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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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Roselle, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...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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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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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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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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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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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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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Godley, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...Godley first developed as a coal mining town and incorporated in 1888. In 1988 Commonwealth Edison...
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Tap Dance, Anthea Kraut(
Authored Entry
) ...by its rhythms, has a long history in Chicago, one made apparent by a resurgence of the genre in the...
...Paralleling the international growth of tap dance, Chicago's revival grew out of an alliance between...
...Jimmy Payne, a tap performer and teacher in Chicago since the 1940s, provided living links to the...
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Black Hawk War, Helen Hornbeck Tanner(
Authored Entry
) ...last of their lands in northeastern Illinois, promoting the first development of the Chicago area....
...to white settlement in the region around Chicago. The famous Sauk leader, Black Hawk, and his...
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Mission of the Guardian Angel, Winstanley Briggs(
Authored Entry
) ...established the Mission of the Guardian Angel at Chicago in 1696. Its short existence left no...
...Quebec, locates it on the north bank of the Chicago River between Michigan and Rush, a “dry” area...
...agreement: the Jesuits gave up their mission at Chicago but kept their huge mission to the Kaskaskia...
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Batswana, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...While a few individuals may have settled in Chicago earlier, the majority...
...of Batswana came to Chicago in the 1990s on educational scholarships. The Botswana government has...
...suggested approximately 20 Batswana in Chicago in 2002, nearly all of them students specializing in...
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Daily Herald, Richard Junger(
Authored Entry
) ...with the suburban settlements growing along the Chicago & North Western's northwest line. By the end...
...as the Herald championed the development of Chicago's northwestern suburbs. As population followed...
...to 130,000, the publishers added news about Chicago, arts, and entertainment and initiated an...
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Eminent Domain, Pierre deVise(
Authored Entry
) ...affected businesses and citizens. Prime examples of eminent-domain controversies in Chicago were A....
...Montgomery Ward v. Chicago (1890–...
...1911), Chicago v. Illinois Central Railroad (1919), urban renewal on the South and West Sides in the...
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Garfield Park, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...i3137 Garfield Park, ca. 1885. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Park, was one of three large parks in Chicago's West Park System. The park was first formally laid...
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Home Rule, Jon C. Teaford(
Authored Entry
) ...Throughout much of its history, Chicago has sought home rule, the power to determine its structure...
...special needs, and by the turn of the century Chicago leaders were clamoring for an exception to the...
...which provided that special legislation for Chicago would take effect only if approved by the city's...
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"Windy City", Jonathan Boyd(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's exposed location between the Great Plains and the Great Lakes —and the wind swirling...
...tour guides and reference books that in fact Chicago's climate is not distinctively windy. (The same...
...use “windy” for “talkative” or “boastful. ” Chicago politicians early became famous for long-...
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