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Gold Coast, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...Gold...
...Coast...
...returning from the East Coast dubbed the area the “Gold Coast,” immortalized it in The Gold Coast...
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Old Town, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...Old...
...Town...
...of the Second City theater company and the Old Town School of Folk Music . But when Wells Street, a...
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Cross of Gold, Charles Postel(
Authored Entry
) ...Cross of Gold...
...of Americans about the purported evils of the gold standard. Bryan was an Illinois native and...
...shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. ” With this indictment of the eastern establishment,...
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Old Town School of Folk Music, Stephen Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...Old...
...Town School of Folk Music...
...employed a group technique developed by West Coast–based singer Bess Lomax Hawes. Hawes encouraged...
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Old University of Chicago, Robin F. Bachin(
Authored Entry
) ...Old University...
...of Chicago...
...The first, or “Old,” University of Chicago was established in 1857 by Illinois Senator Stephen...
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Boys Town, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...Boys Town...
...The boundaries of the neighborhood known as Boys Town stretch from about 3100 to 3800 North Halsted....
...The unofficial designation of Boys Town as an area within Lake View dates back to 1970, when...
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K-Town, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...K-Town...
...did apply it to some western streets in 1913. K-Town thus marks the eleventh mile from the Indiana...
...to the western part of their neighborhood as “K-Town” because so many street names there begin with...
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Chicago, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago...
...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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West Town, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...West Town...
...percent by 2000. Lower-income residents of West Town have moved to areas further north and west to...
...24, 3 miles NW of the Loop. Chicago's West Town community area, located on the city's near northwest...
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Town of Pines, IN, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...Town of Pines, IN...
...Porter County, 37 miles E of the Loop. Town of Pines contained only 798 residents as of the year...
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Old Mill Creek, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo(
Authored Entry
) ...Old Mill Creek, IL...
...County , five miles south of the Wisconsin border, Old Mill Creek remained a rural community well...
...agricultural community that would later become Old Mill Creek. Jacob Miller built a sawmill and...
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Chicago (Chicago Transit Authority), Jeanette L. Casey(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago (...
...Chicago Transit Authority)...
...releasing its first album in 1969. It went gold, the first of 18 albums to reach gold or platinum...
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George Pullman and His Town, Liston E. Leyendecker(
Authored Entry
) ...George Pullman and His Town...
...Avenue. After 1881, when Pullman opened the town of Pullman, Illinois, to house his construction...
...George Pullman established himself in Chicago in March 1859, as a building raiser and mover. He soon...
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Chicago Marathon, Patrick B. Miller(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Marathon...
...Inaugurated in September 1977, the Chicago Marathon grew from modest beginnings into an athletic...
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Mapping Chicago, Old and New, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Old and New...
...Mapping Chicago,...
...maps adapted from the Sanitary District Map of Chicago. Areas covered by industries (located mostly...
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Chicago Commons, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Commons...
...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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Chicago Wilderness, Stephen Packard(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Wilderness...
...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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Chicago Stadium, Donald A. Hayner(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Stadium...
...The Chicago Stadium was the city's premier all-purpose indoor arena for 65 years. Built for $7...
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Migrants to Chicago, (
Authored Entry
) ...Migrants to Chicago...
...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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New Chicago, IN, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...New Chicago, IN...
...SE of the Loop. Incorporated in 1908, New Chicago is part of the Gary metro area, located southeast...
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