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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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—...
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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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Worlds of Prairie Avenue (Essay), Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...Turlington W. Harvey (1702) founded the temperance town of Harvey, Illinois ; served as president of...
...the nineteenth century, residents of six blocks of Chicago's Prairie Avenue played central roles in...
...thousands of jobs and helped to transform Chicago into a global city. Retailer Marshall Field (...
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Public Works, Federal Funding for, Howard Rosen(
Authored Entry
) ...From its earliest beginnings Chicago's public works infrastructure has intermittently been the focus...
...and regional bodies. Fort Dearborn , built near what is now Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River in...
...1803, arguably was Chicago's first public work. In 1833 Congress appropriated $25,000 to enable the...
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Powwows, Jerry W. Lewis(
Authored Entry
) ...The earliest powwows in the Chicago region are unrecorded, although a 1778 proclamation issued by...
...last large powwow of the nineteenth century in Chicago, with about five thousand Indians attending,...
...substantial powwow activity recorded in the Chicago area in the nineteenth century took place as...
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Presses, University, Penny Kaiserlian(
Authored Entry
) ...Like many of their counterparts elsewhere, Chicago-area universities have established publishing...
...works of regional and general interest. The oldest university press in metropolitan Chicago is the...
...University of Chicago Press, which was established in 1891 by William Rainey Harper as one of three...
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Second City Theatre, Richard Christiansen(
Authored Entry
) ...by a group of bright young artists, including many University of Chicago alumni, who had worked...
...in such earlier, folded Chicago companies as the Playwright's Theatre Club and Compass Players....
...by A. J. Liebling, their theater quickly became a Chicago institution. The improvisational theater...
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Baseball, Indoor, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...progeny the playground game most peculiar to Chicago, 16-inch slow-pitch softball. i3359 Rube Foster...
...Giants baseball team, 1909. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Hancock in 1887 at the Farragut Boat Club on Chicago's South Side . The basic equipment was a mushy...
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Women's Trade Union League, Tobias Higbie(
Authored Entry
) ...The Chicago Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) was one of the most active branches of a national...
...1908, when it moved to the offices of the Chicago Federation of Labor . In addition to supporting...
...dramatic clubs , a national publication edited in Chicago by Alice Henry, educational programs such...
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Angolans, Tracy N. Poe(
Authored Entry
) ...dozen at the end of the twentieth century, Chicago's Angolans built a united, thriving community,...
...their homeland and other African immigrants in Chicago. Like the Congolese , with whom they share...
...such as Philadelphia, St. Louis, Phoenix, and Chicago. In 1992 leaders of these cities' Angolan...
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Junior Leagues, Celia Hilliard(
Authored Entry
) ...has also advanced the cultural climate of Chicago, providing music and art scholarships, initiating...
...the Express- Ways Children's Museum (renamed the Chicago Children's Museum). At the opening of the...
...The Junior League of Chicago (JLC) was founded by Lucy McCormick Blair in 1911, inspired by a New...
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Indiana Dunes, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Indiana Dunes 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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