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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 864 |
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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 867 |
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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| 868 |
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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 870 |
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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| 871 |
Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...2 | Page 3 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
...which eventually provided water access to the old Noble house. See also: Annexation ; Water Supply...
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| 872 |
Naperville, IL, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...stores, and the Pre-Emption House hotel. The town became the county seat when DuPage County was...
...line went through Wheaton instead. But the town got a second chance when the Chicago, Burlington &...
...of two main stage routes that ran from Chicago to Galena and to Ottawa. By 1832, 180 residents had...
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| 873 |
Bands, Early and Golden Age, Sandy R. Mazzola(
Authored Entry
) ...only one more concert band, Bohumir Kryl's Chicago Band. By 1920, the Golden Age of Bands was over,...
...influences in the culture. Yet the early bands of Chicago had left an indelible mark on its music,...
...Band, Englewood (no date). Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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| 874 |
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...concessions. See also: Amusement Parks ; Global Chicago ; Racism, Ethnicity, and White Identity ;...
...World's Columbian Exposition Sarah S. Marcus The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 875 |
Thais, Paul D. Numrich(
Authored Entry
) ...occupied a former Christian church in West Town between 1976 and 1983, when it relocated to a former...
...practices in nearby states, particularly Michigan, though they maintain ties to the Chicago region....
...Thai immigration to metropolitan Chicago has mirrored national immigration patterns for this...
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| 876 |
Hotels, Molly W. Berger(
Authored Entry
) ...well-to-do business travelers and tourists. Chicago's ability to attract and retain large national...
...roughly 75,000 hotel and motel rooms in the Chicago area, and more space was being added to handle...
...When Chicago was a small village in 1830, the American palace hotel ideal was literally being cast...
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| 877 |
Medical Education, Eve Fine(
Authored Entry
) ...In nineteenth-century Chicago, a medical degree was not always needed to practice medicine. No...
...which helped them attract paying patients. Chicago's first medical school, Rush Medical College, was...
...The Lind University Medical School, later renamed the Chicago Medical College, eventually became the...
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| 878 |
People and the Port, Theodore Karamanski(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...directly to the vessels. On cold days the young and old alike took to their skates and followed the...
...ships were lumber schooners from northwoods mill towns that had to be towed along the South Branch...
...J. Karamanski Bibliography Hill, Libby. The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History. 2000....
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| 879 |
Armour Square, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...under construction along the river. Adaptive reuse of old structures, nearby infill housing, and the...
...White Sox between 34th and 35th Streets. The old Sox park then became home to the American Giants of...
...moved into a still newer stadium just south of the old Comiskey Park ; the Negro Leagues having long...
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| 880 |
Ukrainians, Alexandra Hrycak(
Authored Entry
) ...last two decades, moving further from the West Town neighborhood where they were once concentrated....
...Just under 2,500 persons living in West Town claimed Ukrainian ancestry in 1990. They...
...American immigrants, who have constituted West Town's majority population since 1980. Chicago's...
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