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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Building Codes and Standards, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...relaxing the code, facilitating gentrification in old neighborhoods as older homes could be restored...
...From the city's inception in 1837, Chicago's Health Department regulated the built environment to...
...set a limit upon the height of tenements in Chicago. After 1920, major advances occurred in the...
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Comiskey Park, Robin F. Bachin(
Authored Entry
) ...a seating capacity of 44,702 and without the obstructed-view seats of the old park. On September 30,...
...1990, the White Sox played their last game at old Comiskey. They played their first game at the new...
...for permission to build a new stadium in Chicago. The problem of displacing residents and politics...
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American Civil Liberties Union, Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...U.S. Supreme Court to defeat the city of Chicago's attempts to institute an antiloitering ordinance....
...which then became the ACLU. Although initially Chicago did not have a local branch of the ACLU, its...
...major case, the Scopes Monkey Trial. In 1929 Chicago members of the ACLU grew alarmed at what they...
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Monee, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...Railroad established a station at Monee. The town soon boasted a general store, a schoolhouse, and a...
...and amusement park at Raccoon Grove. The small town center developed with the Illinois Central line...
...traffic that had previously gone uphill from both Chicago and Kankakee. The Illinois Central built a...
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Inland Steel Co., Jonathan Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...Inland purchased Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, an old Chicago wholesaler of steel products. Like all...
...Chicago's leading homegrown steel company, Inland...
...was founded in 1893 in Chicago Heights by Joseph Block and his son Philip. The Blocks' company...
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Armenians, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...political divide within the Armenian community of Chicago continued into the twenty-first century....
...The first Armenians came to Chicago during the mid-1800s. Assisted by Protestant missionary teachers...
...return home. Many of the earliest Armenians in Chicago attained considerable success, most notably...
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Heat Wave of 1995, Eric Klinenberg(
Authored Entry
) ...weather, 485 city residents, many of whom were old, alone, and impoverished, died of causes that...
...community areas on the South and West Sides of Chicago, the places that also have high mortality...
...visible some of the new dangers related to aging, isolation, and concentrated poverty in Chicago....
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Theater Buildings, Scott Fosdick(
Authored Entry
) ...had a profound effect on the history of theater in Chicago. By influencing the number and type of...
...in this city. In this context, the history of Chicago theater buildings divides into three general...
...aesthetic that has sometimes been called the Chicago Style. At the end of the twentieth century,...
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Hmong, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...there. By 2000, only a few hundred Hmong remained in the Chicago area, primarily Christian families....
...The first Hmong to migrate to Chicago came as refugees from Laos after the ascension of the...
...in Illinois in Dixon, Wheaton , Ottawa, and Chicago faced a difficult adjustment to life in highly...
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Jordanians, Stephen R. Porter(
Authored Entry
) ...area known as the “West Bank” makes defining Chicago Jordanians a complicated task. Wrested from the...
...Jordanian passports. Most people migrating to Chicago with Jordanian passports in the second half of...
...the current borders of Jordan began settling on Chicago's Near West and Southwest Sides in the late...
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