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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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| 1663 |
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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| 1664 |
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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| 1665 |
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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| 1666 |
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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| 1667 |
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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| 1668 |
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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| 1669 |
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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| 1670 |
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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| 1671 |
Adler Planetarium, Bruce Stephenson(
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) ...he donated a Zeiss projector to the people of Chicago, with money to build an edifice to house it....
...as it does now, the best view possible of the Chicago skyline. Even before the planetarium opened...
...Webster. The Adler was operated by the Chicago Park District until 1968, when it incorporated as a...
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| 1672 |
Chico Carrasquel, Robert Morrissey(
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) ...well, if he wants me to talk English, I know how to say ‘Chicago White Sox. ’” I played shortstop,...
...he played third base, and all game, what he said was, “Chicago White...
...Sox, Chicago White Sox. ” And I said, “Hector, please say something different. ” He said, “Chico,...
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| 1673 |
Eight-Hour Movement, John B. Jentz(
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) ...When the Chicago labor movement emerged in 1864, the eight-hour day quickly became its central...
...longer hours. Trying to eliminate that option, Chicago labor called for a citywide strike that began...
...and unskilled workers of all nationalities. Chicago anarchists , trade unionists, and the Knights of...
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| 1674 |
Hoboes, Chad Heap(
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) ...Chicago became the “Hobo Capital of America” during the late nineteenth century, as migratory...
...white men, this mobile community established a “hobohemian” district in Chicago. Its “main stem”...
...a stretch of West Madison Street from the Chicago River to Halsted Street, where inexpensive...
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| 1675 |
Northwest Ordinance, David Buisseret(
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) ...the Illinois River, working up toward the site of Chicago. Meanwhile, the United Tribes had in 1816...
...corridor of land stretching southwestward from Chicago; between these Indian Boundary Lines a canal...
...link up with the Bounty Lands. By 1830, the site of Chicago itself had been surveyed, as the eastern...
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| 1676 |
Architecture: The Prairie School, H. Allen Brooks(
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) ...1919, was designing a brilliant series of small-town Midwest banks plus two stately homes and a few...
...residential architectural movement that began in Chicago yet rapidly spread across the Midwest....
...seeing Wright's celebrated exhibition at the Chicago Architectural Club in March 1902. The studio...
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| 1677 |
Northlake, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Cook County, 14 miles W of the Loop. Northlake, a town that attracted do-it-yourself carpenters, is...
...industry continued to draw new residents to the town during the 1940s. A vote to incorporate failed...
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| 1678 |
Six Corners, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...located one block north of the intersection. The town hall for Jefferson Township was built on the...
...and the area was annexed into the city of Chicago in 1889. As residential subdivisions extended to...
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| 1679 |
West Lawn, Douglas Knox(
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) ...9 miles SW of the Loop. West Lawn is west of Chicago Lawn , from which it is divided by the Grand...
...resumed with World War II . The nearby Chicago Municipal Airport ( Midway ) expanded. Industrial...
...automobile manufacturing after the war. In 1946 the Chicago Housing Authority constructed housing in...
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| 1680 |
McHenry County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...pushed out along Indian trails radiating away from Chicago in search of farm sites. To the north and...
...along well-established Indian trails from Chicago. County voters established a township system of...
...of railroads brought great changes. The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad blanketed the county. One...
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