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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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| 615 |
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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| 616 |
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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| 618 |
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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 620 |
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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Telegraph, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...possible instant communication with the East Coast, and eventually with the entire country. Daily...
...a vital link between the Midwest and the East Coast. Chicago companies, serving far-flung markets by...
...coordinate their operations by telegraph. Small-town storekeepers could obtain price information or...
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Magazines, Richard Junger(
Authored Entry
) ...Wrigley and Tribune buildings, 1959. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society....
...FIGURE 1 Other Chicago magazines have been equally unconventional. Arnold Gingrich and Alfred Smart...
...Court decision limiting postal censorship. Chicago native and one-time Esquire employee Hugh M....
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Hardware Manufacturing, Timothy E. Sullivan(
Authored Entry
) ...under the True Value label. After merging with the American Hardware Supply Company and Coast...
...to Coast, True Value became a principal division...
...of the TruServ Corporation, headquartered in Chicago....
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| 624 |
Republican Party, Paul Green and Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...its opposition to slavery and support for the gold standard and the tariff, did not always speak to...
...came to a close, Republicans familiar with the old political saying “fish where the fish are” were...
...Party remained a major political force in the Chicago region because of its considerable support in...
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Scouting, Elizabeth D. Schafer(
Authored Entry
) ...alderman Carl T. Murray, 1915. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago played a significant role in the development of youth scouting organizations. In 1909, the...
...by O. W. Kneeves which met at Hamilton Park. Chicago publisher William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy...
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Planning Before the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...1785 that dictated Chicago's (and many other towns') rectangular street grid, the building of Fort...
...Stock Yard in 1865, the building of the model town of Pullman in the 1880s, and the creation of the...
...and he constructed at his own expense the town's first public school. Wright's real estate profits...
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Bloomingdale, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...system spurred growth across DuPage County . Three shopping centers were constructed, including Old...
...Square, and Old Town shopping center, which is the site of the original town and is a turn-of-the-...
...Town Square, Stratford...
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Soccer, Gabe Logan(
Authored Entry
) ...men's teams, while over 2,000 metropolitan Chicago youth teams compete in the Illinois Youth Soccer...
...the National Soccer League sponsored by Chicago's Sparta ABA (Athletic and Benevolent Association)...
...Soccer Club, a Czech organization. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Great Migration, James Grossman(
Authored Entry
) ...Despite the tensions between newcomers and “old settlers,” related to differences in age, region of...
...South generally followed water and rail routes. Chicago’s popularity as a destination rested in part...
...Other railroad lines also offered access to Chicago from these and other parts of the South. Until...
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Housing Types, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...adapted to new demands in two significant ways. Old frame cottages often were raised on new brick...
...Nevertheless, these structures appeared old fashioned and out-of-date. In newer sections of the city...
...city neighborhoods and some suburbs has regenerated old forms. Many former cottages and tenement...
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