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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Architecture, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...Overview The First Chicago School The City Beautiful Movement...
...The Prairie School The Second Chicago School W. W....
...Van Osdel were the most prominent architects in Chicago as the city grew from less than 1,000 at its...
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Crete, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...more closely to the Chicago region. In 1926, Chicago and Kentucky businessmen built Lincoln Fields,...
...on 1,000 acres south of Crete. Also in 1926, Chicago interests purchased land east of the village...
...plant established in 1869. Also in 1869, the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad came through...
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New Zealanders, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...major urban centers of the United States, Chicago-area New Zealanders have assimilated relatively...
...status upon arrival. Thus, New Zealanders in the Chicago area do not constitute an extremely visible...
...dispersed and scattered. New Zealanders came to Chicago in significant numbers following World War...
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Residential Hotels, Paul Groth(
Authored Entry
) ...closed or moved their factories to the edge of town. The cheap lodging house areas, especially,...
...low-income population. Between 1973 and 1984 Chicago lost almost 23,000 hotel rooms, adding to a...
...From the very beginning of Chicago's history, hotel managers have catered both to tourists and to...
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Near West Side, Myriam Pauillac(
Authored Entry
) ...community, the Maxwell Street Market, or “Jew town,” came to life at the intersection of Halsted and...
...wiped out a significant section of “Greek town. ” The construction of the University of Illinois at...
...Area 28, 2 miles W of the Loop. is bounded by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad to the north, the...
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Politics and the Press, Jon Bekken(
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) ...Chicago's first newspapers were firmly tied to the political parties of the 1830s, and for more than...
...inextricable part of the political process. “Long John” Wentworth's rise from editor of the Chicago...
...Democrat (Chicago's first newspaper) to political powerhouse was atypical, however; more commonly...
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Austin, Judith A. Martin(
Authored Entry
) ...illustration was the 1929 construction of Austin Town Hall, modeled on Philadelphia's Independence...
...white population moved to the suburbs and to Chicago's Northwest Side. Neighborhood groups like the...
...Area 25, 7 miles W of the Loop. Austin, on Chicago's western border, evolved from a country village...
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Lake View, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...not afford homes such as those preferred by the old, suburban elite. In the mid-twentieth century,...
...Lake View Township; in 1872 residents built a town hall at Halsted and Addison; and in 1887 Lake...
...example, East Lake View became known as New Town for its trendy shops and counterculture denizens....
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City of Bridges, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...out over and over again over the course of Chicago’s history. The same conflict emerged when harbor...
...to cross them, bridges had to be movable. Chicago engineers met these challenges in innovative ways....
...calumet river bridges The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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Ralph Metcalfe: Champion Sprinter and Free-Thinking Politician, Daniel Greene(
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) ...Metcalfe again finished second in the 100-meter dash, with Jesse Owens winning the gold. Metcalfe...
...teamed with Owens to win a gold in the 400-meter relay that year, helping to set a world record....
...After excelling as a student and a sprinter at Chicago's Tilden Technical High School and Marquette...
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