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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(
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) ...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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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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Mayors, Melvin G. Holli(
Authored Entry
) ...for his leadership in school reform, with Chicago's model emulated by several other big city mayors....
...socioeconomic registers. Although Chicago was not old enough to have a patrician class equivalent to...
...1931) practiced the politics of the “wide open town” to the delight of bootleggers and gangsters. A...
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Literary Careers, Timothy B. Spears(
Authored Entry
) ...literary institutions. The 1830s frontier town provided little literary culture, and where...
...and Ade's “Stories of the Streets and of the Town” represented the high end of a documentary style...
...Record, “Stories of the Streets and of the Town. ” Artist: John T. McCutcheon. Source: The Newberry...
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Foodways, Tracy N. Poe(
Authored Entry
) ...and Italian chefs and menus alongside their Continental and East Coast credentials. By the early...
...deemed Chicago a first-rate “expense account town,” whose culinary and entertainment opportunities...
...of Congress. FIGURE 1 i3553 Replica of Chicago's Water Tower made of Dunkin' Donuts, Chicago's 163rd...
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Clout, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...to reach and persuade those in power—had found wide national usage beyond its Chicago origins....
...in Chicago trials are “found innocent on the age-old legal premise of reasonable doubt—not ......
...In the mid-twentieth century, Chicago writers coined the term “clout” to mean political power and...
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Flood Control and Drainage, Arlan R. Juhl(
Authored Entry
) ...regions of the Des Plaines, North Branch Chicago, and Fox River watersheds. Flooding in rivers and...
...The Chicago area is topographically dominated...
...by the glacial Lake Chicago plain. This plain encompasses the Chicago River , Des Plaines River ,...
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Railroads, John C. Hudson(
Authored Entry
) ...Passengers traveling between the East and West Coasts often had half a day to spend in Chicago...
...Chicago is the most important railroad center in North America....
...lines of track radiate in more directions from Chicago than from any other city. Chicago has long...
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Potawatomis, R. David Edmunds(
Authored Entry
) ...of land in northern Illinois, but after 1840 most Potawatomis were gone from the Chicago region....
...in Wisconsin. By the 1690s Potawatomis had migrated into the Chicago region, establishing small...
...settlements along the Calumet , Chicago , and Des Plaines Rivers. Joined by kinsmen from...
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Public Health, Jennifer Koslow(
Authored Entry
) ...symptoms and high mortality rates, prompted Chicago's first official public health action in early...
...to the Black Hawk War brought cholera to Chicago, helping to spread what was already a worldwide...
...and puckered appearance and death within 24 hours. Chicago's 4,000 residents turned toward the state...
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Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Lakes, which opened in 1850 with 12 beds in the old Lake House Hotel at Rush and North Water...
...As the number of charity cases grew, however, the old building proved too small, and County Hospital...
...joined Passavant as part of Northwestern's Chicago campus in 1941. i3438 Private room, St. Luke's...
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Journalism, Bill Savage(
Authored Entry
) ...supplanted Al Capone as the personification of Chicago across the world. In whatever form—the daily...
...the alternative press and cable television, Chicago journalism has provided both the fertile ground...
...the city emerge. The unprecedented growth of Chicago made its newspapers a vital part of creating a...
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