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Julius Rosenwald: Chicago Businessman and Philanthropist, Peter M. Ascoli(
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) ...Julius Rosenwald: Chicago Businessman and Philanthropist...
...Rosenwald bought one quarter of the two-year-old Sears, Roebuck & Co. in 1895 for $37,500. A year...
...spearhead the construction of black YMCAs in Chicago and throughout the nation, and he helped to...
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George A. Poole, a Chicago Collector, Paul Saenger(
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) ...George A. Poole, a Chicago Collector...
...George A. Poole III, born in Chicago in 1907, attended...
...the University of Chicago and graduated from Yale in 1930. He directed Poole Brothers, one of...
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Judith Waller and Chicago Radio, Rich Samuels(
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) ...Judith Waller and Chicago Radio...
...Judith Waller—Chicago's “First Lady of Radio”—believed that broadcasting's potential as an...
...programs that ranged from radio's University of Chicago Roundtable to television's Ding Dong School....
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Bessie Louise Pierce and Chicago History, Walter Nugent(
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) ...Bessie Louise Pierce and Chicago History...
...celebration, she brought out As Others See Chicago, compiling the views of visitors to the city from...
...44 of her 86 years to writing a history of Chicago. A native of rural Michigan, she taught in Iowa...
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Ring Lardner and Chicago Sports Reporting, James Diedrick(
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) ...Ring Lardner and Chicago Sports Reporting...
...his craft and rose to fame while working as a sportswriter on a series of Chicago newspapers ....
...Lardner came to Chicago in the fall of 1907 and began a 12-year Chicago sportswriting career that...
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If Christ Came to Chicago, Timothy J. Gilfoyle(
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) ...If Christ Came to Chicago...
...journalist William T. Stead and published by Laird & Lee in 1894, If Christ Came to Chicago was an...
...inflammatory exposé of Chicago's political corruption and the underground economy . Mixing radical...
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Chicago Harbors, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Chicago Harbors...
...the Civil War in 1865. Cargo traffic on the Chicago River peaked in 1889, just as the Calumet Harbor...
...traffic exceeded that handled in the rest of the Chicago region. With the expansion of the Cal-Sag...
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Chicago Literary Renaissance, Carlo Rotella(
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) ...Chicago Literary Renaissance...
...Ohio, two cosmopolitan looks back at the small-town world left behind; Sandburg's much-quoted...
...novel Sister Carrie, tracing the career of a small-town Midwestern woman in the big city, looms with...
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Chicago Black Renaissance, Darlene Clark Hine(
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) ...Chicago Black Renaissance...
...aesthetic movement in mid-twentieth-century Chicago also produced an influential flowering in the...
...and performing arts, literature, and music. Chicago became a pioneering center for recording and...
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University of Chicago, Robin F. Bachin(
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) ...University of Chicago...
...The University of Chicago opened in 1892 under the auspices of the American Baptist Education...
...sociology departments in the nation, as the “ Chicago School ” pioneered research in immigration,...
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Chicago Times-Herald Race of 1895, Keith R. Gill(
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) ...Chicago Times-Herald Race of 1895...
...America's first auto race was held in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1895. The race was...
...the idea of H. H. Kohlsaat, the publisher of the Chicago Times-Herald. Hoping to promote this new...
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Chicago Relief and Aid Society, Karen Sawislak(
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) ...Chicago Relief and Aid Society...
...until the mid-1880s. In 1909, the society was absorbed into the United Charities of Chicago....
...The Chicago Relief and Aid Society, founded in 1851, sought to exercise a “scientific” and “...
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John Kikulski and Chicago Labor, Dominic A. Pacyga(
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) ...John Kikulski and Chicago Labor...
...1919. Later that year he became entangled in Chicago's labor wars. Various factions accused him of...
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Louis Henri Sullivan and the Chicago School, David Garrard Lowe(
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) ...Louis Henri Sullivan and the Chicago School...
...Building, with its shimmering gold-leafed entrance, boldly dramatized his rejection of the...
...art nouveau. At the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893, Sullivan's Transportation...
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Amos Alonzo Stagg and Football at Chicago, Robin Lester(
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) ...Amos Alonzo Stagg and Football at Chicago...
...Prize winner—Albert Michelson, in 1907). The Maroons' Old English “C” and the motto “Monsters of the...
...the Pacific, retiring at 84. Stagg's years as Chicago's football coach included several milestones....
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James Farmer: A Chicago Lunch Counter Sit-In, (
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) ...James Farmer: A Chicago Lunch Counter Sit-In...
...James Farmer came to Chicago in 1941 to work as the race-relations secretary with the Fellowship of...
...an interracial group, mostly University of Chicago graduate students, to study Gandhi and his...
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Robert Maynard Hutchins and the University of Chicago, Leon Botstein(
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) ...Robert Maynard Hutchins and the University of Chicago...
...to college. Under his watch, the University of Chicago became a unique community of scholars and...
...universities. After leaving the University of Chicago, Hutchins became the guiding force at the...
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Implementation Map (Chicago River Straightening), (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Special Feature)
) ...Implementation Map (Chicago River Straightening)...
...Implementation Interpretive Digital Essay : The Plan of Chicago...
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University of Illinois at Chicago, Gerald A. Danzer(
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) ...University of Illinois at Chicago...
...Jane Addams. By 1889, when Addams moved into the old Hull mansion to create a pioneering settlement...
...The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) originated in 1982 with the consolidation of the two...
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Art Institute of Chicago, Diane Dillon(
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) ...Art Institute of Chicago...
...in the 1920s and 1930s deepened the holdings in Old Master and modern works and established the...
...as a tiny academy, the Art Institute of Chicago has grown into an internationally renowned...
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