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Western Springs, IL, Tom Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...local mineral springs on the southwest side of town, Western Springs originally consisted of flat...
...Cook County, 15 miles W of the Loop. Western Springs, located along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy...
...Railroad between Chicago and Aurora, encompasses roughly the area between Willow Springs Road, Ogden...
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Mokena, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...started in 1850 several miles to the east of town, reflects the presence of many German immigrants...
...of a suburban fabric reaching southwest from Chicago. In the early 1830s the McGovney and Van Horne...
...Island Railroad had completed its line from Chicago through Will County, passing less than a mile...
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| 1533 |
Public Housing, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...is one kind of subsidized housing found in the Chicago metropolitan area. Subsidized housing has...
...have been targeted at different classes. The Chicago Housing Authority and similar authorities in...
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| 1534 |
True Value Hardware, (
Business Dictionary
) ...merged with Pittsburgh-based competitor ServiStar Coast...
...to Coast Corp. , the company became known as the TruServ Corp. Based in Chicago, TruServ was a...
...1980s, when the company employed about 1,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1997, after Cotter & Co....
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| 1535 |
Fire Limits, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...They banned new wood construction and major repairs or improvements to old wood buildings....
...not emerge until the 1920s. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 , the fire limit was the focus of a...
...The Chicago Common Council enacted the city's first limit in 1845 and extended its area gradually,...
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| 1536 |
Johnson Publishing Co., Adam Green(
Authored Entry
) ...Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co. , the 24-year-old Johnson began to publish Negro Digest, a weekly...
...when the company employed about 1,000 people in the Chicago area. By the end of the century, Johnson...
...moved with his family from Arkansas City to Chicago in 1933, when he was a teenager. In 1942, after...
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| 1537 |
Washington Heights, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...the new residents is no different from that of the old. Neither are the social values. ... But many...
...Heights also boasts the Woodson Branch of the Chicago Public Library at 95th and Halsted. Its Vivian...
...S of the Loop. Located on the far South Side of Chicago, Washington Heights, is bounded by 89th and...
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North Park, David M. Solzman(
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) ...Avenue on the north, and the North Branch of the Chicago River on the south. The presence of the two...
...a charming and unusual ambience for the area. Chicago's only waterfall (about four feet high)...
...appears where the North Branch of the Chicago River tumbles into the North Shore Channel. North...
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| 1539 |
Parish Life, Eileen M. McMahon(
Authored Entry
) ...center of a vital Roman Catholic subculture in Chicago. They created neighborhoods of shared values...
...centuries. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago initially organized parishes geographically,...
...other Catholic immigrant groups settled in Chicago, their foreign languages and different customs of...
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| 1540 |
Radio Orchestras, Christopher Popa(
Authored Entry
) ...WGN (Mutual), under the same ownership as the Chicago Tribune, was financially able to maintain a...
...WBBM (CBS), and WLS (ABC), contracted with the Chicago Federation of Musicians to have their own 45-...
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| 1541 |
Charles Tyson Yerkes and Street Railways, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...Yerkes was gaining the unenviable reputation as Chicago's most notorious “robber baron. ” He cheated...
...first common cause among civic-minded groups in Chicago. Uniting Yerkes' opponents, the battle for...
...from Philadelphia, Charles Yerkes came to Chicago in 1882 to pursue his business interests. Over the...
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| 1542 |
Regal Theater, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...Considered the apex of the entertainment world in Chicago, the Regal rendered a tremendous boost to...
...the Grand Boulevard community that when the Chicago Land Clearance Commission razed the theater in...
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| 1543 |
House Moving, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...for permission to move a house across the Chicago River on the Kinzie Street Bridge. There are...
...nails, and large-scale milling operations near Chicago facilitated house moving by making balloon...
...them to a desired location. Chester Tupper, Chicago's first house mover, regularly moved structures...
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| 1544 |
Privatization, Robin A. Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...uncovered contracting irregularities in Chicago that led to an upheaval in purchasing personnel and...
...but they indicate a serious effort to remove the tarnish from the contracting process in Chicago....
...the most common form of privatization. The city of Chicago, suburban municipalities, school and park...
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| 1545 |
Burbank, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...class residents drive to their places of business; almost half work in Chicago. Although there is no...
...train service in Burbank, buses link residents to the Chicago Transit Authority ....
...Incorporated in 1970, it is bordered by Chicago on the east, Oak Lawn on the south, Bridgeview on...
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| 1546 |
Glenwood, IL, Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...which is reputed to be the first racially integrated cemetery in the Chicago region. During the...
...African Americans traveled by train from Chicago to bury their dead in the cemetery. Notable black...
...was surveyed along the recently completed Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad . Glenwood served as a...
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| 1547 |
Single Room Occupancy Hotels, Robert A. Slayton(
Authored Entry
) ...Towers, 1954. Photographers: Lil and Al Bloom. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...single, poor adults. SROs began to appear in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, in response to...
...transient workforce that came in and out of Chicago on a seasonal basis. The most common facility at...
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| 1548 |
Countryside, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...2000 population stood at 5,991. A portion of old Route 66 runs through Countryside, and Interstates...
...District serves Countryside and adjacent towns. Countryside's thriving business community, including...
...too much time at Wrigley Field watching the Chicago Cubs to make the farm economically viable. In...
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| 1549 |
War Monuments, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...The first war monuments in most Chicago-area communities were erected in cemeteries and dedicated to...
...men who fought in the Civil War . Typical were the Chicago Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Rosehill...
...of their comrades. In the lakefront parks of Chicago, numerous heroic equestrian bronzes commemorate...
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Blackhawks, Paul R. Greenland(
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) ...Professional ice hockey came to Chicago in 1926 when Major Frederick McLaughlin, a local coffee...
...Portland (Oregon) Rosebuds and moved the team to Chicago, renaming them the Blackhawks after his...
...former army division. The Blackhawks played at Chicago Coliseum, 16th and Wabash, before moving into...
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