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Clubs, Patriotic and Veterans', Barbara Truesdell(
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) ...to have substantial membership and influence in Chicago and around the country was the Grand Army of...
...Senate bid against Lyman Trumbull. The GAR in Chicago, as in the rest of the country, lobbied for...
...Day. They responded to disasters such as the Chicago Fire by organizing relief campaigns. Chicago-...
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Motoring, James Akerman(
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) ...transportation hub and merchandising center, Chicago played an important early role in the promotion...
...in 1893, and on Thanksgiving Day 1895, the Chicago Herald staged a well-publicized test race through...
...the city's streets. Six years later the first Chicago Automobile Show was held, yet only one out of...
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Paraguayans, Stephen R. Porter(
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) ...community of Paraguayans to settle in the Chicago area began migrating in the middle 1960s from the...
...portion of Caraguatay's residents had migrated to Chicago, and especially New York, by 1980....
...many had worked in agriculture, some came to Chicago skilled in carpentry and metallurgy. All came...
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Peruvians, José R. Deustua(
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) ...messengers during the Inca Empire), which contains information on the Peruvian community in Chicago....
...census and survey data, the Peruvian community in Chicago numbered approximately 10,000 to 20,000 in...
...Miami; and in the area around Los Angeles. In Chicago most Peruvians have located on the Northwest...
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Good Government Movements, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...party organization consolidated its grip on Chicago and was only periodically bothered by good...
...mid-twentieth century when he observed, “Chicago ain't ready for reform yet. ” From the sidelines,...
...ruled. i3737 Municipal election campaign poster, 1894. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Liquor Distribution, Sudhir Venkatesh(
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) ...areas considered “dry. ” Photographer: Unknown. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...Midwest, particularly in grain and hops, made Chicago a natural choice for liquor manufacturing and...
...industry formed in close conjunction with Chicago's social evolution as it responded both to demand...
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United Charities, Scott Lien(
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) ...the social service effort throughout metropolitan Chicago. UCC operates an array of social services,...
...United Charities of Chicago (UCC), one of the city's most visible...
...organizations, is a direct descendant of Chicago's first citywide charity association, the Chicago...
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Venezuelans, Robert Morrissey(
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) ...Although Chicago has never attracted many Venezuelan immigrants, a small but viable community has...
...in the city beginning in the 1950s. Chicago's earliest Venezuelans included Chico Carrasquel, White...
...city during the 1950s. Venezuelan migration to Chicago accelerated during the 1970s and 1980s. Many...
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Wrigley Field, Richard H. Brown(
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) ...i3324 Wrigley Field, 1950. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...A mecca for baseball fans, a Chicago landmark, and the heart of “Wrigleyville,” fabled Wrigley...
...Field originated in 1914 as home of the Chicago Whales in the short-lived Federal League. When that...
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Bolivians, José R. Deustua(
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) ...produced a national jubilee, and Bolivians from Chicago, elsewhere in the United States, and back...
...including the national anthem. Bolivians in Chicago try to recreate their culture and traditions in...
...Among the smallest of Chicago's Latino ethnic groups, Bolivians are also less residentially...
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Zoroastrians, Paul D. Numrich(
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) ...federation's first president was a leader of the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago....
...of the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago. One of the association's first tasks was to...
...Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago has played an important role in the institutional...
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Argentinians, Beatriz Badikian-Gartler(
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) ...along with restaurants , have helped to reverse the earlier invisibility of Chicago's Argentinians....
...Argentinian immigrants have generally identified with Euro-American ethnic groups in Chicago....
...The majority of Argentinians in Chicago are Roman Catholics and Jews . Immigrants from Argentina...
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Knights of Labor, Richard Schneirov(
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) ...would inspire subsequent labor movements, both in Chicago and across the nation. i3451 Labor leaders...
...members. This flyer advertises a speech by Chicago's Albert Parsons in St. Joseph, Missouri. Source:...
...in 1869, the Knights of Labor spread to Chicago after the 1877 railroad strikes . Initially viewed...
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Arts and Crafts Movement, Sharon S. Darling(
Authored Entry
) ...and Crafts movement found a sympathetic audience in Chicago among art workers, educators, and others...
...and shops and served as headquarters for the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society, founded in 1897....
...an English instructor at the University of Chicago, helped found the Industrial Art League of...
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New Thought, Beryl Satter(
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) ...meditation practices. In the 1990s several Chicago-area New Thought churches continued to draw...
...for Better Living, the Unity Church of Chicago, the First Church of Religious Science, and the...
...a nation mired in materialism and corruption. Chicago played an early and significant role in the...
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Bahā'ī, Douglas Knox(
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) ...Wilmette, 1971. Photographer: Calvin Hutchinson. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...The Chicago Bahā’ī community began in the 1890s as a small group of American converts and Iranian...
...were perhaps two to three hundred Bahā’īs in Chicago before 1910. After 1903 the project of building...
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Sikhs, Paul D. Numrich(
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) ...1900s. Most of the first Sikhs to settle in Chicago came as university students in the 1950s. The...
...religious gatherings on the University of Chicago campus, drawing students from several Midwestern...
...group took the name Sikh Religious Society of Chicago and broke ground on a new gurdwara (a sacred...
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Tuberculosis, Susan Vieweg(
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) ...Tuberculosis Law, in 1909, giving the city of Chicago the ability to raise funds for the treatment...
...through a special property tax. In 1915, the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium opened and...
...rates from tuberculosis declined slowly in Chicago in the early twentieth century with disparities...
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Wilson & Co., (
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) ...The giant Chicago-based meatpacker Wilson & Co. began as a New York slaughterhouse in the 1850s...
...in the early twentieth century in places like Chicago, Oklahoma City, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it...
...to Thomas E. Wilson, a former president of Chicago-based Morris & Co. packinghouse, and the firm's...
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Children, Dependent, Kenneth Cmiel(
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) ...growth of the city was the first source of Chicago's dependent children problems. By the 1850s,...
...to abandon their children on the streets of Chicago. The 1851 city charter noted children “destitute...
...children in reformatories or jails . The Chicago Home for the Friendless and Chicago Foundling...
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