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Prospect Heights, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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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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Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Perry R. Duis(
Authored Entry
) ...Great Lakes Naval Training Station, located in North Chicago , formally opened in 1911 on land...
...donated by the Merchants Club of Chicago. It was a product of the expansive nationalism of...
...War, as well as aggressive self-promotion by Chicago businessmen and Illinois politicians. Ideally...
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Nepalese, Gregory Price Grieve(
Authored Entry
) ...two hundred individuals in the late 1990s, Chicago's Nepalese have been overshadowed by South Asian...
...and Himalayan regions, most Nepalese in metropolitan Chicago tend to be Newa Bhaay (Newari)–speaking...
...policies of Nepal's Rana oligarchy (1846–1951). Chicago's Nepalese began to arrive in the mid-1970s....
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Suburban Zoning, Judith Brodhead(
Authored Entry
) ...outlet. The farm surrounding the church became town houses. The remaining corner was still planned...
...zoning as development has spread outward from Chicago. Most northern Illinois municipalities use...
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Beverly, Ellen Skerrett(
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) ...has retained its reputation as one of Chicago's most stable middle-class residential districts....
...Heights (1874), this area was annexed to Chicago by 1890 but remained sparsely settled for decades....
...west of Longwood Drive, the highest point in Chicago. Whether the community was named after Beverly,...
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Shimer College, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...and the study of electricity. In 1896, now 70 years old and seeking to ensure her school's survival,...
...Frances Shimer allied it to the University of Chicago . The renamed...
...Frances Shimer Academy of the University of Chicago began to provide college-level courses in 1909....
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Sac, R. David Edmunds(
Authored Entry
) ...postwar period they continued to pass through Chicago en route to Canada, where they would receive...
...part of the modern Native American community in Chicago, but most live in either Kansas or Oklahoma....
...they ever erected any permanent villages in the Chicago region. Between 1712 and 1733, when both the...
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Sudanese, Elizabeth E. Prevost(
Authored Entry
) ...350 to 450 Sudanese were living in and around Chicago. Southern Sudanese immigrants began to arrive...
...of the Sudan, who began living in metropolitan Chicago in March 2001. While they neither form nor...
...significantly characterized the Sudanese impact on Chicago. Displaced from the Sudan in 1987–88 by...
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Theater Training, Andrea Telli(
Authored Entry
) ...Theatrical companies in nineteenth-century Chicago generally were run by actor-managers dedicated to...
...venues for theatrical training appeared. Young Chicago businessman Kenneth Sawyer Goodman envisioned...
...theater workshops through the Art Institute of Chicago , allowing drama students to learn alongside...
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Danes, J. R. Christianson(
Authored Entry
) ...the American Academy of Brewing and made Chicago an international center of the brewing industry....
...and Swedes. The earliest Danish community in Chicago was around Randolph and LaSalle Streets in the...
...Danish and Norwegian settlement crossed the Chicago River and moved northwest along Milwaukee Avenue...
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Occupational Safety and Health, Tom Hafen(
Authored Entry
) ...Much of Chicago's explosive nineteenth-century economic growth occurred in transportation and heavy...
...of railroads and industrial corporations in Chicago, many journalists and social reformers focused...
...Men” focused on United States Steel's South Chicago plant, where 46 workers were killed and 368...
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