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Villa Park, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Rotary International, Jeffrey Charles(
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) ...emphasizing service, and expanded to cities and towns across the country and throughout the world....
...Rotary became most associated in America with towns and suburbs, where clubs worked to strengthen...
...Founded in Chicago in 1905 by lawyer Paul Harris, Rotary International is an association of clubs...
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Lake Forest College, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...string of towns stretching north along the shore of Lake Michigan , the city and the college of Lake...
...Academy opened to four boys in 1858, in the town's first building. The school's growth (including...
...In 1857, only two years after the completion of railroads connecting Chicago to the...
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DeVry Institutes, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...city's Lake View neighborhood, on the site of the old Riverview Park. Between 1967 and 1987, DeVry...
...DeVry has been important not only as a Chicago-area school, but also as a business enterprise...
...electronics repair school, with campuses in Chicago and Toronto. Its main Chicago campus was built...
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Mercy Hospital, Wallace Best(
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) ...new buildings were constructed in 1967 and the old complex razed. Though a board of trustees was...
...In 1852 the charter to Chicago's first hospital , the Illinois General Hospital of the Lakes,...
...goal of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago to erect a hospital operated by the Sisters in...
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Improvisational Theater, Tony Adler(
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) ...that flourished primarily in sixteenth-century Italy. Commedia companies would travel from town...
...to town performing plays for which no formal script existed—just a list of plot points, called a...
...by Del Close—a Compass alumnus who taught at Chicago's ImprovOlympic and epitomized the mystical (as...
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South Loop, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...and called for construction of an urban new town there. Downtown businessmen organized a corporation...
...Side Community Areas. The South Loop was one of Chicago's first residential districts, which recent...
...Michigan and Wabash Avenues. Railroads entering Chicago in the 1850s established passenger stations...
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Bronzeville, Dempsey J. Travis(
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) ...or “Black Ghetto” and occasionally “Darkie Town. ” Geographically, the Second and Third Wards were...
...In 1920 the African American population in Chicago was 109,894. Republican -oriented Negro leaders...
...Overton, the cosmetic king and publisher of the Chicago Bee, suggested that they use his coined word...
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Machine Politics, Roger Biles(
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) ...clearly made the machine politics for which Chicago became famous an anachronism by the end of the...
...In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chicago sustained a strong two-party tradition that...
...any faction from establishing hegemony. Several Chicago mayors , most notably Carter H. Harrison (...
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Indonesians, Asad Husain(
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) ...Indonesians started arriving in Chicago in 1883. Immigration to the United States has...
...slow, and they do not form a sizeable or recognizable community in the Chicago area. The community...
...than 1,000 was scattered all over metropolitan Chicago in 2000. It encompassed Christians, largely...
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Museums in the Park, Dennis H. Cremin(
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) ...maintenance and care of museums located in Chicago's parks. In 1903, voters approved the tax measure...
...the institutions would be better able to serve more of Chicago's burgeoning population. These...
...benefit nine museums: the Art Institute of Chicago , the Field Museum of Natural History, the Adler...
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