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Maple Park, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...heated debates over incorporation culminated in the establishment of the town of Lodi in 1865....
...In 1880, the town changed its name to Maple Park....
...In 2000 Maple Park remained a small town of 765 residents on the border of Kane and DeKalb counties....
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Jane Addams: Halsted Street around 1890, (
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) ...houses and have lived in the neighborhood for years; one man is still living in his old farmhouse....
...and Harrison Street, Addams found a “fine old house standing well back from the street, surrounded...
...When Jane Addams arrived in Chicago in 1889 with the intention of founding a settlement house in one...
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Russians, Katarzyna Zechenter(
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) ...Russians and Russian Jews settled on the East Coast, Chicago became the largest center of Russian...
...early twentieth century settled most often in West Town , eventually earning the area around West...
...precisely how many Russian immigrants have made Chicago home over the course of the city's history....
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Musical Instrument Manufacturing, Craig H. Roell(
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) ...choices available in the postwar culture. Many old Chicago trademarks still in production at that...
...After the Great Fire of 1871 , Chicago quickly became a national center in musical instrument...
...especially organs and pianos. Indeed, by 1910 Chicago manufacturers were supplying about half of all...
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Slovenes, Emily Brunner(
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) ...Women's Union also maintains its headquarters and a small Slovenian heritage museum in the town....
...a new sense of personal grievance to the old split between religious Slovenes and freethinkers. In...
...lodges in the city and suburbs. Unlike South Chicago and Pilsen, Joliet continues to be home to a...
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Bus System, David M. Young(
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) ...railway routes. Surface-system ridership in Chicago, which includes both buses and streetcars but...
...and Randolph, 1992. Photographer: Janet Schleeter. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Although public transportation systems in the Chicago area at the opening of the twenty-first...
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Glaciation, Ardith K. Hansel(
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) ...to deliver sediment to the leading edge. In the Chicago area, from oldest to youngest, are the...
...Rivers ) and/or lakes (like glacial Lake Chicago) formed between the retreating glacier margin and...
...older moraines. The city of Chicago is built on the flat plain of glacial Lake Chicago....
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Lectures and Public Speaking, Lisa Krissoff Boehm(
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) ...longer serve as such a popular form of recreation, Chicago universities , colleges, and educational...
...organizations. Perhaps the largest current public-speaking venue is the Chicago Humanities Festival....
...neighborhood hall. Several significant events in Chicago have related closely to public lectures....
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Stickney, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...many would find little cachet in living in a town with the world's largest sewage treatment plant,...
...worked as truck farmers or in the quarries near town. Neighboring Cicero and Berwyn boomed in the...
...population stood at about 2,000, and the town was known more for its taverns than anything else....
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Norwegians, Odd S. Lovoll(
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) ...Moving north and west from the center of town, they established a colony centering on Milwaukee...
...faiths, however, gained a following. Although Chicago became the center of Methodism for Norwegian...
...Norwegian settlement in Chicago had its beginning in 1836 when a few families decided to remain in...
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Telephony, Richard R. John(
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) ...of the strangest chapters in the history of Chicago telephony unfolded in 1992, when, following a...
...network of underground tunnels that bordered the Chicago River . Built almost a century earlier by...
...after the firm had failed—a dramatic, if unfortunate, legacy of Chicago's early telephone pioneers....
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Swimming, Robert Pruter(
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) ...largely retreated from sponsoring AAU teams. The Chicago Town Club, located in the Sheridan Hotel on...
...Chicago's elite athletic clubs and...
...YMCAs pioneered competitive swimming in Chicago during the 1890s. The Chicago Athletic Association,...
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Gentrification, Larry Bennett(
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) ...of middle-class house-seekers bought and restored old single-family dwellings, two- and three-flat...
...met resistance from homeowners and renovators seeking to retain the area's historic ambience. Old...
...Town was Chicago's first neighborhood to experience gentrification, as...
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Antiunionism, David Moberg(
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) ...George Pullman conceptualized his model factory town south of Chicago to avoid labor unrest, but,...
...the 1985 printing unions' strike at the Chicago Tribune. At the close of the twentieth century,...
...From the late nineteenth century on, Chicago was one of the most heavily unionized American cities,...
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Illinois Central Railroad, John P. Hankey(
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) ...Dubuque, Iowa. The company founded dozens of new towns in Illinois and made “colonization work” (...
...the economic and physical development of Illinois and Chicago. It was the primary link between the...
...Gulf of Mexico, providing access to the South for Chicago products and culture and a route north for...
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Ottawas, James M. McClurken(
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) ...the Ottawas, Chippewas, and Potawatomis from Chicago live on a reservation near Mayetta, Kansas, and...
...purchasing the land where Chicago stands from Old Northwest Territory tribes at the 1795 Treaty of...
...Ottawas first made the Chicago region their home in the mid-1700s, when they and the Chippewas...
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Munster, IN, Lance Trusty(
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) ...Munster was a mature and prosperous suburban town, home to a well-educated and largely professional...
...the Loop. In 1850 most of the site of the future town of Munster lay under the turbid waters of Cady...
...for the national market. Peter Klootwyck and town postmaster Jacob Munster operated small stores....
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Taiwanese, D. Bradford Hunt(
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) ...is a third; the Taiwanese largely avoided Chicago's Chinatown and instead sought campus and suburban...
...in the 1980s when the Taiwanese community in Chicago became more assertive in differentiating itself...
...for Taiwanese independence, has a chapter in Chicago. In May 1999, the city celebrated its first...
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Cook County Hospital, John Raffensperger(
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) ...number of patients at Cook County Hospital. i3442 Old Cook County Hospital, ca. 1900. Photographer:...
...which had been used as a reform school. The “Old County Hospital” opened in 1866 in the same...
...many of these physicians rebelled against the “old guard” who had run the hospital for years. In...
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Elk Grove Village, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...53. This was in the southeastern corner of the old Elk Grove township, which took its name from the...
...Lake County Discovery Museum. FIGURE 1 i3542 “Old Main,” Elmhurst College, 1943. Photographer: Curt...
...Tollway also clipped off the northern section of the old grove. But in general the Elk Grove Forest...
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