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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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Portuguese, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...leaders also petitioned to have the city of Chicago recognize the Portuguese community by flying the...
...people of Portuguese ancestry for Cook County, of whom 871 resided within Chicago's city limits....
...into exile in 1846. Few Portuguese settled in Chicago, however, before the Iberian nation's 1974...
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Bridge Tenders, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Solitary Lives 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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Nursery Schools, David Blanke(
Authored Entry
) ...below the poverty line. By 2001, 18,000 children in Chicago had enrolled at more than 500 Head Start...
...locations. Begun in 1967, the Chicago Parent-Child Project shared Head Start's goals and partnered...
...that cared for pre-school-age children in Chicago began in the late nineteenth century. Reflecting...
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Impresarios, Mark Clague(
Authored Entry
) ...which helped elevate jazz to the realm of “art music” and confirmed Chicago's role in this history....
...a vital role in bringing performing arts to Chicago. Beginning with hotel and theater owners and...
...into entertainment, profit, and prestige. Chicago's first impresario was probably Harry Isherwood,...
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Arts Funding, Jane Preston(
Authored Entry
) ...industrialist backing of the previous century. Chicago became, at the end of the twentieth century,...
...Chicago's traditions of arts funding have roots in the business community and civic leadership of...
...wealthy philanthropists who went on to found other major Chicago cultural institutions. The World's...
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Breweries, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...Attempts to reopen some of the old large-scale breweries ultimately failed, but microbreweries (...
...Eighteenth Amendment, marking the end of Chicago's role as a vibrant center of innovation . After...
...city's breweries closed their doors. Industrial beer making in Chicago languished until the 1980s....
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Police, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...such as the village of Hyde Park , the town of Cicero , and the city of Evanston , organized their...
...1915–1923, 1927–1931), Chicago was an “open town” for bootlegging and vice. Police were unable to...
...Policing in the Nineteenth Century Chicago elected its first constable in 1828, and Cook County its...
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Climate, Wayne M. Wendland(
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) ...Chicago's climate is attributable to its location, roughly halfway between the equator and the North...
...can produce heavy, lake-effect snowfalls. Chicago's weather records begin in the 1830s, first taken...
...are systematically cooler by a few degrees. Chicago's summers are dominated by warm, humid air...
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Clubs, Fraternal, David M. Fahey(
Authored Entry
) ...and prohibition. The publication in 1893 of the Chicago Directory of Lodges and Benevolent Societies...
...the popularity of fraternal societies in Chicago during the late nineteenth century. It listed...
...the Odd Fellows, and, most recently, the Elks. Chicago's first Masonic lodge was chartered in 1843....
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Environmentalism, David Stradling(
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) ...at the Civic Center Plaza and by thousands of Chicago-area students who collected trash around their...
...prevent standing water , and the reversal of the Chicago River's flow to keep sewage from entering...
...health. This early effort led to the creation of Chicago's landscaped parks, including Jackson ,...
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