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Religious Institutions, Virginia Lieson Brereton(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Religious Geography, Lowell W. Livezey and Mark Bouman(
Authored Entry
) ...expansion was thus a continuation of an old story; the novelty lay in sharing the suburban terrain...
...places near expressways within Chicago (such as Old St. Patrick's in the Loop and Christ Universal...
...Wherever people have settled in metropolitan Chicago, they have built churches and synagogues, and...
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Networks of Rails, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...As this map, an advertisement for the company, shows, Pullman cars carried passengers from coast...
...to coast and from Canada to Mexico. As a manufacturer of passenger and freight railroad cars, the...
...Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters ; Global Chicago ; Innovation, Invention, Chicago Business ;...
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Meatpacking, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...and to the large urban markets on the East Coast. In addition, Union army contracts for processed...
...cooled railroad cars all the way to the East Coast. By 1900 this dressed beef trade was as important...
...began when population increased in the towns. Since beef was difficult to preserve, cattle were...
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Avondale, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...the industrial jobs that have for so long supported this old working-class neighborhood....
...condominiums, and shopping malls are replacing the old industrial belt, causing the loss of many of...
...Area lies west of the North Branch of the Chicago River between Addison on the north and Diversey on...
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Contested Spaces, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...from the heat. Late that afternoon, 17-year-old Eugene Williams dove off a raft that had wandered...
...players tried to maximize their “clout” through the old practice of gerrymandering—drawing political...
...of the strike and the subsequent fate of the town. To those who perceived the town to be what the...
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Iron- and Steelworkers, Jonathan Rees(
Authored Entry
) ...of specialty steel, not the basic steel producers of old that helped build the railroads, buildings,...
...Company's South Works, ca. 1952. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...As early as 1847, Chicago had six iron foundries. Steelmaking in Chicago began in 1865. As steel...
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Libraries, Cook County, Alice Calabrese(
Authored Entry
) ...Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Chicago Turngemeinde ( German ), old University of Chicago, Chicago Academy of...
...Cook County Libraries Suburban Libraries Chicago has been home to a great number and variety of...
...Young Men's Association (later to become the Chicago Library Association) established a reading room...
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World War I, Sean J. LaBat(
Authored Entry
) ...siphoned native-born labor into the war effort. Many Chicago employers turned to women and African...
...the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Chicago and other northern cities....
...I (1914–1918) had a profound impact on Chicago both before and after the American war declaration on...
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Roman Catholics, Steve Rosswurm(
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) ...Orphanages, residences for single mothers, old-age homes, reform schools, hospitals, employment...
...city. St. Stanislaus Kostka, founded in the West Town area in 1867, is a Polish example. A grammar...
...rate. These issues will continue to engage the Chicago Catholic Church for the foreseeable future....
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Mexicans, Gabriela F. Arredondo and Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...more than 530,000 Mexicans in the city of Chicago, with more than 1.1 million in the metropolitan...
...parade, Little Village, 1984. Photographer: Gregg Mann. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...fields throughout the Midwest and from towns and villages in Texas and the Central Mexican states of...
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