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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(
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) ...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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Cholera, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Water-Related Epidemics 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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Stone Park, IL, Richard Harris(
Authored Entry
) ...brother controlled all political offices in the town, while Pranno himself ran a crime syndicate...
...the Loop. One of the smallest and poorest of Chicago's suburbs, Stone Park also has one of the most...
...income out of 262 communities in the six-county Chicago area. As was common elsewhere, settlement...
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Calumet Harbor, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...industrial convenience. See also: Calumet Region ; 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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Gypsies, Marlene Sway(
Authored Entry
) ...the American Machwaya, these recent immigrants have become fully integrated into Chicago Gypsy life....
...strong ethnic identity. Gypsies first came to Chicago during the large waves of Southern and Eastern...
...Two separate Gypsy subgroups settled in Chicago. The Machwaya came from Serbia and parts of the...
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Highwood, IL, Lisa Cervac(
Authored Entry
) ...Theodore Roosevelt to call it “the toughest town in America. ” Highwood set such an example that the...
...area's best restaurants outside the city of Chicago. With the closing of Fort Sheridan in 1993, the...
...Once a four block by four block anomaly on Chicago's North Shore, Highwood doubled in size with the...
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West Ridge, Patricia Mooney-Melvin(
Authored Entry
) ...Ridge, also called West Rogers Park or North Town, lies nestled between Ridge Avenue and the North...
...Jews moved to West Ridge from other parts of Chicago and were joined by a steady stream of Russian...
...Despite local controversy over annexation to Chicago in 1893, proponents prevailed and West Ridge...
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Riverdale, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...neighborhoods known as Highlawn and Ivanhoe. The old Indian Boundary Line crosses through the...
...removal was George Dolton, who settled where an old Indian trail (Lincoln Avenue) crossed the Little...
...S of the Loop. Riverdale shares borders with Chicago to the northeast, Dolton to the east and south,...
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Yankee Recollection, (
Authored Entry
) ...into our log cabin before we had visits from the old chief and members of his family, and my father...
...sic was probably about forty-five or fifty years old. He was a man of fine figure and presence, over...
...When Judge Henry W. Blodgett arrived in Chicago as a young boy in 1831, his family located on the...
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Park Ridge, IL, John R. Schmidt(
Authored Entry
) ...not true, the name is appropriate, reflecting the town's park-like setting along a gentle ridge. The...
...develop the look of a traditional New England town, with large homes on wide lots and a profusion of...
...Lutheran General Hospital relocated from Chicago, and a second high school (Maine South) opened in...
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Spaniards, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Community leaders estimated approximately 500 Spaniards spread across the Chicago metropolitan area....
...Spain established a small but vibrant community in Chicago. Rural poverty and population pressure...
...a small number of Spaniards had settled in Chicago, attracted to the area by jobs in steel mills and...
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