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Work Culture, Lynn Y. Weiner(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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| 761 |
Egyptians, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...organization established on the South Side of Chicago in 1995, and the Arab American Business and...
...at the Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago (ICC), founded in Northbrook in 1974. At the ICC,...
...the second Coptic church established in the Chicago area,built a home in Palatine during the mid-...
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Grocery Stores and Supermarkets, Paul Gilmore(
Authored Entry
) ...forced residents and small retailers out of the old market areas. Large wholesalers and commission...
...arrival to the food store industry, Jewel Tea Company (an old door-to-door sales company), became a...
...market leader in 1950s by remodeling the old Loblaw Groceterias chain and opening supermarkets in...
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Ice Hockey, Seth Brady(
Authored Entry
) ...with occasional competitions between neighboring towns. Youth hockey was at first played on outdoor...
...Ice Hockey and Polo Guide reported in 1898 that Chicago had a significant interest in hockey....
...The first clear institutional indication of Chicago's interest in ice hockey, however, came much...
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Czechs and Bohemians, Alicia Cozine(
Authored Entry
) ...had linked the city to the East Coast. In the following two decades the cost and duration of...
...Czech immigration to Chicago began in the 1850s, after the railroads...
...facilitated that leg of the journey as well. Chicago's Czech-born population reached its peak in the...
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Colombians, A. K. Sandoval-Strausz(
Authored Entry
) ...professional classes of the nation's Caribbean coast, many of whom emigrated in the 1950s during a...
...also provided aid to Colombian newcomers to Chicago. The Colombian consulate has also served as the...
...the homeland. Among the most enduring of many Chicago Colombian organizations is Colombianos Unidos...
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Turn-of-the-Century Industrialization and International Markets, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Jr. ) Co. ; Globalization (Digital Essay) 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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Cholera, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...two sailors had recently died of cholera. The small town was up in arms because residents had gone...
...Hospitals ; Public Health 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...
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Race Divisions on Public Beaches, Page 2, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Chicagoans still dominated the use of Oak Street Beach, located north of the Loop. See also: Gold...
...Coast ; Leisure ; Near North Side Beach on the Near South Side of Chicago, late 1980s Photographer:...
...1980s, de facto segregation continued at many Chicago beaches. See also: Leisure ; Near South Side ;...
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Singaporeans, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...Restaurant caters many Singaporean events and serves as a gathering place for Chicago Singaporeans....
...Singaporeans have been coming to the Chicago area for work and school since the late 1960s....
...have settled permanently, the majority of Chicago's Singaporeans remain for short periods on visas...
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"The Whole World Is Watching", Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Daley's Chicago ; Year Page: 1968 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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