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Archibald John Motley, Jr., Jontyle Theresa Robinson(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Prospect Heights, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...shopping center, the four-corner hub became the town's center. In 1938, the small community formed...
...problems, and the threat of annexation to other towns resulted in incorporation in 1976. By the...
...two hundred cows supplied milk and butter to Chicago markets. Kennicott was said to have lived in...
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Franklin Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...he built the community's center. He named the town Franklin Park and enticed prospective buyers with...
...increased from 3,007 in 1940 to 18,322 by 1960. Town government promoted industrial development with...
...Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad) laid...
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Steel Mills on Sand, Page 2, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Gary The expansive mill was separated from the town of Gary by a channel constructed to narrow the...
...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...
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Chicagoans Who Rejected the Railroad, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...rectify its mistake by successfully courting the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad when it ran...
...to its advantages. In the 1830s, the future of Chicago seemed to rest on the proposed Illinois &...
...Surveys had been made by the railroad (now the Chicago & Northwestern) and if they had built it,...
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Fort Dearborn, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...barracks of Fort Dearborn, 1856. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...acquired a parcel of land at the mouth of the Chicago River from Native Americans. Strategically...
...and in that year Capt. John Whistler arrived in Chicago to build a fort named after Henry Dearborn,...
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Ravenswood, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...of Lake View , was designed to be one of Chicago's first and most exclusive commuter suburbs. In...
...Land Company and purchased 194 acres of farm and wooded land eight miles north of Chicago. The...
...company made a deal with the Chicago & North Western Railroad guaranteeing them a certain number of...
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Congolese, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...Congolese migration to Chicago has been shaped by the political situation in the Democratic Republic...
...While a few Congolese might have arrived in Chicago following Congolese independence in 1960, the...
...swelled the size of the Congolese community in Chicago from around 50 to several hundred, according...
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Sierra Leoneans, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...The first Sierra Leoneans to migrate to Chicago came as students in the 1970s and were attracted to...
...estimate that the Sierra Leonean community in Chicago more than tripled during that decade, from an...
...nursing , and engineering. Sierra Leoneans in Chicago come from a variety of ethnic and religious...
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| 1449 |
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Preston H. Smith II(
Authored Entry
) ...James Farmer and George Houser, created the Chicago Committee of Racial Equality, the first chapter...
...disobedience for civil rights causes, the Chicago chapter reached a high point when the organization...
...the 1950s until its disaffiliation. A reorganized Chicago chapter benefited from CORE's nationally...
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Council Wars, Vernon Jarrett(
Authored Entry
) ...havoc throughout most of the first term of Chicago's first African American mayor, pitted Mayor...
...the “Vrdolyak 29,” sobriquet for the all-white Chicago City Council's majority bloc, led by Alderman...
...its reputation as a “boss-dominated” city, Chicago's governing structure is that of “strong council,...
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