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School Districts, Kenneth K. Wong(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Underground Economy, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...destroyed with hammers, 1907. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...until the turn of the twentieth century, when the old Levee vice district was closed. On the other...
...illegal businesses located. For instance, when the old vice areas were forced out of the Loop in the...
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Recollecting Childhood Experiences, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...water-based experiences of Chicagoans, young and old, especially along the Lake Michigan beaches....
...Growing Up Along Water Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors...
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Subdivisions, Carolyn Loeb(
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) ...trades to flourish. Local citizens as well as East Coast and foreign investors rode the cycles of...
...Calvert Vaux's Riverside (1868) to the planned new town of Park Forest (1948), and include the ideas...
...high-tech industries have converted some of Chicago's far-flung suburbs into a ring of edge cities...
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Government, Suburban, Jon C. Teaford(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago. Thus in the late 1880s the incorporated towns of Lake, Lake View, Hyde Park, and Jefferson...
...were ever suspicious of the motives of Chicago city officials. At the close of the twentieth...
...authority. The fragmentation of suburban Chicago was an entrenched fact of political life. i3496...
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Sailing and Boating, Geoffrey Baer(
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) ...them an avid interest in that most genteel East Coast pastime, yachting. The Chicago Yacht Club, the...
...upper reaches of the Chicago River, and even the old commercial waterway, the Illinois & Michigan...
...Many lakefront communities north and south of Chicago also have harbors, boat launches, and yacht...
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Housekeeping, Glenna Matthews(
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) ...a woman, who has negotiated the choices between old and new ways of eating, of housecleaning, and of...
...valuable possession if they are owners, and the place where newcomers mediate between old and new....
...From all over the world, Chicago's many in-migrants have brought with them an immense variety in...
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Open Housing, James Ralph(
Authored Entry
) ...moved into traditionally white communities throughout metropolitan Chicago. Nevertheless, a late...
...twentieth-century report on open housing in the Chicago area concluded that “race and ethnicity (and...
...achieve it were undertaken. Many minorities in Chicago—especially Mexicans , Puerto Ricans , Jews ,...
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Basic Bridge Types, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...replaced by a bascule bridge. See also: Bridges ; Chicago River ; Near North Side 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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Serbs, Peter T. Alter(
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) ...in the Calumet region, around Wicker Park in the West Town area, in Joliet , and in Gary , Indiana....
...worked to improve their own lives in the Chicago region. With the growth in suburbs and prosperity...
...Serbian immigrants first came to the Chicago region along with thousands of other Southern and...
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Slovaks, Emily Brunner(
Authored Entry
) ...to the Irving Park community area from West Town in the 1920s, moved northwest to its current...
...breakup of Czechoslovakia, more Slovaks moved to Chicago, settling especially in Garfield Ridge on...
...Immigrants began arriving in Chicago from Slovakia, which was then part of the Hapsburg Empire and...
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