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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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Vice Districts, Peter C. Baldwin(
Authored Entry
) ...few poor neighborhoods to protect the rest of Chicago. Pockets of vice formed as early as the 1850s....
...grounds in the 1910s, most notably by the Chicago Vice Commission , which pointed out that the...
...in 1912. Vice was already scattering throughout Chicago anyway, into “call-house flats” and other...
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Brookfield, IL, Emily Clark(
Authored Entry
) ...bedroom community, is a near-western suburb of Chicago. There is little industry or major business...
...settlement of the area began in 1889 when the Chicago real-estate developer S. E. Gross opened his...
...site due to its easy proximity to downtown Chicago via the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (...
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Community Areas, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...York pioneered the concept of the census tract in 1902; Chicago first used census tracts in 1910....
...Members of the University of Chicago's Local Community Research Committee wanted the information...
...social ills, regardless of who lived there. Chicago's Department of Public Health also had an...
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Health Care Workers, Keith Andrew Mann(
Authored Entry
) ...including the 100,000 workers employed in Chicago's 70 hospitals in the 1990s, have been hampered by...
...while only 20 percent of their colleagues in Chicago were organized. Half of these were members of...
...feature of local health worker unionization in Chicago was a joint effort by Local 73 of the SEIU...
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Laotians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...Between 1975 and 1983, 3,500 Laotians settled in Chicago, primarily in the Uptown and Albany Park...
...process of adjustment to life in metropolitan Chicago. Many Laotians came from rural backgrounds,...
...networks of mutual assistance, Laotians in Chicago established Lao American Community Services (...
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Miamis, Bradley J. Birzer(
Authored Entry
) ...woodlands, central Algonquian people for whom Chicago served as a vital way station. The Iroquois...
...zone of Illinois and Wisconsin, the pays d'en haut. Chicago was a temporary stopping point in their...
...Believing that the Miamis had settled at Chicago permanently, the Jesuits founded the Mission of the...
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Mundelein, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...opened in 1996 as the Metra North Central Service line from Chicago through Mundelein to Antioch ....
...Central Railroad built through the area to Chicago in 1880, local farmer John Holcomb donated land...
...changed in the tiny community until after the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric interurban terminated its...
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Golf, IL, Howard N. Rabinowitz(
Authored Entry
) ...facades and shingled roofs. “We're more like a small town somewhere in the middle of Kansas,” as one...
...placed it ninth out of 263 in the six-county Chicago area. Protected from the mushrooming growth of...
...however, Albert J. Earling, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad , took his...
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Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...part of LTV Steel, which spent much of the 1980s and 1990s in bankruptcy, the old Youngstown steel...
...By the end of the 1990s, LTV, which also owned the old Chicago plants of Republic Steel, employed...
...plants in the Chicago area laid off thousands of workers....
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Firefighting, Mark Tebeau(
Authored Entry
) ...From Chicago's incorporation in 1833, volunteer laborers protected the city from fire. Sanctioned by...
...owners, and insurance companies. By 1853, over 500 Chicago volunteer firemen worked in 12 separate...
...100 by century's end. Over the same period of time, Chicago's fire department became increasingly...
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