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Plant Communities, Gerould Wilhelm(
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) ...1 In sandy soils along well-drained ridges and old dunes, savannas were dominated by black oak,...
...and the earth can no longer renew itself and the ancient memory of Chicago has all but slipped away....
...The Chicago region, situated along the southwestern end of Lake Michigan , lies along the...
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Parking, Nasutsa M. Mabwa(
Authored Entry
) ...Richard G. Lydy and Ben Kissel began buying old buildings in downtown Chicago on Franklin Street,...
...342 public parking garages and lots in the Chicago Central Area, which includes the Loop, Lakefront,...
...Near West Side areas. The largest parking garage in the Chicago area is located at O'Hare Airport ....
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Belarusians, Vitaut Kipel(
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) ...George Belarusian Orthodox Parish, in West Town , under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical...
...Programs and coordinates a variety of ethnic community parades. Chicago's orthodox congregation, St....
...Belarusian immigrants began to settle in Chicago around the end of the nineteenth century. Labeled “...
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Private and Public Beaches, Page 1, 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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North Aurora, IL, Sherry Meyer(
Authored Entry
) ...congregations, shops, and schools in nearby towns. Seeking managed growth, North Aurora updated its...
...was officially designated “North Aurora”; the town was incorporated in 1905. John Peter Schneider, a...
...transportation networks. Railroads passed through town in the 1850s, creating job opportunities and...
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The Lake Front in the 21st Century, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Park, occupied a mile and a half of lakefront property. In 2004, the city of Chicago was working...
...with South Chicago to develop public space along that stretch of lakefront. See also: Iron and...
...Corp. ; Waterfront The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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Emergence of Plumbers and Specialized Fixtures, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...heating equipment in the U.S. Headquartered in Chicago, the company manufactured valves, fittings,...
...World War II building boom that took place on Chicago’s Southwest and Northwest Sides, as well as in...
...also: Construction ; Built Environment of the Chicago Region Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The...
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Hanover Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...name given to the village of Hanover Park, a town that straddled the Cook and DuPage County lines....
...artery in the 1920s, a bypass skirted the town and an underpass went under the railroad tracks....
...were diverted away from the older section of town, in DuPage County. Slow development began on the...
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Highland, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
Authored Entry
) ...substantial landowner, John Clough, platted the town. The area for a short time bore the name Clough...
...They supplied much of the cabbage for the town's first industry, a kraut factory. A second kraut...
...other businesses. After World War II the town's financial base began to change from agricultural to...
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Morgan Park, Ellen Skerrett(
Authored Entry
) ...have evoked images of an English country town. In 1869, the Blue Island Land and Building Company...
...west of Vincennes Road, which bisects the town from northeast to southwest. ” Public institutions...
...community area of Morgan Park. Although the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad laid tracks...
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MacArthur Foundation, Stanley N. Katz(
Authored Entry
) ...as to the purpose of his philanthropic legacy. He simply named a number of business associates, old...
...Chicago friends, and prominent academics as the board of trustees, whose job it has been to develop...
...and Community Development (with special attention to Chicago and to Palm Beach County, Florida), and...
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Vacation Spots, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...exclusive resorts in Europe and the New England coast in summer (Bar Harbor, Maine and Newport,...
...in municipal campgrounds on the outskirts of rural towns. Between 1920 and 1930 the total acreage of...
...the tourism and airline industry, along with Chicago's national status as an air hub, had increased...
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Air Quality, David Stradling(
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) ...New York City's air was more polluted than Chicago's. Impelled by citizen activism and new federal...
...industry and effective regulation of auto emissions combined to significantly improve Chicago's air....
...Chicago no longer ranked among the nation's most heavily polluted cities....
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Film Censorship, Raymond J. Haberski, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...the 1960s. In 1961, in Times Film Corp. v. Chicago, the city's censorship code was once again...
...other legal challenges. By the early 1970s, Chicago's censorship board was no longer effective,...
...and as in cities throughout the nation, Chicago residents could attend theaters that showed...
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Sports, Industrial League, Gerald R. Gems(
Authored Entry
) ...and bowling equipment. In the 1880s the model town of Pullman featured the most comprehensive...
...Armour football squad, 1896. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago businesses began fielding athletic teams as early as the 1860s, when employees banded...
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Mutual Benefit Societies, John Bodnar(
Authored Entry
) ...by blending people from different regions and towns. By the 1920s the Sons of Italy in Chicago, for...
...halls. In the aftermath of World War II , Chicago's Greek societies raised money and foodstuffs for...
...Americanization . The Ukrainian Women's Alliance in Chicago attempted to promote a more active role...
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The Loop, Gerald A. Danzer(
Authored Entry
) ...buildings downtown brought back aspects of the old walking city. Cooperation between the city...
...Community Area 32. The Loop is the popular name for the Chicago business district located south of...
...the main stem of the Chicago River . The name apparently derives from the place where the strands...
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Drug Retailing, Rick Kogan(
Authored Entry
) ...chemistry, resulting in new derivatives of old drugs and new chemical entities. Though European...
...were clusters of products like the “only genuine old-fashioned” Castile soap, Peerless tooth powder,...
...by Dr. Edmund S. Kimberly began to dot the frontier town and were in fierce competition with, of all...
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Englewood, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...and later at the Union Stock Yard . By 1865 Junction Grove was annexed to the Town of Lake...
...values in Englewood. Buildings were 40 years old, and the expanding Black Belt population from the...
...and then Chicago in 1889. In 1868 Henry B. Lewis, a wool merchant in the Loop and Board of Education...
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Winnetka, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo(
Authored Entry
) ...along the western shores of Lake Michigan. The town was named Winnetka, a Native American word...
...Henry Demarest Lloyd helped found the Winnetka Town Meeting, providing a forum for residents to hear...
...along the Green Bay Trail, which connected Chicago to Fort Howard in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Eighteen...
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