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Hinsdale, IL, Tom Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...of present-day Hinsdale in an area along the Old Plank Road (Ogden Avenue) near the banks of Salt...
...W of the Loop. Hinsdale, a commutervillage along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad , roughly...
...Fullersburg. In 1858 Fuller petitioned the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad to build a line...
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Sting, Mike Conklin(
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) ...Chicago witnessed several attempts for professional soccer to gain a toehold in the local scene...
...and 1984. These were the first titles won by a Chicago pro franchise in any sport since the Bears...
...crowds of 20,000 or more for the first time in Chicago soccer. The Sting stopped playing after the...
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Westinghouse Broadcasting, Douglas Gomery(
Authored Entry
) ...set manufacturer began operating a radio station in Chicago in 1921. On Armistice day, Westinghouse...
...Monday, enabling 1,300 “radio homes” in the Chicago area to hear opera . But profits proved elusive,...
...KYW-AM to Philadelphia and did not re-enter the Chicago market until late in 1956, when it purchased...
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Robert Morris College, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...in liberal arts and business from its campus in Carthage, Illinois, 250 miles southwest of Chicago....
...In 1975, Robert Morris merged with Chicago's Moser School (a private business college founded in...
...of Robert Morris College moved into the landmark building at 401 South State Street in Chicago....
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Catholic Worker Movement, Steve Rosswurm(
Authored Entry
) ...its heyday in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Chicago Catholic Worker was the most significant...
...the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Chicago distinguished it from its parent organization....
...The Chicago Catholic Worker, especially its newspaper published from 1938 to 1941, launched the...
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John and Mary Jones: Early Civil Rights Activists, (
Authored Entry
) ...side—her husband John Jones—when their early Chicago home became one of the Underground Railway...
...residents. The couple worked tirelessly in Chicago during the late 1840s and 1850s against slavery...
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Townships, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...The federal government surveyed the Chicago area, as part of the Northwest Territory, into townships...
...mid-nineteenth century, the townships ringing Chicago— Lake View , Jefferson , Cicero, Lake , and...
...proved too unwieldy and most were annexed into Chicago in 1889. Townships continue to provide basic...
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Conservation Areas, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...near-blighted” and “stable. ” The 1943 Master Plan of Residential Land Use of Chicago found that 56...
...square miles of Chicago constituted conservation areas. After...
...Conservation Act of 1953 became Illinois law, Chicago established the Community Conservation Board,...
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| 1579 |
Garfield Goose and Friends, Philip T. Hoffman(
Authored Entry
) ...A children's television show produced in Chicago, Garfield Goose and Friends captivated young...
...by Frazier Thomas, who introduced the show in Cincinnati. After Thomas moved to Chicago in 1951, the...
...show began appearing on Chicago television. From 1955 to 1976, it ran on WGN-TV , where it was one...
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Constructing an Infrastructure, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...of protecting the city's drinking supply by directing the Chicago River away from Lake Michigan....
...Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-05859) Illustration 2986 1741...
...Raising the Grade Chicago's swampy setting led to its literally raising itself out of the mud....
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Smart Museum, Ronne Hartfield(
Authored Entry
) ...vases and Chinese bronzes to medieval sculpture and Old Master paintings; from Frank Lloyd Wright...
...Affiliated with the University of Chicago , the Smart Museum opened as a gallery in 1974 with a one-...
...Esquire magazine here in 1933. Designed by Chicago architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, the building...
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Lindenhurst, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...the east, approaching Millburn (now part of Old Mill Creek ) and Gurnee . Lindenhurst's planners and...
...prior owner, Ernst Lehmann, son of the weal- thy Chicago department store merchant who founded Lake...
...developments were in suburbs much closer to Chicago. The pace of building accelerated in the 1970s,...
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Publishing and Media, Religious, R. Jonathan Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...radio. The “Sunday Evening Club” has long been a Chicago broadcasting staple. Founded in 1908 as a “...
...The middle and late nineteenth century was the golden age of religious publishing in Chicago....
...Because of Chicago's central location, many denominational headquarters have been located in the...
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| 1584 |
Museum of Science and Industry, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...the Museum of Science and Industry as one of Chicago's premier tourist attractions and attesting to...
...and philanthropy of Julius Rosenwald, one of Chicago's wealthiest merchandisers. In 1911, while...
...the museum's director convinced Rosenwald that Chicago should have such an institution. In 1921 he...
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South Deering, David Bensman(
Authored Entry
) ...to produce steel for its tractors and combines. Gold Medal Flour Company, Illinois Slag and Ballast...
...Roman Catholics worshiped in nearby South Chicago . After 1900, new settlers arrived from Eastern...
...Organizing Committee began to organize South Chicago mills in 1936, they faced difficulties at the...
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WTTW: The Beginning of Public Broadcasting, Newton Minow(
Authored Entry
) ...When WTTW sought community support, 500,000 Chicago-area citizens responded. After a temporary start...
...Assured by Lowell that this would be good for Chicago, Ryerson created WTTW-TV (its call letters...
...DC, Philadelphia, and other large cities, so Chicago got a head start on September 6, 1955, by...
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Steppenwolf Theatre, Richard Christiansen(
Authored Entry
) ...though its star members no longer lived in Chicago, they regularly returned to the home base for...
...to international fame, Steppenwolf became a Chicago cultural icon, symbolic of the heights of high-...
...of gritty contemporary drama. Moving into Chicago in 1980, the company achieved major breakthroughs...
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Bud Billiken Day Parade, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...Billiken Day Parade has been sponsored by the Chicago Defender Charities, and has become known as...
...In 1923 Chicago Defender founder Robert S. Abbott and his managing editor, Lucius Harper,...
...Club. Abbott had long expressed a concern for Chicago's African American youth, and the success of...
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Advice Columns, Beth Bailey(
Authored Entry
) ...the historically intense competition between Chicago's major newspapers. Eppie Lederer died in 2002....
...and newspapers . Yet perhaps no place rivals Chicago in the history of the newspaper advice column,...
...advice columnist in 1955 when she convinced a Chicago Sun-Times editor to give her a chance at the...
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Washington Park, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...The western edge of Washington Park is the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad . Low-lying and...
...avenues that ran northward from the area into Chicago. This amalgam of ethnicities and classes made...
...the elevated trains, provided easy access to Chicago's central business district, making Washington...
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