| 2241 |
The River Breaks the Grid, (
Historical Source
) ...inflexible. In some place nature breaks through. The Chicago River, one of the major factors...
...the geography, topography, and existence of Chicago, cuts irregularly through the rectilinear grid...
...the surveyors. Act of Incorporation for the City of Chicago, 1837 Creator: State of Illinois Source:...
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| 2242 |
Institutions of Memory, Page 2, (
Historical Source
) ...Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward History Fair Photographer: Lisa Oppenheim Source: Chicago Metro History...
...Education Center The Chicago Metro History Education Center, founded in 1978,...
...an annual History Fair competition in which Chicago-area students in grades 6 through 12 develop...
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| 2243 |
Houseboat of Elma Lockwood Streeter, 1922, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...died. The boat is moored adjacent to the Ogden Slip, just north of the mouth of the Chicago River....
...most notorious families to live on a ship at Chicago. In 1886, Streeter's small ship ran aground on...
Date Created: 1922,
Date Depicted: 1922
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| 2244 |
Advertisement for 69 CR180, 1971, Creator: Artists Guild of Chicago, Franklin McMahon(
Historical Source
) ...a film by Marv Gold about the 1969 Chicago Conspiracy Trial. McMahon's renderings captured the drama...
...Creator: Artists Guild of Chicago, Franklin McMahon...
...of Frank McMahon's courtroom drawings, the Artists Guild of Chicago advertised the release of...
Date Created: 1971,
Date Depicted: 1969
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| 2245 |
Florence Scala at Hull House, (
Historical Source
) ...its location on South Halsted Street. Creator: WGN News Institution: Chicago Historical Society The...
...Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 2246 |
The Business of Religion, (
Historical Source
) ...of Religion David Swing on Christianity in Chicago, 1873 Author: David Swing Source: Newberry...
...error, Swing contributed an essay on "the Chicago of the Christian" to a magazine that presented a...
...city's religious expression. David Swing, "The Chicago of the Christian," <emph>Lakeside Monthly</...
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| 2247 |
Report of the Board of Health, 1849, Creator: Chicago Journal(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Journal...
...Levi D. Boone, Health Officer and Physician for Chicago, reported in the August...
...27, 1849 issue of the Chicago Journal, on his work with indigent cholera patients and those taken to...
Date Created: 1849,
Date Depicted: 1849
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| 2248 |
Dill Pickle Club Entrance, n.d., Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...with radicals, unemployed workers, prostitutes, gangsters, and slumming Gold...
...Coast socialites at the Dill Pickle Club on the Near North Side. The enterprising radical Jack Jones...
...Chicago writers Sherwood Anderson and Carl Sandburg mingled...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 2249 |
"Cholera and Aurora," 1849, Creator: Chicago Journal(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Journal...
...Cholera affected other communities in the Chicago area, including Aurora to the west along the Fox...
...River. The experiences of Aurora residents were reported in the August 27, 1849 Chicago Journal....
Date Created: 1849,
Date Depicted: 1849
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| 2250 |
Maxwell Street Market, 1917, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...to the text written on the negative of this photograph taken by the Chicago Daily News staff,...
...Maxwell Street was the "Chicago ghetto" in 1917....
Date Created: 1917,
Date Depicted: 1917
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| 2251 |
Andrew Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...international corporation with about 2,000 employees in the Chicago area and over 4,500 worldwide....
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| 2252 |
Doggett, Bassett & Hills Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...One of Chicago's first shoe dealers and manufacturers, this enterprise was founded as Ward & Doggett...
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| 2253 |
IGA Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Alliance was created in 1926 by a group led by Chicago accountant J. Frank Grimes. It was designed...
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| 2254 |
Molex Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of the century, approximately 1,600 of its 16,000 employees worldwide worked in the Chicago area....
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| 2255 |
Public Gatherings, (
Historical Source
) ...Morning Service, 1954. See also: Religion, Chicago's Influence on ; Northwestern University ; Olivet...
...Baptist Church ; Protestants ; Soldier Field The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 2256 |
Electric Trolley, Franklin and Madison Streets, 1906, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...Old and newer forms of transportation meet at the western edge of the Loop, as horses haul goods and...
Date Created: 1906,
Date Depicted: 1906
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| 2257 |
Ethnic Classifications of Pullman Co. Employees, 1890, (
Historical Source
) ...accounting of the nearly 6,000 Pullman Inc. employees living or working in the town of Pullman....
...Doty, who was Pullman town manager, organized the data by the "industry" in which employees worked (...
...Works, Pullman Foundry, Standard Knitting Mills, Town of Pullman) and by their place of birth and...
Date Created: ,
Date Depicted:
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| 2258 |
Federal Space, (
Historical Source
) ...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
...Funding for ; St. Lawrence Seaway ; Water in Chicago (Digital Essay) A Defense Road Creator: U. S....
...World War II The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society....
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| 2259 |
Outdoor Swimming Pool, West Park #2, 1914, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...Caption: While swimming at this West Town pool in 1914 was much more routinized than swimming at...
Date Created: 1914,
Date Depicted: 1914
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| 2260 |
Providing Services, (
Historical Source
) ...Nuns from the Sisters of Mercy first came to Chicago at Bishop William Quarter's invitation in 1846,...
...</emph>, 1894. See also: Epidemics ; Hospitals ; Orphanages ; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago...
...Chicago Social Service Directory, 1933 Creator: Council of Social Agencies of Chicago Source:...
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