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Riverine Systems, Daniel Schneider and Glenn Sandiford(
Authored Entry
) ...mixed with sewage, reestablishes the river's old flow into Lake Michigan. To counter this problem,...
...while the lower Des Plaines flows through the old outlet of Lake Chicago. The canals connecting Lake...
...exacerbated by the low gradient of the Chicago River and the paving of vast areas of wetlands and...
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Amusement Parks, Stan Barker(
Authored Entry
) ...class population shifted to the suburbs, old urban parks like Riverview closed, and California's...
...parks. ” Santa's Village, part of the first chain of theme parks, opened in East Dundee , 1959. Old...
...Chicago, the first indoor shopping mall / theme park ( Bolingbrook , 1975 to 1980), foreshadowed...
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Lincoln Park, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...their properties. After World War II, residents of Old Town , in the southeastern section of Lincoln...
...the verge of becoming a slum. They formed the Old Town Triangle Association in 1948, which inspired...
...moved into the new high-rises and rehabilitated old houses. By the end of the twentieth century, the...
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Poles, Dominic A. Pacyga(
Authored Entry
) ...churches across the city. Polish Chicagoans left old neighborhoods such as the Bush in South Chicago...
...educational, institutional, and cultural life of Chicago. Streets named Pulaski and Solidarity Drive...
...vital ethnic community because of the more than 150-year tradition of Polish immigration to Chicago....
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Hondurans, Kate Caldwell(
Authored Entry
) ...West Town , Albany Park , and New City . Although many Hondurans attend Roman Catholic churches with...
...neighborhoods with significant Honduran populations included Logan Square , Uptown , South Chicago,...
...Annually in September, Hondurans unite with Chicago's other Central American communities to...
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Furniture, John B. Jentz(
Authored Entry
) ...Photographer: Kroehler Furniture Co. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3589 Employees at...
...maker of piano stools, 1893. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago's furniture industry expanded in the mid-nineteenth century by serving a regional rural...
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Ecosystem Evolution, Eric C. Grimm(
Authored Entry
) ...into the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. The old idea was that the Pleistocene was the time of the...
...When Chicago's first human inhabitants arrived at the end of the last ice age, they encountered a...
...hilly moraines, several of which occur in the Chicago region. The starting point for the development...
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Geneva, IL, Sherry Meyer(
Authored Entry
) ...émigré, ultimately suggested “Geneva” after a town in his home state. Geneva was incorporated as a...
...James died in 1839, having already had the town platted along the river and secured as county seat....
...died in 1879, having added a subdivision to the town under her own name along the railroad. Of their...
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Football, Gerald R. Gems(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1974, but survived only a short time. The Chicago Bears Super Bowl championship of 1986 revived...
...participation of its earlier heyday. i3354 Stagg Field, University of Chicago, November 1927....
...Named after legendary Chicago coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the now-demolished stadium eventually became...
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Schools and Education, John L. Rury(
Authored Entry
) ...limited, and many children continued to use old hard slates for writing lessons because expensive...
...1880 corporal punishment, the foundation of the old system of harsh discipline, was finally dropped...
...affluent clientele, while urban schools, Chicago's in particular, are largely black and Hispanic. By...
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Orland Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1900 to 51,077 in 2000. While retaining its old commercial and residential core, the village has...
...built an innovative municipal facility that sits between the old and new sections....
...British Isles—including the family of a 10-year-old named John Humphrey who arrived from England in...
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Croatians, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...with Croatian nationalists who held six hostages at Chicago's West German consulate in August 1978....
...the LaSalle Hotel. In the 1990s Croatia and Chicago continued to feel one another's influence. One...
...the original concentrations of Croatians in Chicago have dispersed, the city's role as a political...
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| 703 |
Ballet, Diana Haskell(
Authored Entry
) ...and popular recognition. i3301 Ruth Page's Chicago Ballet Company performing a scene from Camille...
...Although European ballet dancers visited Chicago as early as 1838, a local company was not formed...
...Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet was associated with the Chicago Grand Opera and toured for the next dozen...
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Publishing, Book, Connie Goddard(
Authored Entry
) ...houses for decades, it moved to the East Coast around 1910. Later, the Moody Bible Institute...
...publishing in Chicago, a business almost as old as the city itself, established its basic nature...
...for brief periods Chicago flourished as a writers' town, the trade book and magazine publishers they...
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Norwood Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...rectangular streets. One of the historic streets with old Victorian houses, the Circle, is shaped in...
...Norwood Park is home to a number of institutions. The Norwegian Old People's Home was built in...
...1896 on the site of the old hotel; a Passionist monastery (Immaculate Conception) in 1904; the...
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Yankees, Richard Jensen(
Authored Entry
) ...that some, including Baum, Dewey, and Lowden, left town, while low birth rates and a dearth of new...
...to identify and train the needed talent. The old Puritan strains, which called for temperance laws...
...merge through intermarriage. The University of Chicago brought newer Yankee arrivals, such as Edith...
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Court System, R. Ben Brown(
Authored Entry
) ...called county courts. To exacerbate the confusion, every one of the towns (or precincts) into which...
...Illinois was divided—including eight towns partly or wholly within Chicago—had a justice of the...
...courts were unified in 1964. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Medical Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals, Beatrix Hoffman(
Authored Entry
) ...At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Chicago-area's largest medical and pharmaceutical...
...facilities in the suburbs. Abbott, headquartered in suburban North Chicago and with 15,000 employees...
...in Illinois, was named Chicago's number one company by the Tribune in 1999. Baxter International,...
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| 709 |
Houseboat Residents, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...of houseboats along the north branch of the Chicago River was a semi-permanent fixture in the mid-...
...here is a houseboat at north La Salle Street along the Chicago River in 1952. See also: Water ; Near...
...1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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Portage, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...Today the western end of the old portage is...
...government built Fort Dearborn at the mouth of the Chicago River to guard this portage route....
...marked by the Chicago Portage National Historic Site, which commemorates the singular importance of...
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