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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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| 562 |
Leisure, Steven A. Riess(
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) ...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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Literary Cultures, Timothy B. Spears(
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) ...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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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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| 566 |
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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| 571 |
Poetry, David Starkey and Bill Savage(
Authored Entry
) ...by the former citizens of a small Illinois town; this book's frankness helped establish a forthright...
...poets such as Tony Fitzpatrick, whose Bum Town (2001) is a worthy successor to Sandburg's Chicago...
...publishers which, along with Poetry and Chicago's academic poets and presses, perpetuate Chicago's...
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| 572 |
Folklore, Susan K. Eleuterio(
Authored Entry
) ...possible, however, to find former residents of the old immigrant neighborhood on the Near West Side...
...on the South Side, Maxwell Street , for the old market on Halsted Street (which has now been “...
...which hosts an annual Folk Festival; the Old Town School of Folk Music , which offers classes,...
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| 573 |
Railroad Supply Industry, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...an Idaho-based company briefly used the old Pullman plant to make modest numbers of passenger cars,...
...Michigan until the 1880s, when Pullman created a new company town a few miles south of Chicago. By...
...about 5,500 workers at the company's shops in the town of Pullman were making railcars at the rate...
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| 574 |
Church Architecture, George A. Lane, S.J.(
Authored Entry
) ...received the American Institute of Architects gold medal, designed several churches, including the...
...1866 and 1873) at Cleveland and Eugenie, which would become the defining structure of the Old...
...Town neighborhood. Polish Catholic immigrants built St. Stanislaus Kostka (1877) on Noble Street and...
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| 575 |
County Boundaries in the Chicago Area, (
Map
) ...County Boundaries in the Chicago Area...
...organize county government for what became the Chicago metropolitan region. In December 1778, based...
...authorities that were given jurisdiction over the Chicago area were Indiana Territory (1800) and...
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| 576 |
Governing the Metropolis, Anthony Orum(
Authored Entry
) ...the population of the area while accentuating old governmental divisions, particularly by widening...
...a few hundred, to incorporate themselves into towns and villages to pursue common projects and their...
...downtown area to outlying districts. Small towns and villages, including Hyde Park and Evanston ,...
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| 577 |
African Americans, Christopher Manning(
Authored Entry
) ...the war provided a base for community development. The old-line AME and Baptist churches experienced...
...the 1780s, blacks have had a long history in Chicago. Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the...
...efforts within the city until his death in 1879. Chicago's white abolitionists were also active, but...
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| 578 |
Irish, Ellen Skerrett(
Authored Entry
) ...and Desplaines Streets in 1856, had become the old neighborhood parish for the Chicago Irish. Yet...
...to Chicago's phenomenal growth from frontier town to urban metropolis. As Chicago became even more...
...From a few hundred residents in the 1830s, Chicago emerged as the fourth largest Irish city in...
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| 579 |
Art Fairs, Stephanie Skestos(
Authored Entry
) ...and professional artists to Chicago communities. Based on the models of the 57th Street and Old...
...Town Art Fairs, neighborhood art fairs have been established in Barrington , Evanston , Hinsdale ,...
...in Chicago are the 57th Street Art Fair and the Old Town Art Fair. In 1948 Mary Louise Womer, a Hyde...
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| 580 |
Chinese, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...Lured by the gold rush and job opportunities abroad in the face of economic crisis in southern...
...Chinese immigrants to Chicago arrived in the early 1870s from the West Coast of the United States....
...Chicago attracted other migrants from the West Coast, and the population grew steadily, from 172 in...
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