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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...
551 Racial Restrictive Covenants on Chicago's South Side in 1947, ( Map )
...Racial Restrictive Covenants on Chicago's South Side in 1947...
...1916 until 1948, racially restrictive covenants were used to keep Chicago's neighborhoods white....
...In language suggested by the Chicago Real Estate Board, legally binding covenants attached to...
552 Jewish Congregations on the Move in Chicago, 1849-2002, ( Map )
...Jewish Congregations on the Move in Chicago, 1849-2002...
...Chicago's Jewish congregations founded in the nineteenth century have the longevity and complicated...
...social acceptance within the spatial evolution of Chicago's neighborhoods. Early concentrations near...
553 Fiction, Bill Savage( Authored Entry )
...Ana Castillo show the dilemmas facing both Chicago's bewildered native sons, as their neighborhoods...
...tradition. Whatever their métier or origins, writers of Chicago fiction continue to grapple with the...
...city life in general and by the specifics of Chicago's urban spaces, history, and relentless change....
554 The Journey to Work in Chicago in 1980, ( Map )
...The Journey to Work in Chicago in 1980...
555 Chicago's Place in the Water Routes of the Great Lakes Indian World, 1600-1830, ( Map )
...Chicago's Place in the Water Routes of the Great Lakes Indian World, 1600-1830...
...For centuries the Chicago area represented for Native Americans just one of a number of key portages...
...Europeans, a trade that flourished in the Chicago area until the opening decades of the nineteenth...
556 Ethnic Music, Philip V. Bohlman( Authored Entry )
...and social and family interaction from the old country would have great importance because it...
...ethnic music continues to proliferate in Chicago, acquiring not only new forms and contexts, but...
...of the twenty-first century, the label Ethnic Chicago evokes, on the one hand, a city with a long...
557 Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007, ( Table )
...Chicago Mayors, 1837-2007...
...William Walls III (Nonpartisan) Source: Newberry Library   The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
558 Metropolitan Growth, Ann Durkin Keating( Authored Entry )
...Note the relationship between history and geography. Eight old industrial satellite cities ring the...
...at a distance of about 25 to 40 miles, while old agricultural trade centers stud the region as...
...a whole. Canal towns line the Illinois & Michigan Canal heading out of Chicago to the southwest,...
559 Lyons, IL, Ronald S. Vasile( Authored Entry )
...Lyons's reputation as a residential, blue-collar town has not diminished over the years, and there...
...River through an area called Mud Lake. The origin of the town name is uncertain; local lore suggests...
...a relation to Lyon, France, another town at the confluence of two bodies of water. David and...
560 Political Culture, Robin Einhorn( Authored Entry )
...schools were segregated (which they were) was an old buddy of Mayor Richard J. Daley, placed on the...
...and nonideological party organizations. In the old model, “machine politics” organized city politics...
...argue that even the most flamboyant of the old-time bosses worked hard to keep taxes low and bond...

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