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Indiana University Northwest, Roberta Wollons(
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) ...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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Graceland Cemetery, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
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) ...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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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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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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Emil Gustav Hirsch, Richard Sobel(
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) ...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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Guineans, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...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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American Giants, Rob Ruck(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Fine Arts Building, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...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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Metropolitan Community Church, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...The Good Shepherd Parish MCC, chartered in Chicago in 1970, was the first MCC congregation outside...
...more than 300 churches in 19 countries. The Chicago congregation's initial meetings took place in...
...Church of Christ. The first MCC parish in Chicago has in turn nurtured others in the area, and MCC...
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Nommo, Ronne Hartfield(
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) ...black aesthetic. Nearly every 1960s black Chicago poet also wrote prose, and felt compelled to...
...bringing major figures like Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) to Chicago as advisors. The Reagan years saw...
...collectives throughout the United States, and Chicago was no exception, as Nommo closed its doors in...
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| 1753 |
Alsip, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...from approximately 50 to 60 feet above the old lake bed plain to heights of over 650 feet. West of...
...to visitors to the city of Blue Island or the Chicago neighborhood of Beverly immediately to the...
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| 1754 |
Palos Hills, IL, William T. Corcoran(
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) ...on the eastern side of the Valparaiso Moraine. The old Sauganash Swamp once covered the remainder of...
...the timber supply, sending much of it to Chicago via the canal. The first Roman Catholic community,...
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| 1755 |
Bridgeport, Dominic A. Pacyga(
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) ...Canal commissioners probably named the new town, which included the northern terminus of the canal,...
...owned a farm along the South Branch of the Chicago River . In April 1812 Indians raided Lee's farm...
...Richard M. Daley, became the fifth mayor of Chicago born in Bridgeport. Bridgeport once stood as a...
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Prairie Avenue, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
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) ...purchased by a group of architects called the Chicago School of Architecture Foundation. The home is...
...Prairie Avenue was an exclusive address for Chicago's elite in the late nineteenth century. This...
...did not require its residents to cross the Chicago River . The first large home on the upper portion...
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Soldier Field, Steven A. Riess(
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) ...seat edifice was completed inside (and rising above) the old colonnades at a cost of $632 million....
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WBBM, Douglas Gomery(
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) ...radio (and later television) station has long been Chicago's link to CBS. WBBM-AM went on the air in...
...WBBM-TV, and ABC took over WLS-TV. WBBM's McClurg Court studios have long been a Chicago fixture....
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WCFL, Nathan Godfried(
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) ...surviving labor radio station. Created by the Chicago Federation of Labor in 1926, WCFL initially...
...60s and, from 1966 to 1976, challenged WLS for Chicago's rock music title. The labor federation sold...
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Bungalow Belt, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...politics , “bungalow belt” is a quintessential Chicago term, referring generally to the bungalow-...
...a collar just inside the limits of the city of Chicago. A variety of racial and ethnic groups have...
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