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Building Codes and Standards, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Lower West Side, Gabriela F. Arredondo(
Authored Entry
) ...traditionally served as a point of entry to Chicago for working-class immigrants from a broad range...
...The area is bounded on the south and east by the Chicago River , and on the north and west by the...
...its neighborhoods—especially Pilsen and Heart of Chicago—have been vibrant and dynamic enclaves for...
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Cemeteries, Helen Sclair(
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) ...and along the rivers. Regular burying grounds near Lake Michigan , at the edges of town, one...
...In Chicago, the living and the dead have always sought the same space, high and dry land with good...
...at Chicago Avenue and the other at Twelfth Street, established in 1835, were short-lived. The dead...
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Schiller Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...closer together, with its message of having a “small town feel with a world at its touch. ”...
...served as honorary mayor of the unincorporated town, which was known as Kolze. In 1886 the Wisconsin...
...the way she ran her household. As the city of Chicago encroached upon nearby land, Schiller Park...
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Fox River, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...and mills built on the stream. Now most of the old mill dams are gone, but they have been replaced...
...dam at North Aurora, 1961. Photographer: John McCarthy. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Illinois. Farther south, it drifts through Chicago's outermost manufacturing suburbs, tumbling over...
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Zambians, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...with Americans and other immigrant groups in Chicago. In addition to the important role it plays as...
...The first Zambians in Chicago probably came as students in the 1970s and 1980s. After Zambian...
...and established small communities in Washington DC, Chicago, New York, New Jersey, and Indiana. The...
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International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts, Laurie Pintar(
Authored Entry
) ...and theaters was firmly established. Although Chicago's history has been punctuated by the presence...
...in 1935, the union's impact on the city pales in comparison to the impact Chicago has had on the IA....
...1930s, the IA came under the control of Chicago's infamous Capone-Nitti gang. For the remainder of...
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Polio, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...See also: Water ; Epidemics Unofficial Rules for the Polio Epidemic, 1952 Creator: Chicago Tribune...
...Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38030)...
...On September 13, 1952, the Chicago Tribune reported that more than seven hundred people had...
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Kensington, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...Born as a railroad town named Calumet Junction, Kensington grew up where the Illinois Central and...
...Central railroads connected in 1852. The town grew slowly until, by 1880, 400 German , Irish ,...
...George M. Pullman announced in 1880 that his model town would be built just north of Kensington, the...
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Aurora University, Susan Palmer(
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) ...University. Today the university also has satellite professional programs in Chicago and Wisconsin....
...In 1912, the school moved to Aurora , a larger town with a record of impressive economic development...
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Scots, June Skinner Sawyers(
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) ...members of the professional or merchant class. Chicago's Scots established their own organizations,...
...the Scottish American community. In 1846 Chicago Scots founded the Illinois Saint Andrew Society,...
...Scottish immigrants played major roles in Chicago's early development. John Kinzie was probably...
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