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Amos 'n' Andy, Melvin Patrick Ely(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Landscape Design, Kevin Harrington(
Authored Entry
) ...the University of Illinois continued its century-old pattern of identifying and serving communities...
...and exciting and baffling to settlers. The gridded town and bounded house site organized space in a...
...When Europeans first visited the Chicago region, three aspects of Indian landscape design gained...
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Tennis, John H. Long(
Authored Entry
) ...one federal jobs program paved more than 330 Chicago parks courts with asphalt, creating precursors...
...in popularity during the 1970s, the decade when Chicago-based Wilson Sporting Goods saw its tennis...
...volume exceed that of golf . Students from Chicago won nearly every one of the state high-school...
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Sanitary and Ship Canal, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...and Lockport , linking the South Branch of the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River . With the...
...Ship Canal permanently reversed the flow of the Chicago River in 1900. The canal was designed both...
...a means to improve water quality by sending Chicago's sewage south into the Illinois River instead...
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The Boulevard and the Bridge, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...on view remain today. Photographer: Fred Korth Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-22457)...
...Illustration 3433 4253 Bridges Chicago River Magnificent Mile...
...Michigan Avenue at the Chicago River, View South This photograph was probably taken in 1925, since...
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Democratic Party, Arnold R. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...s federal largesse, and running a “wide-open” town congenial to organized crime. After World War II,...
...leadership. i3725 Democratic National Convention, Chicago Stadium, June 27, 1932. The convention...
...Roosevelt for president. The banner honoring Chicago's Democratic mayor, Anton Cermak, was left over...
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Finding a Playground, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...arguments regarding the area's recreational attributes. See also: Chicago Literary Renaissance ;...
...Literary Images of Chicago ; Literary Cultures ; Poetry...
...The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of...
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Private and Public Beaches, Page 5, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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Woodlawn, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...sent their produce to merchants in nearby Chicago on the Illinois Central Railroad , which opened a...
...Avenue (63rd Street) in 1862. By 1889, when Chicago annexed Woodlawn along with the rest of Hyde...
...of Woodlawn was residential. University of Chicago faculty found the neighborhood congenial. When...
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Burmese, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Burmese immigrants began coming to Chicago in large numbers in the early 1960s. A nation...
...exile on the Burma/Thailand border. By 1967, Chicago had become a destination for Burmese of all...
...Wayne, Indiana, from which some later moved to Chicago. By the late 1960s, Chicago had a sizeable...
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Clubs, Women's, Anne Meis Knupfer(
Authored Entry
) ...Side Women's Federated Club, 1950s. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Public Library. FIGURE 1...
...stratified by class, ethnicity, and race, Chicago's women's clubs engaged in a wide variety of...
...resources within their own communities. The Chicago Woman's Club, of those clubs dominated by well-...
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