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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(
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) ...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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| 1044 |
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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| 1045 |
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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| 1046 |
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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| 1047 |
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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| 1048 |
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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| 1050 |
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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| 1051 |
Icelanders, Playford V. Thorson(
Authored Entry
) ...speak Icelandic. The main event of the year, an old Icelandic tradition, is the Thorrablót, a feast...
...fellow Icelander Arni Helgason, who founded the Chicago Standard Transformer Corporation in 1928....
...formed, including the Icelandic Association of Chicago, founded in 1930. Membership in 1999 numbered...
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| 1052 |
Private and Public Beaches, Page 3, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | 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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| 1053 |
Fenianism, Randall M. Miller(
Authored Entry
) ...but its day had passed by 1871. Former Fenians in Chicago joined their compatriots across America by...
...the Fenian Brotherhood as the dominant Irish nationalist society in Chicago and the United States....
...the roughly 20,000 Irish immigrants living in Chicago on the eve of the Civil War . Initially, the...
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| 1054 |
Cold War and Anti-Communism, John F. Lyons(
Authored Entry
) ...its members blacklisted by the late 1950s, the Chicago Communist Party, never larger than a couple...
...dominated American domestic politics. In Chicago, as elsewhere, conservative politicians and...
...tone of postwar anti-Communist activity in Chicago was set by the Illinois legislature. In August...
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| 1055 |
Rhythm and Blues, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...Warehouse on the West Side. In the next decade, Chicago-based performers R. Kelly, Common (Rashied...
...From the first decades after World War II , Chicago was a major center for rhythm and blues, a new...
...Record Row” (Cottage Grove between 47th and 50th), Chicago's independent record companies, including...
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| 1056 |
Dominicans, Rafael Nuñez-Cedeño(
Authored Entry
) ...folklore to merengue music performers to Chicago's museums, schools , parks, and libraries. The...
...owned gallery Mi Galería introduced Dominican artists and sculptors to Chicago. Dominicans have...
...found a variety of business opportunities in Chicago, including money-transfer agencies, cosmetics...
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| 1057 |
Skokie, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...provided greater access to Chicago; and the Old Orchard Shopping Center, opened in 1956, generated...
...Catholic (1868) churches. By the 1870s a little town was emerging, and in 1888 the village of Niles...
...Howell has facilities in other suburban areas of Chicago, they are headquartered in Skokie. Although...
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| 1058 |
DuPage County, Steph McGrath(
Authored Entry
) ...County's growth and development have been linked to Chicago and to transportation routes in northern...
...In the 1830s stage routes radiating out of Chicago were established, with way stations in the area...
...in Naperville. After the 1833 Treaty of Chicago forced the Indians to move west of the Mississippi...
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| 1059 |
Northwest Community Organization, Thomas J. Jablonsky and Paul-Thomas Ferguson(
Authored Entry
) ...another demographic transformation of West Town. Soon, leadership changes, a return to its church-...
...the Northwest Community Organization served the West Town area of Chicago as “an organization of...
...the intention of reversing the physical decay of West Town and thereby keeping demographic change at...
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| 1060 |
Ashburn, Sherry Meyer(
Authored Entry
) ...development to help families age in place—if the old stay it is hoped the young also will. Racial...
...of the town of Lake . The original 1893 subdivision, Clarkdale (named after its developer), was...
...Ashburn began with the coming of the railroads , just after the area was annexed to Chicago as part...
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