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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(
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) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Grand Army of the Republic, David T. Thackery(
Authored Entry
) ...and G.A.R. meeting place, was a component of the Chicago Public Library building (1897) on Michigan...
...passing of Union veterans, but as late as 1914 Chicago had 23 posts with a combined roster of over...
...organization of Union Civil War veterans. Chicago G.A.R. posts behaved in many respects like other...
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Nursing and Nursing Education, Wendy Burgess(
Authored Entry
) ...century. Early schools of nursing were based in Chicago hospitals. Prominent among them were St....
...other schools, was established in 1891 by the Chicago African American community in order to provide...
...women who were excluded from other schools in Chicago and in the nation. A small but significant...
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Goose Island Residents and Residences, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...By this point, evidence points to more familiar Chicago cottages and two-flats on Hickory, North...
...Housing, Self-Built ; Built Environment of Chicago ; Goose Island ; Housing Types Back | Page 1 |...
...Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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English, June Skinner Sawyers(
Authored Entry
) ...especially to the region eventually known as the Old Northwest, which included what later became the...
...population by 1890. Trying to maintain a bit of the old country's traditions, members of Chicago's...
...descendants have been a significant presence in Chicago since the early nineteenth century. Great...
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Popular Diversions, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...William Jennings Bryan delivered his "Cross of Gold" speech. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago...
...to feature "exotic" dancers from the Midway at Chicago's World's Fair), and penny arcades catered to...
...limited means. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-04793) Illustration...
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Underground Railroad, Glennette Tilley Turner(
Authored Entry
) ...terminus of most Underground Railroad routes originating in Illinois towns bordering the Mississippi...
...and Ohio Rivers, Chicago was a hub of antislavery activity. Workers provided lodging or...
...in Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee found Chicago to be a relatively safe destination. Although the...
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Fuller Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...houses at 5029–5045 S. Princeton. In 1889, the Town of Lake was annexed to the city of Chicago....
...due south of Comiskey Park , the home of the American League Chicago White Sox baseball team....
...One of Chicago's smallest community areas, this narrow two-mile strip lies between the Dan Ryan...
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City Homes Association, Wendy Plotkin(
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) ...Side (near Division and Ashland Streets in West Town ), and the Bohemian district southwest of Blue...
...in New York, the study deplored conditions in Chicago's dense and dilapidated one- to four-story...
...populations. The findings led to the enactment of Chicago's 1902 Tenement House Ordinance, covering...
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West Pullman, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...homes that were already a quarter of a century old and boasted no modern conveniences. And there...
...existing communities. The first was Kensington , a town established at the junction of the Illinois...
...grew rapidly in the 1880s along with the new town of Pullman that adjoined it. The second was the...
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Bartlett, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Kane Counties, 30 miles W of the Loop. The town of Bartlett began in a woodland and still retains...
...switching yard. Because of his donations the town was named for him. The Bartlett station attracted...
...property, he donated half of the land to the Chicago & Pacific Railroad (which was succeeded in 1880...
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