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Audy Home, Bernardine Dohrn(
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) ...per day, but JCC philanthropists persuaded the Chicago Board of Education to provide a teacher in...
...Nancy B. Jefferson School, operated by the Chicago Board of Education, teaches 500 detained children...
...the women of Hull House and the men of the Chicago Bar Association succeeded in passing legislation...
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Playboy, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...activities to southern California, while production of Playboy magazine remained in Chicago....
...activities. The first Playboy Club opened in Chicago in early 1960, with the last of the remaining...
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| 1703 |
Summit, IL, John D. Schroeder(
Authored Entry
) ...rail yards transferred meat products from the Chicago stockyards. In the 1950s, the canal was filled...
...Summit sits on the gentle rise separating the Chicago River from the Des Plaines . Various Indian...
...the original landscape can be found in the Chicago Portage National Historic Site, on Harlem Avenue...
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County Fairs, Marcia Lautanen-Raleigh and Charles P. Raleigh(
Authored Entry
) ...Fair, Lake Forest, July 1916. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...which published the Prairie Farmer from Chicago, drew members from counties throughout Northeastern...
...acquiring land for permanent fairgrounds. The Chicago Mechanics Institute (1837) held annual fairs...
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| 1705 |
Roger Ebert on Hoop Dreams, (
Authored Entry
) ...named William Gates and Arthur Agee, from Chicago's inner city, who are gifted basketball players...
...the Cabrini Green project, and Agee, who lives on Chicago's South Side, get up before dawn on cold...
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| 1706 |
Little Village, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...a point of entry for Latino immigrants to Chicago. A gateway on 26th Street proclaims “Bienvenidos a...
...hosts the largest annual Latino parade in Chicago, drawing hundreds of thousands of spectators each...
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Lake Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...an independent political unit separate from Chicago. More than 10,000 new residents moved to the...
...provide services to this burgeoning population, and the area was annexed to Chicago in 1889....
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Marengo, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Pleasant Grove, the village was settled along the Galena–Chicago Road after 1835 and prospered...
...with the coming of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in 1851. An important commercial center for...
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| 1709 |
Memorial Day Massacre, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...a picket line at the front of the mill on Chicago's Southeast Side. The protesting marchers,...
...surrounding community, halted when met by a line of Chicago police officers in a field north of the...
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| 1710 |
Burnham and Root, Commercial Architects, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...partnership. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37303) Illustration 2800...
...skyscraper." Photographer: J. W. Taylor Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38280) Illustration...
...walls. Photographer: Barnes-Crosby Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-19186) Illustration 6648...
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Harris Trust & Savings Bank, (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1883, 35-year-old Norman Wait Harris founded N. W. Harris & Co. , a small Chicago-based...
...when assets passed $4 billion, Harris employed about 3,500 people in the Chicago area. In 1984,...
...Harris ranked as the third-largest bank in Chicago, it was purchased by the Bank of Montreal. By the...
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Deer Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Lanes bowling alley. In the late 1990s, Deer Park Town Center was approved by village trustees over...
...farmers followed, and in 1854 the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad (Chicago & North Western Railway)...
...laid track from Chicago. When the railroad sought to buy land surrounding the station in hopes of...
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| 1713 |
Des Plaines, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and called it Des Plaines. In 1869 the town became Des Plaines by act of the state legislature. In...
...a network bringing commuters and visitors from Chicago to Des Plaines and beyond. The Des Plaines...
...Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad (later known as the Chicago & North Western Railway) came through Des...
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| 1714 |
Elmhurst, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...built a country house. His contributions to the town led residents to refer to him as “The Father of...
...local gathering place. In 1849 the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad arrived, and the community was...
...Hammerschmidt and Henry Assman founded Elmhurst-Chicago Stone Company near the village's western...
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| 1715 |
Lake Bluff, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...on the transportation corridor connecting Chicago to Waukegan and Milwaukee, first by stagecoach (...
...to development. Walter S. Gurnee , mayor of Chicago (1851–52) and speculator, foresaw this place as...
...civic leaders lobbied in opposition. The North Chicago post office was chosen instead. Citizens...
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| 1716 |
Hart, Schaffner & Marx, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and other retailers; its headquarters remained in Chicago, where it employed about 1,000 people....
...strikes in Chicago. Hannah Shapiro, an 18-year-old Russian-born woman working at one of the Hart...
...$630 million a year. In 1983, after buying its old Chicago rival Kuppenheimer Manufacturing Co. , a...
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| 1717 |
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Karen Mary Davalos(
Authored Entry
) ...their communities, goals the Museum pursues in Chicago. In 1994, the MFACM inaugurated Del Corazon:...
...and preserve for our people. ” Influenced by the Chicago Freedom Movement, Malcolm X's call for...
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Picnic Groves: Ogden's Grove, (
Authored Entry
) ...and blabbering ... and groups of young and old men and boys drinking beer ... Ha! The Germans like...
...are among the picnic groves that dotted the Chicago metropolitan area well into the twentieth...
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| 1719 |
Folklore of the Middle Ground, (
Authored Entry
) ...breed. They all had hustler's blood. And kept the old Sauganash in a hustler's uproar. They hustled...
...his complex essay exploring the psyche of Chicago. He began with a common romanticized folklore of...
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| 1720 |
American Planning Association, Ruth Eckdish Knack(
Authored Entry
) ...to the Loop , where it has occupied space in the old People's Gas Building at 122 South Michigan...
...associations on the campus of the University of Chicago in Hyde Park . The location owed much to the...
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