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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Industrial Expansion, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...than the Northwestern controversy, the city of Chicago soon thereafter purchased Dunes sand for use...
...Spaces ; Northwestern University ; Swimming ; Waterfront The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Sanitary Commission, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...thousands of dollars for the war effort. The Chicago office became the funnel through which most aid...
...Created in October 1861, the Chicago branch (later known as the Northwestern branch) of the United...
...the organization. In the spring of 1862, the Chicago branch's operations were taken over by Mary A....
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Woman's Hospital Medical College, Eve Fine(
Authored Entry
) ...resources diminished and other medical schools in Chicago and in the nation began accepting women,...
...after failing to gain acceptance for women in Chicago's male medical colleges, Mary H. Thompson and...
...William H. Byford, a faculty member of the Chicago Medical College, established a women's medical...
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Ukrainian Village, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...Neighborhood in the West Town Community Area. In the aftermath of the...
...developed the area bounded by Division, Damen, Chicago, and Western. After the first of wave of...
...neighborhood. By 1930 estimates placed the Chicago Ukrainian population between 25,000 and 30,000,...
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James C. Petrillo: The Man Behind the Petrillo Band Shell, Dennis H. Cremin(
Authored Entry
) ...Born in Chicago, James C....
...Petrillo became active in the Chicago Federation of Musicians , Local 10 of the AFM. He served as...
...In 1935, Petrillo's free concert series in Chicago's Grant Park began, and the park's band shell...
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"L", Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's rapid transit system has been known as the “L” since before the...
...first line opened in 1892. The peculiar Chicago spelling was used by all of the city's elevated...
...i3750 South Side “L,” 1893. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Westmont, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...then Bushville) in 1864. While neighboring towns were settled by the wealthy, Westmont grew through...
...flowed in the community. People in neighboring towns frequented the area where the illegal trade...
...Avenue and the other down Naperville Road. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad began stopping...
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Wheeling, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...the Wisconsin Central Railroad came through town, stopping at a station just south of Dundee Road....
...at Red Mary's Wheeling Inn. Regardless of the town's notoriety, it was these establishments and the...
...Road, had become a stagecoach route between Chicago and Green Bay, Wisconsin. This prompted Joseph...
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Darien, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...well as travelers. Cass was initially a thriving town assisted by trade along the nearby Illinois &...
...and by the 1890s featured a Lutheran church, a town hall, a post office, and a schoolhouse. Farming...
...suburban development that occurred outside Chicago after World War II. Darien is often associated...
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Portage, IN, James B. Lane(
Authored Entry
) ...persuaded voters to change Portage's status from town to city in 1968. The census of 1970 revealed...
...supplied milk, livestock, produce, and sand to Chicago buyers. The area maintained its rural flavor...
...line linked residents to Gary , Hammond , East Chicago , Crown Point , and Valparaiso . During world...
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