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A Cosmopolitan Frontier, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...world at a critical juncture between the East Coast and settlement around the western Great Lakes...
...Interpretive Digital Essay : Globalization: Chicago and the...
...World Globalization: Chicago and the World Essay: Introduction Essay: Chicago in the Middle Ground...
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Reading the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...cipher of the Commercial Club are impressed in gold, and its cream-colored pages, gilded on the top...
...Drawings The Artistry of Guerin Mapping Chicago, old and new Even once one sits down to absorb the...
...the center of all the varied activities of Chicago will rise the towering dome of the Civic Center,...
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Housing Reform, Gail Radford(
Authored Entry
) ...however. George Pullman built his famous model town in the 1880s in part to demonstrate that good...
...century neared its end, housing reformers in Chicago struggled with these issues as they sought...
...In 1878 the Chicago Board of Health published its first reports on overcrowding and lack of...
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Built Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Interpretive Digital Essay : Globalization: Chicago and the...
...World Globalization: Chicago and the World...
...Essay: Introduction Essay: Chicago in the Middle Ground Map: Chicago's World—Within a Day's Travel...
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Cosmetics and Hair Care Products, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...huge British-Dutch corporation. Of the several Chicago companies that had been so prominent in the...
...in annual sales and 16,000 employees worldwide—was still based in Chicago at the end of the century....
...Chicago residents participated in the rise of the cosmetics industry during the twentieth century...
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Children and the Law, Kriste Lindenmeyer(
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) ...Chicago was to Progressive-era children's rights advocates what Boston was to antebellum...
...leadership. Influential individuals from Chicago helped to redefine childhood and encouraged the...
...health , labor, education, and dependency. Chicago's meteoric growth from frontier settlement to...
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Chambers of Commerce, Jeffrey Charles(
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) ...commercial interests, sending members to towns across the country recruiting business, distributing...
...For most of the twentieth century, the city of Chicago had no organization named the Chamber of...
...and Industry played a key role in boosting Chicago and its business concerns. From its initial...
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Architecture: The City Beautiful Movement, Thomas S. Hines(
Authored Entry
) ...confidence enough to cease relying so heavily on Old World traditions. Burnham and his allies, by...
...a prolonged grand tour, looked upon his native Chicago as a “hideous monster, a piteous, floundering...
...would reach its apogee in his epochal Plan of Chicago (1909). Burnham's importance as an architect...
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Costa Ricans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Small businesses undertaken by Costa Ricans in Chicago have included restaurants , clothing stores,...
...as spiritual centers for Costa Ricans in Chicago, including St. Ita's Church (5500 N. Broadway) and...
...in Costa Rica. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Chicago Costa Rican community organized two soccer teams,...
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Park Districts, Julia Sniderman Bachrach(
Authored Entry
) ...of Lake Shore Drive. By the 1950s, the Chicago Park District was responsible for 169 parks totaling...
...200 small play lots were operated by the city of Chicago. In 1959, the two agencies entered into...
...park police were consolidated into the Chicago Police Department, the boulevards were transferred to...
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Burr Ridge, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...also has five corporate parks. As with other towns in the industrial corridor southwest of Chicago,...
...a tributary of the Des Plaines River , runs through town. Joseph Vial erected a log cabin near Wolf...
...changing the community's name to Burr Ridge. The town name is derived from a group of bur oaks (...
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Agriculture, Chas. P. Raleigh(
Authored Entry
) ...so seasonal farmers' markets throughout the Chicago region. Specialized products such as free-range...
...and independent, up-scale food stores. And the Chicago Board of Trade remains a powerful influence...
...vastness of the world's grain trade that will define Chicago's agricultural industry for the future....
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Airlines, Liesl M. Orenic(
Authored Entry
) ...Jobs at the airports are split between Chicago residents and suburbanites, although suburbanites...
...Despite the economic benefits to suburban Chicago, its relationship with O'Hare has grown tense over...
...at Midway Airport, ca. 1940s. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Environmental Regulation, Betsy Mendelsohn(
Authored Entry
) ...for environmental quality traveled indoors, as the Chicago Housing Authority reduced pesticide use,...
...agencies. This access increased in 1992, when Chicago created a Department of the Environment, which...
...in the small city government of early Chicago, but residents increasingly hold them accountable to...
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Lake Michigan, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...lumber schooners tied the frontier sawmill towns of northern Michigan and Wisconsin to the Chicago...
...with the coal fields of the South in the steel towns at the southern end of Lake Michigan. In each...
...1670, when Marquette and Joliet crossed the Chicago Portage , Lake Michigan has been Chicago's link...
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Macedonians, Gregory Michaelidis(
Authored Entry
) ...first stage, thousands of Macedonians left the Old Country in the wake of the bloody 1903 Ilinden...
...Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece, the thousands of Chicago-area Macedonians recognized that they would...
...World War II years, and established communities in Chicago and Gary as well as downstate in Madison,...
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Downers Grove, IL, Mark S. Harmon(
Authored Entry
) ...and aircraft designer. Another resident was gold medalist Cammi Granato, who captained the U.S....
...800-acre Lindenwald Estate on the west side of town. James Henry Breasted became an internationally...
...Burlington & Quincy Railroad came through town in 1864, Samuel Curtiss established the first...
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Nigerians, Charles Adams Cogan and Cyril Ibe(
Authored Entry
) ...America, the African presence has created within Chicago's black community a diversity comparable to...
...Chicago's 30,000...
...Nigerians constitute Chicago's largest African community. The first major influx of Nigerians to the...
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Willow Springs, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...stopped at the area's springs, hence the town's name. In the late 1830s the Illinois & Michigan...
...very few African Americans and Hispanics. The town is cognizant of its connection to the I&M Canal,...
...Louis & South-Western Railroad came through the town, the forerunner of today's Metra line. In the...
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Building a Bridge, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Bridges ; Chicago River 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 Reserved. Portions are...
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