arrived in Chicago in 1835, she wrote to her sister-in-law describing...
...home, which remains one of the oldest houses in Chicago, now located in the Prairie Avenue Historic...
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| 938 |
Rush Street Bridge, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...of the improvements presented in the 1909 Plan of Chicago by Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett. When...
...of nineteenth century bridge-building). See also: Planning Chicago ; Near North Side Back | Page 1 |...
...Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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| 939 |
Goose Island Residents and Residences, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...attempted independence. Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | 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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| 940 |
House Numbering and Street Numbering, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...1890s, Oak Park , foreshadowing later changes in Chicago, adopted a numbering system based on 800 to...
...the mile—with one hundred to each long city block—and using Chicago's State Street as its baseline....
...Chicago's numbered street system has been extended far south into suburban communities, and some...
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