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Douglas, Adrian Capehart(
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) ...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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| 1472 |
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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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| 1479 |
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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| 1480 |
Saloons, Perry R. Duis(
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) ...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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| 1481 |
Houses and Water, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...fixtures modern kitchen, bathroom and laundry room The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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| 1482 |
Roselle, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...Their notorious drinking and fighting earned the town the nickname “Raise Hell. ” ”By 1895 Roselle...
...son, Roselle, an army colonel, a prominent Chicago businessman, and a driving force for Roselle. As...
...financial and political clout to persuade the Chicago & Pacific Railroad (Chicago, Milwaukee & St....
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| 1483 |
Warrenville, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...1902 and 1959. Its station provided a second town center, and was remodeled as the city hall and...
...for the development of the 650-acre Elmhurst-Chicago Stone Company quarry . It was one of the last...
...to Naperville strengthened in 1849, when the Chicago-Southwest Plank Road linked both communities....
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| 1484 |
Wheaton, IL, Thomas O. Kay(
Authored Entry
) ...and Lowell, each in a different quarter of the town. A new high school was added in 1925, Wheaton...
...becoming a suburban community. The Galena & Chicago Union Railroad arrived in 1849, on land donated...
...century. In 1902 a second railroad, the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin electric line, connected Wheaton to...
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| 1485 |
Harvard, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...In April 1856, the railroad accepted Ayer's town plat as a station named Harvard. When the North...
...63 miles NW of the Loop. In 1855 the Chicago & North Western Railway built toward Janesville,...
...Wisconsin, from Cary .Calculating where trainsfrom Chicago would have to stop for servicing in the...
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| 1486 |
Harwood Heights, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...village hall, his basement. The origin of the town's name is uncertain, but some believe it results...
...to as an “island” surrounded by the city of Chicago. It is often mistaken for part of the city...
...did not want to pay taxes. Most presumed that Chicago would eventually annex their land as it had...
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| 1487 |
Merrionette Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...In contrast with communities that started as market towns, railroad suburbs, or satellite industrial...
...a quiet bedroom suburb. It borders the Chicago neighborhood of Mount Greenwood and otherwise is...
...surrounded by five cemeteries. By 1943, Chicago developer Joseph E. Merrion built over 120 small...
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| 1488 |
Posen, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...in Harvey provided jobs. Although Harvey was a dry town, many taverns sprang up outside its limits....
...98 percent Polish ) reflects the enterprise of a Chicago real-estate agent, whose 75 Polish salesmen...
...lots were concentrated in an area south of Chicago, and the name Posen was chosen to remember the...
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Symerton, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Symerton has remained a small agricultural town. Over half of its housing was built before 1939, and...
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Andersonville, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...of settlement for gays and lesbians who sought cheaper homes and apartments north of Boys Town ....
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