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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dick Tracy, Dick Locher(
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) ...strip, “Plainclothes Tracy,” to enthusiastic Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Patterson. Renamed “Dick...
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DuPage River, David M. Solzman(
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) ...one of the most rapidly developing areas in the Chicago region. This sprawling development tends to...
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Eastland, George W. Hilton(
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) ...for Michigan City , Indiana, capsized into the Chicago River on July 24, 1915, killing a reported...
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Federal Writers' Project, Carlo Rotella(
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) ...The Illinois Writers' Project, based in downtown Chicago, distinguished itself as one of the most...
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| 2115 |
Angel Guardian Orphanage, Paula F. Pfeffer(
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) ...the largest residential child care homes in Chicago. Initially, the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ...
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Gray Wolves, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...The 1890s Chicago City Council was notorious for corrupt political practices orchestrated by a...
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Humboldt Park, Max Grinnell(
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) ...Park began life as North Park in the 1860s on Chicago's Northwest Side as a tract of relatively flat...
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Institute of Design, Stephen Daiter(
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) ...The landmark Chicago institution consecutively known as the New Bauhaus (1937–1938), the School of...
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Jackson Park, David M. Solzman(
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) ...located south of 57th Street by Lake Michigan on Chicago's South Side , is the third largest of the...
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Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) v. Arlington Heights, F. Willis Caruso(
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) ...to build affordable open housing throughout the Chicago area and other parts of the country. In 1970...
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