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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Department Stores, Jeffrey A. Brune(
Authored Entry
) ...of the metro region's first suburban shopping centers, Old Orchard ( Skokie ). Along with continuing...
...have lost none of their popularity, but today Chicago has far fewer locally owned department stores...
...two decades of the nineteenth century, Chicago established itself as a leader in the development of...
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Swimming at Pools and Lagoons, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Growing Up Along Water 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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Settlements, Religious, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn(
Authored Entry
) ...Church , another example of religious settlement work in Chicago, had a membership of 9,069 in 1919....
...by the founding of Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago in 1889, the settlement house movement aimed...
...of the Abraham Lincoln Centre, founded in Chicago in 1905, which began as a program of the Unitarian...
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Tanzanians, Tramayne M. Butler(
Authored Entry
) ...30 percent followers of ethnic faiths. Some Chicago churches, such as Zion Lutheran and Augustana...
...The Tanzanian presence in Chicago is a relatively recent phenomenon, and the few Tanzanians who live...
...who have arrived since have chosen to live in Chicago. Many of the city's Tanzanians are students...
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Charity Organization Societies, Joanne L. Goodwin(
Authored Entry
) ...to universities, such as the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago ....
...as it evolved during the Progressive era. Chicago charities adopted these principles later than...
...years later it folded into the older and larger Chicago Relief and Aid Society (founded 1857) with...
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AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), Timothy F. Murphy(
Authored Entry
) ...changed both the political and literary culture of Chicago's large gay and lesbian community....
...In Chicago, AIDS has affected primarily men who have sex with men, men and women using needle-...
...and the children of infected mothers. In 1999, Chicago ranked sixth in AIDS cases among metropolitan...
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Motor Sports, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...huge television ratings for their product in the Chicago area. In 1998, the Route 66 Raceway complex...
...stock, and truck racing. During 1999–2001, the Chicago Motor Speedway hosted NASCAR truck races in...
...In 1895 Chicago hosted America's first auto race, a road race running between Jackson Park and...
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Civic Federation, Georg Leidenberger(
Authored Entry
) ...the Civic Federation operated increasingly on the state level, it omitted “Chicago” from its name....
...Three years later, it merged with the Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency, founded in 1910....
...1893 economic depression, the Civic Federation of Chicago began as a relief organization but soon...
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Manhattan Project, Sean J. LaBat(
Authored Entry
) ...World War II , Met Lab committees led by Chicago scientists Zay Jeffries and James Franck attempted...
...Eugene Rabinowitch founded the Atomic Scientists of Chicago and the monthly Bulletin of the Atomic...
...Laboratory (Met Lab) at the University of Chicago , and at an affiliated site in the Western suburbs...
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Gated Communities, Patrick M. McMullen(
Authored Entry
) ...and the chance to form more tightly knit, old-fashioned neighborhoods. Opponents charge that gated...
...communities raise. Rosemont is a paradox: the town's economy is entirely dependent on tourism , yet...
...definition, gated communities have existed in Chicago and throughout the United States for over a...
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