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Icelanders, Playford V. Thorson(
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) ...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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Private and Public Beaches, Page 3, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
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...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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Fenianism, Randall M. Miller(
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) ...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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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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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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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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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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DuPage County, Steph McGrath(
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) ...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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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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Ashburn, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...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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Movie Palaces, Douglas Gomery(
Authored Entry
) ...people as the auditorium, in spaces gilded in gold and awash with mirrors. Sweeping promenades were...
...the movie palace as an exhibition strategy in Chicago. Barney and A. J. Balaban opened their first...
...at 63rd and Cottage Grove, and the even bigger Chicago on North State Street. From this profitable...
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Muslims, Paul D. Numrich(
Authored Entry
) ...festivals, devout Muslims face northeast from Chicago toward the sacred city of Mecca. The ritual...
...The Muslim community of metropolitan Chicago reflects the ethnic and theological diversity of global...
...called the Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago, has served a multiethnic constituency, though...
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Grain Trade, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Water Supply Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | 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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Television, Talk, Douglas Gomery and Chuck Howell(
Authored Entry
) ...for ratings and advertising time sold. She had come to Chicago from Baltimore in 1983, joining...
...A.M. Chicago on WLS -TV. Soon...
...surpassing Donahue by 1986 and, from her Chicago base, becoming one of the most popular and wealthy...
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Bannockburn, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
Authored Entry
) ...Ron Santo. In line with this tradition, the town was home to baseball great Kirby Puckett when he...
...commercial area along Route 22, one of the town's few major thoroughfares. Responding to residents'...
...century, it has remained smaller than most Chicago suburbs. In 2000, the population was only 1,429,...
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Progressive Education, Arthur Zilversmit(
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) ...Late-nineteenth-century Chicago, home of a new university and one of the first settlement houses ,...
...teach them about Native American culture. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society....
...FIGURE 1 Parker came to Chicago in 1883 as principal of Cook County Normal School and its Practice...
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Belgians, Robert Morrissey and Christina A. Reynen(
Authored Entry
) ...consecrated the second bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago in 1849, was among the...
...first Belgians to arrive in Chicago. The Henrotin family ( Joseph and Ferdinand) arrived around the...
...businessmen established an early presence in Chicago, opening a consulate office in 1854 that...
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Dune System, Noel B. Pavlovic(
Authored Entry
) ...South Chicago/Gary are less than 5,000 years old, low in height, and often form linear alternating...
...Schizachyrium scoparius) and plants such as old field goldenrod, puccoon, sand cherry, and milkweed....
...National Lakeshore. i3479 Dunes on South Chicago beach, ca. 1898. Photographer: Unknown. Source:...
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Michigan City, IN, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
Authored Entry
) ...began to buy land there. In 1832, Elston laid out the town of Michigan City. The first settlers...
...arrived the following year. By 1836, the town's population had swelled to nearly 3,000....
...Between 1837 and 1844, the town served as the principal grain market for northern Indiana. Several...
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Montgomery, IL, Sherry Meyer(
Authored Entry
) ...an unprecedented rate. Though still a small town, Montgomery is rapidly growing, with a population...
...Counties, 38 miles W of the Loop. In 1834 the Chicago–Galena road forded the Fox River at what...
...The site was a day's stagecoach journey from Chicago and a logical place for a travelers' inn....
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