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Charles Tyson Yerkes and Street Railways, Harold L. Platt(
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) ...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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Regal Theater, Wallace Best(
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) ...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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House Moving, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...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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Privatization, Robin A. Johnson(
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) ...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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Burbank, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...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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Glenwood, IL, Ian McGiver(
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) ...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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Single Room Occupancy Hotels, Robert A. Slayton(
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) ...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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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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War Monuments, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...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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Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, James Ralph(
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) ...mounting dissatisfaction with the policies of Chicago school superintendent Benjamin Willis in the...
...and often quarrelsome—coalition of groups including the more militant Chicago Congress of Racial...
...Equality (CORE) and Chicago Area Friends of SNCC and the more moderate Chicago Catholic Interracial...
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Dentistry, Harry L. Sheehy(
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) ...Chicago has played a leading role, both nationally and internationally, in the development of...
...Columbian Dental Congress. Since 1918, Chicago has been home to the American Dental Association....
...headquartered here. The ADA's local affiliate—the Chicago Dental Society—has played a unique role in...
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Ecuadorians, Amalia Pallares(
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) ...The Ecuadorian presence in Chicago dates back to the mid-twentieth century....
...In 2000 there were 8,941 Ecuadorians in Chicago, making them the fifth largest Latin American group...
...in the city. Chicago joins New York, Miami, and Los Angeles as the four U.S. cities with the largest...
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Grant Park, Max Grinnell(
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) ...program of park maintenance, helped make the area more amenable to Chicago residents and visitors....
...Avenue, 1880s. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3474 Michigan...
...Institute building was constructed in 1893. The Chicago South Park Commission took responsibility...
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Argonne National Laboratory, Jack M. Holl(
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) ...Located on 1,700 acres 25 miles southwest of Chicago on Interstate Highway 55, Argonne National...
...Established in 1941 as the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab), the...
...research and development at the University of Chicago by establishing Argonne as the first national...
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Missionary Training Schools, R. Jonathan Moore(
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) ...Chicago has long been home to missionary training schools, Christian institutions that train...
...to the city, the nation, and the larger world. Chicago's most prominent institution has been Moody...
...Dwight L. Moody in 1886, it began as the Chicago Evangelization Society. In 1900 MBI adopted its...
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Navy Pier, Douglas Bukowski(
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) ...Located just to the north of the mouth of the Chicago River , Navy Pier endures as a...
...3,000-foot-long exclamation mark in the Chicago tradition of public works . Municipal Pier (renamed...
...the hopes of Daniel Burnham in his Plan of Chicago for two recreational piers and the city's desire...
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New Lenox, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...tributary of the Des Plaines River southwest of Chicago. For more than a century, Potawatomi and...
...government's forced expulsion of Potawatomi from the area. In the 1850s, the Chicago & Rock Island...
...Railroad (later the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific) began offering service from Chicago through New...
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North Riverside, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...located approximately 10 miles west of downtown Chicago, the mall attracts customers through- out...
...in 1835. David A. Gage, treasurer of the city of Chicago, purchased approximately 1,600 acres along...
...this property was turned over to the city of Chicago. Part of this land was used for the Cook County...
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Morris, IL, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...A diversified industrial base has fueled the town's twentieth-century economy. Morris's population...
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