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Valparaiso, IN, Mel Doering(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Ivorians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...While a small number of students came to Chicago in the 1970s and settled permanently...
...as professionals, most Ivorians migrated to Chicago in the 1990s. The United States was not a...
...large in the 1990s, Ivorians began to migrate to Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and other major cities in...
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World's Columbian Exposition, Robert W. Rydell(
Authored Entry
) ...congresses would become the Art Institute of Chicago . On another level, the triumph of the World's...
...left Arcturus the same year that the World's Columbian Exposition had illuminated Chicago's skies....
...Exposition became a defining moment in Chicago's history and the history of the United States as a...
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Topography, John C. Hudson(
Authored Entry
) ...of limestone that are several hundred million years old, but they cannot be seen except in rock...
...Illinois–Mississippi system to the west and the Chicago River–Lake Michigan–St. Lawrence River...
...Metropolitan Chicago's topography is almost entirely a product of glaciation . Only in scattered...
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Building a Bridge, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Historical Society (ICHi-37378) By April 1960, the old Dearborn Street Bridge had been demolished...
...of Chicago decided to replace the half-century old rolling lift bridge at Dearborn Street with the...
...November 1959 view looks northwest across the Chicago River to the Central Cold Storage Building....
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Hegewisch, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...to establish “an ideal workingman's community” when he laid out the town along a rail line in 1883....
...his company about 10 miles east to border the new town and announced plans to build two major canals...
...an incentive for other factories to locate near the town. The first canal would have shortened the...
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Strikes, Richard Schneirov(
Authored Entry
) ...local politics and Chicago had became a “union town. ” The most important early attempt of the new...
...Perhaps no city in the United States exceeded Chicago in the number, breadth, intensity, and...
...six important strike waves or labor upheavals in Chicago history that were notable for their social...
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Irving Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...later, with the OIPA focusing on rehabilitating old houses, fund-raising for charity, helping needy...
...political candidates. The second association, the Old Irving Park Historical Society (OIPHS), began...
...were the bungalows of the Villa District; Old Irving Park with Queen Anne, Victorian, and Italianate...
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Environmental Politics, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...of law and politics defined land use patterns in Chicago from the first plat of 1830 to the present...
...Some of the most critical challenges facing Chicago at the close of the twentieth century are the...
...political formation of urban space in metropolitan Chicago is set within a larger ecological context...
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Basic Bridge Types, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...bridge is 269 feet long and cost $33 million. See also: 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...
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Afghans, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...Day in September. Afghan elders in the Chicago area have been concerned with younger Afghans' lack...
...Pakistanis and Bosnians . But, although many of Chicago's Afghans speak English as well as Dari (...
...Although a few Afghans came to Chicago for university education in the 1930s, they did not have a...
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