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Glen Ellyn, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...three years, the new postmaster named the town Danby after his birthplace in Vermont. Religious...
...and Philo Stacy arranged to dam the stream near town to form Lake Glen Ellyn, named for the glen in...
...newest suburb and health resort, became the town's official name. The large Lake Glen Ellyn Hotel...
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World War II, Perry R. Duis(
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) ...out 20,000 carrier pilots, who trained on two old lake ships that had been converted into aircraft...
...Between September 1939 and December 7, 1941, Chicago was the scene of a vigorous debate over whether...
...should become involved in the European War. Chicago Tribune publisher R. R. McCormick led the...
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Service Employees International Union (SEIU), D. Bradford Hunt(
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) ...invested the union's large pension fund in major Chicago real-estate developments, including Marina...
...sector workers, reaching 80,000 members in the Chicago area in 2000, roughly half of whom were women...
...washers in apartment buildings organized the Chicago Flat Janitor's Union, the nation's first union...
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Communist Party, Randi Storch(
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) ...off and formed the Committees of Correspondence, which had its founding meeting in 1994 in Chicago....
...A small Chicago Communist Party remained at the close of the twentieth century....
...The American Communist Party was born in Chicago in 1919 and headquartered there until 1927, when...
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Gas Stations, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...last states to authorize self-service, and a Chicago city ordinance required stations to offer some...
...self-service stations have taken over in Chicago and the suburbs. i3586 Standard Oil gas station,...
...Gas stations have developed in Chicago and around the nation in response to the twentieth-century...
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Haitians, William Leslie Balan-Gaubert(
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) ...strong national loyalties among Haitians in Chicago, most of whom maintain strong ties to their...
...approximately 10,000–22,000 Haitians in the Chicago metropolitan area. Community leaders estimated...
...is also reported that some Haitians lived in Chicago around 1917 during the American occupation of...
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Playwriting, Andrea Telli and Richard Pettengill(
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) ...like Victory Gardens Theater, the Goodman, Steppenwolf , and Chicago Dramatists Workshop have...
...all nurtured and developed Chicago writers, in some cases toward New York productions and national...
...the Goodman previously, furthering the nation's awareness of Chicago's role in new play development....
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Press: Suburban Press, Richard Junger(
Authored Entry
) ...to hometown chroniclers to rivals once again, Chicago's suburban newspapers have persevered and...
...with the large downtown dailies. The Chicago area's oldest and the sixth-oldest newspaper in...
...1839, eight years before the founding of the Chicago Tribune. Early settlements along the Illinois...
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Accounting, Paul J. Miranti, Jr.(
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) ...global economy through the competencies of Chicago's accounting and educational organizations. In...
...professional accounting has been deeply intertwined with the developments that have shaped Chicago....
...Chicago's emergence as a major center of professional accountancy began during the 1890s. Initially,...
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Barrington, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...on the fear that, as happened with the towns along the Northwest Tollway, such a transportation...
...the oak grove and prairie land that lay between Chicago and the Fox River in the 1830s were both...
...in connecting the developing northwest to Chicago's growing port facilities. He gained control of...
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Sunday Closings, Rachel E. Bohlmann(
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) ...In Chicago, the policy of Sunday closing, requiring commercial venues to close on the traditional...
...from opening on the first day of the week. Chicago's law resembled the state's 1845 Sunday law,...
...laws, however, proved unpopular with Chicago's Irish and German immigrants. German Americans, for...
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Packinghouse Unions, Rick Halpern(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's important meatpacking industry experienced three successive waves of unionization . The...
...of the nation's packinghouses, especially those in Chicago, was essential to success. Between...
...AMC built a powerful organization in the Chicago plants, especially Armour and Swift. Its strongest...
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White Sox, David M. Oshinsky(
Authored Entry
) ...new park opened in 1991 across the street from the old stadium, which was demolished in favor of a...
...the new owners brought a division title to Chicago in 1983. But the erosion of fan support and media...
...and St. Paul, Minnesota, the White Sox came to Chicago in 1900 to play in the new American League....
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Alleys, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...Illinois & Michigan Canal commissioners' original town plat in 1830, providing rear service access...
...intact and contribute hugely to the pulse of Chicago's daily life. i3487 Children playing in a South...
...American urbanity, alleys have been part of Chicago's physical fabric since the beginning. Eighteen...
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Ice Skating, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...n.d. Photographer: John McCarthy Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37289) The redevelopment...
...Waterfront ; Skating (Ice) 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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Shoreline Development, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...park private and public beaches the plan of chicago race divisions on public beaches the lakefront...
...in the 21st century The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Room for Improvement, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...prohibit the sale of liquor but found little support in Chicago's precincts. Photographer: Charles...
...R. Childs Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37018) Illustration 4050 2892 Prohibition and...
...father, served five two-year terms as mayor of Chicago, from 1897 to 1905, and then from 1911 to...
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League of Women Voters, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...were headed by women active in metropolitan Chicago's suffrage and women's club movements, including...
...for voters, including Key to Government in Chicago and Suburban Cook County and Illinois Voters'...
...American Woman Suffrage Association in Chicago in 1920 following passage of national suffrage . The...
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Press: Neighborhood Press, Jon Bekken(
Authored Entry
) ...nineteenth century, absorbing formerly independent towns, community newspapers shifted from covering...
...Neighborhood Press Suburban Press NEIGHBORHOOD PRESS. As Chicago expanded its boundaries in the...
...converted to daily publication as the South Chicago Post in 1883, changing its name to the Daily...
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Cary, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...activity, local farmer William Cary platted a town site in 1856 one mile northwest of the Fox River...
...Wisconsin Railroad began grading a line from Chicago to Janesville, Wisconsin. The following year...
...stalled construction. Reorganized as the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac, the railroad resumed...
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