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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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| 1552 |
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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| 1553 |
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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| 1556 |
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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| 1557 |
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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| 1558 |
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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| 1559 |
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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| 1560 |
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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| 1561 |
Cedar Lake, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...for its excellent farmingand grazing land, the town lies on the northwest corner of Cedar Lake....
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| 1562 |
Bucktown, Steven Essig(
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) ...Part of the West Town and Logan Square Community Areas. Roughly bounded by North, Ashland, Western,...
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Diamond, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...after coal mining ended in the early 1900s. The town reincorporated in 1949 and had a population of...
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Hometown, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...over 7,000 in 1958. In 1967, a tornado struck the town, destroying 86 homes and damaging 500 others....
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| 1565 |
Lake Station, IN, Peggy Tuck Sinko(
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) ...shipping center for agricultural products. The town became part of the new suburb of East Gary in...
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Streamwood, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...looking to engulf neighboring unincorporated towns. Subdivision development came in 1956 when Maxon...
...buyers were arrested for disorderly conduct. The town's continued success was doubtful. Streamwood...
...Mudville. ” New residents often came from the same Chicago neighborhoods and rented with an option...
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| 1567 |
Thornton, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...white settler was William Woodbridge in 1834. The town was first platted in 1835 by John H. Kinzie....
...with I-80. The first railroad (later the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, now the Union Pacific) came to...
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| 1568 |
Carpentersville, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...son, Angelo, platted the land and renamed the town Carpentersville, which was incorporated in 1887....
...attempts to incorporate Meadowdale as an independent town. So Besinger had Carpentersville annex the...
...interests in Carpentersville. He persuaded the Chicago & North Western Railroad to extend its tracks...
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Forest View, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...mid-1920s Nosek and others were forced to leave town by gangster Ralph Capone, and Forest View soon...
...generating plant. Revenues from the plant gave the town a new lease on life, and the annexation of...
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Boardinghouses, Douglas Knox(
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) ...at least as old as the taverns of the Fort Dearborn...
...Residential boarding arrangements in the Chicago metropolitan area are...
...trading settlement. During Chicago's early boom years, when housing facilities lagged behind...
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