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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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Retail Workers, Daniel A. Graff(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's explosive development in the wake of the Civil War propelled the city to preeminence as...
...giants Marshall Field & Co. , Sears, Roebuck & Co. , and Montgomery Ward all called Chicago home....
...These and other Chicago firms played leading roles in the creation of American consumer society;...
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Riverside, IL, Joseph L. Arnold(
Authored Entry
) ...old ethnic working class. The entire village was designated a National Historical Landmark in 1970....
...Polish , Czech , and Scandinavian backgrounds, the wealthy children and grandchildren of Chicago's...
...American residential planning . In 1863 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad was built through...
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Park Forest Centre, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...a shopping center that would function as both town hub and commercial facility, developers Philip...
...Plaza (later Centre) in the center of a new town. The mall was intended to serve Park Forest and...
...most successful shopping centers in the Chicago area. Despite initial success and rapid expansion,...
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Al Capone, David E. Ruth(
Authored Entry
) ...John Torrio, an associate from his old Brooklyn gang who now served as lieutenant for South Side...
...his later famous scar, probably in a bar fight. He came to Chicago, probably in 1919, to work with...
...Torrio's chief assistant. When Torrio fled Chicago in 1925 after a nearly fatal attack from rivals,...
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Urban League, Preston H. Smith II(
Authored Entry
) ...Throughout the twentieth century, the Chicago Urban League has advanced racial democracy, although...
...affiliate of the National Urban League (NUL), the Chicago branch was neither a mass-membership nor...
...board's first president was University of Chicago sociologist Robert Park, and it set a lasting...
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Industrial Pollution, Andrew Hurley(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's growth as a major manufacturing center forced its citizens to contend with staggering...
...concentrated along the South Branch of the Chicago River , in part because the sluggish waterway...
...the prestigious neighborhoods close to downtown Chicago. Citizen complaints prompted a more vigorous...
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Lake Zurich, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...store on his property and invited people from Chicago to come to thevillage he platted and live by...
...refusing to join the commune, Paine returned to Chicago in 1852 to put into practice his belief that...
...Fourier's vision. He opened the Bank of Chicago, basing its loan policy on humanitarian rather than...
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Laundries and Laundering, Arwen Mohun(
Authored Entry
) ...of Manufacturers first included power laundries, Chicago had 226 establishments employing 6,601 wage...
...middle-class homes. Laundry was big business in Chicago for a number of reasons. As in other urban...
...difficult to get clean and stay clean. Because Chicago was located at the terminus of a number of...
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Great Society, Nicholas Lemann(
Authored Entry
) ...jobs. It was instrumental to the growth of Chicago's disproportionately government-employed African...
...and more broadly with the splintering of the Chicago machine and the national New Deal coalition,...
...for his domestic works, on April 23, 1964, in Chicago, at a fund-raising dinner for Mayor Richard J....
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Somalis, Tracy N. Poe(
Authored Entry
) ...lived in close proximity to one another on Chicago's Northwest Side, in the Albany Park neighborhood...
...Although Somalis have been coming to Chicago as refugees since the 1970s, and ethnic networks among...
...Hope in 1992 resulted in a wave of refugees to Chicago, mostly ethnic rebels seeking asylum from...
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