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Gambling, Christopher Thale(
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) ...Americans were tolerant of gambling when Chicago was founded, and Mark Beaubien's Sauganash featured...
...off-track betting. Mont Tennes emerged as Chicago's most important gambler. While big gambling...
...achieved total dominance. Mob gambling reached Chicago Heights , Brookfield , Glenview , and other...
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Goodman Theatre, Richard Christiansen(
Authored Entry
) ...when the parents of Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, a Chicago playwright who died of influenza while in the...
...DePaul University ), the Goodman formed its own board, the Chicago Theatre Group. The era of William...
...in 1973, was marked by the emergence of Chicago playwright David Mamet, whose American Buffalo had...
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Hyde Park Art Center, Judith Russi Kirshner(
Authored Entry
) ...One of the oldest arts organizations in Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) is notable because...
...Douglas, author Helen Gardner, and University of Chicago art historian Ulrich Middeldorf. HPAC built...
...who came to be known internationally as the Chicago Imagists—Roger Brown, Christina Ramberg, and Jim...
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Lincoln Park, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...as a special district , one of three Chicago-area park districts , in 1869, with authority over...
...the consolidation of park districts that created the Chicago Park District in 1934. In addition to...
...theater , Lincoln Park has become home to the Chicago Academy of Sciences , which relocated in 1893...
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Conservatories, Julia Sniderman Bachrach(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1897. Photographer: J. W. Nolan. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Owing to political...
...in the eastern states in the late 1860s. In Chicago, soon after the city's three park commissions...
...Conservatory, 1906. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 The West and...
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Mettawa, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...The village has no stores, offices, or town hall and in 1994 there were only 189 homes. In the...
...distinction of being the wealthiest community in the six counties of the Chicago metropolitan area....
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Matteson, IL, Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...thirds of them constructed in the last 30 years. Old Matteson, as the community's original center is...
...57. Matteson is not the most exclusive of Chicago's south suburbs, but the median household income...
...substantially higher than in either the city of Chicago or Cook County. More than 80 percent of the...
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Palos Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...In 1928, the Southwest Highway opened along the old railroad right-of-way and improved access to the...
...community for people commuting to jobs in Chicago. Palos Park's population (4,689 in 2000) contains...
...Southwest Highway and connected the area to Chicago. In the 1890s Palos Park became known as a...
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Belmont Cragin, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...brought settlers and a new-housing boom to the town, now named Cragin. Within the first two years...
...and warehouses covered 11 acres, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad built a station at...
...workers to the area, which was annexed into Chicago as part of Jefferson Township in 1889. The Belt...
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Gage Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...as farmers, and in 1865 the area was incorporated as the town of Lake , which...
...Illinois prairie that extended to the Southwest Side of Chicago. In the 1840s Germans settled there...
...was annexed to Chicago in 1889. At that time, there were but 30 wood frame cottages in Gage Park,...
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Illinois Tool Works Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Nichols, Illinois Tool doubled in size by buying other companies, including Signode, another old...
...Chicago-based fastener company. At...
...of the 1990s, Illinois Tool bought Premark, a Chicago-area company that made kitchen appliances and...
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The Press and Labor in the 1880s, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...of urban community best exemplified by the Chicago Daily News , which, by the 1890s, had become the...
...both a labor and a socialist press continued in Chicago, the balance between its readership and that...
...Monthly Magazine , essayist A. L. White described Chicago journalism in 1888 as being like the city...
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Crestwood, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...scattered farms and the beginnings of small market towns as railroad stops were established. In the...
...to work in the city. Typical of other suburban towns, Crestwood saw the growth of a rich variety of...
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Panamanians, Stephen R. Porter(
Authored Entry
) ...climates of the American South, preferring its accessibility to their Chicago families over Panama....
...Chicago's first Panamanians arrived shortly after World War II as brides of American servicemen...
...of Afro-Panamanians settled mostly on Chicago's South Side in the 1970s. While many Panamanians from...
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Bungalows, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...than 10 years old, many of them bungalows, ranging in cost from about $2,500 to $10,000. A form of...
...houses built throughout the United States. In Chicago, a few architects had begun to design and...
...and dining room. By 1930, one-fourth of all residential structures in metropolitan Chicago were less...
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Elmwood Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier(
Authored Entry
) ...tracks ran diagonally across the township along Old Army Trail or Grand Avenue, with a train station...
...eastern section of Leyden Township between Chicago and the Des Plaines River . Native Americans made...
...area, which was then known as Orison. The Chicago & Pacific Railroad laid tracks in Leyden Township...
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Nation of Islam, The, Aminah McCloud(
Authored Entry
) ...the organization toward Muslim orthodoxy, the old Nation splintered. Louis Farrakhan began reviving...
...headquarters to Temple No. 2 on the South Side of Chicago in the early 1930s. Elijah Muhammad and...
...founded the newspaper Mr. Muhammad Speaks in Chicago, which in a very short time became one of the...
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Morton Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...a single-track line, setting up a flag stop in town. The approximately one hundred residents relied...
...years later land along the North Branch of the Chicago River and the Skokie marshes was designated...
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Women in the Garment Industries, (
Authored Entry
) ...machines are steam powered and most of them are old and on their last legs. Often when you have to...
...War, the garment industry grew in downtown Chicago. Immigrant women often took this low-paying,...
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Tunnels, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...Chicago has been able to use tunnels to solve various infrastructure problems, thanks to an easily...
...alignment. This tunnel supplied water to the new Chicago Avenue pumping station and water tower. By...
...River Tunnels The low bridges crossing the Chicago River were frequently opened for the passage of...
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