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Portage Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...on the park. A gymnasium was added. In 1959 the old pond was replaced by an Olympic-sized concrete...
...off place for locals and it served as a temporary town hall. The township became part of the city of...
...inhabitants could paddle their canoes from the Chicago River to the Des Plaines on a minor portage...
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Lake Villa, IL, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...subdivided the farmlands of many of the old mansions, including Ernst Lehmann's Lindenhurst Farm,...
...the settlement “Lake City,” but as there was already a town by that name in Illinois, the first post...
...vacationers did pass through Lake Villa, the town itself grew slowly, incorporating in 1901. By 1910...
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Harvey, IL, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...of manufacturers to establish factories in town. The Illinois Central Railroad tracks divided the...
...The founders envisioned Harvey as a model town, a blend of capitalism and Christianity. The...
...residents a variety of house plans. By 1900 the town contained 5,395 residents, a bank, and 11...
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United Charities, Scott Lien(
Authored Entry
) ...the social service effort throughout metropolitan Chicago. UCC operates an array of social services,...
...United Charities of Chicago (UCC), one of the city's most visible...
...organizations, is a direct descendant of Chicago's first citywide charity association, the Chicago...
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Venezuelans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Although Chicago has never attracted many Venezuelan immigrants, a small but viable community has...
...in the city beginning in the 1950s. Chicago's earliest Venezuelans included Chico Carrasquel, White...
...city during the 1950s. Venezuelan migration to Chicago accelerated during the 1970s and 1980s. Many...
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Wrigley Field, Richard H. Brown(
Authored Entry
) ...i3324 Wrigley Field, 1950. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...A mecca for baseball fans, a Chicago landmark, and the heart of “Wrigleyville,” fabled Wrigley...
...Field originated in 1914 as home of the Chicago Whales in the short-lived Federal League. When that...
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Bolivians, José R. Deustua(
Authored Entry
) ...produced a national jubilee, and Bolivians from Chicago, elsewhere in the United States, and back...
...including the national anthem. Bolivians in Chicago try to recreate their culture and traditions in...
...Among the smallest of Chicago's Latino ethnic groups, Bolivians are also less residentially...
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Zoroastrians, Paul D. Numrich(
Authored Entry
) ...federation's first president was a leader of the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago....
...of the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago. One of the association's first tasks was to...
...Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago has played an important role in the institutional...
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Argentinians, Beatriz Badikian-Gartler(
Authored Entry
) ...along with restaurants , have helped to reverse the earlier invisibility of Chicago's Argentinians....
...Argentinian immigrants have generally identified with Euro-American ethnic groups in Chicago....
...The majority of Argentinians in Chicago are Roman Catholics and Jews . Immigrants from Argentina...
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Knights of Labor, Richard Schneirov(
Authored Entry
) ...would inspire subsequent labor movements, both in Chicago and across the nation. i3451 Labor leaders...
...members. This flyer advertises a speech by Chicago's Albert Parsons in St. Joseph, Missouri. Source:...
...in 1869, the Knights of Labor spread to Chicago after the 1877 railroad strikes . Initially viewed...
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Arts and Crafts Movement, Sharon S. Darling(
Authored Entry
) ...and Crafts movement found a sympathetic audience in Chicago among art workers, educators, and others...
...and shops and served as headquarters for the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society, founded in 1897....
...an English instructor at the University of Chicago, helped found the Industrial Art League of...
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New Thought, Beryl Satter(
Authored Entry
) ...meditation practices. In the 1990s several Chicago-area New Thought churches continued to draw...
...for Better Living, the Unity Church of Chicago, the First Church of Religious Science, and the...
...a nation mired in materialism and corruption. Chicago played an early and significant role in the...
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Playgrounds and Small Parks, Dominic A. Pacyga(
Authored Entry
) ...Reformers, drawing often on their own small-town backgrounds, argued that open space and fresh air...
...hundred small parks and playgrounds that dot Chicago's neighborhoods are a distinctive legacy of...
...1890s, streets , empty lots (“prairies” in Chicago parlance), and occasional playgrounds adjacent to...
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Rear Houses, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...along an alley, ca. 1900. Photographer: Unknown. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...displaced residences, landowners purchased old cottages intended for demolition. Without permanent...
...ubiquitous residences for the working class in Chicago. Typically one-story, rectangular buildings...
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Midlothian, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...last Native American occupants of the area. The Old Indian Boundary Line crosses to the southeast of...
...of Midlothian abounds, especially just south of town at the Oak Forest site. The site, on the Tinley...
...is on the lake plain formed by glacial Lake Chicago as a result of the Wisconsin glacier (12,000...
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Humboldt Park, David A. Badillo(
Authored Entry
) ...were Puerto Ricans, who moved in from West Town and points east. The period 1950 to 1965 saw the...
...and wounded a young Puerto Rican man in West Town. Community leaders rallied in the park to devise...
...remains the symbolic nucleus of Puerto Rican Chicago. Park thoroughfares have been renamed in honor...
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Bahā'ī, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...Wilmette, 1971. Photographer: Calvin Hutchinson. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...The Chicago Bahā’ī community began in the 1890s as a small group of American converts and Iranian...
...were perhaps two to three hundred Bahā’īs in Chicago before 1910. After 1903 the project of building...
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Tuberculosis, Susan Vieweg(
Authored Entry
) ...Tuberculosis Law, in 1909, giving the city of Chicago the ability to raise funds for the treatment...
...through a special property tax. In 1915, the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium opened and...
...rates from tuberculosis declined slowly in Chicago in the early twentieth century with disparities...
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Children, Dependent, Kenneth Cmiel(
Authored Entry
) ...growth of the city was the first source of Chicago's dependent children problems. By the 1850s,...
...to abandon their children on the streets of Chicago. The 1851 city charter noted children “destitute...
...children in reformatories or jails . The Chicago Home for the Friendless and Chicago Foundling...
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Section between Robey Street (Damen) and Summit, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...The Sanitary and Ship Canal 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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