| 1811 |
Free Speech, Franklin Rosemont(
Authored Entry
) ...Open (or free-speech) forums flourished in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century,...
...figure prominently in fiction by prominent Chicago's authors. Writers as diverse as Carl Sandburg,...
...has obscured their educational significance. Chicago writers and public intellectuals have affirmed,...
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| 1812 |
Grayslake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Gray followed a difficult Indian trail from Chicago and settled at the southeast shore of an unnamed...
...Central Railroad began building a line from Chicago to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in the early 1880s. A...
...gave village residents additional access to Chicago's products and amenities. Grayslake grew slowly,...
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| 1813 |
Hickory Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...quarter of Palos Township, southwestof Chicago. Approximately half of the township is forest...
...Slough and trails through the area to the Chicago portages . Settlers from eastern states arrived as...
...workers employed in defense industries in the Chicago region. In 1951, the desire on the part of...
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| 1814 |
Hillside, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
Authored Entry
) ...of a network of expressways serving the Chicago region. Interstate 290 cuts throughthe village from...
...crushed stone for road-building throughout the Chicago region. Against the wishes of most village...
...Central Railroad and from a spur of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin interurban that followed 12th...
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| 1815 |
Lyric Opera, John von Rhein(
Authored Entry
) ...reorganized company—presented seasons at Chicago's Auditorium Theater and the Civic Opera House. All...
...father, the three formed the Lyric Theatre of Chicago in 1952. Their plan was to restore the city to...
...took sole command of a rechristened Lyric Opera of Chicago, the company had been nicknamed “La Scala...
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| 1816 |
Avalon Park, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...isolation made it a site for waste disposal . The borders of the community are South Chicago Avenue...
...and the Chicago Skyway to the northeast, 87th Street on the southern edge, and the Illinois Central...
...also made Avalon Park their home. Annexation to Chicago in 1889, the World's Columbian Exposition of...
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| 1817 |
Burnham & Root, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and the Masonic Temple, which became Chicago's first 20-story building when it was completed in...
...his associates continued to design many notable Chicago buildings, including the Reliance Building;...
...the Field Museum, completed in 1920. Outside Chicago, major works of the Burnham firm included the...
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| 1818 |
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, (
Business Dictionary
) ...late 1980s, when it employed about 700 people in Chicago, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was the city's...
...architecture firm. At the end of the 1990s, Chicago-area projects accounted for about one-third of...
...local workforce, it maintained offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Los...
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| 1819 |
Building Trades and Workers, Richard Schneirov(
Authored Entry
) ...changes were well underway by midcentury, when Chicago experienced its greatest growth. With the...
...were often aided by a hands-off approach from Chicago police . In 1890–91, during construction of...
...for contractors. Under intense pressure from Chicago business, Democratic mayor Carter Harrison II...
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| 1820 |
Whittman-Hart Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...and consulting firm in 1984 when he was 22 years old. In 1990 his partner William Merchantz departed...
...2003, Robert Bernard reacquired some of his old company's liquidated units and launched a slimmed-...
...Bernard, a son of an electrician who worked for Chicago's Inland Steel Co. , founded this computer...
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| 1821 |
Nuveen (John) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...with his family in 1866, when he was two years old. After working for several of the city's merchant...
...in the marketing of municipal bonds issued by towns around the Midwest, as well as in Puerto Rico....
...Companies of Minnesota. During the 1990s, as a Chicago-based division of St. Paul, Nuveen began to...
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| 1822 |
Pinkerton National Detective Agency, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Pinkerton emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1842, when he was 23 years old; he soon...
...settled in the town of Dundee, northwest of Chicago. By the beginning of the 1850s, Pinkerton and a...
...70 branch offices (including central offices in Chicago and New York), about $75 million in annual...
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| 1823 |
Crate & Barrel, (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Segals began with a small store in the city's Old...
...Town neighborhood; they began to issue catalogs in 1967. Between 1968 and 1975, they added new...
...retail chain was created in 1962 by two young Chicago residents, Gordon and Carole Segal....
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| 1824 |
Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...with the company. Included among the many landmark Chicago buildings for which Northwestern supplied...
...moldings were the Civic Opera House, the Chicago Theater, the Wrigley Building, and the Randolph...
...Tower. Northwestern's operations in Chicago declined alongside the construction industry during...
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| 1825 |
Ben Hecht: Lake Thoughts, (
Authored Entry
) ...In 1921, the Chicago Daily News began running a column by Ben Hecht entitled “One Thousand and...
...Afternoons. ” Ruminating on life in general and on Chicago more particularly, Hecht considered the...
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| 1826 |
Ida B. Wells: African Americans at the World's Columbian Exposition, (
Authored Entry
) ...a fierce opponent of lynching. She came to Chicago in 1893 to protest the exclusion of African...
...died in 1895, but Wells moved permanently to Chicago and became involved in a wide range of civic...
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| 1827 |
Oswego, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...Aurora owing to the latter's position on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad . Oswego is home...
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| 1828 |
Council on Fine Arts, Steve Scott(
Authored Entry
) ...of the arts, the 15-member, mayor-appointed Chicago Council on Fine Arts (CCFA) began work in...
...arts groups. In 1984, the council (renamed the Chicago Office of Fine Arts) was combined with the...
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| 1829 |
Elburn, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...the Loop. Named Blackberry Station when the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad built through the area...
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| 1830 |
Naper Settlement, Harold R. Wilde(
Authored Entry
) ...outdoor historic village in metropolitan Chicago, began in 1969 as a cooperative effort between the...
...and print shops, the first hotel built west of Chicago, and the Martin Mitchell house (1883), deeded...
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