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Welsh, Anne Kelly Knowles(
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) ...areas or coal and iron towns. For one moment, however, the Welsh did make their presence felt in...
...The Welsh have left a light trace on Chicago. Although the city was once home to one of the largest...
...They tended to pass through cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago en route to agricultural...
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Rapid Transit System, Ronald Dale Karr(
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) ...line to Midway Airport opened in 1993. At the turn of the century the old elevated structures, some...
...more than a century old, were being rebuilt, ensuring their survival well into the twenty-first...
...as did public ownership after World War II. The new Chicago Transit Authority closed several lightly...
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Wauconda, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...small commercial center developed. While Rand Road, the old mail route to Janesville, now Route 12,...
...of area land. They called the unincorporated town Bangs Lake, although others called the community “...
...of the new residents were ex-soldiers from Chicago's West and Northwest Sides, living in converted...
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Malaysians, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...nations, forming small communities in the Midwest and larger ones on the West Coast and in New York....
...Malaysians have been migrating to Chicago since the 1970s for occupational and educational...
...Chicago-area universities continued to draw Malaysian students throughout the 1980s and 1990s as...
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Tinley Park, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...working to preserve its history. The area of the old 1892 village has been designated a historic...
...Tinley Park Historical Society has renovated the Old Zion Landmark Church for use as its museum and...
...especially at the Oak Forest site to the east of town. The site, on the Tinley Moraine, overlooking...
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Markham, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...and incorporated Markham in 1925, naming their town in honor of Charles H. Markham, then president...
...are Markham's most celebrated natural features: the Old Indian Boundary Prairies. German immigrants...
...Forest, one of which survived until 1985 along the Old Indian Boundary Line, becoming the Lone Pine...
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Colleges, Junior and Community, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...public junior college movement was born in the Chicago area due to the leadership of William Rainey...
...the first president of the University of Chicago , distinguished between the general education of...
...community college. With Harper's successors at Chicago uninterested in the junior colleges, their...
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Philip Armour and the Packing Industry, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...farm in 1832, he spent time in the California gold fields before joining a provision firm and then a...
...to deliver chilled, fresh beef. Like other Chicago packers, Armour resisted trade unions and helped...
...in January 1901. His son, J. Ogden Armour, succeeded him as head of the vast enterprise in Chicago....
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Industry, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...innovative neighbors. Back | 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...
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Children's Museums, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...recycling, while Kohl's “All Aboard” took children on a mock Chicago Transit Authority train ride...
...through the streets of Chicago. Other children's museums include the Dupage Children's Museum (1987)...
...Chicago is home to a number of museums designed especially foryoung people, including the Chicago...
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Groundwater System, James J. Miner and Richard J. Rice(
Authored Entry
) ...has been used by industries throughout the Chicago region and for drinking water in most suburban...
...in the southern and eastern parts of the Chicago region. Cambrian and Ordovician rocks, including...
...Counties flows eastward and southward toward Chicago; west of that line, groundwater flows generally...
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Nicaraguans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...census counted 778 Nicaraguans in the city of Chicago and 1,465 in the metropolitan area. Given the...
...Nicaraguan laborers probably trickled into Chicago along with Mexicans and other Latin Americans in...
...the 1940s. By the late 1950s, Chicago Nicaraguans and their consulate had established the Sociedad...
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Sri Lankans, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...meet socially throughout the year, most of the Chicago Sri Lankan community comes together a few...
...first major wave of Sri Lankan migration to Chicago began in the late 1960s and comprised primarily...
...and Sinhalese families, settled permanently in Chicago and created a strong community, attracting...
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Lisle, IL, Patricia K. Kummer(
Authored Entry
) ...village as the third most popular meeting site in Illinois, following only Chicago and Springfield....
...destination. Initially, a stagecoach line between Chicago and Aurora carried mail to and from Lisle....
...In 1840, Mark Beaubien, one of Chicago's early residents, moved to Lisle, where he operated an inn....
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University Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...bikeways, and additional development. The new town heritage includes the Nathan Manilow Sculpture...
...Community Enterprises (NCE) to build “a whole new town. ” Major partners included Illinois Central...
...leadership led to great hopes for their “whole new town. ” In 1970, the state of Illinois allocated...
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Race Divisions on Public Beaches, Page 1, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Beach, 1928 and 1949 Photographer: Clarence Homan Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37327)...
...Photographer: Lil & Al Bloom Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi- 37328) Located at 57th...
...Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia...
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Resorts: Summer Journey to Saugatuck, (
Authored Entry
) ...Trips across the lake to towns like Saugatuck, St....
...The angry whitecaps that I had often seen in Chicago during the stormy weather were hidden in the...
...Haven, and Michigan City were popular with Chicago workers in the early twentieth century. Day,...
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Children's Health, Lynne Curry(
Authored Entry
) ...1930s. Photographer: Wallace Kirkland. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...improve the life chances of infants under 30 days old. i3437 Weighing a baby at Hull House clinic,...
...highest price for poor health conditions in Chicago. In many years children under five represented...
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Movies, Going to the, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...in Chicago in the late 1980s, and some of the old movie palaces in the Loop were restored as live...
...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...
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Opening Days, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...to open the main channel. Downstate cities and towns, as well as St. Louis, hoped to delay or stop...
...boat to travel along the open waterway. See also: Water The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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