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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Villa Park, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...displeasing some in the Villa Park side of town. They led the call for a public referendum, and in...
...Villa Park represents a good example of Chicago suburban de- velopment in the early twentieth...
...St. Charles Road in 1843, while the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad began service in 1849. In 1900,...
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Assyrians, Daniel P. Wolk(
Authored Entry
) ...migration coincided with the waning of the “old” community. As the mostly Iranian Assyrians migrated...
...store franchises has become an attraction. Chicago's Assyrian families have toiled to support or...
...consciousness has deepened. The tight-knit Chicago community, numbering 15,683 according to the 2000...
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Domestic Work and Workers, Daniel A. Graff(
Authored Entry
) ...between $5 to $6 per hour on average. And in Chicago, as elsewhere in the United States, cleaning,...
...half of the nineteenth century transformed Chicago into the nation's leading interior metropolis....
...and childcare chores. By 1870, one in five Chicago households employed domestic workers, who...
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Art, Public, David M. Sokol(
Authored Entry
) ...and teenagers, through such organizations as the Chicago Mural Group, the Public Art Workshop, and...
...Chicago is known for its public sculpture, though it also has a rich tradition in murals and other...
...cycle was Lawrence C. Earle's History of Chicago (1909) for the Chicago National Bank. Frederic Clay...
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Berwyn, IL, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...services and drove up real-estate prices, leaving old-timers “house poor. ” And while Berwyn's Czech...
...acquired additional land, nearly doubling the town's size. By 1900 Chicago was hungrily annexing...
...only via the Ogden Avenue plank road. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ran through the area...
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Ghettoization, Larry Bennett(
Authored Entry
) ...to the concentration of African Americans in the old South Side Black Belt and in a second band of...
...in adjoining white neighborhoods. By the 1950s, the Chicago Housing Authority's (CHA) project-siting...
...of major industries and other employers from Chicago's inner-city neighborhoods has resulted in a...
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Indiana Dunes, J. Ronald Engel(
Authored Entry
) ...on industrializing the remaining Indiana shoreline. Chicago reformers associated with the settlement...
...40s. The urban and industrial expansion of Chicago following the Civil War established the checkered...
...in America because in 1899 University of Chicago botanist Henry C. Cowles published his classic...
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Vietnamese, Mark E. Pfeifer(
Authored Entry
) ...Persons of Vietnamese origin began moving to Chicago in significant numbers in the mid to late...
...hundred Vietnamese refugees were resettled in Chicago following the fall of Saigon in 1975. While...
...family members from Vietnam to join them in Chicago. The 1990 census enumerated 4,640 persons of...
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Motorola Inc., Timothy J. Gilfoyle(
Authored Entry
) ...battery eliminator business from the bankrupt Stewart Storage Battery Co. of Chicago. The brothers'...
...new company, located on the West Side of Chicago, was called the Galvin Manufacturing Corp. ; it...
...Motorola slashed tens of thousands of jobs in Chicago and worldwide. Christopher Galvin was replaced...
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New Deal, Roger Biles(
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) ...fiscal collapse, New Deal beneficence assured Chicago's solvency. With New Deal programs aiding an...
...comparatively liberal record on race, Chicago's black voters (who also found much to admire in Mayor...
...cities. At the nadir of the Depression, Chicago's unemployed numbered 700,000 people (fully 40...
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