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Ivorians, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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School Districts, Kenneth K. Wong(
Authored Entry
) ...least one school for children over five years old. In 1872 the mayor was given the power to appoint...
...were reconstituted. The mayoral management model in Chicago soon spread to several cities across the...
...the state legislature transferred control of Chicago's school affairs to the city council, which...
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Steel Mills on Sand, Page 1, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...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...
...Company, was formed to plan, lay out, and build the town of Gary, Indiana. Mill and town were built...
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Midway Airport, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...to the Loop , Midway has again become a vital circuit in Chicago's transportation system. i3283...
...Municipal Airport, 1929. Photographer: Chicago Aerial Survey Co....
...Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Unemployment, Alan Harris Stein(
Authored Entry
) ...competition, devastated some long-established Chicago industries and the industries dependent on...
...2002, 261,600 workers were unemployed in metropolitan Chicago, or 6.3 percent of the civilian...
...workforce. i2469 Chicago area unemployment, 1950–2000. Sources: Illinois Department of Labor and...
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Sporting Goods Manufacturing, Timothy E. Sullivan(
Authored Entry
) ...and activities pursued by the residents of Chicago provide insight into shifting social and economic...
...income levels began to rise, the citizens of Chicago and the nation experienced expanding levels of...
...Wilson, Brunswick, Schwinn, and Kiefer, Chicago has been home to many of the most recognizable...
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Creating the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...a striking combination of rose, pink, olive, gold, and bronze—pleases Chicago audiences to this day....
...in charge. Bennett, who lived several towns north of Evanston in Lake Forest , sometimes stayed over...
...approval. Finally, on July 4, 1909, the Plan of Chicago was ready for all the world to see. The...
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Pakistanis, Ajay K. Mehrotra(
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) ...around major urban areas, especially on the two coasts near New York and Los Angeles. Chicago and...
...and first head of state. On that same weekend, Chicago's Indians celebrate their independence day (...
...by-side coexistence of Pakistanis and Indians in Chicago is a remarkable contrast to the strife that...
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Railroad Workers, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...after the company had stopped operations. Chicago's railroad workers' neighborhood communities broke...
...working on the railroad in 1848, when building began on the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad. By the...
...employed some 2,700 workers, about 9 percent of Chicago's labor force. Over 15,000 Chicagoans worked...
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Israelis, Adam H. Stewart(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1948, some of the first immigrants to Chicago from the area that became Israel were displaced...
...New York City, a significant number came to Chicago. These immigrants generally had a higher level...
...of graduate and professional programs at Chicago universities. The number of Israelis living in...
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Landscape, Gerald A. Danzer(
Authored Entry
) ...and Ship Canal , and several railroads . The old bed of Lake Chicago, flat, low-lying, and encrusted...
...eastward to meet the lake, Highland Park . The old lakebed itself was crossed by a series of former...
...the grasslands turned into pastures and fields, and Old World plants and animals replaced the native...
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