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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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| 1465 |
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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| 1466 |
"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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| 1471 |
Douglas, Adrian Capehart(
Authored Entry
) ...there has been a concerted effort to bring the old Black Metropolis back to life. The Mid-South...
...the Baptists who opened the first University of Chicago in 1860. At the beginning of the Civil War (...
...of the area, businessman Jesse Binga opened Chicago's first black-owned bank in 1908. During the...
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Swing Trial, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...the place of Princeton and East Coast theological conservatism as the dominant axes of American...
...heresy trials in American history was the Chicago Presbytery's 1874 prosecution of the popular...
...confirmed what many had already noticed: Chicago and the Midwest were successfully challenging...
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Central Manufacturing District, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...created in 1905 by Frederick Henry Prince, an East Coast investor. Bounded roughly by 35th Street to...
...in the United States. Prince acquired the Chicago Junction Railroad at the turn of the century...
...as a switching line that transported goods from the Chicago Union Stock Yard to major trunk railroad...
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Waukegan, IL, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...Michigan in 1835 (on the site of the old trading post), and by 1841 Little Fort was established as...
...which existed until 1760. Thomas Jenkins of Chicago constructed a two-story frame structure on Lake...
...growth of Waukegan, located 36 miles north of Chicago and 60 miles south of Milwaukee, can be...
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| 1475 |
Dominican University, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...its name, to Dominican University. By 2000, the school's 70-year-old program in library science was...
...the only such program in metropolitan Chicago and one of two in the state....
...Forest , an affluent suburb eight miles west of Chicago. Though no longer a frontier school, Rosary...
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| 1476 |
Maxwell Street, Ira Berkow(
Authored Entry
) ...several blocks to a place with none of the flavor of the old street....
...athletic fields for the University of Illinois at Chicago . What remained of the market was moved...
...hundred years, Maxwell Street was one of Chicago's most unconventional business —and residential—...
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| 1477 |
Vaudeville, Douglas Gomery(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1921 with the opening of Balaban and Katz 's Chicago theater, which offered both movies and live...
...the first acknowledged vaudeville entertainment in Chicago, their West Side Museum. In 1883 the pair...
...were making so much money they leased the Chicago Opera House; three years later they acquired the...
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| 1478 |
Woodstock, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...became a destination for new residents fleeing Chicago's congestion. Residential construction boomed...
...it is now privately owned. In 1855 the Chicago & North Western Railroad passed through Woodstock....
...to send their dairy production quickly to Chicago. The Borden Company opened a dairy processing...
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Oak Lawn, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...and Medical Center, most residents work in Chicago. Oak Lawn Lake is administered by the Oak Lawn...
...Lawn lies just outside the southwestern edge of Chicago, and is one of the largest municipalities in...
...The Wabash Railroad connected the area with Chicago; the first subdivision was platted near the...
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Saloons, Perry R. Duis(
Authored Entry
) ...The saloon in Chicago had its origin in two places. The oldest was the inn or tavern, a combination...
...future growth, along with easy rail access to Chicago for St. Louis and Milwaukee brewers, left all...
...in Lake View on North Southport Avenue. The Chicago City Council also contributed to the brewery...
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