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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Moving Days, Emily Clark(
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) ...late nineteenth century as many as one-third of all Chicago households moved annually. It was a very...
...unpopularity of a fixed moving day, the Chicago and Cook County real-estate boards allowed leases to...
...and October remain popular moving days in Chicago. i3689 Moving day, 1907. Photographer: Unknown....
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Section between Robey Street (Damen) and Summit, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...The Sanitary and Ship Canal Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo...
...Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...
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Cholera, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Water-Related Epidemics Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo...
...Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...
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Calumet Harbor, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...industrial convenience. See also: Calumet Region ; 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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Syrians, Sarah Gualtieri(
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) ...drain. ” The majority of the immigrants who came to Chicago during this period were Palestinian and...
...these immigrants played leading roles in the Chicago Arab American community, 3 percent of whom were...
...and of work opportunities in and around Chicago reached family and friends in Ramallah, Damascus,...
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Buddhists, Paul D. Numrich(
Authored Entry
) ...of Buddhism would emerge in urban centers like Chicago, or whether Buddhism in America would remain...
...Buddhism had a minimal presence in Chicago prior to World War II. Of traditionally Buddhist...
...Maha Bodhi Society opened subsequently in Chicago, attracting a mostly professional clientele of...
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Children's Health, Lynne Curry(
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) ...clinic, 1930s. Photographer: Wallace Kirkland. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...highest price for poor health conditions in Chicago. In many years children under five represented...
...health measures had been put in place. In 1908 Chicago became the first city in the world to require...
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Gypsies, Marlene Sway(
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) ...the American Machwaya, these recent immigrants have become fully integrated into Chicago Gypsy life....
...strong ethnic identity. Gypsies first came to Chicago during the large waves of Southern and Eastern...
...Two separate Gypsy subgroups settled in Chicago. The Machwaya came from Serbia and parts of the...
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Movies, Going to the, Max Grinnell(
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) ...to one of the theater's two orchestras. The Chicago Defender described the theater's interior as “an...
...make 47th Street's reputation as the Harlem of Chicago. The theater was demolished in 1973, but its...
...Chicago helped launch the movie industry in the United States in the early 1900s, so it is no...
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Steel Mills on Sand, Page 1, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...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...
...Dunes Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water in Chicago Essay: People and the Port...
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