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Orland Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...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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| 706 |
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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| 707 |
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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| 708 |
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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| 711 |
Land Use, Richard D. Mariner(
Authored Entry
) ...techniques for cleaning up and redeveloping old industrial sites (“brownfields”) were tested...
...encouraged the growth of Chicago and other canal towns from Lake Michigan to LaSalle-Peru. Chicago...
...use and real-estate development. The company town of Pullman , the grand Plan of Chicago offered by...
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| 712 |
Evanston, IL, Patrick M. Quinn(
Authored Entry
) ...temperance amendment to Northwestern's charter. Town-gown conflicts had surfaced periodically since...
...in the Evanston Public Schools. The opening of the Old Orchard Shopping Center in adjacent Skokie in...
...Female College. Incorporated as a village in 1863, the town (named in honor of John Evans, a central...
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| 713 |
Lighthouse Keepers, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Solitary Lives Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo...
...Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...
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| 714 |
Houseboat Residents, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Avondale ; North Center Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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| 715 |
Waterfront, Dennis H. Cremin(
Authored Entry
) ...Metropolitan Chicago's expansive waterfront includes a portion of the shores...
...of Lake Michigan and the banks of the Chicago , Des Plaines , Calumet, Fox and DuPage Rivers and...
...used for commerce, industry, and leisure . Chicago's position on a mid-continental divide between...
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| 716 |
Retail Geography, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...1980s, with several notable examples, including the Old Orchard Mall in Skokie and Woodfield Mall in...
...within the contiguous built-up area. Most of the old commercial ribbons along major city streets...
...retail developments were built in conjunction with towns that were built totally from the ground up....
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| 717 |
Century of Progress Exposition, Robert W. Rydell(
Authored Entry
) ...Sears, Roebuck & Co. , to secure $12 million in gold notes required to underwrite the initial costs...
...Isle for children, an Odditorium with variations on old-time “freak shows,” and various ethnic and...
...31, 1934) Originally intended to commemorate Chicago's past, the Century of Progress Exposition came...
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| 718 |
Blue Island, IL, Martin Tuohy(
Authored Entry
) ...however, the city appeared to revive slowly. Old industries such as Modern Drop Forge and Clark Oil...
...African Americans who were excluded from the town incorporated Robbins in 1917. Population plateaued...
...railroads crossed the southern and western parts of town, while the Rock Island line constructed an...
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| 719 |
Pullman, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...the neighborhood itself. Outsiders, however, saw old housing and vacant industrial land. Pullman's...
...area to include the largely unsettled area between the old historic town and 95th Street. In 1960,...
...role in American labor and planning history. The town had its origins in the late 1870s as George M....
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Environmental Activists, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Chicago Tribune Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38034) Author: Hal Dardick, Chicago Tribune...
...Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38035)...
...The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of...
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