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Westchester, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
Authored Entry
) ...13 miles W of the Loop. Except for a handful of old farmhouses scattered throughout the village and...
...to the founders' plans for a model English-style town, which was thwarted by the Great Depression ....
...wanted the new suburb to be a model English town. The planned extension of the Garfield Park rapid...
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Goose Island, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Goose Island 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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Outdoor Concerts, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...edified, and democratized the citizens of Chicago. When not merely providing a focus for summertime...
...main gate. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 As early as 1851,...
...arrangements, for spectators wishing to dance. As Chicago urbanized, concert audiences diversified...
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Montclare, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...by developers, who sold lots for $250 to $500. The town and the depot were named Montclare after...
...middle by the railroad tracks that marked the town's southern boundary. Settlement concentrated in...
...main thoroughfare to the downtown markets in Chicago, where many hawked their produce from wagons at...
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Oakland, Claudette Tolson(
Authored Entry
) ...near 38th Street and Lake Michigan , and built a soap factory and company town that included a...
...commissary, house of worship, town hall, and homes for workers. Part of the area was annexed to...
...the notorious El Rukn street gang . The city of Chicago demolished dilapidated buildings, and vacant...
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| 1286 |
Softball, 16-Inch, Jacob Austen(
Authored Entry
) ...be pitched fast or slow, the always slow-pitched Chicago softball makes for easier contact by the...
...presented with a 16-inch softball during a 1998 Chicago visit, the unfamiliar object fascinated him....
...thousands of games of 16-inch softball fill Chicago's parks every summer Sunday, the game is...
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United Neighborhood Organization, Amy T. Peterson(
Authored Entry
) ...1980, the United Neighborhood Organization of Chicago (UNO) is a service organization that aims to...
...empower and improve the quality of life for Chicago's low-income Latino residents, focusing...
...Daniel Solis, hoped it would become a voice for Chicago's Latino community. UNO's voice in Chicago's...
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Stephen A. Douglas, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...near 31st Street. Douglas's electoral support in Chicago remained strong until 1858. While he was...
...against Abraham Lincoln, he did not carry Chicago. Two years later, 8,094 Chicagoans voted for...
...Michigan Canal . He received strong support from Chicago voters when he entered Congress in the mid-...
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Clubs, Youth, Gerald R. Gems(
Authored Entry
) ...adults. In this portrait, ca. 1915, the Chicago Hebrew Institute celebrated its sports programs and...
...young athletes. Photographer: Taylor & Lytle. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Youth clubs and sports have been a part of Chicago's social world from its earliest days. Many were...
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National Negro Congress, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Race on any single issue. ” ”The Chicago Council ranked among the most active NNC chapters....
...radical labor organizer, assumed the reins. The Chicago NNC protested against discrimination in the...
...800 delegates, 43 percent of them from Chicago and the rest from across the nation, representing 500...
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Amos 'n' Andy, Melvin Patrick Ely(
Authored Entry
) ...move to Hollywood in 1937–38 reflected Chicago's decline as a center of American broadcasting ....
...Charles Correll (Andy), 1930. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Andy, radio's first hit series, originated on Chicago station WGN as Sam 'n' Henry in 1926; it moved...
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Garveyism, Christopher R. Reed(
Authored Entry
) ...enterprises on the South Side. Although Chicago Garveyites campaigned for a black congressional...
...avoided any involvement in American politics. The Chicago branch of the National Association for the...
...People and Robert S. Abbott, owner of the Chicago Defender , headed Garvey's opposition within...
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Art, Self-Taught, Lisa Stone(
Authored Entry
) ...consistent, provocative, and highly original. Chicago Imagist artists embraced self-taught art and...
...since the early 1960s included Outsider Art in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1979. In...
...Intuitive, and Visionary Art) formed, solidifying Chicago as a national center for the exhibition...
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Manufacturing Climate, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...activity exploded. By the beginning of the 1890s, Chicago had attracted the world's attention as a...
...During the 1880s, Chicago's manufacturing climate, like that of much of the industrializing world,...
...volatile. Unlike the rest of the world, however, Chicago seemed to be the epicenter of the changes...
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Northbrook, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...enough acreage to own a substantial part of the town. In 1850 the Shep- ards arrived and set up a...
...established a residential settlement known as Bach Town. In 1872 a single track was laid and the...
...gatherings at its inns and taverns. In 1923 the town's approximately 525 residents sought to change...
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Cambodians, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...has remained a largely separate group in Chicago. In 1999, CAI moved its headquarters to an expanded...
...many of them affiliated with the U.S. military, immigrated to Chicago prior to 1975, most...
...of the Cambodians in Chicago came as refugees in the years following 1975, when the brutal Khmer...
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Birthing Practices, Lynne Curry(
Authored Entry
) ...the well-being of the mothers and babies of Chicago prompted a vigorous movement for more hygienic...
...the 1930s, Joseph B. De Lee, director of the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, spearheaded a major campaign...
...Throughoutthenineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Chicago, childbirth customarily occurred at...
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Mesquakie (Fox), R. David Edmunds(
Authored Entry
) ...A small village of Mesquakies reoccupied the Chicago region during 1741, but one year later they...
...Iowa, form part of the modern Native American community clustered in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood....
...of Mesquakies also passed through the Chicago region in 1710 when part of the tribe temporarily...
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Dixmoor, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...boundary parallels theLittle Calumet River and the old Blue Island – Thornton Road. This is the path...
...municipal revenues for Dixmoor and its surrounding towns. Integration in Dixmoor began in the 1960s....
...and 1830s reached from the small settlement of Chicago down to Vincennes in Indiana. Western Avenue...
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Riverdale, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...fertilized by the sewage from the famous town, and the Pullman brickyards. Its largest industry...
...a toll bridge across the river along the Chicago-Thornton Road. A second settlement grew up around...
...Wildwood, James H. Bowen of the Calumet and Chicago Canal and Dock Company built a summer home where...
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