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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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Kenilworth, IL, Jan Olive Nash(
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) ...its numerous Tudor revival residences, and the Old English–style street lamps continue to evoke the...
...Sheridan Road entrances to the village and the town's central fountain. Consistent with the overall...
...by 175 feet. The village name was taken from a town in the midlands of England. In 1899 the local...
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Near North Side, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...Cityfront Center development. They redesigned old warehouses into a shopping mall called North Pier...
...North area became a center for art galleries . The Chicago Dock and Canal Trust, still controlled by...
...Community Area 8, 1 mile N of the Loop. The Chicago River and Lake Michigan form three edges of the...
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Armories, Eleanor Hannah(
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) ...new armories for all infantry regiments in Chicago, completing one for the African American Eighth...
...in 1915. The only armory with landmark status in Chicago, this facility reopened in 1999 as a public...
...continued to build or renovate armories for Chicago regiments. As ING companies followed the...
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Cameroonians, Robert Morrissey(
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) ...group of mostly French-speaking Cameroonians in Chicago formed a wing of the Cameroonian People's...
...nonpolitical Cameroonian community group in Chicago. The Association of Cameroonians in Illinois...
...The first Cameroonians in Chicago came as students in the early 1960s. More permanent immigrants...
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Cypriots, Emily Brunner(
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) ...that there are few Turkish Cypriots in the Chicago area and that they would participate in Turkish...
...of Greece. Greek Cypriots began arriving in Chicago during the first third of the twentieth century,...
...Cypriot community outside of Cyprus. Most Chicago Cypriots have relatives in London, and some lived...
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Rent Control, Wendy Plotkin(
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) ...In twentieth-century Chicago, skyrocketing rents have arisen as an issue in times of inflation and...
...shortages. In response, for short periods, Chicago has adopted rent arbitration and rent control. In...
...that, through 1921 in conjunction with the Chicago Real Estate Board, arbitrated disputes over...
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Agricultural Journals, Chas. P. Raleigh(
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) ...and production between 1880 and 1930. While Chicago's agricultural journalists have focused on...
...information about prairie farming made Chicago a lively center for agricultural journalism. What no...
...Prairie Farmer first appeared was that Chicago would become home to more agricultural journals than...
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Openlands Project, Gerald W. Adelmann(
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) ...generation of neighborhood parks and gardens in Chicago, a metropolitan network of greenways, and...
...a committee of the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago “to seek preservation and development of...
...recreation and conservation resources” in the Chicago metropolitan area. Occasionally, Openlands...
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Catholic School System, Ellen Skerrett(
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) ...schools continued to be, in the words of the Chicago Defender, “a blessing especially to poor black...
...model of Catholic parish life . Since 1966, the Archdiocese of Chicago has closed more than half its...
...urban schools. Chicago's 139 Catholic elementary schools and 25 high schools enrolled 61,769...
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Calumet Park, IL, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...of Blue Island . Originally calling their town Caswell, two to three hundred ethnically mixed...
...Calumet Park served as a bootlegging and gambling town for Al Capone, providing a haven for minor...
...The incidents attracted the attention of Chicago Alderman Robert Shaw, whose protests against the...
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