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121 Mobile Homes, Anna Holian( Authored Entry )
...home-producing states, behind California, Indiana, and Michigan. Chicago was the center of Illinois'...
122 Work Culture, Lynn Y. Weiner( Authored Entry )
...towns in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa, Michigan, and Indiana also turned to Chicago as an attractive...
123 Quarrying, Stone Cutting, and Brick Making, Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...by better-quality Bedford limestone from Indiana. Local quarries increasingly concentrated on...
124 Burmese, Robert Morrissey( Authored Entry )
...voluntary agencies and sponsors in Fort Wayne, Indiana, from which some later moved to Chicago. By...
125 Public Broadcasting, Allyson Hobbs( Authored Entry )
...championship events. Located in Merrillville , Indiana, WYIN's inaugural broadcast aired on Channel...
126 Archer Heights, Jonathan J. Keyes( Authored Entry )
...in the 1880s (presently, the Belt, Santa Fe, and Indiana Harbor), or annexation to Chicago in 1889 (...
127 Horse Racing, Steven A. Riess( Authored Entry )
...was formed which built a harness course near Indiana and 26th four years later. In 1854 the Garden...
128 Lemont, IL, John D. Schroeder( Authored Entry )
...1893. Competition from better-quality, cheaper Indiana stone, along with labor conflict, contributed...
129 Built Environment of the Chicago Region, Robert Bruegmann( Authored Entry )
...to the south like Dolton or East Chicago in Indiana. In the middle range, on all sides of the city,...
...cities like Joliet , Aurora , Waukegan , and Gary , Indiana, each had a business center and outlying...
130 Serbs, Peter T. Alter( Authored Entry )
...the West Town area, in Joliet , and in Gary , Indiana. Excluding the Wicker Park contingent, Serbian...
131 Streets and Highways, David M. Young( Authored Entry )
...around the city linking interstate highways in Indiana and Wisconsin. The culmination of the road-...
132 Washington Park, Wallace Best( Authored Entry )
...Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive), and Calumet, Indiana, and Michigan Avenues. The boulevards, along...
133 Housing for the Elderly, N. Sue Weiler( Authored Entry )
...public rooms, the Old People's Home at 3850 S. Indiana Avenue. Facilities founded by other religious...
134 Iron- and Steelworkers, Jonathan Rees( Authored Entry )
...Steel began work on building the city of Gary , Indiana, in 1906 so that it could continue to take...
135 Norwegians, Odd S. Lovoll( Authored Entry )
...1,313 Norwegians lived there. In the 1870s Indiana Street (now Grand Avenue) became the center of...
136 DuPage County, Steph McGrath( Authored Entry )
...five children, who came from Orange County, Indiana, by 1832. Hobson built a gristmill on the West...
137 Dutch, Jonathan J. Keyes( Authored Entry )
...setting, particularly South Holland and nearby Indiana. Others decided to remain, accepting and...
138 Great Depression, Tracey Deutsch( Authored Entry )
...or to the more coercive measures in Gary, Indiana Harbor, and South Chicago. Nor were white-collar...
139 Political Conventions, R. Craig Sautter( Authored Entry )
...to nominate Senator Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, on the eighth ballot. He lost the popular vote in...
140 Mail Delivery, Richard R. John( Authored Entry )
...a route that linked Fort Dearborn with Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1836, mail...

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