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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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Chicago Federation of Labor, Daniel A. Graff(
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) ...Chicago Federation of Labor...
...County Industrial Union Council, the South Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly, and the Calumet Joint...
...Founded in 1896, the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) quickly emerged as the nation's most powerful...
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Skokie's Border with Chicago, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...Skokie's Border with Chicago...
...Although Chicago's size and population make it the central city of the metropolitan region, it has...
...of all annexations. In 1954, for example, Chicago annexed land from the village of Skokie , but it...
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Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Diana Haskell(
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) ...Joffrey Ballet of Chicago...
...The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, which gave its premiere performance in 1954...
...the Robert Joffrey Ballet Concert, relocated to Chicago in 1995. An outgrowth of the American Ballet...
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Dwight L. Moody: Heaven and Chicago, (
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) ...Dwight L. Moody: Heaven and Chicago...
...rise. There is not a man here, not one in Chicago, who has not some hope of reaching Heaven. Now, if...
...all about it. I call your attention to this truth that Heaven is just as much a place as Chicago....
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Fermilab's Accelerator Ring: Metropolitan Chicago's Largest Circle, (
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) ...Fermilab's Accelerator Ring: Metropolitan Chicago's Largest Circle...
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West Chicago, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...West Chicago, IL...
...the county. As railroad transportation declined, the town changed. In the 1970s, the city government...
...extend toward Elgin. Immediately, the surrounding towns of St. Charles , Batavia , and Aurora added...
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North Chicago, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...North Chicago, IL...
...for manufacturing. The fact that it was a temperance town withthe motto “No Saloons ”was also a key...
...Incorporated as a village in 1895, North Chicago was called South Waukegan until 1901. Proximity to...
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South Chicago Heights, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...South Chicago Heights, IL...
...area joined with commercial interests around the old intersection and, meeting in the depot of the...
...Gasolene. ” The last of the four replaced the old inn demolished in 1968. This was the “landmark”...
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Chicago Public Library, Cathleen D. Cahill(
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) ...Chicago Public Library...
...According to legend, the Chicago Public Library began with the donation of books by British citizens...
...from service to uplift. This corresponded with Chicago's larger cultural renaissance, which included...
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Commercial Club of Chicago, Susan Marie Wirka(
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) ...Commercial Club of Chicago...
...like juvenile delinquency, race relations, and old-age pensions. Throughout its history, the club...
...planning with the publication of its report Chicago Metropolis 2020: Preparing Metropolitan Chicago...
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