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Poetry, David Starkey and Bill Savage(
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) ...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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Folklore, Susan K. Eleuterio(
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) ...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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Railroad Supply Industry, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...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.(
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) ...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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Governing the Metropolis, Anthony Orum(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Irish, Ellen Skerrett(
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) ...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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Art Fairs, Stephanie Skestos(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Protestants, Martin E. Marty(
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) ...issues that reflected national battles between Old School and New School factions. The conflict...
...and educational agencies, an expression—at least in Chicago—of anti-Catholicism, or a gathering of...
...themselves at and after the birth of Chicago in 1833. The Episcopalians were the established church...
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Hobart, IN, Elin B. Christianson(
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) ...of single-family houses, while retaining its small-town character. A sewer moratorium halted growth...
...U.S. 30 to the south, have strengthened the town's potential for continued residential, commercial,...
...Hobart was on the Chicago-Detroit stage route (Old Ridge Road), it was the construction of the...
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Tourism and Conventions, Anne Moore(
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) ...grand European-style hotels , massive grain elevators, and endless train yards. Later, Gold...
...Coast homes, the Sears Tower and other skyscrapers , and the trading floors of the Chicago Board of...
...residents from smaller Midwestern cities and rural towns who came to shop and marvel at the city's...
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Film, J. A. Lindstrom(
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) ...Argyle, ca. 1910. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3629 Filming...
...Western and Irving Park, 1914. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...From the beginning, the film industry in Chicago had many supporters. The inaugural June 1907 issue...
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Lockport, IL, John Lamb(
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) ...Canal after 1895 halted the grain trade on the old canal and the Norton Company went bankrupt. The...
...Historical Society opened a canal museum in the old I&M Canal headquarters building. The Gayload...
...a museum by the Canal Corridor Association. The old downtown was made a historical district in 1974...
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Art Colonies, Devereux Bowly, Jr.(
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) ...Avenue. In the closing decades of the twentieth century, skyrocketing real-estate values in Old...
...Town and Lincoln Park drove artists further west to neighborhoods such as Wicker Park and Bucktown ....
...Park pushed artists to the North Side, especially Old Town , which still has its own art fair each...
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Swedes, Anita Olson Gustafson(
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) ...of Thompson's patronage system. i3850 Swedish Old People's Home, Norwood Park, 1925. Photographer:...
...the Near North Side and became known as Swede Town; a second, smaller enclave developed on the South...
...Lawndale . Smaller settlements emerged in West Town and the Near West Side . Most Swedish men worked...
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Puerto Ricans, Gina M. Pérez(
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) ...were concentrated in Lincoln Park, West Town , and Humboldt Park and shared these neighborhoods with...
...Park. Puerto Rican residents relocated to West Town and Humboldt Park, where their concentration...
...as laborers, and in the service sector of the Chicago economy. Despite their long history in the...
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Jews, Irving Cutler(
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) ...Unlike most other immigrant groups, Jews left the Old Country with no thoughts of ever returning to...
...a community with some resemblance to the Old World shtetl with its numerous Jewish institutions,...
...Upwardly mobile Jews started moving out of their old communities into higher-status West Rogers...
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Romeoville, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...the canal, private speculators planned several towns in the area, including Juliet (later Joliet )...
...and Marseilles. Civic officials also participated in the process of town creation. Acting under the...
...legislature, a board of commissioners platted towns and sold lots to the public to generate funds...
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