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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Commuting, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...above their stores, scattered throughout the town's neighborhoods, whereas most wholesale grocers...
...a walking city for most of its residents. The town’s small spatial extent and the wide scatter of...
...Indiana), Kenosha (Wisconsin), and Fox Valley towns from Elgin to Aurora. Most daily commuters,...
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Social Service Education, Jeanne C. Marsh(
Authored Entry
) ...the end of the twentieth century, there were 4 graduate social work programs in Chicago (at Aurora...
...University , Loyola University Chicago, University...
...of Chicago, and University of Illinois at Chicago), 6 in Illinois, and more than 16 undergraduate...
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Brazilians, Stephen R. Porter(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's early Brazilians included a small diaspora of Southern and Eastern Europeans who, after...
...restrictive American immigration laws to settle in Chicago. From the late 1940s through the...
...a handful of Portuguese Jews , gravitated toward Chicago communities representing their birthplace...
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Kenyans, Symon Ogeto and Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...runners are world renowned and have been extremely successful in the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon ....
...The first Kenyan migration to Chicago might have occurred as early as the 1940s, when Kenyan...
...numbers of Kenyan students began arriving in Chicago, and many settled permanently because of the...
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Feminist Movements, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...Womankind, published in the early 1970s by the Chicago Women's Liberation Union; Mountain Moving,...
...newspaper,” and published briefly in the 1980s; and Catalyst: Chicago Womyn's Paper (1980). The...
...these periodicals were a manifestation of some Chicago-area feminists' desires by the late twentieth...
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Mental Health, Harold M. Visotsky(
Authored Entry
) ...programs. At the end of the twentieth century, Chicago psychiatry reflected the state of American...
...In 1847, Edward Mead, a general practitioner trained in Ohio, came to Chicago and...
...founded the Chicago Retreat for the Insane. It was set afire by a patient and burned down, and it...
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Boxing, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...a boxing town. Since the early 1960s, boxing in the city has been basically a club sport, with fight...
...Patterson. In 1961, Wirtz ended boxing matches at the Stadium, and thereafter Chicago declined as...
...the nineteenth century, boxing was part of Chicago's bachelor subculture where bouts for small bets...
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Historic Preservation, Barbara Sciacchitano(
Authored Entry
) ...have been rejuvenated by the restoration of an old theater, as in Aurora , or by the development of...
...the 1960s and more recently in Bronzeville on Chicago's South Side . One major preservation project...
...preservation gained popular support in Chicago in the 1960s when public concern over massive and...
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Gurnee, IL, Mark Howard Long(
Authored Entry
) ...local life shifted the physical location of the town's center from the stage line to the depot. When...
...1928, the village had only 200 residents. The village remained a largely rural, agricultural town on...
...the Chicago periphery until well into the latter half of the twentieth century. In the 1960s the...
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Bowling, Raymond Schmidt(
Authored Entry
) ...of bowlers from around the country. When the old bowling alley closed in 1993, the Petersen Classic...
...Until the mid-twentieth century, Chicago was one of the foremost bowling hotbeds in the United...
...States. As early as 1851 the city of Chicago had licensed five bowling alleys, and for the balance...
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