| 2091 |
Prairie Farmer, Susan Sessions Rugh(
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) ...of Illinois agriculture . Headquartered in Chicago, the paper not only promoted scientific farming...
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| 2092 |
Roadhouses, Charles A. Sengstock, Jr.(
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) ...Prohibition (1920–1933) in rural areas near Chicago, where law enforcement often was inadequate. By...
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| 2093 |
Seiches, Thomas G. Bobula(
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) ...or anyone near the water. Eight people drowned in Chicago's most tragic seiche, on June 26, 1954; a...
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| 2094 |
All-American Girls Baseball League, Cathleen D. Cahill(
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) ...was founded in 1943 by the owner of the Chicago Cubs , Philip K. Wrigley, to retain baseball's fans...
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| 2095 |
Skyway, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...The Chicago (originally Calumet) Skyway is a 7.8-mile long Expressway connection between the Dan...
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| 2096 |
Stroll, The, Shane White(
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) ...and 1920s, thanks to the publicity efforts of the Chicago Defender , it was the best-known street in...
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| 2097 |
Tongs, Charlotte Brooks(
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) ...place groups. At the turn of the century, Chicago's On Leong Tong helped create the Chinatown at...
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| 2098 |
Woman's World's Fair, 1925, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...was the idea of Helen Bennett, the manager of the Chicago Collegiate Bureau of Occupations, and Ruth...
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| 2099 |
World's Parliament of Religions, Martin E. Marty(
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) ...programs that helped bring people to Chicago, just as ambitious religionists took advantage of the...
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| 2100 |
Trinity International University, Jeffrey Webb(
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) ...the model typified by Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Each offered short-term missionary training...
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| 2101 |
Governors State University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...student body in 2000. Located 30 miles south of Chicago in University Park , the school's 750-acre...
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| 2102 |
North Central College, Margaret L. Frank(
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) ...two-story frame house, 35 miles southwest of Chicago. Its founders were the Evangelical Association...
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| 2103 |
Columbia College, Christopher Thale(
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) ...open enrollment, holding classes throughout Chicago to connect learning with the city's communities....
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| 2104 |
National-Louis University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...informal lessons grew into an institution: the Chicago Kindergarten College, as it was once known....
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| 2105 |
Catholic Youth Organization, Gerald R. Gems(
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) ...Holy Name Societies in parishes throughout the Chicago Archdiocese. Centralized in a downtown office...
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| 2106 |
John Fitzpatrick and the CFL, Rick Halpern(
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) ...in the struggle to oust gangsters from the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL), gaining support from...
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| 2107 |
Mary Livermore and the U.S. Sanitary Commission, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...and suffragist in nineteenth-century Chicago. As a reporter for the Northwestern Christian Advocate,...
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| 2108 |
John "Mushmouth" Johnson and the Policy Racket, Douglas Knox(
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) ...education before he took a job as a porter in a Chicago gambling house in the 1880s. Though not a...
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| 2109 |
Clubs, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...and skills they needed to cope with life in Chicago and the United States. As immigration slowed,...
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| 2110 |
Deep Tunnel, David L. Schein(
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) ...Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's answer to water pollution and sewer backup problems...
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