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Burr Ridge, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...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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Valparaiso, IN, Mel Doering(
Authored Entry
) ...U.S. 30, was constructed following the route of this old Indian trail through Valparaiso. In 1834 J....
...while many Chicagoans are drawn to the small-town security and other amenities of Valpo and...
...P. Ballard built the first house in what became the town of Portersville, its name until christened...
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Whiting, IN, John Bodnar(
Authored Entry
) ...a post office was established at the place where “Old Pap Whiting,” a conductor on the Lake Shore...
...Company officials selected a site south of down- town Chicago on Lake Michigan filled with large...
...stores, workers, and immigrant families to the town. Shortly after the commencement of construction...
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Golf, Howard N. Rabinowitz(
Authored Entry
) ...profusion of courses, however, metropolitan Chicago, with more than 850,000 golfers, was still well...
...at Midlothian Golf Club, 1907. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...and country clubs in the late 1880s. Metropolitan Chicago was ideally suited for golf. Its booming...
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Calumet River System, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...Sanitary and Ship Canal (which paralleled the old Illinois & Michigan Canal). This altered the flow...
...center of the Chicago region. Since the model town of Pullman was built near its western shore in...
...of this river through the marshes to South Chicago . Now the southern part of the Konomick—or the...
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Buddhists, Paul D. Numrich(
Authored Entry
) ...process which included the task of separating Old World, culture-specific aspects from more...
...immigrant Buddhist temple, with an exterior Old World architecture, in Lincoln Park . Three more...
...of Buddhism would emerge in urban centers like Chicago, or whether Buddhism in America would remain...
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Crib Tenders, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward Crib Tenders Old 68th Street Water Intake Crib and Construction on...
...from late 1908 or early January 1909 is the old 68th Street water intake crib alongside a temporary...
...1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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Calumet Harbor, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Anticipating greater shipping on the Great Lakes, Chicago sought to capture more than its share of...
...1956 Photographer: William Siegel Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37360) Mayor Richard J....
...Seaway in 1959. See also: Water ; Planning Chicago Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Forward The...
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Roseland, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...population and politics. The 1894 Pullman Strike created a larger community that transcended old...
...Land Association for the Pullman Car Works and the town of Pullman . Within a decade, Roseland's and...
...town boundaries and left it with a legacy of political radicalism. Twice before World War I , this...
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Epidemics, Walter Nugent(
Authored Entry
) ...when it killed 1,424, cholera destroyed young and old, often within hours of their first symptoms....
...1980—almost 1,000 in 1993 alone; it became Chicago's last epidemic of the twentieth century. i3671...
...prevent and cure tuberculosis. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Baths, Public, Marilyn Thornton Williams(
Authored Entry
) ...in public bath usage. After World War II , Chicago began to close down its public bathhouses. By the...
...the still-operating William Mavor bath, constructed in 1900 and named after a Chicago alderman. The...
...third municipal bath opened by the city of Chicago, it was located at 4645 Gross (later McDowell)...
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