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State Politics, Michael J. Devine(
Authored Entry
) ...the Loop ; at the same time many downstate view Chicago, and its increasingly affluent suburbs, with...
...as their most important urban center, and root for the Cardinals rather than the Chicago Cubs ....
...center for national and international trade, Chicago has not dominated state government in Illinois....
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Pacific Islanders, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...returned to the islands or migrated to the West Coast since the 1980s. While many Pacific Islanders...
...Island cultures through educational programs and community events. Forming partnerships with the Old...
...Town School of Folk Music , public schools , museums, and other public agencies, Kupa‘a (“stand...
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Beach Park, IL, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...that the character of the community would always differ from these neighboring Lake County towns....
...miles lies between the larger Lake County towns of Zion and Waukegan . Fearing forcible annexation...
...impact of the growth and development in those towns, Beach Park residents voted for incorporation in...
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Block 37, Ross Miller(
Authored Entry
) ...redevelopment of North Michigan Avenue. The old downtown was perceived and relentlessly advertised...
...typical day it housed the population of a small town, only to be completely empty at night. All the...
...development. After Chicago's incorporation as a town in 1833, Block 37, situated only several...
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Veterans' Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow(
Authored Entry
) ...veterans were sent to the old Marine Hospital in the Lake View community on the North Side and to...
...to expand hospital care for veterans became apparent. In the Chicago area, sick and injured...
...hospitals serving veterans. Largest of the Chicago-area Veterans' Hospitals, the Edward Hines, Jr. ,...
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Entertaining Chicagoans, Lewis A. Erenberg(
Authored Entry
) ...furnished rooms west of Clark, clubs for nearby Gold Coasters, and arty bohemian gay spots. In the...
...first permanent theater in the spring of 1838 in an old auction house on Dearborn Street. Like its...
...the 1830s and 1840s Chicago was a male frontier town. The scarcity of women diminished controls of...
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An Upstart Behemoth, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...and May Day ; Labor Unrest, 1886 (Rich Map) Sarah S. Marcus 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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Refugees, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...most Cubans settled in Florida and the southern coast, a growing number made their way to Chicago....
...Peruvians , and Haitians to seek asylum in Chicago. Thanks to its cosmopolitan, multiethnic...
...social services and community organizations, Chicago remains an attractive destination for refugees...
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Electronics, Emily Clark and Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...late 1990s, Motorola employed roughly 25,000 Chicago-area residents, making it one of the region's...
...smaller firms in the area continued to represent Chicago in what had become a highly competitive and...
...Chicago companies and their employees have long stood as leading players in the American electronics...
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Dance, Nancy G. Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...from the Joffrey Ballet, which would relocate to Chicago in 1995, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance...
...attention at MoMing Dance and Arts Center . The Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble provided serious...
...had been approved for Music and Dance Theater Chicago, a 1,500-seat, state-of-the-art auditorium to...
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Work Culture, Lynn Y. Weiner(
Authored Entry
) ...When 18-year-old Carrie Meeber, the title character of Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie (...
...This heterogeneous group of women—young and old, black and white, native-born and immigrant—lived in...
...of thousands of people from American small towns and farms sought the excitement and possibilities...
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Blues, Adam Green(
Authored Entry
) ...of Willie Dixon , consolidated the remaining talent. Old rivals such as Buddy Guy and Otis Rush were...
...built a new national audience for Chicago blues. Old-line clubs (notably the Checkerboard) on the...
...As legendary guitarist Robert Johnson put it, Chicago has been a “sweet home” for the blues. The...
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Apartments, Carroll William Westfall(
Authored Entry
) ...the 1923 zoning code allowed a generous building envelope along the lakefront. On the Gold...
...Coast and in Hyde Park , the affluent middle classes and the wealthy built apartments reaching 23...
...east of Michigan Avenue and south of the Chicago River are numerous undistinguished apartment...
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Steger, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...new stores, the village lost much of its original town center and became increasingly an automobile-...
...1930 a macaroni factory started in one of the old buildings, and several years later local craftsmen...
...Vincennes/Hubbard's Trail, was an industrial town named after the World's Columbian Exposition of...
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West Dundee, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...31 in 1957, Royal Lane in 1960, and the Old World subdivision in 1966. The nursery eventually sold...
...roles were reversed in a 1962 referendum. Each town's retention of individuality dates back to their...
...a lottery to determine who would name the town. Alexander Gardiner won and named the town Dundee in...
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Street Life, Perry R. Duis(
Authored Entry
) ...the late 1990s, many of the last remnants of the old street life were threatened. Police removed...
...Drive, while gentrification nibbled away at the old south and west transient districts. The demise...
...Chicagoans were avoiding such dangerous parts of town as “the Patch” and “Kilgubbin” ( Goose...
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Housing for the Elderly, N. Sue Weiler(
Authored Entry
) ...residents in 1870 to 61 percent by 1908. The Old Ladies' Home, created and governed in 1861 by a...
...with 80 single bedrooms and several public rooms, the Old People's Home at 3850 S. Indiana Avenue....
...1890 in North Kenwood and the Methodist Episcopal Old People's Home in 1898 in Edgewater . The Home...
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Consumer Credit, Lendol Calder(
Authored Entry
) ...Everywhere,” and their mail order department spread the gospel of small, easy payments from coast...
...to coast. Spiegel's example prodded Sears and other retailers to follow suit. The result was a...
...this transformation. Credit for consumption is as old as the city itself. Wages for late-nineteenth-...
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Rescue Missions, R. Jonathan Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...ruined lives” and soon became known as the “Old Lighthouse. ” At the close of the twentieth century,...
...prostitutes, and saloon frequenters. By 1871, Chicago had over 33 rescue missions. The nonsectarian...
...the Salvation Army began its ongoing mission to Chicago's poor. Both organizations revealed a trend...
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Book Arts, Paul F. Gehl(
Authored Entry
) ...Newberry Library. FIGURE 1 In the 1920s, big Chicago printing firms hired designers from outside the...
...Together with Ernst F. Detterer, teacher at Chicago Normal School and later the School of the Art...
...building on 26th Street. Since World War II, the Chicago Book Clinic, publisher Scott Foresman, and...
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