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93 Government, City of Chicago, Loomis Mayfield( Authored Entry )
...Government, City of Chicago...
...aldermanic candidates. i3732 The state legislature, which had incorporated Chicago as a town...
...in 1833, approved Chicago's incorporation as a city four years later. Source: Chicago Historical...
94 Crime and Chicago's Image, David E. Ruth( Authored Entry )
...Crime and Chicago's Image...
...Chicago's criminal reputation long preceded Al Capone and the beer wars. Born in the same years as...
...the city's criminal reputation. At midcentury, Chicago reportedly had more gambling establishments...
95 House of the Good Shepherd / Chicago Industrial School for Girls, Suellen Hoy( Authored Entry )
...House of the Good Shepherd/Chicago Industrial School for Girls...
...the first nuns to serve African Americans on Chicago's South Side . In 1953, this “school-home”...
...Irish Sisters of the Good Shepherd arrived in Chicago from St. Louis to care for “abandoned women. ”...
96 Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen( Interpretive Digital Essay )
...Global Chicago...
...century? How much more difficult is it to realistically imagine the Chicago world they inhabited?...
...on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan . Chicago arose there within the thinnest sliver of human...
97 Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen( Authored Entry )
...Global Chicago...
...Cermak possibly have imagined the character of Chicago as it existed at the opening of the twenty-...
...difficult is it to realistically imagine the Chicago world they inhabited? i3485 Gold Coast aerial...
98 Planning Chicago, Carl Abbott( Authored Entry )
...Planning Chicago...
...to reinvigorate the civic-mindedness that has served Chicago well in the past and to craft political...
...everything from Pullman and Hyde Park to the Chicago park system and the web of highways that knit...
99 Early Thoughts on Remaking Chicago, ( Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery) )
...Early Thoughts on Remaking Chicago...
...in support of remaking the lakefront. Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2499 3211...
...Daniel H. Burnham Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2467 3205 Speech to the Commercial...
100 Mapping Chicago, Old and New, ( Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery) )
...Mapping Chicago, Old and New...
...One of the many maps adapted from the Sanitary District Map of Chicago. Areas covered by...
...located mostly along the branches of the Chicago River) are in red, railroad properties and lines (...
101 Religion, Chicago's Influence on, Martin E. Marty( Authored Entry )
...Religion, Chicago's Influence on...
...shortly thereafter the pioneers converged on Chicago, which is often seen as the third “birthplace”...
...these influential experiments and changes, Chicago has retained the image of being the practical,...
102 Water in Chicago, Ann Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay )
...Water in Chicago...
...including Harlan Wallach, Bill Parod, and Jeremy Brunjes. The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
103 Multicentered Chicago, Henry C. Binford( Authored Entry )
...Multicentered Chicago...
...neighborhood is one of the binding rituals of Chicago culture. The shelves of local bookstores are...
...of the things they frequently ask to see is “Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods. ” Yet every big city in...
104 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Steven M. Avella( Authored Entry )
...Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago...
...night to view his body in Holy Name Cathedral. Chicago media outlets kept up a steady commentary on...
...Francis George, OMI, was installed as Chicago's eighth archbishop and the thirteenth leader of the...
105 The Plan of Chicago, Page 2, Gwen Hoerr Jordan( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...The Plan of Chicago, Page 2...
...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...
106 Business of Chicago, Peter A. Coclanis( Authored Entry )
...Business of Chicago...
...port. With the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, Chicago became a world rather than lake...
...port. Chicago has survived depression and war, the postwar boom, the retrenchment and restructuring...
107 Literary Images of Chicago, Carlo Rotella( Authored Entry )
...Literary Images of Chicago...
...engagement with the city of fact that binds Chicago's literature to what Nelson Algren called “the...
...novel Lucy Gayheart, a young woman boards a Chicago-bound train. Having spent Christmas vacation in...
108 Chicago River as Harbor, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...Chicago River as Harbor...
...of the river, and the tugboat near the Dearborn Street Bridge. See also: Chicago River ; Water The...
...Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
109 Chicago's Social Geography, Janice L. Reiff( Rich Map (Essay) )
...Chicago's Social Geography...
...During the 1880s, one fact about Chicago's population was indisputable: it was growing dramatically....
...that later would be considered part of the Chicago metropolitan region grew rapidly as well. Had the...
110 Creation of Chicago Sports, Elliott J. Gorn( Authored Entry )
...Creation of Chicago Sports...
...twentieth century, sports have been central to Chicago life and identity. Our teams and recreations...
...Sport lies at the heart of one of Chicago's founding legends. When the city was a frontier boomtown,...
111 Chicago in the Middle Ground, R. David Edmunds( Interpretive Digital Essay )
...Chicago in the Middle Ground...
...place for people of mixed heritage. The middle ground was ending. Chicago had entered a new age....
...Native American oral tradition indicate that Chicago was a crossroads of trade during the late pre-...
112 The Plan of Chicago, Page 1, Gwen Hoerr Jordan( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...The Plan of Chicago, Page 1...
...Districts ; Waterfront 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...

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