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Balloon Frame Construction, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Housing Conditions for the Working Class, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Unknown Source: University of Illinois at Chicago (Metropolitan Planning Council Collection, MPC...
...neg. 118) Illustration 3223 2483 Built Environment of the Chicago Region Housing Types...
...Unknown Source: University of Illinois at Chicago (Metropolitan Planning Council Collection, MPC...
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Dunning, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...was established, incorporating the old hospitals. Dunning moved toward a revival of institutional,...
...the 1970s nearly half the buildings were razed. In that year, the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center...
...club. New modern facilities were present at Chicago-Read Mental Health Center. Wright Junior College...
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Toll Roads, David M. Young(
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) ...Tollway (I-294), 1964. Photographer: Casey Prunchunas. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...republic. Several plank toll roads built in the Chicago area beginning in 1848 were put out of...
...of a $1.1 billion system of five freeways in Chicago and Cook County following World War II consumed...
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American West Indian Association, Robert Morrissey and Frances Matlock(
Authored Entry
) ...collective activities of the West Indians in Chicago survived the AWIA's demise. Cricket and soccer...
...number of these newcomers had moved to Chicago, arousing the concern of Barbadian , Jamaican , and...
...and cultural organization for West Indians in Chicago. The AWIA served for more than 30 years as an...
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Roosevelt University, Lynn Y. Weiner(
Authored Entry
) ...cleaning, painting, and repairing the grand old facility. In 1954, the Chicago Musical College (...
...By 2004 the 65,000 alumni included the late Chicago mayor Harold Washington, jazz great Ramsey...
...In 1945, 68 professors from Chicago's Central YMCA College, protesting racial quotas imposed on...
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Norridge, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...who raised goats in the eastern portion of town. Many called it the “Swamp” because of the muddy...
...Norridge shares 70 percent of its border with Chicago, but prefers not to be identified with the...
...In 1948 Norridge was about to be annexed to Chicago when a local improvement association moved to...
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Red Squad, Randi Storch(
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) ...litigation, a 1985 court decision ended the Chicago Police Department's Subversive Activities Unit's...
...The records that remain are housed at the Chicago Historical Society. The public requires special...
...The arm of Chicago's law enforcement known alternately as the Industrial Unit, the Intelligence...
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Christopher P. Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...It confirmed popular images associating Chicago with mobsters, crime, and spectacular carnage. The...
...Day Massacre, 1929. Photographer: Jun Fujita. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...fire. The prime suspect was Al Capone, head of Chicago's crime syndicate. Moran's North Side gang,...
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Woman's City Club, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...in the Woman's City Club's campaign against litter, 1940. Photographer: Chicago Park District....
...Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...The Woman's City Club of Chicago was founded in 1910, before women could vote, to initiate and...
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Zionism, Adam H. Stewart(
Authored Entry
) ...leaders, including Rabbi Emil Hirsch of the Chicago Sinai Congregation. That opposition began to...
...Chicago's Zionists claim the first organized Zionist...
...group in the United States, the Chicago Zion Society (later the Knights of Zion), which first met in...
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