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West Garfield Park, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...southwest to Lyons . Truck farmers going to Chicago and stagecoaches traveling west to Moreland (...
...Park took the Elgin Road (Lake Street). The West Chicago Park Commission established three West Side...
...Park course or the Hawthorne track. In 1892, the Chicago police raided the Garfield Park track three...
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| 1732 |
Hodgkins, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...Company opened a large limestone quarry. The town was named for Jefferson Hodgkins, president of the...
...others arrived in the 1890s to help build the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal . The quarry continued...
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| 1733 |
Pace, David M. Young(
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) ...into increasingly larger companies like West Towns Railway, National City Lines, and United Motor...
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| 1734 |
Washington Park, Robin F. Bachin(
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) ...pool. By the 1990s, Washington Park boasted some of the premier aquatics facilities in Chicago....
...and gathering spots for picnics. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the building that housed...
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| 1735 |
American Fur Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...most important economic institution in the tiny town. Several of the company's Chicago employees...
...1808 by John Jacob Astor, was the first big business enterprise to operate in Chicago. Between 1817,...
...when the company first sent traders to Chicago, and 1832, American Fur was the...
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| 1736 |
Burnett (Leo) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...As part of that firm, Leo Burnett USA continues its activities from offices in Chicago and New York....
...the 44-year-old Leo Burnett started his own firm in Chicago in 1935. His venture soon became one of...
...the Midwest, including a stint as a vice president at the Chicago ad firm of Erwin, Wasey & Co. ,...
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| 1737 |
Hilton Hotels Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...At the end of the 1990s, Hilton, based in California, still owned luxury hotels in downtown Chicago....
...Hotels Corp. , his company bought two large Chicago luxury properties: the Palmer House and the...
...became the Conrad Hilton). Together, the two Chicago hotels had about 5,300 rooms and employed 4,500...
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| 1738 |
Streets, One-Way, Christopher Miller(
Authored Entry
) ...maze of narrow, car-filled streets confronted by Chicago residents each night as they return home....
...One-way streets in Chicago took on citywide significance with the passage of the Uniform Vehicle...
...on left turns, one-way streets in downtown Chicago were an integral part of the city's response to a...
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| 1739 |
Burnside, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...11 miles S of the Loop. Burnside, the smallest of Chicago's community areas, is bounded entirely by...
...and Chatham . Only with the mapping of University of Chicago sociologists did the area once known as...
...of 95th Street on what is now the site of Chicago State University , did developer W. V. Jacobs...
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| 1740 |
Shoreline Erosion, Karen M. Rodriguez(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's entire 28-mile Lake Michigan shoreline is man-made. The original sand dune and swale...
...the harbor entrance were built at the mouth of the Chicago River , barriers have been constructed to...
...shoreline from erosion. Throughout the 1800s, Chicago's importance as a center of commerce required...
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| 1741 |
Indiana University Northwest, Roberta Wollons(
Authored Entry
) ...and Indiana University, which offered extension courses in Hammond , Gary , and East Chicago ....
...Instructors traveled from Bloomington and Chicago, and, by 1922, students could complete the...
...its extension work at the Calumet Center in East Chicago. Unwilling to allow Depression-hit Gary...
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| 1742 |
Graceland Cemetery, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
Authored Entry
) ...as a private, parklike resting place just north of Chicago's city limits. Now situated on 121 acres...
...transit , it holds the remains of many famous Chicago personalities. Graceland also showcases an...
...would contaminate nearby Lake Michigan , the Chicago City Council decreed that all graves be moved...
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| 1743 |
Cardinals, David M. Oshinsky(
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) ...Rams for eight players and a draft pick. In 1960 the franchise deserted Chicago for St. Louis....
...franchises in professional football history, the Chicago Cardinals originated on the city's South...
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| 1744 |
Pinstripe Patronage, Louis H. Masotti(
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) ...from the nineteenth century until the 1950s, and in Chicago until the 1980s. In a series of rulings...
...decrees the federal judiciary ruled that city of Chicago employees could not be fired or hired as...
...for electoral support at the polls. After Shakman, Chicago political leaders shifted the emphasis of...
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| 1745 |
Preston Bradley, Martin E. Marty(
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) ...early rejected the fundamentalism he learned at Chicago's Moody Bible Institute and, with it, all...
...the North Side's Peoples Church into a major Chicago institution until it numbered four thousand...
...listeners. The civic-minded pastor served on the Chicago Public Library board for a half century...
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| 1746 |
Emil Gustav Hirsch, Richard Sobel(
Authored Entry
) ...congregations in Baltimore and Louisville, he led the Chicago Sinai Congregation from 1880 to 1923...
...and built it into the largest in Chicago. By 1900, Hirsch was rabbi for life and was the highest...
...in 1891 and was the first University of Chicago professor of rabbinical philosophy and literature by...
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| 1747 |
Guineans, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...professionals, the majority of Guineans migrated to Chicago in the 1990s from New York. Political...
...moved to other American cities, including Chicago. Friends and family have followed, as immigrants...
...in 2002 estimated approximately 200 Guineans in Chicago. The Guinean community gathers for Muslim...
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| 1748 |
American Giants, Rob Ruck(
Authored Entry
) ...who, for four decades, were central to black Chicago, especially as the Great Migration swelled...
...its ranks. Chicago, in turn, was the center of black baseball during the 1920s and home to its most...
...were a source of pride and cohesion to black Chicago. After the 1952 season, in the wake of major...
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| 1749 |
Federal Art Project, Diane Dillon(
Authored Entry
) ...and research as well as art making into the FAP. In Chicago, Cahill's liberal notions met challenges...
...the project came under fire again when the Chicago Tribune pronounced much of the art “incompetent...
...motifs. ” The FAP's legacy endures in Chicago. Numerous works remain in schools and other public...
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| 1750 |
Fine Arts Building, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...to the atmosphere as well, among them the Chicago Woman's Club and the Illinois Equal Suffrage...
...1898, it immediately became the hub of Chicago's Arts and Crafts movement as well as a headquarters...
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