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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Archibald John Motley, Jr., Jontyle Theresa Robinson(
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) ...of the black experience in genre scenes of Chicago's Black Belt . His work fell into obscurity at...
...resurgence in the 1990s, marked by a 1991 retrospective exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society ....
...Creole roots, Mexican culture, and life in Chicago's “Bronzeville. ” Born in New Orleans, Motley...
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Daily Southtown, Richard Junger(
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) ...Company, hoping to enter the lucrative Chicago market, purchased it from owner Bruce Sagan in 1986....
...it the fifth-largest circulating daily in the Chicago metropolitan area. It moved to a new editorial...
...community newspapers. The demise of the afternoon Chicago Daily News spurred the Economist to become...
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Dziennik Zwizkowy, Joseph John Parot(
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) ...emphasis shifted to strengthening America's and Chicago's Polish communities. Between 1978 and 1990,...
...twentieth century, Dziennik Związkowy still reached 25,000 subscribers in the greater Chicago area....
...with Francis Jablonski as its editor. Eventually Chicago's largest Polish -language newspaper , it...
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Austin High Gang, Richard A. Wang(
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) ...1927 recordings of the McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans in which the Chicago style is documented....
...Chicago-style jazz began on the far West Side when six student musicians from Austin High School got...
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Olivet Baptist Church, Wallace Best(
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) ...of its Bethlehem Baptist Association and the Chicago Defender, Olivet stimulated the migration with...
...50 years, Olivet struggled to reclaim its former prominence in Chicago's African American community....
...oldest African American Baptist church in Chicago. It was organized first as Xenia Baptist Church on...
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St. John, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...of the first Roman Catholic church of Lake County in 1842. In the late twentieth century the town...
...attracted Chicago commuters, with population growing from 1,757 in 1970 to 8,382 in 2000....
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Lily Lake, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...The lake inLily Lake no longer exists. When the town pavedits roadways in the 1930s, they drained...
...when dairy farmers shipped their products to Chicago on the Great Western railroad (established in...
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Pingree Grove, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...family from New Hampshire in the 1830s, the town remains one of the smallest in Kane County , with a...
...2000. In the 1870s, the construction of the Chicago & Pacific railroad brought modest growth. At the...
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Forest Glen, David M. Solzman(
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) ...comfortable, and wealthy relative to most of Chicago, and it holds an aura of political power. The...
...is perhaps the most stereotypically suburban of Chicago's community areas. This well-to-do and well-...
...cemeteries . Here, the monotonous flatness of the Chicago lake plain gives way to very attractive...
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Native American Religions, Robert L. Hall(
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) ...back the advance of white settlers into the Old Northwest. The name of Wabokieshiek, a Winnebago...
...the French . By AD 1700 many Indians of the greater Chicago area organized community-level religious...
...major Indian religious movement important in the Chicago area before the era of removal was that of...
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