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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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Suburbs and Cities as Dual Metropolis, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...Oregon's Urban Growth Boundaries (1973), the South Coast Air Quality Management District in Southern...
...upon another. i3648 Cabrini high-rises, 1959. The Chicago Housing Authority completed this “Cabrini...
...Green. ” Photographer: Betty Hulett. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Replete with the...
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Schaumburg, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...defines Schaumburg to outsiders, residents have returned to the old crossroads at Plum Grove and...
...Schaumburg Roads to develop a new town center in the 1990s. Local shopping, a public library, public...
...quadrilateral monotony, spread out from the old center, until by 1980 the population numbered53,305...
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Canadians, Emily Brunner(
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) ...young people sought economic opportunities in towns and cities. For much of the nineteenth century,...
...in the United States. Several institutions in Chicago continue to foster Canadian identity....
...The Canadian Club of Chicago, founded in 1942, promotes commerce between the United States and...
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Chesterton, IN, Margaret D. Doyle(
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) ...of 10,488 in 2000, Chesterton is the largest town in Westchester Township. Since 1980, business...
...The first non-Indian settler in what is now the town of Chesterton was Jesse Morgan, who built a...
...his cabin, sawmill, and general store. In 1852 the town was platted with the name of Calumet. The...
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Wholesaling, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...was Ryerson Tull, Inc. , the descendant of an old Chicago firm founded by Joseph T. Ryerson before...
...hardware company that was a descendant of the old firm of Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett. Truserv's...
...construction of Wacker Drive. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Gays and Lesbians, Chad Heap(
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) ...during this period—first, around Omar's Grill in the Loop, and in the early 1960s at the Gold...
...Coast, Chicago's first gay leather bar. As Chicago's lesbian and gay population grew larger and more...
...neighborhoods, and new enclaves formed in Old Town , Hyde Park , and in the Lake View neighborhood...
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McCormicks, Kevin Davis(
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) ...spanned Chicago and its suburbs. Cyrus's descendants would occupy “McCormickville” on Chicago's Gold...
...Coast , country estates in the North Shore suburb of Lake Forest (Harold Fowler and Edith...
...and philanthropic life and history of the Chicago metropolitan area for over 150 years. Cyrus...
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Shipbuilding, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...to be an important activity not only in Chicago but on Lake Michigan. i3041 U.S. Navy minesweeper...
...on the west bank of the North Branch of the Chicago River, June 1952. Photographer: Louis F....
...Zimmerman. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Social Services, Joanne L. Goodwin(
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) ...social and economic insecurities that accompanied old age, unemployment , disability, desertion, or...
...these efforts to dismantle the welfare state. In Chicago and elsewhere, cutbacks in public funding...
...Forest, postcard, 1908. Artist: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 By the 1890s,...
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Baseball, Raymond Schmidt(
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) ...its first annual state baseball tournament in 1940. Cicero Morton in 1943 and Chicago Lane Tech in...
...1945 were the first Chicago-area schools to win the state championship. The American Legion...
...II , Little League baseball spread throughout Chicago and its suburbs, bringing thousands of boys—...
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