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Salvation Army, Jonathan H. Ebel(
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) ...At the close of the twentieth century, Chicago's Salvation Army maintained nearly two hundred...
...and Edwin Gay, the Salvation Army came to Chicago. Upon arrival, the small corps of Salvationists...
...volunteers provided valuable assistance to Chicago's needy during the panic of 1893 and the Great...
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Streeterville, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...court ruled Streeter's claims invalid. Some of Chicago's most expensive land and famous buildings,...
...Neighborhood in the Near North Side Community Area. Early maps of Chicago showed little but lake...
...immediately north of the Chicago River and east of Pine Street (Michigan Avenue) where Streeterville...
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Anarchists, Bruce C. Nelson(
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) ...leaders, anarchism could no longer claim to be a mass movement in Chicago and the United States....
...favor of voluntary association and cooperation. Chicago's anarchists were largely skilled, immigrant...
...1880s the IWPA published seven newspapers in Chicago, in German , Czech , Norwegian , and English....
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Merchandise Mart, Michael Paul Wakeford(
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) ...White, it still stands downtown along the Chicago River . Though increasingly servicing commercial...
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National Association of Negro Musicians, Adam Green(
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) ...the country, and continues to be headquartered in Chicago, with two chapters still active locally....
...of Negro Musicians (NANM), headquartered in Chicago, is dedicated to conserving concert music...
...Dunbar (Washington DC) and Wendell Phillips (Chicago), worked closely with the organization, while...
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South Lawndale, Christopher R. Reed(
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) ...units standing in 1990 were less than 20 years old. However, commercial revitalization has begun to...
...inmates, the Cook County Jail and the city of Chicago's House of Corrections add many nonHispanics...
...Technical Institute, part of the City Colleges of Chicago. By 2000, 91,071 people made their home in...
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Deerfield, IL, Thomas A. Auger(
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) ...1903, but in 1910 Deerfield was still a small town with a population of only 476. The completion of...
...area and used the nearby Des Plaines , Fox , and Chicago Rivers as a means of transportation. Jacob...
...as timber, venison, and wheat to the markets in Chicago as well as to bring supplies to the area. In...
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Lake County Discovery Museum, Ian McGiver(
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) ...particular interest are thousands of views of towns and cities across the United States and in more...
...Established by German immigrant Curt Teich, the Chicago-based Curt Teich & Co. operated from 1898...
...World Wars, Teich's Irving Park Road plant on Chicago's North Side sometimes printed several million...
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Property Assessment, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...divorce between politics and property assessment in Chicago, and taxpayers remained disgruntled and...
...Throughout Chicago's history taxpayers and good-government groups have complained about inequitable...
...were Catharine Goggin and Margaret Haley of the Chicago Teachers Federation , who claimed that the...
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Wilmette, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
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) ...residents has remained among the highest in the Chicago area throughout the twentieth century. In...
...is named for Antoine Ouilmette, a French-Canadian fur trader who settled in Chicago in 1790 on the...
...north bank of the Chicago River . Ouilmetteand his part- Potawatomi wife, Archange Chevallier, moved...
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Glenview, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...6,142. In 1967 the University of Illinois at Chicago purchased a five-acre parcel west of Greenwood...
...of institutions like the Smithsonian and the Chicago Academy of Sciences . The Kennicotts' 82-acre...
...originally called South Northfield. In 1872 the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad laid a single track to...
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Haymarket and May Day, Christopher Thale(
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) ...Haymarket. Toppled by student radicals in 1969 and 1970, it was moved to the Chicago Police Academy....
...On May 1, 1886, Chicago unionists, reformers, socialists, anarchists , and ordinary workers combined...
...three with shootings. i1769 Workers throughout Chicago and its suburbs took part in the nationwide...
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Auburn Gresham, Eileen M. McMahon(
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) ...upon which Auburn Gresham was built was located in the southeast section of the Town of Lake that...
...was annexed into Chicago in 1889. Earlysettlers were German and Dutch truck farmers. When railroad...
...no overt Protestant -Catholic hostility here as in other Chicago neighborhoods, probably because few...
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Lansing, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...named postmaster and John Lansing platted the town, which was incorporated in 1893. Agriculture and...
...as large numbers of white ethnics moved in from Chicago. During the 1950s Lansing experienced its...
...of the Calumet and Glenwood stages of Lake Chicago. North and south of this ridge are deposits of...
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Palos Heights, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...than farming was a blacksmith shop on 76th Avenue. Near the northwest corner of town, train tracks...
...Hills. Photographer: Robert C. Long. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 The last remaining...
...ran to Chicago and Orland Park, although the nearest train station was in the Palos Park area. It...
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Summer Theater, Andrea Telli(
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) ...The typical theater season in Chicago lasts from mid-September until late July, when theater...
...theater groups from around the world to Chicago. Bailiwick Repertory's annual Pride Performance...
...regular run. Other theater companies in the Chicago area present productions exclusively in the...
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Taxis, Liveries, and Limousines, Joshua M. Lupkin(
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) ...shortly after the founding of the city of Chicago. As early as 1853, the Parmelee Transportation...
...short-lived electric cab venture opened on Chicago's streets in 1899 with 100 vehicles. Entrepreneur...
...in half, and started the Yellow Cab Company of Chicago in 1915. Competitor Morris Markin started the...
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Mary Thompson Hospital, Eve Fine(
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) ...The Chicago Hospital for Women and Children was founded in 1865 to provide medical care to indigent...
...in Boston in 1863. Her first patients in Chicago were the wives, widows, and children of Union...
...to gain a hospital position. Neither of Chicago's two hospitals permitted women to serve on their...
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Young Women's Christian Association, Anne Meis Knupfer(
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) ...expensive than many boardinghouses . Although the Chicago YWCAs emphasized world fellowship in the...
...the Young Women's Christian Association of Chicago to promote the religious, moral, and intellectual...
...Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, accommodations at Chicago's four YWCA residencies varied tremendously by...
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Eric R. Smith(
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) ...dissatisfied with their treatment by the Chicago-based Pullman Company, sought the assistance of A....
...Milton P. Webster to direct its organizing in Chicago, home to the largest number of Pullman's...
...to the union's efforts. More than half of Chicago's “Inside Committee” were women. As a black...
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