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Housing, Self-Built, Richard Harris(
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) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Lake Shore Drive, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...the early 1940s. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-26816) Illustration...
...University Illustration 7822 2905 Burnham Plan Gold Cost Aerial View, 1929 By this time Lake Shore...
...The Old Lake Shore Drive The date of this photograph is probably the mid-1880s, shortly after...
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The Campaign to Maintain Lake Front Park, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Museum ; Grant Park ; Park Districts ; Shedd Aquarium 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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Chileans, Patricio Navia(
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) ...to the Chilean Consulate, 2,500 Chileans resided in the Chicago metropolitan area by the late 1990s....
...Chileans have resided in Chicago since the late nineteenth century, but the first formal...
...Chilean economists attended the University of Chicago with the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation....
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Gas and Electricity, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...the urban environment. The “city lights” made Chicago distinctly different from more rural places....
...was introduced in the United States in 1816, Chicago had to wait until 1850 for this urban amenity....
...and less prone to ignite fires. By 1860, the Chicago Gas Light and Coke Company had hooked up 2,000...
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French and French Canadians, Charles J. Balesi(
Authored Entry
) ...way to the Kankakee area, where they founded the town of Bourbonnais. In the 1870s a large number of...
...culture was paradoxically maintained by Chicago society, who, in the 1890s, traveled extensively to...
...during high water from the South Branch of the Chicago River through Mud Lake, into the Des Plaines...
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Hawthorn Woods, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...original farm became the village hall. The town of Hawthorn Woods consisted of only 141 residents on...
...Germaine Larson purchased a forest farm located on Old McHenry Road. Oak, hickory, hawthorn, and elm...
...environment from the dense development proposed by Chicago builder Joseph Brickman. A limit on lot...
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Section between Summit and Willow Springs, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...The Sanitary and Ship Canal 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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Section between Willow Springs and Lockport, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...The Sanitary and Ship Canal 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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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Christopher R. Reed(
Authored Entry
) ...The Chicago branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was...
...Committee on the Negro. Within Progressive-era Chicago, some of the most illustrious names in reform...
...development for several decades. The growth of Chicago's NAACP branch reflected the changing class...
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Turnvereins, John B. Jentz(
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) ...socialism . Like German American ethnic culture, Chicago's Turnvereins declined amid the twentieth...
...Like their counterparts here and abroad, Chicago's Turnvereins grew out of the nineteenth-century...
...the United States. Drawing on such immigrants, Chicago's Turners founded their first organization in...
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