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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...
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| 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...
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Fiction, Bill Savage(
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) ...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....
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| 554 |
The Journey to Work in Chicago in 1980, (
Map
) ...The Journey to Work in Chicago in 1980...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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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,...
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| 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...
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| 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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| 561 |
National Historic Landmarks in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, (
Table
) ...National Historic Landmarks in the Chicago Metropolitan Area...
...for the country’s oldest mail-order firm Old Stone Gate, Union Stockyard Exchange Avenue at Peoria...
...the Manhattan (1891), the Fisher (1896), the Old Colony (1894), the Monadnock (1880–91) Taft (...
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Leisure, Steven A. Riess(
Authored Entry
) ...German classics that reminded audiences of the Old World. New plays were written that taught how to...
...of its clubhouse at 401–403 Orchard Street (old numbering) in the 1890s. Photographer: Unknown....
...atmosphere, providing continuity with the Old World. Houses of worship also provided space for...
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| 563 |
Literary Cultures, Timothy B. Spears(
Authored Entry
) ...Carl Sandburg mingled 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...
...Record, Ade wondered about the place of small-town and rural migrants in the ethnic urban mix, while...
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| 564 |
Charters, Municipal, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...area, and limited governing needs. These first town charters were conferred in 1833 and 1835, when...
...a small site along Lake Michigan . Under its town charters, Chicago was governed by an elected Board...
...Evanston incorporated under the state's general town incorporation act. In 1870, Illinois wrote a...
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| 565 |
Insurance, Beatrix Hoffman(
Authored Entry
) ...the John Hancock Center, bear the names of East Coast insurers. The landmark Standard Oil Building,...
...Laboratories, Inc. , which grew out of the old Chicago Board of Underwriters. Chicago's skyline...
...Chicago is not an “insurance town” on a par with Hartford or New York, but it still holds an...
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Universities and Their Cities, Steven J. Diner and Harold S. Wechsler(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago established settlement houses in West Town and near the stockyards in the New City community...
...their neighborhoods. Constructing the Chicago Circle campus meant destroying ethnic neighborhoods...
...satellites but retained a basic commitment to Chicago. By the end of the twentieth century, over 30...
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| 567 |
Choral Music, Mark Clague(
Authored Entry
) ...described a young woman singing Stephen Foster's “Old Folks at Home”: i3567 Apollo Chorus, 1924....
...1982 over 25 nationalities were represented by Chicago's ethnic choirs, including the Lira Singers (...
...Amerikanischer Kinderchor—continue to thrive. Chicago's volunteer men's choruses, the Windy City Gay...
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| 568 |
Iron and Steel, David Bensman and Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...longer the powerhouse that had been a crucial part of the Chicago-area economy for over a century....
...from competition. As Chicago grew from small town to world-class city between the 1840s and the...
...among the largest economic enterprises in the Chicago region since before the Civil War . During the...
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| 569 |
Politics, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...This law suited the state's small homogeneous towns more than an industrial metropolis. From the...
...Party suggest that patronage politics is enough of a way of life in Chicago that it will never die....
...Chicago politics is a national cliché, evoking images of a one-party system, dominated by a boss-...
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| 570 |
Dance Companies, Carolyn A. Sheehy(
Authored Entry
) ...dance companies, such as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, have a strong history of cooperation between...
...From Akasha to XSIGHT! , Chicago has a rich dance history, comprising a variety of different types...
...of dance companies. The 1900 edition of the Chicago Business Directory listed 35 “Dancing Academies”...
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