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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Housing, Self-Built, Richard Harris(
Authored Entry
) ...located between 20 and 30 miles outside Chicago, self-building was routine. In places such as Blue...
...Circumstances and entrepreneurs in Chicago have encouraged owners to build their own houses, but...
...own house is fraught with difficulties, as Chicago humorist Ring Lardner caricatured in Own Your Own...
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Mount Prospect, IL, David MacLaren(
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) ...began a downtown revitalization campaign that sought to “keep the small in small town. ”...
...markets moved to the neighboring railroad towns of Arlington Heights and Des Plaines . Meanwhile...
...Electronics, and Eastman Kodak, or commuted to Chicago. By 1992, the village's chamber of commerce...
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Bedford Park, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...Bedford Park's residential district. In 1940 the Town of Bedford Park incorporated. Bedford Park has...
...yard. In 1898 Henry H. Porter incorporated the Chicago Transfer and Clearing Company (CT&C), which...
...purchased Stickney's operation. In 1905 the Chicago & Joliet Electric Railway was extended to the...
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Water Supply, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...highly charged debate about water in the Chicago area. i3296 Sectional view of water system, from...
...One reason for the massive 1889 annexation was the high quality of water provision within Chicago....
...It took decades for Chicago's water department to service the vastly increased territory within the...
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Hyde Park, Max Grinnell(
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) ...in 1952 helped establish the South East Chicago Commission, which was charged with monitoring...
...Exposition and the creation of the University of Chicago, Hyde Park's urban renewal was one of the...
...and the promise of daily trips to the heart of Chicago's commercial core. The community continued to...
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Sports, High-School, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...The first sport that Chicago-area schools adopted for competition was baseball . The earliest match-...
...uniforms, schedules, and laid-out fields. In 1889–90, Chicago students formed one of the pioneer...
...County High School League—which embraced all Chicago and suburban public high schools. The league...
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Uptown, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...most ethnically diverse residential areas of Chicago. In 1861 Graceland Cemetery was opened in what...
...multifamily housing. Cochran convinced the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad to stop at Bryn...
...his developments. These routes made Uptown one of Chicago's most populous residential centers. A...
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Bilingual Education, Karen Sakash(
Authored Entry
) ...or diminishment of bilingual education in Chicago's schools . Instruction in German was common...
...Polish, and Jewish immigrants settled in Chicago, prompting increased xenophobia and Americanization...
...initiated the first modern bilingual programs in Chicago. Between 1968 and 1973 bilingual education...
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Chatham, Wallace Best(
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) ...in the words of real-estate developer Dempsey Travis, “the jewel of the Southeast Side of Chicago. ”...
...mid-1950s, Chatham has been a stronghold of Chicago's African American middle class. Defined by a...
...Avalon Park . When Chatham was annexed to Chicago as part of Hyde Park Township in 1889, Hungarian...
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Albany Park, Timothy B. Neary(
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) ...brickyard along the North Branch of the Chicago River and the Rusk Race Track, where late-...
...racing and enjoy the bucolic environs. As Chicago's population exploded in the 1870s and 1880s, the...
...community became increasingly popular. In 1889 Chicago annexed the area along with the rest of...
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