| 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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| 1781 |
Illinois Institute of Technology, Wilbur Applebaum(
Authored Entry
) ...played a significant role in the shaping of Chicago's skyline. The Stuart School of Management and...
...acres about three miles south of the Loop . Chicago-Kent College of Law, the Institute of Design,...
...with industry and the business community of the Chicago area, and, beginning in 1936, added several...
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| 1782 |
International Amphitheater, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...the International Live Stock Exhibition when Chicago was hog butcher to the world, the amphitheater...
...and Halsted Streets, on the east side of the Chicago Union Stock Yard, four miles from the Loop ....
...convention halls; when construction finished, Chicago's reign as a convention capital began. Among...
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| 1783 |
Magnificent Mile, John W. Stamper(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's North Michigan Avenue, one of the city's most prestigious commercial and residential...
...proposed in Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, and constructed in the 1920s. The avenue replaced...
...Station, are among the oldest structures in Chicago. Buildings constructed on the avenue during the...
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| 1784 |
Newberry Library, Martha T. Briggs and Cynthia H. Peters(
Authored Entry
) ...the estate of Walter Loomis Newberry, an early Chicago pioneer involved in banking, shipping, real...
...W. Blatchford established the library in 1887 on Chicago's Near North Side and hired its first...
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| 1785 |
Operation PUSH, James Ralph(
Authored Entry
) ...movement . When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) targeted Chicago in 1965, Jesse...
...Jackson helped formally organize Chicago ministers to promote more employment opportunities for...
...it was the leading civil rights group in Chicago. In 1971, Jackson broke with SCLC, and Operation...
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| 1786 |
Field (Marshall) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the Target Corp. , it employed nearly 16,000 Chicago-area residents, who worked at Target discount...
...In 1856, the 21-year-old Marshall Field...
...moved to Chicago from Massachusetts. He immediately began working at Cooley, Wadsworth & Co. By the...
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| 1787 |
Robbins, IL, Andrew Wiese(
Authored Entry
) ...Robbins remained one of the few places in greater Chicago where African Americans with very limited...
...is the oldest majority-black suburb in the Chicago area and one of the oldest incorporated black...
...territory. Robbins was one of few places in the Chicago suburbs where African Americans could...
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| 1788 |
McDonald's Corp., (
Authored Entry
) ...a symbol of America around the world. In the Chicago area, the company employed about 6,000 people....
...Plaines; it was the first McDonald's in the Chicago area. The chain grew at an extraordinary rate:...
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| 1789 |
Rolling Meadows, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...began annexing land for future development. The town boomed during the 1950s and 1960s as businesses...
...a floor plan of his basic house in the Chicago Tribune. Although the response was positive,...
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| 1790 |
Vernon Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Day in 1994, linking the southeast corner of town to everything north and giving the community a new...
...once belonged to John F. Cuneo, a prominent Chicago businessman. The former Cuneo Estates continued...
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