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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Private and Public Beaches, Page 2, 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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Edgewater, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...1857–1923) purchased land near Lake Michigan in the town of Lake View in 1886. There he developed a...
...plus-ones. Along Sheridan Road, most of the old mansions were razed and replaced with high-rises,...
...Edgewater's property owners persuaded the city of Chicago to make a rare change in its community...
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Folk and Traditional Dance, Susan K. Eleuterio and Paul Tyler(
Authored Entry
) ...folk dance, promulgated by groups such as the Chicago Barn Dance Company (established in 1977) in...
...1951. Photographer: Victor T. Gorecki, Jr. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...Social dancing in early Chicago was neither wild nor undisciplined, as frontier stereotypes suggest....
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Legal Aid, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...Office has grown. With 460 attorneys in 1996, it was one of Chicago's largest legal organizations....
...legal system. The two groups combined in 1905 to form the Chicago Legal Aid Society (later the Legal...
...Aid Bureau of United Charities of Chicago). The organization, with a staff of 16 in 1915, gradually...
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Malians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...and meetings of other West African organizations in Chicago, and, although these groups have largely...
...as students in the 1970s, most Malians in Chicago arrived in the 1990s. Famine and economic hardship...
...permanently settling in new cities including Chicago, Seattle, and Philadelphia. After the first...
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Acting, Ensemble, Andrea Telli and Richard Pettengill(
Authored Entry
) ...has established its own prominence in the Chicago theater scene. Zimmerman's commitment to ensemble...
...Her production of Ovid's Metamorphoses went from Chicago's Ivanhoe Theatre to Broadway in 2002,...
...displaying to a larger audience a prime example of Chicago ensemble work. i3312 Second City cast on...
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Libraries, Suburban, Sarah Ann Long(
Authored Entry
) ...Small towns and villages surrounding major cities began opening public libraries as early as the...
...in suburban service. The grants enabled neighboring towns that were too small to support their own...
...and form a library district encompassing several towns. For example, the Vernon Area Public Library...
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Lake View Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...i3497 Lake View town hall, built in 1872 at the corner of Halsted and Addison. Photographer:...
...an independent political unit separate from Chicago. The area population grew from 2,000 in 1870 to...
...in 1887, and under the weight of public service demands the township annexed to Chicago in 1889....
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Swimming in the Lakes and Streams, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Waterfront Swimming Lessons, 51st Street Beach, Lake Michigan, 1917 Photographer: Chicago Daily...
...News Source: Chicago Historical Society (DN-0068604) Organized swimming experiences included lessons...
...Street Beach Photographer: John McCarthy Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37290) Back | Page...
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Water Polo, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...Water polo originated in England in 1874 and arrived in Chicago in 1893, when Englishman John...
...Robinson became swimming instructor at the Chicago Athletic Association. As codified by Americans in...
...game than that played in Europe. In 1911, Chicago amateur club teams dropped the softball style and...
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