| 1871 |
Huntley, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...NW of the Loop. Platted beside the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in 1851 by Thomas Huntley and...
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| 1872 |
Oakwood Hills, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...is a bedroom community for local workers and Chicago commuters. The 2000 population was 2,194....
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| 1873 |
Polonia, Wallace Best(
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) ...Americans. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Chicago's Polonia has been centered on the city's...
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| 1874 |
Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens, Dennis A. Meritt, Jr.(
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) ...Society assumed the zoo's management from the Chicago Park District , which remains the owner, and...
...the development of a formal animal collection in Chicago's lakefront park began. The zoo's first...
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| 1875 |
Zenith Radio Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Karl Hassel and Ralph H. G. Mathews founded Chicago Radio Laboratory in 1919 as a small manufacturer...
...came from the call letters of their small Chicago radio station, 9ZN. In 1923, Hassel, Mathews, and...
...manufacturing, Zenith still employed about 5,000 Chicago-area workers by 1990. Losses mounted,...
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| 1876 |
People's Gas Light & Coke Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Energy grossed more than $2 billion and had employed over 3,000 workers in the Chicago area....
...Chicago's first gas...
...company, the Chicago Gas Light & Coke Co. , was organized in 1849 and began to sell gas (used for...
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| 1877 |
Provident Hospital, Paul A. Buelow(
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) ...a well-known black surgeon and graduate of Chicago Medical College, organized Provident Hospital and...
...Dearborn in the Douglas Community Area on Chicago's near south side . His aim was to provide this...
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| 1878 |
Pullman Strike, Carl Smith(
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) ...Pullman cars. The boycott, although centered in Chicago, crippled railroad traffic nationwide, until...
...and then by dispatching regular soldiers to Chicago and elsewhere. The soldiers joined with local...
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| 1879 |
Balaban & Katz, Geoffrey Klingsporn(
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) ...of unprecedented size and splendor across the Chicago region, enjoyed a monopoly from Minneapolis to...
...1918), Tivoli (1921), Uptown (1925), and Chicago (1921)—all but one were located in outlying areas...
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| 1880 |
Michael Reese Hospital, Wallace Best(
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) ...many institutions destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was the hospital on LaSalle street (...
...named in his honor and that it serve all of Chicago without regard to race, creed, or nationality....
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| 1881 |
Renaissance Society, Lisa Meyerowitz(
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) ...The Renaissance Society, a noncollecting museum founded in 1915 at the University of Chicago ,...
...is Chicago's oldest contemporary art museum. Named for the spirit of rebirth, the society sought to...
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| 1882 |
Shakman Decrees, Roger R. Fross(
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) ...1969, one man made his stand against the Chicago political machine . Michael Shakman, an independent...
...against one of the most enduring traditions in Chicago's politics : political patronage , or the...
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| 1883 |
Soap Operas, Rich Samuels(
Authored Entry
) ...Broadcasting's most enduring genre emerged in Chicago's radio studios in the early 1930s, the...
...War II did the soaps begin their irreversible exodus from the Chicago studios where they were born....
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| 1884 |
Street Musicians, Don McLeese(
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) ...color that enhances the culture. Historically, Chicago has not been one of them. Instead, police and...
...expansion of the University of Illinois at Chicago claimed much of the prime territory. From Muddy...
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| 1885 |
Taylorism, Keith Andrew Mann(
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) ...the twentieth century left an indelible mark on Chicago's industrial landscape. Taylorist principles...
...that cattle entered the killing floor in the Chicago stockyards in one piece and emerged after...
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| 1886 |
Tornadoes, Thomas G. Bobula(
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) ...most evil wind, have been no strangers to the Chicago area. Over the last one hundred years, the...
...However, tornadoes can occur anywhere in the Chicago area. The downtown area and the lakefront are...
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| 1887 |
Towertown, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...North Side Community Area. Towertown was Chicago's bohemia in the early twentieth century. Lacking...
...built Tree Studios to tempt artists to stay in Chicago after the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition ....
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| 1888 |
Waldheim Cemetery, William J. Adelman(
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) ...located approximately 10 miles west of downtown Chicago on both sides of the Des Plaines River . The...
...only German nondenominational cemetery in the Chicago area, Waldheim did not discriminate based on...
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| 1889 |
Ward System, Douglas Knox(
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) ...Chicago has been divided into municipal legislative districts called wards since its first municipal...
...the underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities. Chicago is unusual in having maintained its...
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| 1890 |
Black Sox Scandal, Robin F. Bachin(
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) ...On October 1, 1919, the Chicago White Sox , whom many observers believed to be one of the best...
...out why. Several team members testified in a Chicago courtroom that they had intentionally thrown...
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