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Chinatown, Ying-cheng (Harry) Kiang(
Authored Entry
) ...i3494 Parade in Chinatown, 1928. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...areas have mostly two-story structures, both old and new. High-rises include the Archer Court and...
...Fe Railroad parallels the South Branch of the Chicago River , which forms its northwest boundary....
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Colonial Trans-Atlantic Networks, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...an artifact of both trade and culture. See also: Chicago in the Middle Ground ; Fort Dearborn ; Fur...
...Year Page: 1812 Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Street Naming, Michael Paul Wakeford(
Authored Entry
) ...than 170—bear the names of real-estate developers. English towns...
...Of the more than a thousand streets within Chicago's city limits today, the greatest number—more...
...and Chicago's former mayors and aldermen have provided the next most popular sources of names....
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Ferry Keepers, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...began in 1831, just after Chicago organized as a town. Bridges quickly replaced ferries across the...
...view of the Polk Street Bridge. See also: Bridges River Ferry Boat, 1922 Photographer: Chicago Daily...
...News Source: Chicago Historical Society (DN-0074514) Private ferry boats also operated on the...
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Street Railways, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Transit Authority to buy them. The last suburban streetcar ran on the West Town's system in...
...1948, and Chicago's last streetcar operated June 22, 1958, on the Clark-Wentworth line. The street...
...of the streetcar companies, was acquired by the new Chicago Transit Authority in 1947 for a bargain-...
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Illinois and Michigan Canal, John Lamb(
Authored Entry
) ...ended with World War II , efforts to reuse the old canal right-of-way for this purpose were later...
...and private speculators platted numerous towns in the 1830s and 1840s, including Lockport ,...
...Channahon, and LaSalle, as well as other towns that did not survive. Canal construction began in...
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Sleepy Hollow, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...barn became the village hall. By 1960 the town's population totaled 311. Within the next decade the...
...to 1,729 residents in 1970 and 3,553 by 2000. The town remained residential without business or...
...Deer Creek and Surrey Ridge subdivisions. The town has no fast-food restaurants, no downtown, and...
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| 778 |
Belizeans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...arts—among the young Belizeans living in Chicago. The Belize Cultural Association has sponsored...
...numbers of Belizeans first migrated to Chicago during the 1940s and 1950s. Many were hired as...
...Great Migration ” of black southerners to Chicago which continued through the 1960s. Still others...
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Typhoid, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...discussion on the connections between water and disease in Chicago. See Also: Water Supply ; 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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Corporate Headquarters and Industrial Relics, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...the world's iron and steel supply. Sites like the old Joliet Works no longer embodied the region's...
...Preservation ; Iron and Steel ; Pullman Sarah S. Marcus The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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McHenry, IL, John D. Schroeder(
Authored Entry
) ...and on the river's west bank, at the site of an old Indian ford, the hamlet of McHenry developed....
...crossed the Fox on a new two-lane bridge. The old wagon trail, now Highway 31, doglegged along the...
...newly dammed Boone Creek, and a wagon road entered town from the south in 1851. In 1864, the famed...
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Togolese, Charles Adams Cogan and Nourou Yakoubou and Ben Kokouvi Mensah(
Authored Entry
) ...War I , when joint British-French forces invaded and annexed its western half to Britain's Gold...
...Coast colony. In 1956, the people of British Togoland voted in a United Nations plebiscite to join...
...the Togolese scholars visiting or teaching on Chicago's North Side were drawn there by the Africana...
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| 783 |
Calumet Harbor, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...additional industrial and terminal sites. See also: Planning Chicago Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Page...
...3 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Suffrage, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...Voters . i3740 Woman suffrage sample ballot, 1912. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Full suffrage became a political issue for Chicago in the 1860s. On the eve of the Civil War ,...
...office in the state, and John W. E. Thomas of Chicago was elected to the state legislature in 1876....
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| 785 |
Clothing and Garment Manufacturing, Youngsoo Bae(
Authored Entry
) ...but small ones began to leave for nonunion towns in the Midwestern countryside. By the late 1920s,...
...produced in the early nineteenth century. In Chicago this industry developed rapidly after the Great...
...Joseph Beifeld began producing ready-made cloaks. Chicago was increasingly involved in nationwide...
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| 786 |
Urban Renewal, Arnold R. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...of individuals and hundreds of businesses in an old, largely Italian community before it opened in...
...members) and 18,000 individuals were displaced. Old neighborhoods disappeared, and new ones faced...
...acknowledged in deciding the 1966 suit brought by Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) resident Dorothy...
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Lake County, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...and manufacturing in the hinterland of Chicago's growing economy. Beginning in 1836, stagecoaches...
...Bay Road along a route paralleling Lake Michigan that connected Chicago and Milwaukee. Waukegan ,...
...along Green Bay Road 40 miles north of Chicago, became Lake County's economic and government center...
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Bolingbrook, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago, attracted thousands of residents. By 1972, 15,000 called Bolingbrook home. In 1975, the Old...
...first shopping center/amusement ride park,” Old Chicago combined vaudevillian themes with county...
...Chicago entertainment complex opened for business in Bolingbrook....
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Lynwood, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...of Lynwood, following the path of an ancient trail that connected the old Sauk Trail at what is...
...now Dyer , Indiana, with the old Vincennes/Hubbard's Trail at a point near Thornton , Illinois....
...village, Route 30 follows the alignment of the old transcontinental Lincoln Highway, designated in...
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Automobile Manufacturing, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...paved to permit intercity travel by auto, out-of-town customers would buy cars along Auto Row south...
...maintained one in in Belvidere, but the last Chicago manufacturer of consequence was Elgin Motor Car...
...carriages didn't receive much notoriety until the Chicago Times-Herald offered $5,000 in prizes to...
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