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Chicago in the Middle Ground, R. David Edmunds(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...Chicago in the Middle Ground...
...of their family ties or former acceptance by the old community, were barred from joining a new...
...constructed of logs, but generally following the old French-Canadian fashion, with roughhewn logs...
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The Plan of Chicago, Page 1, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...The Plan of Chicago, Page 1...
...Districts ; Waterfront Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Chicago's Twentieth-Century Cultural Exports, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Chicago's Twentieth-Century Cultural Exports...
...to commemorate Chicago's incorporation as a town in 1833 and to draw attention to current...
...Stage, 1960 Photographer: Arthur Siegel Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-14718) Second City...
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The World in Chicago, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...The World in Chicago...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
...passport, Nanni Helena Korolainen was 17 years old when she moved from Finland to Chicago in 1921....
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Chicago in the Middle Ground, R. David Edmunds(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago in the Middle Ground...
...of their family ties or former acceptance by the old community, were barred from joining a new...
...constructed of logs, but generally following the old French-Canadian fashion, with roughhewn logs...
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Chicago Times, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Times...
...helped Carter H. Harrison, a Democrat, to begin a long term of service as Chicago's mayor. After...
...1895, when the Times merged with another Chicago daily, the Herald, it disappeared as an independent...
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Innovation, Invention, and Chicago Business, Louis P. Cain(
Authored Entry
) ...Innovation, Invention, and Chicago Business...
...with the Michigan Central Railroad to fit two old passenger cars as sleeping cars. Pullman's initial...
...Pullman planned and constructed the model town that bears his name. Retailing was the bailiwick of...
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The Plan of Chicago, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...The Plan of Chicago...
...H. Bennett, Plan of Chicago , ed. Charles Moore. 1993. The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Chicago Packing & Provision Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Packing & Provision Co...
...city's foremost grain traders, opened a meatpacking plant in Chicago in 1858. By the mid-1870s, when...
...400,000 or more hogs per season, Hutchinson's Chicago Packing & Provision Co. was the leading meat...
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Chicago Ship Building Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Ship Building Co...
...The area's greatest shipyard, located in South Chicago, was founded in 1890 as a subsidiary of the...
...Shipbuilding Co. (also based in Cleveland), the Chicago Ship Building Co. employed 1,200 men and...
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Global Capitalism and Chicago Real Estate, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Global Capitalism and Chicago Real Estate...
...showing proposed lots) in 1830. He laid out the town with straight streets uniformly 66 feet wide (...
...of lots in Chicago. He is unimpressed by the town, and the price of $155 per square foot for water...
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Built Environment of the Chicago Region, Robert Bruegmann(
Authored Entry
) ...Built Environment of the Chicago Region...
...ranging from the slums and tenement areas close to the Loop to the mansions of the Gold...
...Coast , relocated in the late nineteenth century from just south of the business district to north...
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Using the Chicago River, David Solzman(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...Using the Chicago River...
...Waterway Industrial Sites: A Chicago Case Study. 1966. The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Sanitation in Chicago, Louis Cain(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...Sanitation in Chicago...
...cost less to dig a new channel than to enlarge the old one once more. In 1889 voters approved the...
...Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis: The Case of Chicago. 1978. Cain, Louis P. "The Search for an...
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The Chicago Region and Its Global Models, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...The Chicago Region and Its Global Models...
...Unknown Source: Newberry Library The company town of Pullman, founded by George M. Pullman of the...
...Visitors sought to see for themselves the town that was the subject of debate regarding capitalism,...
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Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad Co...
...In 1906, the merger of several streetcar lines in Chicago's western suburbs created...
...the Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad. By 1909, the line had four routes between the western...
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Chicago Rapid Transit Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Rapid Transit Co...
...bankruptcy. In 1947 it was taken over by the new Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), a public entity...
...of elevated railways was the descendant of the Chicago Elevated Railways Collateral Trust, formed in...
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Chicago Motor Coach Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Motor Coach Co...
...created between 1920 and 1922 through the merger of three motorbus carriers, Chicago Motor Bus Co. ,...
...the Chicago Stage Co. , and the Depot Motor Bus Lines. In 1922, when it was the second-largest urban...
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Chicago Flexible Shaft Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Flexible Shaft Co...
...plant. Meanwhile, it continued to expand outside of Chicago; by the end of the 1970s, as the leading...
...International Inc. of Pittsburgh, its Chicago-area factories were closed and the headquarters left...
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Chicago Daily News Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Daily News Inc...
...when its circulation was surpassed by the Chicago Tribune. Even after Lawson died in 1925, however,...
...purchased by Field Enterprises, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times. The Daily News ceased to exist in...
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