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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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| 1063 |
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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| 1064 |
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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| 1065 |
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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| 1066 |
Progressive Education, Arthur Zilversmit(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1067 |
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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| 1068 |
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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| 1069 |
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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| 1070 |
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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| 1071 |
The Sanitary and Ship Canal, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...the 36 foot difference between these two towns, connect it to the Des Plaines River and beyond. For...
...workers shown doing the dirtiest and hardest labor. The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 1072 |
Theater, Ethnic, Steven A. Riess and Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...The ethnic theater was an important Old World institution reinvented in immigrant neighborhoods. In...
...repertoire, especially Schiller. By the late 1890s, Chicago had 11 German theaters, often performing...
...amusements. Although Yiddish theater persisted in Chicago, it tended to be increasingly nostalgic....
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| 1073 |
Labor Law, Andrew Wender Cohen(
Authored Entry
) ...local commentators attribute the waning power of unions in Chicago to the vitiation of the NLRA....
...labor organizations, and employees. In Chicago, the law has determined the outcome of many struggles...
...in conviction, both financially weakened the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) and discouraged labor...
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| 1074 |
Lacustrine System, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...The landscape that greeted early settlers to the Chicago area was filled with lakes, sloughs, and...
...melted away and left a huge lake called Lake Chicago. The surface of this glacial lake lay 60 feet...
...Lake Michigan, and it overlay much of the future Chicago area. The lake was dammed behind ridges of...
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| 1075 |
Industry, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Goose Island 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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| 1076 |
Justice, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...and divided the community into three areas. “Old Justice” lies north of Archer Avenue, and the...
...Stagecoaches traveling along Archer Avenue linked the area with Chicago. When the I&M Canal opened...
...barges carried passengers and freight eastward to Chicago and westward to the Illinois River. By the...
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| 1077 |
Fur Trade, B. Pierre Lebeau(
Authored Entry
) ...of the company in Illinois, the fur trade at Chicago was measured in hundreds instead of thousands...
...of the fur trade as a significant part of the Chicago economy. Diminishing profits convinced Astor...
...to the Far West. Fur trading disappeared from Chicago as the population boomed and land speculation...
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| 1078 |
Postcards, Katherine Hamilton-Smith(
Authored Entry
) ...postcard company C. R. Childs, which specialized in views of Chicago's neighborhoods and suburbs....
...about their origins, or are aware that Chicago figured prominently in the history of postcards....
...in 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The set of 10 cards, produced by Charles W....
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| 1079 |
Mormons, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1839. In its prime, Nauvoo rivaled Chicago in size and population, and Mormon activities,...
...of polygamy among the church's hierarchy, attracted the notice of Chicago journalists . Part of...
...between church founder Joseph Smith and the Chicago Democrat's John Wentworth became the...
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| 1080 |
Australians, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...Australians in other major U.S. cities, most of Chicago's Australians have assimilated easily owing...
...other ethnic groups, Australians living in Chicago have maintained neither an active organizational...
...neighborhood or occupational concentration. Chicago's small Australian population increased soon...
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