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Retail Workers, Daniel A. Graff(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Yugoslavians, D. Bradford Hunt(
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) ...nationalism. A handful of institutions on Chicago's Southwest Side, including the Yugoslav Hall,...
...broke apart Yugoslavia, tensions among Chicago's South Slavic communities increased, though not to...
...Bosnia, Macedonia, and Montenegro arrived in Chicago. From 1918 (the year the Treaty of Versailles...
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Agnes Nestor and the WTUL, Susan E. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...programs of courses through the WTUL and the Chicago Federation of Labor . She served on many...
...Workers Union of America (IGWU) and president of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)....
...Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nestor moved to Chicago in 1897 and worked as a glovemaker. She led...
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Real Estate Research Corporation, Loomis Mayfield(
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) ...with leading figures such as Holman Pettibone of Chicago Title and Trust to develop state and city...
...as liaison between the city and the University of Chicago during Hyde Park's urban renewal in the...
...Chicago's Real Estate Research Corporation (RERC) was one of the nation's first research and...
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Northeastern Illinois University, June Sochen(
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) ...has drawn its students from the greater Chicago area; its diverse student population, representing...
...and 10 percent Asian. Northeastern's Chicago Teachers' Center provides classroom instructional...
...elementary school teachers for the city of Chicago. Under the governance of the Chicago Board of...
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Homicide, Jeffrey S. Adler(
Authored Entry
) ...been related to or acquainted with one another. Chicago Homicide Rates per 100,000 residents, 1870–...
...ways. During the decades after the Civil War , Chicago killers tended to be young, unmarried, poor...
...Most Americans probably associate Chicago, the city of the Haymarket bombing, the Race Riot of 1919,...
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Main Channel Construction, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Chief Engineer Photographers: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society Isham Randolph was the...
...project in epic terms. See also: Sanitary and Ship Canal The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Solitary Lives, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...fishermen houseboat residents environmental activists 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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West Elsdon, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...annexation of the town of Lake in 1889. A small hamlet of railroad workers called Elsdon grew up...
...settlers were German far- mers and Irish railroad workers . The area became part of Chicago with the...
...and Clearing Industrial Districts and the opening of Chicago Municipal Airport ( Midway Airport ) in...
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McKinley Park, David M. Solzman(
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) ...squatters packing. One of the first attempts at town building, “Canalport,” died stillborn, but...
...Michigan Canal in 1848 and the coming of the Chicago & Alton Railroad in 1857 spurred further...
...in the early 1860s along the south fork of the Chicago River and produced 50 tons of rails per day....
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Hindus, Vinay Lal(
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) ...organization that champions a militant resurgence of the faith, has won many adherents in Chicago....
...still among the most famous Hindu visitors to Chicago was Swami Vivekananda, one of the few Indian...
...considerable following among the elite; however, Chicago remained largely bereft of Hindus until the...
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