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1361 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...
1362 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...
1363 Chileans, Patricio Navia( Authored Entry )
...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....
1364 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...
1365 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...
1366 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...
1367 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:...
1368 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:...
1369 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...
1370 Turnvereins, John B. Jentz( Authored Entry )
...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...
1371 Law, R. Ben Brown( Authored Entry )
...of this revolution. Law firms with ties to Chicago were leaders in developing the expertise to deal...
...As Chicago's businesses grew in the late nineteenth century, so too did the city's need for a cadre...
...in the early 1990s. Moreover, the ranks of Chicago lawyers gradually, and sometimes grudgingly,...
1372 Invitation and Solicitation, ( Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery) )
...not attend, the viewings went on as scheduled. Creator: Committee on Plan of Chicago, Commercial...
...Club of Chicago Source: Art...
...Institute of Chicago Illustration 2561 3290 Burnham Plan Commercial Club of Chicago Planning Chicago...
1373 Water-Related Epidemics, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...helped control typhoid fever, it reinvigorated an old disease like polio, as residents lost what had...
...Water-Related Epidemics Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors...
1374 Socialist Parties, Daniel A. Graff( Authored Entry )
...as the left flank of the labor movement in Chicago, proving instrumental in the rise of industrial...
...as a viable leftist political presence within Chicago, but the socialist legacy continued to live on...
...Socialists first attracted notice in Chicago during the depression of the mid-1870s, when the...
1375 Clearing, Clinton E. Stockwell( Authored Entry )
...Community Area 64, 10 miles SW of the Loop. Chicago annexed much of the area known as Clearing in...
...John Wentworth, a U.S. Senator and mayor of Chicago. Wentworth built a house in 1868 at the corner...
...switching yard. A. B. Stickney , president of the Chicago Great Western Railroad , laid out a plan...
1376 Albanians, Nicholas C. Pano( Authored Entry )
...most prominent Americans with roots in the Chicago-area Albanian community are Ferid Murad, a 1998...
...in Gary and Whiting , Indiana, as well as in Chicago, Argo ( Summit ), and Madison, Illinois....
...approximately 1,000 Albanians resided in greater Chicago and northern Illinois, with an additional...
1377 Lebanese, Sarah Gualtieri( Authored Entry )
...interests. Students, for example, came to Chicago to attend university and went on to work as...
...owned retail stores, groceries , and bakeries in Chicago are also a product of the second wave of...
...lived in the United States. The Lebanese in Chicago trace their roots to one of two large waves of...
1378 Art Centers, Alternative, Lynne Warren( Authored Entry )
...Space was no longer a viable paradigm for the promotion and exhibition of visual arts in Chicago....
...particularly museums and commercial galleries. In Chicago, many of these have taken the form of...
...gallery which later became the Art Institute of Chicago ; the Neo-Arlimusc group, founded in 1926 by...
1379 Mafia, G. Robert Blakey( Authored Entry )
...is down to 1,150, with 750 in New York and 50 in Chicago. The national commission, fearful of FBI...
...5,000, including 2,500 in New York and 300 in Chicago. It comprised 24 borgate (families), headed by...
...families in Buffalo, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago. The families engaged in illegal activities—...
1380 Berkeley, IL, Patricia Krone Rose( Authored Entry )
...farmland was donated for what is now known as Old Settler's Cemetery . The 1902 completion of the...
...from its nearest neighbors, creating a small-town atmosphere. Beginning in 1835 the area that was to...
...Union Pacific Railroad (formerly the Chicago & North Western) and the large Proviso classification...

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