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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Relief and Subsistence Aid, Scott Lien(
Authored Entry
) ...for mothers, 1932. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Relief and...
...so prevalent in late-nineteenth-century Chicago. Other reforms of the Progressive era included...
...H. G. Hardt. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Although important...
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Savings and Loans, Jeffrey A. Brune(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's first building and loan association (called savings and loans after the 1930s) was...
...did not offer many of the services banks did. Chicago's small associations flourished in the 1880s,...
...and by 1893, largely because of Chicago, Illinois ranked third in the nation in the number of...
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Inverness, IL, Ronald Martin(
Authored Entry
) ...Inverness has, however, linked itself to the adjoining towns. With no industry other than its...
...setting from traffic from the neighboring towns. The houses also followed the topography , for they...
...worked either in outlying communities or in Chicago. Route 68 provides residents access to the other...
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Water Quality in the 1830s, (
Authored Entry
) ...nothing you know where they are in such a great way of doing business as they are here at Chicago....
...When Caroline Palmer Clarke arrived in Chicago in 1835, she wrote to her sister-in-law describing...
...home, which remains one of the oldest houses in Chicago, now located in the Prairie Avenue Historic...
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Dolton, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...that period. George Dolton settled where the old Indian trail (Lincoln Avenue) crossed the Little...
...settled here, and it is for them that the town is named. A period of German immigration intensified...
...improved automobile and truck access to Chicago by two interchanges serving Dolton. In recent years...
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Rush Street Bridge, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...of the improvements presented in the 1909 Plan of Chicago by Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett. When...
...of nineteenth century bridge-building). See also: Planning Chicago ; Near North Side Back | Page 1 |...
...Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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Goose Island Residents and Residences, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...attempted independence. Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | 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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Cook County, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...County Board was an unwieldy group of more than 50 town supervisors. Although over 85 percent of the...
...met in 1831 with three members: two from Chicago and one from Naperville (DuPage did not become a...
...Dearborn . The board set the county seat at Chicago, requested 10 acres of land from the state for...
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House Numbering and Street Numbering, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...1890s, Oak Park , foreshadowing later changes in Chicago, adopted a numbering system based on 800 to...
...the mile—with one hundred to each long city block—and using Chicago's State Street as its baseline....
...Chicago's numbered street system has been extended far south into suburban communities, and some...
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Eastern Orthodox, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...and Macedonians all founded churches in Chicago. By the 1970s, there were 88 Eastern Orthodox...
...as Holy Nativity Romanian Orthodox Church on Chicago's far North Side, broke with church authorities...
...Syrians , and Ukrainians . The majority of Chicago's Eastern Orthodox congregations belong to either...
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