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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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Religious Institutions, Virginia Lieson Brereton(
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) ...and the Louise Juvenile Home (1905). The very old received attention from religious leaders; one of...
...of their predecessors in Chicago, refurbishing old churches or schools or building new houses of...
...religious life, but several factors have made Chicago a particularly lively religious breeding...
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Places of Assembly, Paula R. Lupkin(
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) ...Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3002 Old Farwell Hall, Madison Street between Clark...
...team, the American Giants , to purchase their old facility, South Side Park, located at 39th and...
...to provide for itself. When the circus came to town in 1836, for example, it pitched a tent on Lake...
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Japanese, Charlotte Brooks(
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) ...of the aging Nisei have retired to the West Coast. But the Japanese American community in Chicago...
...Japanese Americans living outside the Pacific Coast area. In 1942, federal authorities experimented...
...of Japanese Americans returned to the Pacific Coast after the war, the community in Chicago remained...
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Prohibition and Temperance, Rachel E. Bohlmann(
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) ...In September 1997 and again in February 1998 the Chicago City Council passed ordinances to ban...
...area precincts banned alcohol sales. As a whole, Chicago has become drier: in 1998 a total of 468 of...
...of temperance ideas first appeared in Chicago in 1833 with the Chicago Temperance Society, a branch...
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Infrastructure, Louis P. Cain(
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) ...cheaper to dig a new canal than to enlarge the old one. As before, Chicago's growth put pressure on...
...turn of the century, one problem was that the old swing bridges across the river were open for ship...
...water supply system for his planned company town in 1886, but it was integrated into the Chicago...
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South Side, Dominic A. Pacyga(
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) ...departed for quieter climes, some moving to newer city neighborhoods such as Kenwood and the Gold...
...Coast, but most choosing the low-density suburban havens of the North Shore. In little more than 30...
...a new Comiskey Park across the street from the old stadium. With its neighborhoods, parks, museums,...
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Theater, Tony Adler(
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) ...Isherwood and McKinzie set the company up in an old wooden auction house known as the Rialto. There...
...Joseph and Cornelia Jefferson and their nine-year-old son, also called Joseph. The child sang comic...
...pelted wooden sidewalk on his first morning in town (a sign, he thought, that Chicago was not yet...
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Schererville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
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) ...in 1929. In addition, the Ideal Section of the Old Lincoln Highway passed through the town. By the...
...major highways in the Schererville area, the town adopted the slogan “Crossroads of the Nation. ”...
...Chicago. In 1866 Nicholas Scherer platted the Town of Schererville on 40 acres of land, purchased...
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Construction, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...most remarkable aspects of the history of the Chicago region has been the rapid development of the...
...by human settlements. Only a few decades later, Chicago stood as a thoroughly constructed place, in...
...of government. Virtually every piece of Chicago's modern landscape stands as a testament to decades...
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Basketball, Robert Pruter(
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) ...through a network of YMCA s. By February of 1893, teams at Chicago-area Ys had formed into a league....
...Collegiate basketball also came to Chicago from Springfield College in the person...
...of Amos Alonzo Stagg, the University of Chicago 's new faculty coach, who had played on the...
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