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Vice Districts, Peter C. Baldwin(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Barrington Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...English , and Irish immigrants, and formed a town near present-day Sutton Road and Route 68....
...In 1962 Barrington Hills annexed the neighboring town of Middlebury (incorporated in 1953). The...
...community for their workers which they called Chicago Highlands. The foundry closed in 1903 and the...
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Northfield, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...railroad, which came through the village. The town was originally incorporated in 1926 under the...
...Village residents later adopted the name for their town. In the early 1950s the Edens Expressway was...
...are located on the eastern border along the Chicago & North Western Railway and the expressway....
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Leopold and Loeb, Paula S. Fass(
Authored Entry
) ...as the “crime of the century” when 14-year-old Robert (Bobby) Franks was kidnaped and killed. On May...
...On May 21, 1924, Chicago became the locale for an event long remembered...
...19 had just graduated from the University of Chicago and was on his way to Harvard Law School, fit...
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Country Club Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...development was close to the site of the old Cooper's Grove settlement dating to the 1840s, with the...
...One of the earliest congregations south of Chicago, it started with two wooden structures, built in...
...activity of Joseph E. Merrion, a major Chicago-area housing developer. In 1955, he sought to build a...
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Regional Transportation Authority, David M. Young(
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) ...a referendum in 1974. A strong plurality in Chicago overcame opposition in the suburbs. The RTA was...
...public transportation systems in the six-county Chicago metropolitan area. Because of a decline in...
...reductions. The RTA's divisions include the older Chicago Transit Authority , created in 1945, as...
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Lombard, IL, Elizabeth M. Holland(
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) ...In 1837, Babcock's Grove was connected to Chicago by a stagecoach line which stopped at Stacy's...
...Historical Society. In 1849, the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad ran two trains daily each way...
...Grove. Farmers began to send their goods to Chicago along the railroad, quickly putting the...
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Community Organizing, Larry Bennett(
Authored Entry
) ...subsequent organizing campaigns. Since the 1970s Chicago has been the site of numerous organizing...
...Alinsky had come to Packingtown representing the Chicago Area Project, a program sponsored by the...
...initiated other important organizing efforts in Chicago, notably the Organization for the Southwest...
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Snow Removal, Joel Mendes(
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) ...winter of 1967 had been a relatively mild one in Chicago, with unusually warm temperatures. Early in...
...had fallen on the city. It was the most severe snowstorm Chicago had experienced in the century....
...In 1979, Chicago was again brought to a standstill with another unusually severe January snowstorm....
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O'Hare Airport, David Brodherson(
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) ...at O'Hare Airport, March 1963. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Company, the Corps of Army Engineers, the Civil Aeronautics Authority, Chicago Association of...
...Commerce, and the Chicago Regional Planning Association selected a site on the outskirts of the...
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Oak Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier and Camille Henderson Zorich(
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) ...lished, and subdivisions extended beyond the old stagecoach route later named Lake Street. The...
...Des Plaines River in 1835. He erected a house on the stagecoach route from Galena to Chicago. The...
...area was sparsely populated when the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad laid tracks parallel to the...
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