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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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Commercial Buildings, Vincent L. Michael(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago was founded for and by commerce. Perhaps its...
...DuSable's trading post at the mouth of the Chicago River , was a commercial structure. When the city...
...and enough space on the facade for a sign. Chicago's first commercial district was Lake Street, near...
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Section between Summit and Willow Springs, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...2 June, 1896 Photographers: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society Most of the photographs in...
...African-Americans Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Disc Jockeys, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...after joining WGES in 1945. Calling himself “ the Old Swingmaster,” Benson appealed to newly arrived...
...The disc jockey became important in Chicago radio during the 1930s, well before the term “disc...
...1935 until his death in 1953. One of postwar Chicago's most notable disc jockeys was Dave Garroway,...
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North Center, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...a district police office occupied the site of the old park. Between 1940 and 1990, North Center's...
...on the west by the North Branch of the Chicago River , North Center developed after industrialists'...
...the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Chicago's industrialists realized the potential of the...
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Addison, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...learned various trades until they were 14 years old, and then were sent to work with area families....
...the area was thriving with German newcomers. The town, originally known as Dunklee's Grove, grew to...
...1913, and its buildings were occupied by the Chicago City Mission Society, which opened a home for...
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Bulgarians, Daniela S. Hristova(
Authored Entry
) ...of the donation of the bust of Aleko Konstantinov to the University of Chicago in November 1996....
...that his remarkable book Do Chikago i nazad (To Chicago and Back) would become instrumental in the...
...of generations of Bulgarians. By the year 2000 the Chicago area was among the largest Bulgarian...
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Sauk Village, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...Native Americans , Midwestern settlers, and California gold seekers passed this way. In 1913, the...
...literally became the “main street” for this quiet town. Sauk Village is now within the nationally...
...border to Vincennes/Hubbard's Trail in South Chicago Heights was designated as part of the Lincoln...
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Niles, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...of Niles formed in 1850; by 1884 the town, centered at Milwaukee, Waukegan, and Touhy Avenues,...
...Avenue, allowed farmers to travel more easily to the markets of downtown Chicago. The township...
...newspaper. After the turn of the century the Chicago Surface Lines street railway traveled down the...
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Antioch, IL, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...since 1947. The village maintained a small-town character with slow growth into the mid-1980s. After...
...Wisconsin Central rail line in 1885, between Chicago and Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The recreational...
...Wisconsin Central trains brought hundreds from Chicago on summer Saturdays to the Chain of Lakes...
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Ford Heights, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...called the “Park Addition” on a farm road from Chicago Heights to Indiana. Acting together in 1924,...
...had telephone service and was known as East Chicago Heights. Early settlers included the family of...
...truck, and by 1948 this group became the East Chicago Heights Citizens Association. In 1949, East...
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