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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(
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) ...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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Coffeehouses, Eli Rubin(
Authored Entry
) ...politics in the coffeehouse blended with Chicago's jazz culture to produce a new tradition: the...
...such as the Interactive Bean have become central to the Chicago region's coffee-drinking habits....
...i3674 A Chicago coffee shop, 1941. Photographer: John Vachon. Source: Library of Congress. FIGURE 1...
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Beat Generation, Bill Savage(
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) ...Judge Julius J. Hoffman, better known for the Chicago Conspiracy Trial , found Big Table 1 not...
...from Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs, and “Old Angel Midnight,” by Jack Kerouac. Chicago Daily...
...Beat Generation. The editors of the University of Chicago 's student-run literary magazine , Chicago...
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West Englewood, Franklin Forts(
Authored Entry
) ...Boulevard. In 1865, Junction Grove became part of the incorporated town of Lake . In 1868, Henry B....
...Street, and a member of both the Cook County and Town of Lake boards of education, suggested the...
...junctions, and scattered farms became known as Chicago Junction, and later Junction Grove. New...
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Rogers Park, Patricia Mooney-Melvin(
Authored Entry
) ...1, 9 miles N of the Loop. Rogers Park ranks among Chicago's most diverse and populous neighborhoods....
...growth accompanied the village's annexation to Chicago in 1893. The 1915 annexation of the area...
...and South Evanston , brought Rogers Park and Chicago a new northern boundary. Rail connections...
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Toy Manufacturing, Anne Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...Throughout the twentieth century, Chicago was home to the leading manufacturers of toys, from...
...Beanie Babies. Toy manufacturers thrived in Chicago for the same reasons makers of other products...
...variety of miniature toy got its start in Chicago, when publisher Charles O. Dowst saw a Linotype...
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Grand Boulevard, Wallace Best(
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) ...Township in 1861, and was annexed with Hyde Park to Chicago in 1889. The area is bounded by 39th and...
...and south, and by Cottage Grove Avenue and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad tracks to the...
...a popular carriage route on which many of Chicago's wealthy built elegant mansions. The population...
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Winfield, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...remained in the shadow of its neighboring towns, West Chicago , Wheaton , and Naperville . Until the...
...the area in 1845, he did not have it platted as the Town of Fredericksburg until 1853. The following...
...1925, the Winfield Community Church became the town's first Protestant congregation. In 1897 Jessie...
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Flossmoor, IL, John H. Long(
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) ...S of the Loop. Flossmoor, a small residential town in the southern suburbs, is to a great extent the...
...creation of the Illinois Central Railroad . The town is situated in the Calumet River watershed and...
...was an ordinance that prohibited industry within the town limits, thus guaranteeing the village's...
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Southerners, Chad Berry(
Authored Entry
) ...also demonstrate that white southern migrants to Chicago and other Midwestern destinations enjoyed...
...in droves between World War I and the 1970s. Chicago and other Midwest locales—both urban and rural—...
...policy halted immigration, personnel managers in Chicago eagerly invited upland southerners, who had...
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Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Houses and Water 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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