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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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Naperville, IL, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Armour Square, David M. Solzman(
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) ...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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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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Bicycling, Allyson Hobbs(
Authored Entry
) ...including the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and Chicago Critical Mass have promoted the bicycle as...
...of transportation . Since September 1997, Chicago Critical Mass has sponsored monthly rides from...
...In November 2001, Bicycling magazine honored Chicago as the “Best Cycling City in the United States”...
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Abolitionism, Linda J. Evans(
Authored Entry
) ...best chance to elect an antislavery man and found itself in step with a majority of Chicago voters....
...Thereafter, most Chicago abolitionists who voted became a small, radical portion of the free-soil,...
...Chicago's antislavery community included a variety of activists and sympathizers, including former...
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Clinics and Dispensaries, Paul A. Buelow(
Authored Entry
) ...leaders began building dispensaries in East Coast American cities shortly after the Revolution. This...
...every city had at least one dispensary. In Chicago in the early 1840s, the sick poor could visit...
...the indigent poor. Later medical schools in Chicago also established dispensaries. Chicago's growing...
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"Downstate", James R. Thompson(
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) ...a great city of ethnic neighborhoods, the small towns and rural areas of downstate are somehow more...
...agricultural produce, the Art Institute , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Lyric Opera , the...
...city. Of course, to combine all the strength of Chicago with the quiet beauty of Southern Illinois (...
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Theater Companies, Richard Christiansen(
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) ...from plays and players in the European and East Coast mold. The successful founding of the Second...
...Chicago's position as the prime city of the Midwest has made it both a necessary stopover on the...
...brief-lived community theater organization, the Chicago Little Theatre, seating only 91 persons, in...
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Dime Novels, Paul J. Erickson(
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) ...novels like The Infanta Eulalia's Jewels; or, Old Cap Collier among the Crooks at the World's Fair (...
...as in The Red Flag; or, The Anarchists of Chicago, which revolves around the Haymarket and McCormick...
...Reaper Works riots of 1886. No Chicago event proved more fertile for dime novel authors than the...
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Folk Music, Stephen Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...nightspots devoted to this form of entertainment. The following year marked the founding of the Old...
...Town School of Folk Music ....
...other institutions, such as the University of Chicago Folk Festival (1961) and Flying Fish Records (...
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Liquor Distribution, Sudhir Venkatesh(
Authored Entry
) ...but distanced themselves from the ethos of the old saloons. Federal and state legislation aimed to...
...the Miller House, a store that doubled as the town's first tavern, serving a crude ale as well as...
...areas considered “dry. ” Photographer: Unknown. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
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Wicker Park, Wallace Best(
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) ...Young white professionals bought many of the old houses and restored them to single-family...
...class residency grew. Poles drew the area into the “Old Polonia ” of surrounding West Town. Further...
...Neighborhood in the West Town Community Area. Bounded by Ashland and Western Avenues to the east and...
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Clubs, Literary, Rhonda Huber Frevert(
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) ...of “One Book, One City,” which recommends a single book to be read and discussed all over town....
...to meet weekly into the twenty-first century. Chicago's educated middle-class African Americans...
...the 1960s the formal, organized literary clubs (in Chicago as elsewhere) have had to compete with...
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