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Godley, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...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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| 1493 |
Black Hawk War, Helen Hornbeck Tanner(
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) ...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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Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Ronne Hartfield(
Authored Entry
) ...of contemporary prints and architectural drawings. Major Chicago-focused exhibitions have included...
...Second-Sight: Printmaking in Chicago, 1935–1995 (1996)....
...and president of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as a trustee of Northwestern University,...
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Growing Up Along Water, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Growing Up Along Water Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo...
...Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...
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Young Men's Christian Association, Paula R. Lupkin(
Authored Entry
) ...The Chicago Young Men's Christian Association was founded in 1853 as an interdenominational...
...as a center for practical Christian work in Chicago, housing such groups as the Women's Christian...
...by a new set of leaders drawn from Chicago's mercantile elite, including James Houghteling, Cyrus H....
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New City, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...61, 5 miles SW of the Loop. University of Chicago sociologists established boundaries for community...
...named a large section of land around the Chicago stockyards New City. Yet the area designated as New...
...for business on December 25, 1865, outside Chicago's city boundaries in Lake Township . In 1889,...
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Teamsters, Andrew Wender Cohen(
Authored Entry
) ...locally, driving “teams” of horses throughout Chicago. By the late twentieth century, national road...
...the IBT had established a joint council in Chicago, with 45 affiliates and 30,825 members. These...
...some locals deserted the IBT, forming a rival Chicago Teamsters' Union (CTU). Critics dogged the...
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Zimbabweans, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...have made it difficult for Zimbabweans in Chicago to find one another and organize as a single...
...Zimbabweans in the area. Many Zimbabweans in Chicago maintain close ties with the large and well-...
...major wave of Zimbabwean migration arrived in Chicago during and after the War for Independence in...
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Agrarian Movements, Chas. P. Raleigh(
Authored Entry
) ...mass meetings and torchlight parades in Chicago in support of the alliance, the party received...
...many blamed the middlemen. As early as 1849, the Chicago-based Prairie Farmer began urging northern...
...monopolies, grain elevator owners, and the Chicago Board of Trade for the declining fortunes of...
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Labor Songs, Clark “Bucky” Halker(
Authored Entry
) ...tradition, producing important work. The Chicago-based Industrial Workers of the World (“Wobblies”)...
...continue into the 1940s, as workers still sang Chicago “Wobbly” Ralph Chaplin's famous 1915 labor...
...Between 1865 and 1920 Chicago served as a center for working-class protest songs and poetry. Labor...
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Redlining, D. Bradford Hunt(
Authored Entry
) ...and minority neighborhoods in cities like Chicago. The relative lack of investment in new housing,...
...older urban neighborhoods and compounded Chicago's decline in relation to its suburbs. Redlining's...
...results of these laws, community activists in Chicago spearheaded further reform, leading the nation...
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Richton Park, IL, Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...homes, which approach the median value for Chicago's south suburbs. Like many other south suburbs,...
...by farms heavily planted with asparagus. When Chicago's suburban sprawl finally pushed into the area...
...if at times somewhat congested, access to Chicago. The residents of Richton Park are, on average,...
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