| 1961 |
Eastern Rite Catholics, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...common to Eastern Orthodoxy. Most of the Chicago area's Eastern Rite Catholics are Ukrainians ,...
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| 1962 |
Stateway Gardens, Erik Gellman(
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) ...over the project's underground economy . In 2001 the Chicago Housing Authority began the process of...
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| 1963 |
Printer's Row, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Dearborn—features examples of the First Chicago School of Architecture , including the Duplicator...
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| 1964 |
Bootlegging, Christopher Thale(
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) ...turned so violent that gangs , alcohol, and crime became a permanent part of Chicago's reputation....
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| 1965 |
Crown Point, IN, Peggy Tuck Sinko(
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) ...Point was a popular elopement destination for Chicago-area couples because there was no waiting...
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| 1966 |
Little Italy, Max Grinnell(
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) ...Chicago's “Little Italy” developed in the Near West Side around Halsted and Taylor Streets near Jane...
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| 1967 |
Dance Halls, Lewis A. Erenberg(
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) ...arriving on the “L” to dance. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Dance halls have played central roles in Chicago's civic life. In the 1820s and 1830s, Mark...
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| 1968 |
Hines (Edward) Lumber Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...wholesale lumberyard was a 45-acre facility on Chicago's South Side; it also had several smaller...
...the company employed about 500 people around Chicago, sales neared $300 million. Hines went out of...
...he moved with his family from Buffalo to Chicago in 1865, when he was still a boy, Edward Hines...
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| 1969 |
Veluchamy Enterprises, (
Business Dictionary
) ...owned nearly a dozen direct marketing businesses in the Chicago area, and one each in New Jersey and...
...India. With 1,500 Chicago-area employees, 1,500 more worldwide, and over $200 million in...
...ues, this family-owned and -operated company was one of Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
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| 1970 |
Spiegel Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...with his family from Germany to the United States in 1848, when he was eight years old. In 1865,...
...Spiegel started a home furnishings store in Chicago. A 1903 merger with another furniture company...
...Spiegel employed about 5,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1982, Spiegel was acquired by Otto-...
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| 1971 |
Curtiss Candy Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the end of the century, the most popular of the old Curtiss brands were owned by Nestle, the Swiss...
...Founded in Chicago in 1916 by Otto Schnering, Curtiss Candy did just under $100,000 in sales during...
...candy industry. Control of the company left the Chicago area in 1964, when Curtiss was purchased by...
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| 1972 |
Jewel Cos., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in annual sales. In 1930, when the company had traded in its old horse-drawn vehicles for motorized...
...ones, it moved its headquarters from Chicago to suburban Barrington. Threatened by local ordinances...
...company started to open retail stores around Chicago. By 1936, it owned 100 stores, which together...
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| 1973 |
River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...using the trail and bridge took passengers from Chicago to Galena. In the 1840s the Spencer brothers...
...Park . In 1920 Volk Realty established the Chicago Home Gardens subdivision north of the Oak Park...
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| 1974 |
Welfare Capitalism, Stuart Brandes(
Authored Entry
) ...relations. While no American city became its hub, Chicago firms have presented prime examples of...
...as a profession and its linkage to the Chicago settlement house movement. Beeks's assignment was...
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| 1975 |
Woodridge, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...suburban development that took place outside Chicago after World War II. In less than 40 years,...
...and construction decreased travel times to and from Chicago and opened up new areas for development....
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| 1976 |
Home Building and Sanborn Insurance Atlases, Richard Harris(
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) ...as Samuel Gross did on Alta Vista Terrace in Chicago's Lake View Community Area, they left their...
...mark. Many Chicago areas were developed with a singular vision. Riverside was the province of the...
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| 1977 |
Clarendon Hills, IL, Tom Sterling(
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) ...Loop. Clarendon Hills, a commuter village along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad , roughly...
...as much as 70 feet above Lake Michigan. When the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad began service...
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| 1978 |
Congress of Industrial Organizations, Steve Rosswurm(
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) ...the CIO were the Memorial Day Massacre , when Chicago police officers attacked striking Republic...
...who accounted for 100,000 to 125,000 of Chicago-area CIO members, on average, throughout much of its...
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| 1979 |
Model Cities, D. Bradford Hunt(
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) ...delivery, and citizen participation. In Chicago, Model Cities generated significant controversy,...
...to existing city bureaucracies, including the Chicago Transit Authority , the Board of Health, the...
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| 1980 |
Mount Greenwood, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...1927 Mount Greenwood voted for annexation to Chicago, hoping for improvements such as sewers, water...
...farm in the city, which wasdeveloped as the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences. The...
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