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Bridge Tenders, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Tender, 1985 Author: Kenan Heise, Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38032) Gustav Massman...
...was a longtime bridge tender in Chicago. For many years, he was in charge of the Halsted Street...
...of life as a bridge tender in twentieth-century Chicago. See also: Near North Side ; Chicago River...
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Modern Kitchen, Bathroom, and Laundry Room, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Photographer: Hedrich-Blessing (Giovanni Suter) Source: Chicago Historical Society (HB- 15359(B))...
...Hedrich-Blessing (Giovanni Suter) Source: Chicago Historical Society (HB-15359(C)) The suburban boom...
...with thousands of new houses constructed across the Chicago metropolitan area. Suburban governments...
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High Culture, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Exposition of 1893, and in July 1909 it was the site of a special display of the Plan of Chicago....
...Photographer: Barnes- Crosby Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-19219) Illustration 7200 5646...
...research library open to the public. Like the old Chicago Historical Society building pictured...
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Near South Side, Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...blacks to a narrow “ Black Belt ” and century-old wooden houses became some of the nation's most...
...seen as dramatic change and redevelopment as any Chicago community. The first settlers following the...
...lumber district along the South Branch of the Chicago River . In the 1850s, railroads entering...
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Expressways, Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...Expressways have reshaped the Chicago region perhaps more than any other twentieth-century force,...
...and 1920s gave new urgency to the arterial improvements recommended in the 1909 Plan of Chicago....
...In 1927, the Chicago Plan Commission laid out a system of limited-access highways radiating from the...
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Fitness and Athletic Clubs, Tiffany L. Crate(
Authored Entry
) ...fitness, and athletic clubs are a rich part of Chicago's history because athletics, socializing, and...
...business and professional men from Boston, the Chicago Athletic Association (CAA) erected its ornate...
...the 14th floor. A premier gathering spot for Chicago's elite and visiting dignitaries, it also had a...
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Our Lady of the Angels Fire, David Cowan(
Authored Entry
) ...The fire began in the basement of the 48-year-old building and billowed up an open stairway before...
...the fire's cause officially determined. A 13-year-old former student's 1962 confession to arson was...
...the nation's third-worst school disaster and Chicago's third-deadliest fire, trailing the Iroquois...
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Arlington Heights, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...Railroad to make a stop here, and laid out a town called Dunton. By then the area had largely...
...to Chicago on the railroad. The little town at the depot slowly grew, acquiring a blacksmith, a...
...Heights was an early commuter suburb. The town developed religious institutions that reflected the...
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Forest Park, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
Authored Entry
) ...by the Forest Park Mall. Incorporated as the Town of Harlem in 1884, the village was renamed Forest...
...composed of mainly Germans and Italians , the town's ethnic composition has diversified in recent...
...and Woodlawn (1912)—which cover most of the town's acreage. Forest Home, which merged with the...
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Skating, Ice, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...During the nineteenth century, ice skating on Chicago's ponds, rivers, lagoons, and manufactured...
...the Catholic Youth Organization , and the Chicago Park District. The city was also home to three...
...Johnson Skate Company. By 1923 metropolitan Chicago's winter landscape was dotted with more than six...
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Mapmaking and Map Publishing, Michael P. Conzen and Robert W. Karrow, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...promotional oil-company road map in the 1970s. Chicago also played a leading role in the production...
...east. Actual map printing and publishing in Chicago before midcentury was highly intermittent, the...
...first effort being Juliette Kinzie's sketch Chicago in 1812, which appeared in her Narrative of the...
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Native Americans, Louis Delgado(
Authored Entry
) ...Wisconsin within a half day's drive from Chicago, enabling members of those tribes, in particular,...
...Central depot and grain elevators, south of the Chicago River, north of what would, when filled with...
...Grant Park, 1858. Photographer: Alexander Hesler. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Almshouses, (Margaret) Dorsey Phelps(
Authored Entry
) ...Infirmary, Oak Forest Infirmary, Cook County Old-Age Home, and Oak Forest Tuberculosis Hospital) was...
...1835 to 1841, in the center of Chicago on the town square (at Clark and Randolph), all subsequent...
...in the nineteenth century each county in the Chicago region established its own almshouse. The Cook...
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Bears, Don Pierson(
Authored Entry
) ...i3107 Team owner and head coach George Halas with members of the 1935 Chicago Bears. Photographer:...
...Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...The Chicago Bears professional football team began in 1920 as the Decatur Staleys, an industrial...
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Indians, Vinay Lal(
Authored Entry
) ...a few thousand Indians congregated on the West Coast by the early part of the twentieth century, the...
...and may well be the element that cements Chicago's diverse Indian population into a more cohesive...
...2542 West Devon Avenue, 1984. Photographer: Mukul Roy. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Calumet River Bridges, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...interruption. See also: Expressways ; Transportation 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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Private and Public Beaches, Page 4, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Shoreline Development 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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Early Lakeshore Development, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Shoreline Development 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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Homewood, IL, John H. Long(
Authored Entry
) ...Trace (now Dixie Highway) ran through the town. The area drains into the Calumet River . Homewood...
...to Homewood. Through the nineteenth century the town grew slowly. Farmers shipped their produce to...
...The railroad attracted more new residents to both towns by selling real estate in Flossmoor and, in...
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Park Forest, IL, Todd J. Tubutis(
Authored Entry
) ...based on the Plaza San Marco in Venice), and a town hall supporting all municipal functions with a...
...from the war, earning it the nickname “GI town. ” ACB placed advertisements in the Chicago Tribune...
...at the present corner of Sauk Trail and Chicago Road in 1833. John and Sabra McCoy established a...
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