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Sister Carrie, John Mack Faragher(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1900, tells the story of young Carrie Meeber, who comes to Chicago from rural Wisconsin. The...
...book paints a rich portrait of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Carrie finds work in a shoe factory and...
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| 1762 |
Saint Xavier University, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...In 1846, Chicago's first Roman Catholic bishop invited the order of the Sisters of Mercy, who had...
...years before, to open a grade school for girls in Chicago. The result, Saint Xavier, was granted an...
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| 1763 |
Benedictine University, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...Slovak immigrants who had begun settling in Chicago at midcentury. They named their new parish St....
...purchased by the monks 30 miles west of Chicago—in 1901, the school began to extend its reach beyond...
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| 1764 |
Concordia University, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...Americans from around the Midwest assembled in Chicago and formed the Lutheran Church Missouri...
...students to a 40-acre campus in River Forest , a tree-lined suburb 10 miles west of Chicago....
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| 1765 |
Marquette Park, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...Residents of Chicago Lawn often refer to their neighborhood as Marquette Park, after the 300-acre...
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| 1766 |
Alpha Suffrage Club, Wanda A. Hendricks(
Authored Entry
) ...of 1913 offered African American women in Chicago the opportunity to merge their social welfare...
...pivotal role in the 1915 election of the first African American alderman in Chicago, Oscar DePriest....
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| 1767 |
Brookfield Zoo (Chicago Zoological Park), Dennis A. Meritt, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...District of Cook County and managed by the Chicago Zoological Society. With an animal collection...
...a reality and, in 1921, incorporated the Chicago Zoological Society. The following year, building...
...the walrus became a household name as hundreds of Chicago-area residents came to see her antics. The...
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| 1768 |
Winthrop Harbor, IL, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...been small compared to its neighboring Lake County towns. The village did experience an increase in...
...Winthrop Harbor in Zion, Waukegan , and North Chicago . In 1989, the Illinois Department of Natural...
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| 1769 |
Wood Dale, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...to Wood Dale to distinguish it from another Illinois town of the same name. Travel into the area was...
...these lands for their own farms. When the Chicago & Pacific Railroad came through the area in 1873,...
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| 1770 |
Fox River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...first international ski-jumping contest. The town of Fox River Grove incorporated in 1919 and in the...
...Politicians such as Mayor Anton Cermak came from Chicago just to eat at Cernocky's restaurant. In...
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| 1771 |
Lake Forest, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Loop. Lake Forest, a favorite retreat of Chicago's upper class, is tied to...
...the network of suburbs north of Chicago along Lake Michigan regarded as the North Shore. Earliest...
...for farming. The area was initially beyond Chicago's reach, but starting in 1855 railroads enabled...
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| 1772 |
East Garfield Park, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Loop. East Garfield Park was annexed to Chicago in 1869, but a quarter century elapsed before...
...Technical High School, a vocational school for Chicago's girls, moved from the South Side to 3545...
...East Garfield Park. Finally, a cluster of Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) projects—Harrison Courts,...
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| 1773 |
The Expanding City, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Special Feature)
) ...Planning Before the Plan Interpretive Digital Essay : The Plan of Chicago...
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| 1774 |
Blockbusting, Arnold R. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...by the maverick blockbusters. The net result was a gold-rush effect that destabilized residential...
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| 1775 |
Illinois Central Railroad (Corporate History), (
Business Dictionary
) ...of the 1960s, when it retired the last of its old steam locomotives, the IC had annual revenues of...
...of the state, from Chicago and other northern towns all the way to the southern tip of Illinois, at...
...it sold much of this track to concentrate the Chicago–New Orleans corridor, its primary route since...
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| 1776 |
Street Grades, Raising, Robin Einhorn(
Authored Entry
) ...and loam soil that absorbed little moisture, Chicago lacked natural means of drainage. It also was...
...steep enough to drain their contents into the Chicago River without raising the streets. The first...
...sleeping car fame, made his initial reputation in Chicago raising buildings. i3292 View of block on...
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| 1777 |
Catholic Charities, Ellen Skerrett(
Authored Entry
) ...efforts in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago for relief work among the poor. It has grown...
...and economic backgrounds. ” Since the 1840s, Chicago's Roman Catholics had sustained a multitude of...
...in obtaining financial assistance through the Chicago Relief Administration. Maternal and child care...
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| 1778 |
Crerar Library, John, Jane Aikin(
Authored Entry
) ...opened April 1, 1897. John Crerar came to Chicago from his native New York City in 1862 to establish...
...resources attracted a large clientele from Chicago-area business and industry. Its equally...
...the collection with the University of Chicago's science collection in a new building opened in 1984....
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| 1779 |
Great Lakes System, Jerry L. Foust(
Authored Entry
) ...to rivers of the great Mississippi River basin, Chicago is the world’s largest metropolis to sit...
...resource region of major significance for Chicago’s strategic position and historic growth. Rich...
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| 1780 |
Homelessness and Shelters, Robert Slayton(
Authored Entry
) ...There have always been people in Chicago who could not find housing on a given night, going back to...
...of the nineteenth century, a product of both Chicago's massive industrial growth and its position as...
...the nation's railroad hub. Chicago became the central way station for thousands of largely native-...
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