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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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| 720 |
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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Other Winter Water Sports, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Historical Society (DN-0075794) The son of a U.S. Coast Guard officer stationed at Chicago ice...
...Growing Up Along Water Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors...
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Greeks, Andrew T. Kopan(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago , Hegewisch , Ashburn , and Beverly . The old Greektown business community remained intact...
...Hull House, 1940. Photographer: Furla Studios. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...Greek immigrants began arriving in Chicago in the 1840s. These were primarily seamen who came from...
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Modern Kitchen, Bathroom, and Laundry Room, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...housing units with modern kitchens and bathrooms. Many old Chicago cottages did not meet these basic...
...slum clearance. See also: Public Housing ; Chicago Housing Authority ; Urban Renewal ; Near West...
...2 | Page 3 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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| 724 |
Civil Rights Movements, James Ralph(
Authored Entry
) ...civil rights has been a regular feature of the Chicago scene, and African Americans have been the...
...to speak of a civil rights movement in Chicago before World War II . Unlike white immigrants,...
...Americans and voting by blacks. And even though Chicago was a center of antislavery activity, city...
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| 725 |
Hungarians, Eva Becsei(
Authored Entry
) ...number of scholars of Hungarian origin work at Chicago's institutions in medical research, computer...
...formed scattered enclaves around the edge of the old German community from North Avenue and Wells...
...Protestant church in South Chicago in 1898. In West Town , the Roman Catholic Parish of St. Stephen,...
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| 726 |
Music Clubs, Don McLeese(
Authored Entry
) ...from 1960s and 1970s folk clubs such as the Gate of Horn, the Quiet Knight, and the Earl of Old...
...Town to sophisticated supper clubs such as the London House and Mister Kelly's....
...century, rock has been a mainstay of the Chicago club circuit, with dozens of clubs competing for...
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| 727 |
Salvadorans, Kate Caldwell(
Authored Entry
) ...20,000 and 40,000 Salvadorans lived in the Chicago area. Many dream of returning to El Salvador, but...
...prohibited by the dependence of families in Chicago and in El Salvador on the immigrants' wages....
...Chicago's Salvadoran community dates back to the late 1920s, with a steady influx of families and...
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| 728 |
Opera, Thomas Bauman(
Authored Entry
) ...Depression had a major impact on opera in Chicago, putting an end to the Civic Opera and summertime...
...companies in the 1930s. Opera was reborn in Chicago with the creation of the Lyric Opera (founded as...
...opera was slow to develop as a part of Chicago's social and cultural identity. A small visiting...
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| 729 |
Griffith, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
Authored Entry
) ...and his brother Elmer of Chicago laid out the town. Construction of factories, houses, and a...
...soon followed. The Dwigginses advertised the town as “Chicago's Best Factory Suburb,” as it had...
...the Michigan Southern, built in 1854. While the town established a government in 1904, it remained...
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| 730 |
Modern and Postmodern Dance, Nancy G. Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...the way modern dance was taught on the East Coast. Until her last performances in 1972, she refused...
...Jan Erkert, Bob Eisen, Jan Bartoszek at the Chicago Cultural Center, Fluid Measure Performance...
...at the Humphrey School of Dance before leaving town to join the Denishawn Dancers in 1917. Dunham...
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