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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Grain Trade, 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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Two Kinds of Factories, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...was, by Chicago's old street numbering system, 377 W. Chicago Avenue, which now corresponds to 1413...
...W. Chicago, just west of Noble Street on the Northwest...
...Side. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38278) Illustration 3819 3032...
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Daniel Burnham: Highway Planning, (
Authored Entry
) ...show that direct highways leading from the outlying towns to Chicago as the center are of necessity...
...for both; and it is also apparent that suburban towns should be connected with one another in the...
...are of even greater value to the outlying towns, and of greatest value to the farming communities...
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Jails and Prisons, Jess Maghan(
Authored Entry
) ...into the early twentieth century. In 1832, the newly chartered town of Chicago constructed an “...
...estray pen” at the town square (Randolph and Clark) and a year later developed it into a...
...log jail structure. Cook County and the town erected a courthouse in 1853, which included a basement...
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Advertising, Quentin J. Schultze(
Authored Entry
) ...of American publishing and broadcasting , Chicago became, by the beginning of the twentieth century,...
...the heart and soul of American advertising . Chicago's advertising leadership was forged from the...
...Unknown. Source: The Newberry Library. FIGURE 1 Chicago mail-order pioneers Montgomery Ward and...
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Dam at Lockport, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...in July 1897 and then in January 1900. See also: Water 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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Dewey's Commemorative Trip, 2 May 1900, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...2 May 1900 Photographers: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37469) Thousands of...
...after the official opening of the canal. See also: Lockport The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Before and After, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...channel in the winter of 1900. See also: Lemont , Bridges 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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Burnham Plan, Cynthia R. Field(
Authored Entry
) ...San Francisco, and Manila. The Plan of Chicago's magnificent illustrations, maps, and plans created...
...decades moved away from the design principles of the Plan of Chicago, the plan itself and its...
...authors remain a familiar presence in Chicago urban thinking....
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Deportation and Repatriation, Francisco E. Balderrama(
Authored Entry
) ...rather than provide long-term assistance to Mexicans. Chicago differed from other American cities...
...and such neighbors as Gary , South Chicago, and Indiana Harbor in never mounting a public...
...A conservative estimate reports that Chicago's Mexican community of 25,000 in 1929 declined to less...
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