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Chicago Defender, Wallace Best(
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) ...Chicago Defender...
...Southerners to northern cities. “I bought a Chicago Defender and after reading it and seeing the...
...Sengstacke Abbott produced the first issue of the Chicago Defender on May 6, 1905. What began as a...
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Chicago Lawn, Eileen M. McMahon(
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) ...Chicago Lawn...
...establishing a network of institutions that earned their community the label of Lithuanian Gold...
...Coast. They formed some of the richest savings and loans in the city. The Lithuanian Sisters of St....
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Mapping Chicago, Robert W. Karrow, Jr.(
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) ...Mapping Chicago...
...surveyed and drew the first plat for the proposed town of Chicago. Thompson's original manuscript...
...1877 with Charles Rascher's Fire Insurance Map of Chicago. The Sanborn-Perris Map Company issued its...
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Daley's Chicago, Roger Biles(
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) ...Daley's Chicago...
...held in check, resulting in the election of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983....
...An Irish Catholic native of Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, Richard J. Daley attended parochial...
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Chicago Tribune, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...Chicago Tribune...
...giant that employed close to six thousand Chicago-area residents, the future of traditional print...
...the Tribune, now available in electronic form, continued to be Chicago's leading newspaper....
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Saul Bellow on Chicago, (
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) ...Saul Bellow on Chicago...
...spread orange light over the dark shapes of the town, over the branches of the river and the black...
...Adventures of Augie March (1949): I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at...
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Chicago School of Economics, Deirdre N. McCloskey(
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) ...Chicago School of Economics...
...antisocialist approach of the University of Chicago Department of Economics, typified by Milton...
...Friedman, came to be known as the Chicago School of Economics. Like other Chicago schools it...
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Chicago School of Sociology, Henry Yu(
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) ...Chicago School of Sociology...
...When the University of Chicago was founded in 1892, it established the nation's first department of...
...across the country. During its early history, Chicago sociology was connected with progressive...
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Bob Fosse: His Chicago Beginnings, Richard Christiansen(
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Chicago Teachers Federation, Kate Rousmaniere(
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) ...Chicago Teachers Federation...
...under the Loeb rule, which prohibited Chicago teachers from membership in any organization...
...and it developed great political clout in Chicago and in the larger educational community. Haley's...
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Chicago Opera Ballet, Anthea Kraut(
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) ...Chicago Opera Ballet...
...century, no permanent affiliation existed between Chicago opera and a local ballet company....
...of companies appeared in conjunction with Chicago opera in the first half of the twentieth century,...
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Chicago Political Equality League, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...Chicago Political Equality League...
...to vote. In 1912, it formed alliances with the Chicago Women's Trade Union League and middle-class...
...put a municipal suffrage advisory ballot before Chicago male voters. This referendum failed, but the...
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Chicago Botanic Garden, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...Chicago Botanic Garden...
...Garden opened to the public later that year. Its choice of exhibits makes the Chicago Botanic Garden...
...an archetypal Chicago institution: while preserving a peculiarly Midwestern flavor, it has also...
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Chicago City Ballet, Nancy G. Moore(
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) ...Chicago City Ballet...
...Maria. ” Paschen withdrew his support in October, and the Chicago City Ballet was forced to disband....
...of the New York City Ballet, founded the Chicago City Ballet in 1974 in order to provide the city...
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Chicago Chinese News, Mary Ting Yi Lui(
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) ...Chicago Chinese News...
...passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, however, Chicago Chinese News serves as an excellent example of...
...Chicago Chinese News began publishing in 1991 under the name Chicago Chinese Times. In 1998, the...
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mark Clague(
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) ...Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
...Music Student Orchestra (now the Civic Orchestra of Chicago), a unique training ensemble intended to...
...overcome the city's rough-hewn image and place Chicago onto the world's cultural stage. After over...
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Chicago Hebrew Institute, Linda J. Borish(
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) ...Chicago Hebrew Institute...
...Institute served as a major community center for Chicago Jewry and gained national recognition with...
...Organized in 1903 on the Near West Side of Chicago to promote the moral, physical, religious, and...
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Chicago State University, Magne B. Olson(
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) ...Chicago State University...
...more than 9,000 students, mostly from the city of Chicago. African Americans have become the largest...
...it could no longer finance the school, the Chicago Board of Education took over what was renamed the...
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Chicago Community Trust, Jane Preston(
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) ...Chicago Community Trust...
...reaching over $1 billion in 2000, placing the Chicago Community Trust as the fourth largest among...
...The Chicago Community Trust has played a central role in encouraging and managing philanthropy in...
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Chicago Jazz Ensemble, Christopher Popa(
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) ...Chicago Jazz Ensemble...
...In 1965, William Russo organized the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, performing to critical acclaim for three...
...quartercentury. Under auspices of Columbia College Chicago , Russo successfully revived the group in...
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