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| 1 | Chicago, Ann Durkin Keating(
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...The name “Chicago” derives from a word in the language spoken by the Miami and Illinois peoples...
...tricoccum). This became the Indian name for the Chicago River , in recognition of the presence of...
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| 2 | Chicago (Chicago Transit Authority), Jeanette L. Casey(
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) ...Chicago (...
...Chicago Transit Authority)...
...successful melodic ballad style. Formed in Chicago in 1967 as the “Big Thing,” the band's first...
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| 3 | Chicago Marathon, Patrick B. Miller(
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...Inaugurated in September 1977, the Chicago Marathon grew from modest beginnings into an athletic...
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| 4 | Chicago Commons, Louise Carroll Wade(
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...Chicago Commons was established in the fall of 1894 and modeled on Hull...
...House . Founder Graham Taylor had come to Chicago Theological Seminary to teach applied Christianity...
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| 5 | Chicago Wilderness, Stephen Packard(
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...to create a culture of conservation for the Chicago region, centered on the region's 200,000 acres...
...Most high-quality unpreserved lands in the Chicago area were subsequently acquired by state, county,...
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| 6 | Chicago Stadium, Donald A. Hayner(
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...The Chicago Stadium was the city's premier all-purpose indoor arena for 65 years. Built for $7...
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| 7 | Migrants to Chicago, (
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...Kronborg was a rather incurious migrant to Chicago in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark (1915):...
...first winter Thea got no city consciousness. Chicago was simply a wilderness through which one had...
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| 8 | New Chicago, IN, Steven Essig(
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...SE of the Loop. Incorporated in 1908, New Chicago is part of the Gary metro area, located southeast...
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| 9 | Chicago Defender, Wallace Best(
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...Southerners to northern cities. “I bought a Chicago Defender and after reading it and seeing the...
...Sengstacke Abbott produced the first issue of the Chicago Defender on May 6, 1905. What began as a...
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| 10 | Daley's Chicago, Roger Biles(
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...held in check, resulting in the election of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983....
...An Irish Catholic native of Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, Richard J. Daley attended parochial...
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| 11 | Mapping Chicago, Robert W. Karrow, Jr.(
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) ...Mapping Chicago...
...made their Chicago debut in 1877 with Charles Rascher's Fire Insurance Map of Chicago. The Sanborn-...
...Perris Map Company issued its first volume of Chicago fire insurance maps in 1894; more than 50...
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| 12 | Chicago Lawn, Eileen M. McMahon(
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...of ethnic bonds, especially for the Lithuanians. From their point of view, Chicago had no model of...
...workable integrated neighborhoods, and Chicago Lawn would disintegrate from racial change. By 1990...
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| 13 | Chicago Tribune, Mark R. Wilson(
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...giant that employed close to six thousand Chicago-area residents, the future of traditional print...
...the Tribune, now available in electronic form, continued to be Chicago's leading newspaper....
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| 14 | Old University of Chicago, Robin F. Bachin(
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...The first, or “Old,” University of Chicago was established in 1857 by Illinois Senator Stephen...
...promote the cultural and commercial growth of Chicago. The university stood on 10 acres at Cottage...
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| 15 | Chicago School of Economics, Deirdre N. McCloskey(
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...antisocialist approach of the University of Chicago Department of Economics, typified by Milton...
...Friedman, came to be known as the Chicago School of Economics. Like other Chicago schools it...
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| 16 | Saul Bellow on Chicago, (
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...From The Adventures of Augie March (1949): I am an American, Chicago...
...born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make...
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| 17 | Chicago School of Sociology, Henry Yu(
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...When the University of Chicago was founded in 1892, it established the nation's first department of...
...across the country. During its early history, Chicago sociology was connected with progressive...
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| 18 | Bob Fosse: His Chicago Beginnings, Richard Christiansen(
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| 19 | Chicago Teachers Federation, Kate Rousmaniere(
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...under the Loeb rule, which prohibited Chicago teachers from membership in any organization...
...and it developed great political clout in Chicago and in the larger educational community. Haley's...
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| 20 | Chicago Opera Ballet, Anthea Kraut(
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...century, no permanent affiliation existed between Chicago opera and a local ballet company....
...of companies appeared in conjunction with Chicago opera in the first half of the twentieth century,...
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