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Landscape Design, Kevin Harrington(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Convents, Suellen Hoy(
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) ...live under religious vows. They became common in Chicago and other industrial cities early in the...
...The first ones, like that established on Chicago's Wabash Avenue by Mother Agatha O'Brien and four...
...working selflessly on their behalf. By 1889, Chicago had over 60 convents. Unlike most “settlers,”...
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Galleries, Lynne Warren(
Authored Entry
) ...The beginnings of Chicago art galleries are linked closely with the city's great mercantile...
...architecture , and design. This so-called “Chicago-style” gallery tapped into indigenous sources...
...uplift that had been promulgated by the great Chicago industrialist-philanthropists in the late...
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Wadsworth, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...glacial drainage. Farmers still find 10,000-year-old spruce logs and the bones of mastodons under...
...their fields. In 1873, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad...
...the construction of a line between Milwaukee and Chicago which ran along the east bank of the Des...
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Pinkertons, J. Anthony Lukas(
Authored Entry
) ...hiding, which killed the James boys' eight-year-old half brother and left their mother with a...
...Pinkerton National Detective Agency, founded in Chicago in 1850, was long the nation's largest and...
...as a cooper at West Dundee (40 miles northwest of Chicago), then broke into law enforcement when he...
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Calumet City, IL, Dominic Candeloro(
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) ...national Prohibition came into play, and the town of West Hammond, just 30 minutes from downtown...
...Hardworking residents were so dismayed by the town's bad reputation that they voted in 1923 to...
...the Bishop Ford Freeway, brought customers from Chicago's South Side , and a renovation in the early...
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Special Districts, Donald F. Stetzer(
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) ...in 1961, before that work began. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...any other state. In the six-county greater Chicago region, there were 353 special districts (other...
...the formation of three park districts in Chicago; these districts and several small park districts...
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Nancy Daffner(
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) ...prior to the founding of Hull House . The Chicago Central Union reached its zenith of activity...
...The WCTU national headquarters, located in Chicago until 1900, lent the prestige of national leaders...
...undoubtedly attracted many women to the Chicago group. During the early decades of the twentieth...
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Youngsoo Bae(
Authored Entry
) ...the mid-1920s, however, ACWA membership in Chicago began to shrink. Membership dropped off further...
...never recovering except during World War II . Chicago continued to provide leadership for the...
...clothing industry. In 1976, ACWA members of Chicago, numbering less than three thousand, celebrated...
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Calumet Heights, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...the large number of doctors from nearby South Chicago Hospital who own spacious homes perched upon...
...Area 48, 11 miles SE of the Loop. Calumet Heights lies on Chicago's Southeast Side, bounded by 87th...
...Street on the north, South Chicago Avenue on the east, and railroad lines on the west and south (...
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Mongolians, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...maintains ties with Tibetan Buddhists in Chicago, and the groups sometimes celebrate holidays...
...Mongolian immigrants established communities in Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, and Washington DC....
...By 2000, Mongolian community leaders estimated a Chicago population between 500 and 700. Many of...
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