| 1891 |
Mayor's Commission on Human Relations, Charles E. Clifton(
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) ...was established as public concern grew that Chicago could possibly be headed in the same direction....
...and race relations); Charles S. Johnson, coauthor of the Chicago Commission on Race Relations report...
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| 1892 |
Trinity Christian College, Jeffrey Webb(
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) ...College (Michigan). Richard Prince, principal of Chicago Christian High School, and Harold Dekker,...
...Back to God Hour” radio program, led the Chicago effort, and in 1959 the first trustees purchased...
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| 1893 |
Bozo's Circus, Beatrix Hoffman(
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) ...Chicago-based Bozo's Circus, featuring the antics of a clown with startling red hair, was the...
...to franchise the clown nationwide in 1956. Chicago's Bozo's Circus premiered on WGN-TV in 1961 with...
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| 1894 |
Associated Negro Press, Lawrence Daniel Hogan(
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) ...and international news agency, was established in Chicago in 1919 by Claude Barnett. A graduate of...
...Insurance, the American Negro Exposition in Chicago of 1940, and Tuskegee. With correspondents and...
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| 1895 |
Bughouse Square, Franklin Rosemont(
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) ...mental health facility) is the popular name of Chicago's Washington Square Park, where orators (“...
...free-speech center in the nation and a popular Chicago tourist attraction. In its heyday during the...
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| 1896 |
Encountering the Prairie, (
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) ...business opportunities. Morris Sleight came to Chicago from Hyde Park, New York, in the summer of...
...On July 9, 1834, Sleight wrote to his wife from Chicago about a trip west to Naperville: I am highly...
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| 1897 |
Oscar DePriest, Charles Branham(
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) ...in Florence, Alabama, to ex-slaves. He arrived in Chicago in 1889. DePriest worked as a painter and...
...first African American elected to city council in Chicago. He showed interest mainly in civil rights...
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| 1898 |
Andrew "Rube" Foster: A Baseball Legend, Steven A. Riess(
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) ...After an outstanding career, Foster moved to Chicago and became the Leland Giants' playing manager...
...fought but unsuccessful series against the Chicago Cubs . In 1910 Foster gained control of the...
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| 1899 |
Trumbull Park Homes Race Riots, 1953-1954, D. Bradford Hunt(
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) ...at 105th Street and Yates Avenue. Since 1937, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) had maintained an...
...South Deering leaders openly pressured Chicago politicians and the CHA to remove the Howards, while...
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| 1900 |
Robert Taylor Homes, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Community Area. Upon completion in 1962, Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes became the largest public...
...Robert Taylor, an African American activist and Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) board member who in...
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| 1901 |
NAES College, Robert Galler(
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) ...Services (NAES) College was established in Chicago in 1974 to promote the use of tribal knowledge,...
...leadership and development. In addition to its Chicago campus in the West Ridge neighborhood, NAES...
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| 1902 |
Ding Dong School, James R. Belpedio(
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) ...Frances Horwich, professor of education at Chicago's Roosevelt College, to develop an on-screen...
...would appeal to preschoolers and their parents. Chicago broadcasts began on WNBQ-TV in October 1952...
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| 1903 |
American Plan, Stuart Brandes(
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) ...Corporation branded union organizers in its Chicago mills as “German propagandists” and demanded...
...a convention of Midwestern employers meeting in Chicago formally designated the nonunion or “open...
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| 1904 |
Free Thought, Bruce C. Nelson(
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) ...was deist, not atheist. In nineteenth-century Chicago, freethinkers, many of them immigrants from...
...The Congregation of Bohemian Freethinkers of Chicago, Svobodna obec Chicagu, founded in 1870, became...
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| 1905 |
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), Gina M. Pérez(
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) ...institutions, and corporate headquarters in Chicago, New York, and Washington DC, which killed six...
...These members, as well as others arrested in Chicago in the early 1980s, were charged and found...
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| 1906 |
Graffiti, Mary Lackritz Gray(
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) ...also called spray can art , appeared in Chicago in the 1980s. It began, as in New York, with “tags”...
...Gude and “writer” Dzine, can be found in many Chicago neighborhoods, thus bringing graffiti art into...
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| 1907 |
Juvenile Courts, David S. Tanenhaus(
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) ...Located across the street from Hull House , Chicago's juvenile court symbolized the optimism of its...
...a generation, juvenile courts based on the Chicago model had been established in all the states...
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| 1908 |
Liberians, Tracy N. Poe(
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) ...in the United States, the Liberian community in Chicago consisted of a few scattered individuals who...
...the Organization of the Liberian Community, Chicago has become a destination for Liberians because...
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| 1909 |
Metra, David M. Young(
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) ...Metra, the commuter railroad division of Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority , was created...
...a 546-mile commuter railroad system in Chicago and the suburbs. Although the commuter railroad...
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| 1910 |
Ojibwa, Helen Hornbeck Tanner(
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) ...and northern Wisconsin began moving into the Chicago region in the 1760s as part of the tribal...
...Ste. Marie district, maintained a community at Chicago for several years. By 1810, the Ojibwa, known...
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