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531 Changing Origins of Metropolitan Chicago's Foreign-Born Population, ( Map )
...Changing Origins of Metropolitan Chicago's Foreign-Born Population...
...in world migration patterns to metropolitan Chicago that have widened the region's diversity of...
...Asia or Latin America. By 1990, metropolitan Chicago drew from around the globe. The region had more...
532 Land Subdivision and Urbanization on Chicago's Northwest Side, ( Map )
...Land Subdivision and Urbanization on Chicago's Northwest Side...
...that bound Norwood Park ever closer to Chicago, as well as the evolution of community institutions...
...farms served by a new railroad line from Chicago, and a county poor farm appeared. By 1870 a...
533 Labor Unrest in Chicago, April 25-May 4, 1886, ( Map )
...Labor Unrest in Chicago, April 25-May 4, 1886...
...Workers throughout Chicago and its suburbs took part in the nationwide movement for an eight-hour...
...concentrated in industrial areas along the Chicago River and in nearby working-class neighborhoods....
534 Movie Theaters in Chicago, 1926, 1937 and 2002, ( Map )
...Movie Theaters in Chicago, 1926, 1937 and 2002...
...War was well advanced, and only 29 remained within the city of Chicago, a mere two in the Loop....
535 Religious Diversity on Chicago's Southwest Side in 2002, ( Map )
...Religious Diversity on Chicago's Southwest Side in 2002...
...Chicago's religious geography can be very heterogeneous when viewed at the level of districts such...
...example, recall long established residents of Chicago moving to the area when it was first built up....
536 Growth of the Chicago Metropolitan Area, ( Map )
...Growth of the Chicago Metropolitan Area...
...growth of the built-up area of metropolitan Chicago can be summarized in three phases. Before 1900,...
537 Locational Stability: Saint Aloysius Parish, Chicago in 1951, ( Map )
...Locational Stability: Saint Aloysius Parish, Chicago in 1951...
...Roman Catholic institutions in Chicago demonstrate tremendous locational stability over time, being...
538 Progress of the Chicago Fire of 1871, ( Map )
...Progress of the Chicago Fire of 1871...
...The Great Chicago Fire was not one fire, but a succession of nine separate fires started by flying...
539 Fire Limits in Chicago in the 1870s, ( Map )
...Fire Limits in Chicago in the 1870s...
...The Chicago Fire of 1871 burned less than a quarter of the built-up area of the city. It destroyed...
540 Banking, Commercial, Larry E. Schweikart( Authored Entry )
...reasons: the bank failed to maintain sufficient gold and silver; there was a fire that destroyed the...
...banks were permitted to issue notes based on gold or silver coin called specie. When a bank could...
...and did not mature fast enough to keep the large Chicago banks independent of outside interests....
541 Food Processing: Regional and National Market, Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...Keebler, Tootsie, and Wrigley, indicated that Chicago would remain at the center of the industry....
...within close reach of Chicago. In 1910 the town of Argo (Summit) , southwest of Chicago, became the...
...was James L. Kraft, who began selling cheese in Chicago in 1904. By 1930, Kraft had taken over much...
542 Chicago's Ethnic Mosaic in 1980, ( Map )
...Chicago's Ethnic Mosaic in 1980...
...Chicago's residential space has always been socially fluid, territorially defined and frequently...
...century, but other Asian groups have settled in Chicago only recently, mostly on the North Side. It...
543 Broadcasting, Rich Samuels( Authored Entry )
...extension of AT&T's network lines to the West Coast in November 1928 turned Chicago into a national...
...completion of the coaxial cable linking the East Coast and Midwest in January 1949 turned it into...
...talents had been lured to the East or West Coasts. Emerging videotape technology meant that...
544 Newspapers, Richard A. Schwarzlose( Authored Entry )
...and readers. Here, a newsboy sells the Chicago Defender near the Supreme Liberty Life insurance...
...George Ade's “Stories of the Streets and of the Town” column, John T. McCutcheon's illustrations,...
...Chicago's newspapers have nurtured four traditions: combative partisanship, competitive journalism ,...
545 Artists, Education and Culture of, George H. Roeder, Jr.( Authored Entry )
...sought art usually looked to Europe or the East Coast. This remained true at the time of the 1893...
...established in 1948 and soon followed by the Old Town Art Fair. In the 1960s and 1970s, outlying...
...met other creative figures, including out-of-town visitors such as Thorton Wilder, Dizzy Gillespie,...
546 Real Estate, Pierre deVise( Authored Entry )
...Land Association bought nearly 4,000 acres for a factory and company town in Pullman , and Brown...
...Steel Company built a company town in Irondale, now South Deering . During the same decade, the...
...War II, with plans that included two “new towns” of the British model. In 1949, Philip M. Klutznick...
547 Cicero, IL, Betsy Gurlacz( Authored Entry )
...on charges of corruption that recalled the town's earlier reputation. Racial tensions surfaced in...
...ethnic cultures. Ethnic tensions surfaced in town politics as an entrenched Republican organization...
...Cook County, 7 miles W of the Loop. The town of Cicero, bordered on the north and east by Chicago,...
548 Agricultural Machinery Industry, Fred Carstensen( Authored Entry )
...of the company into question when, on October 9, it destroyed the entire old factory. Within days...
...Nettie Fowler McCormick, the young wife of 62-year-old Cyrus, was on the new site, where she ordered...
...two years the new McCormick Works replaced the old factory. At the same time the company management,...
549 Art, Lynne Warren( Authored Entry )
...patrons traveled to Europe and brought back Old Master paintings, including El Greco's Assumption of...
...From its earliest history, art in Chicago was created in response to the particular nature of the...
...of industrialization and global commerce. Chicago's earliest artists were painters and illustrators...
550 Annexations and Additions to the City of Chicago, ( Map )
...Annexations and Additions to the City of Chicago...
...legislature for incorporation as a village, town, or city with more extensive powers to provide...
...to Chicago during these years came because Chicago offered superior services, from better water...

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