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Frankfort, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...rail ties to the expanding metropolis of Chicago, the village remained a small community, surrounded...
...and a bedroom community for commuters to Chicago and Joliet. Officials and residents in Frankfort...
...tributary of the Des Plaines River southwest of Chicago, long attracted Native Americans . Following...
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Gun Control, Eli Rubin(
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) ...the ban, which failed narrowly. The impact of the Chicago freeze was felt far away, as Mayor Diane...
...1989. In 1992, led by Mayor Richard M. Daley, the Chicago City Council voted to ban assault weapons....
...Since the early 1970s, Chicago and its suburban municipalities have taken a national lead in...
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Music Publishing, Dena J. Epstein(
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) ...Chicago's music publishing has mirrored the cultural history of the city and the nation through...
...like “The Battle Cry of Freedom” (1862) made Chicago a national center. Earlier, music had been...
...Company (1910). Clayton F. Summy was one of Chicago's longest-lived music publishers, specializing...
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Auditorium Building, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
Authored Entry
) ...and constructed in 1889. Photographer: J. W. Taylor. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...The Auditorium is one of Chicago's architectural masterpieces. Built in 1888 on the northwest corner...
...It was the brainchild of Ferdinand Peck, a Chicago impresario devoted to bringing the city a world-...
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First National Park in the Middle West, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...minute drive of the Dunes National Park. See Also: Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad Co. ;...
...Lake Michigan ; Michigan City, IN ; Vacation Spots The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Drugs and Alcohol, Katherine A. Chavigny(
Authored Entry
) ...more affluent Chicagoans. Chicago was a wide-open town when it came to drinking, but opium smoking,...
...easy to transport, cheap, and nonperishable—remained Chicago's most popular alcoholic drink in the...
...social scale, the lavish dinner parties of Chicago's cultural elite featured a different wine for...
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College All-Star Football Game, Raymond Schmidt(
Authored Entry
) ...Initiated in 1934 by Arch Ward of the Chicago Tribune, the College All-Star Game...
...football series was played annually in Chicago through 1976. Soon achieving status...
...of each football season, the game placed Chicago in the national sporting limelight each year as...
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The Negotiations Proceed, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Creator: Daniel H. Burnham Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 1465 2346 Burnham Plan...
...club backing an effort to offer a plan for Chicago, expresses his approval that Burnham will work...
...Franklin MacVeagh Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2559 3308 Burnham Plan Commercial...
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Beecher, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...former Miller estate, and a café occupies the 1850 Old Stage Tavern building. Over 53 percent of its...
...incorporation in 1883 and the arrival of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad in 1905. Beecher...
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Yemenis, Manfred Wenner(
Authored Entry
) ...activities which developed in other centers of Yemeni emigrants has not developed in Chicago....
...Chicago never acquired a critical mass of Yemenis sufficient for it to become a preferred...
...census reported approximately 2,000 Yemenis in Chicago (many of whom were not permanent residents),...
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Balloon Frame Construction, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...A popular myth suggests that a Chicago carpenter, George W. Snow, invented the balloon...
...and revolutionized construction practice. Chicago architect John M. Van Osdel erroneously attributed...
...The oldest buildings that remain in metropolitan Chicago suggest that the balloon frame was not a...
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Barbadians, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...professionals, students, and entrepreneurs moved to the Chicago area in the 1910s and 1920s....
...of Barbadians, however, did not arrive in Chicago until World War II , when many were recruited,...
...on the island of Barbados, opportunities in Chicago attracted emigrants, the majority of whom were...
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St. Vincent DePaul Society, Deborah Ann Skok(
Authored Entry
) ...St. Patrick's Church, brought the society to Chicago during the economic depression of 1857 in order...
...it spread to nine other parishes in the city. In Chicago, as in the rest of the United States, the...
...Finally, it sent representatives to other Chicago charities , such asthe Chicago Relief and Aid...
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Bosnians, Asad Husain(
Authored Entry
) ...Bosnians first migrated to Chicago in the late nineteenth century with other South Slavic...
...roads, downtown buildings, and tunnels for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). Bosnian Serbs and...
...were early leaders in the establishment of Chicago's Muslim community. In 1906, they established...
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Eritreans, Tricia Redeker Hepner(
Authored Entry
) ...in the United States, with fewer than 800 in Chicago. A precise count has been difficult in part...
...number were veterans of the conflict. The Chicago Eritrean community began with less than a half-...
...of origin) created challenges for the small Chicago community. The Association of the Eritrean...
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Mobile Homes, Anna Holian(
Authored Entry
) ...behind California, Indiana, and Michigan. Chicago was the center of Illinois' mobile home industry....
...The high cost of labor and factory space in Chicago and difficulties transporting the ever-larger...
...the 1950s, the number of mobile homes in the Chicago metropolitan area has grown from around 8,000...
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Orphanages, Kenneth Cmiel(
Authored Entry
) ...The first Chicago orphanages,...
...the Chicago Orphan Asylum and the Catholic Orphan Asylum, opened their doors in 1849 in the...
...along Roman Catholic and Protestant lines. Chicago had no Jewish orphanages until the 1890s. Until...
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Evergreen Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...88 percent white) by 2000. Most of the village's residents commute to Chicago or elsewhere to work....
...Loop. Evergreen Park is bordered by the city of Chicago on the north, east, and south, and Oak Lawn...
...opened, and mourners traveled by train from Chicago. Restaurants and taverns sprang up to provide...
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Family Planning, Rose Holz(
Authored Entry
) ...Disputes over the distribution of condoms in Chicago's public high schools in the 1990s further...
...dramatically reduced their fertility rates. Chicago was known as a source of contraception and...
...profession and socialist in politics, visited Chicago as part of her nationwide campaign to abolish...
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Kenwood, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...moving back into the area, and an educational partnership between the Chicago Board of Education...
...and the University of Chicago resulted in the formation of a charter school....
...seeking respite from the increasing congestion of Chicago. The first of these residents was Dr. John...
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