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Smart Museum, Ronne Hartfield(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Museum of Science and Industry, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Zoning, Joseph P. Schwieterman and Dana Caspall(
Authored Entry
) ...and concerns for the quality of life. Although Chicago has many neighborhood and area plans to guide...
...Controls on land use in Chicago began during the mid-nineteenth century in response to concerns over...
...the possibility of a similar ordinance for Chicago. The city formed a Zoning Commission that year...
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Airports, Commuter, David Brodherson(
Authored Entry
) ...use the roof as intended. To the north of Chicago, Sky Harbor Airport opened in 1929. The facility,...
...personal commuter vehicle. In 1948 the city of Chicago opened a commuter airport for wide public use...
...emerged as the most important one to serve Chicago over the long run. In 1920 the city of Chicago...
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East Side, Kristina M. Bas and David Bensman(
Authored Entry
) ...for their food. Located just south of South Chicago and east of South Deering , the region's natural...
...Side has long been considered a suburb of South Chicago, and its residents have a profound sense of...
...plant. As 1,000 people approached the mill gates, Chicago police ordered their retreat. The crowd...
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Gathering Information, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...H. Burnham Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2530 3272 Burnham Plan Infrastructure...
...1906 Author: Commerce and Labor Department Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2350 3134...
...Burnham Plan Infrastructure Planning Chicago...
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Round Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...in exchange for a station. He also drew up a town plat to show railroad officials that profitable...
...they could not craft on the farm. In the 1890s, when officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul...
...extended a branch line from their Milwaukee–Chicago main line at Libertyville Junction (later...
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Melrose Park, IL, Richard Harris(
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) ...as an industrial, working-class suburb. By 1940 the town offered 38 jobs for every 100 residents (...
...miles W of the Loop. Melrose Park is one of Chicago's many pre–World War II suburbs that do not fit...
...subdivided a large tract almost due west of Chicago, well beyond city limits. At first the company...
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School Architecture, Arthur Zilversmit(
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) ...The architecture of Chicago's schools has been dominated by an often desperate need to find places...
...and a strictly utilitarian architecture. The Chicago Fire of 1871 exacerbated the problem. One-third...
...for 54–63 students. The innovations of the “Chicago School” of architecture were first applied to...
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South Shore, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...desiring a congenial middle-class community on Chicago's South Side. i3484 Golfers at South Shore...
...Country Club, 1908. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...area's high ground to transport his goods to Chicago. Before the community came to be known as South...
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Lager Beer Riot, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...first time, and directing them to enforce an old, previously ignored ordinance requiring the Sunday...
...riot ended in minutes. The riot mobilized Chicago's immigrant voters. In March 1856, a heavy German...
...Chicago's first civil disturbance, on April 21, 1855, resulted in 1 death, 60 arrests, and the...
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Restrictive Covenants, Arnold R. Hirsch(
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) ...people, usually African Americans . Rare in Chicago before the 1920s, their widespread use followed...
...paved the way for their proliferation. The Chicago Real Estate Board (CREB) campaigned to blanket...
...by Nathan William MacChesney, a member of the Chicago Plan Commission. In the fall of 1927, the CREB...
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