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Chicago Sun-Times, Jon Bekken(
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) ...Chicago Sun-Times...
...Although the Chicago Sun-Times was launched in February...
...1948 through the merger of the morning Chicago Sun and the evening Times, it is in a sense the...
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Diana Haskell(
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) ...Hubbard Street Dance Chicago...
...company name to reflect its close ties with Chicago, where in 1998 he opened a large new facility...
...dancer and choreographer. He settled in Chicago in 1972 and opened the Lou Conte Dance Studio on...
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Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Schwegel(
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) ...Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra...
...of parents formed the Youth Orchestra of Greater Chicago in 1946 with the founding principle of...
...drawn from around 50 area high schools, the Chicago Youth Concert Orchestra, a training ensemble,...
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Chicago Transit Authority, David M. Young(
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) ...Chicago Transit Authority...
...In 1997, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) was the second-largest transit system in the United...
...a year (1997). The CTA was created in 1945. Chicago's elevated and street railway companies were...
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Chicago Conspiracy Trial, John Schultz(
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) ...Chicago Conspiracy Trial...
...the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Judge Julius Hoffman ruled that “the substance...
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Chicago River, Charles Nilon(
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) ...Chicago River...
...850 feet west of Clark Street and filling the old river channel. This project improved rail access...
...designed to divert all stormwater runoff from the Chicago River System. In 1992 the Chicago Rivers...
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South Chicago, David Bensman(
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) ...South Chicago...
...it would connect outside shipping routes. The town was first named Ainsworth. Settlers included...
...at the mouth of the Calumet River , South Chicago first evolved as a rural settlement for fishermen...
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Chicago's Mythical French Fort, Winstanley Briggs(
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) ...Chicago's Mythical French Fort...
...even today scholars overly impressed by all the old maps are sometimes convinced that the remains of...
...miles by six miles around the mouth of the Chicago River, the representatives of the United States,...
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Chicago Ridge, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...Chicago Ridge, IL...
...Creek arcs through the village. It is not only an old creek but also the remnants of a feeder canal...
...Cemetery . After Oak Lawn incorporated in 1909, Chicago Ridge and Worth both considered the move. An...
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Chicago Heights, IL, Dominic Candeloro(
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) ...Chicago Heights, IL...
...industrial base, a movement for renewal of the old East Side and Hill neighborhoods, a preservation...
...Cook County, 26 miles S of the Loop. Chicago Heights is located six miles from the Indiana border at...
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Chicago Historical Society, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...Chicago Historical Society...
...itself to documenting and interpreting Chicago's diverse populations. New initiatives—studying the...
...emphasizing its function as a history museum rooted in its transformed Chicago history galleries....
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Chicago Area Project, David Wolcott and Steven Schlossman(
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) ...Chicago Area Project...
...The Chicago Area Project (CAP), a pioneering delinquency prevention program, was incorporated in...
...from prominent sociologists at the University of Chicago and the Illinois Institute for Juvenile...
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Chicago Women's Liberation Union, Margaret Strobel(
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) ...Chicago Women's Liberation Union...
...The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU, 1969–1977) was founded by women from the civil rights...
...sports teams and challenged sexism in the Chicago Park District . With the Chicago chapter of the...
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Chicago Crime Commission, David E. Ruth(
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) ...Chicago Crime Commission...
...The Chicago Crime Commission is a nonpartisan, anticrime organization founded by businessmen in 1919...
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Chicago Sound, John McAllister(
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) ...Chicago Sound...
...however, Delta blues musicians who brought their old-time rural blues with them to Chicago did not...
...new sound became a hallmark of Chicago blues. The old-style rolling Delta blues accompaniment of a...
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1909 Chicago, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Special Feature)
) ...1909 Chicago...
...The City the Planners Saw Interpretive Digital Essay : The Plan of Chicago...
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Chicago School of Television, Rich Samuels(
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) ...Chicago School of Television...
...School. When coaxial cable linked the East Coast and Midwest in January 1949, New York lacked the...
...The extension of coaxial cable to the West Coast in 1951 left Chicago's facilities superfluous and,...
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Chicago Federation of Musicians, Sandy R. Mazzola(
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) ...Chicago Federation of Musicians...
...CMS attempt to limit membership in the new Chicago Orchestra to local musicians, CMS in 1891 joined...
...ensued, ultimately leading in 1901 to the Chicago Federation of Musicians, Local 10, AFM, an...
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Bessie Coleman: Pioneer Chicago Aviator, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...Bessie Coleman: Pioneer Chicago Aviator...
...Preserve) for Coleman's first exhibition in Chicago. Coleman died in a plane crash in Florida in...
...accommodate the needs of African American pilots who faced discrimination at other Chicago airports....
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Chicago to Mackinac Race, Geoffrey Baer(
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) ...Chicago to Mackinac Race...
...in the breakwater at Van Buren Street prior to the beginning of the Chicago to Mackinac Race, 1905....
...Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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