| 1601 |
Vice Commissions, Mary Linehan(
Authored Entry
) ...prostitution throughout the city? At first, the Chicago Vice Commission members—including Frank...
...report, published in 1911 as The Social Evil in Chicago, also included a statistical section, which...
...that 5,000 professional prostitutes worked in Chicago, serving over 5 million men every year. These...
|
| 1602 |
Crystal Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...River's rails. The consolidated line known as the Chicago & North Western erected a station near the...
...of the Crystal Lake rail spur, Charles Dole of Chicago's Armour and Dole established an expansive...
...had ice cut from the lake, which he shipped to Chicago even during summer months; well-insulated ice...
|
| 1603 |
Algonquin, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...traveled trail (now Illinois Highway 62) between Chicago and the Indian settlements at Lake Geneva....
...returning home to Portage, Wisconsin, from Chicago in 1830. Her description (Wau-Bun) of crossing...
...farmers along the Fox River Valley Railroad (Chicago & North Western Railway), which entered the...
|
| 1604 |
Illinois, Raymond E. Hauser(
Authored Entry
) ...Illinois country, including the entire greater Chicago area. Tribal members divided themselves into...
...streams explain their residency in greater Chicago. The Illinois living on the Illinois River across...
...Influential tribal leaders included Rouensa, Chicago, and Jean Baptiste Ducoigne. During the late...
|
| 1605 |
Northwestern University, Patrick M. Quinn(
Authored Entry
) ...of land located on Lake Michigan 12 miles north of Chicago. Here, during the winter of 1853–54, the...
...with several professional schools located in Chicago, including a law school and a medical school....
...had grown rapidly, both in Evanston and in Chicago, but remained a relatively loose federation of...
|
| 1606 |
O'Hare, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...became a commercial airport , and in 1947 the Chicago City Council picked it as the site for the...
...to consolidate its control over the airport area, Chicago annexed it in March 1956, including the...
...required that annexed areas be contiguous with Chicago, the city council also annexed a narrow...
|
| 1607 |
Black Belt, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...identify the predominately African American community on Chicago's South Side . Originally a narrow...
...22nd to 31st Streets along State Street, Chicago's South Side African American community expanded...
|
| 1608 |
Greektown, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...In the late nineteenth century, Chicago's Greek population began to coalesce in the area surrounded...
...the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago is now located. Greektown (also known as “the...
|
| 1609 |
Hyde Park Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...unit separate from, and geographically larger than, Chicago. The township population grew more than...
...1880 and 1889 (15,716 to 85,000). In 1889, Chicago annexed Hyde Park, which ceased to function as an...
|
| 1610 |
Jefferson Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...an independent political unit separate from Chicago. In 1872 Norwood Park Township was created...
...the northwest corner of Jefferson. In 1889, Chicago annexed the rest of the township and it ceased...
|
| 1611 |
Labor Protests, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...radicals as Joe Hill and Ralph Chaplin. Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37006) Illustration...
...were an important means of communication between downtown offices. Photographer: Chicago Daily...
...News Source: Chicago Historical Society (DN-0000022) Illustration 4243 3002 Strikes Work Garment...
|
| 1612 |
St. Lawrence Seaway, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...seaway's locks. Overseas traffic to and from Chicago via the seaway declined from 4.3 million short...
...Lawrence River in Canada via the Great Lakes to Chicago dates from 1842, when the British built a...
...the Dean Richmond in 1856 to sail from Chicago to Liverpool with a load of wheat. Chicago's role as...
|
| 1613 |
Hearst Newspapers, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Hearst papers employed about 2,500 people in Chicago. Declining sales during the Great Depression...
...to a merger of the morning and evening papers in 1939, creating the Chicago Herald-American (later...
...reverting to the Chicago American). In 1956, the Hearst paper was purchased by the Tribune Co. ,...
|
| 1614 |
Terra Museum of American Art, Ronne Hartfield(
Authored Entry
) ...art within a four-hundred-mile radius of Chicago. Daniel J. Terra located a site in Evanston to...
...the museum began operation in the heart of Chicago's elegant shopping district , with over 60,000...
...administrative offices. Taking the success of the Chicago institution to France, Terra and his wife...
|
| 1615 |
Untouchables, David E. Ruth(
Authored Entry
) ...denounced a large bribe offer early in 1930, a Chicago Tribune reporter gave the group its popular...
...leaders chose for its head Eliot Ness, a Chicago-based Prohibition Bureau agent with a reputation...
|
| 1616 |
Black Panther Party, Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly(
Authored Entry
) ...The Black Panther Party of Chicago emerged on the city's West Side in the autumn of 1968. As one of...
...police brutality. By the middle of 1969, the Chicago Panthers' neighborhood roots and class-based...
...Rainbow Coalition. ” This coalition targeted Chicago's structural inequalities by placing programs...
|
| 1617 |
City News Bureau, Richard A. Schwarzlose(
Authored Entry
) ...In 1890 Chicago Daily News publisher Victor Lawson, having persuaded local newspaper competitors...
...for their newsrooms, organized the City Press Association of Chicago, supported in the beginning...
...by 8 publishers of 10 Chicago dailies. Renamed City News Bureau in 1910, the agency was fulfilling...
|
| 1618 |
Assassination of Carter Harrison, Edward M. Burke(
Authored Entry
) ...blank range. The mayor's wounds were fatal. Chicago was plunged into mourning. Even Clarence Darrow...
...of easy availability would ultimately prove his demise. Chicago was enjoying an unbounded period of...
...commitment to the world's fair had permitted Chicago to showcase its rise to modernity in the 20...
|
| 1619 |
Annie McClure Hitchcock, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...that she wrote and her efforts in the wake of the Chicago Fire of 1871 provide glimpses of her as a...
...Hitchcock grew with the city. When she came to Chicago in 1844 it was so small that she remembered...
...fields down to the lake on the east and to the Chicago River on the west. ” She also witnessed the...
|
| 1620 |
Georgians, Emily Brunner(
Authored Entry
) ...southwestern Asia. However, most members of Chicago's Georgian community did not arrive in the city...
...1991. Many are scientists or doctors who came to Chicago to take advantage of economic opportunities...
...city; others drive taxis or work in construction . Chicago's Georgians have not congregated in any...
|