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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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| 882 |
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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 886 |
Dime Novels, Paul J. Erickson(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 887 |
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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| 889 |
Wicker Park, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 890 |
Clubs, Literary, Rhonda Huber Frevert(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 891 |
Lincoln Square, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...of local traffic. The chamber tried to evoke an Old World flavor with European-style shops and a...
...They drove their produce in wagons down the old Little Fort Road (Lincoln Avenue) to market in...
...seasonal basis. The increasing traffic along the old Little Fort Road encouraged the opening of many...
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| 892 |
Senegalese, Beth Anne Buggenhagen(
Authored Entry
) ...Murid tariqa has also initiated an exchange program with the American Islamic College in Chicago....
...Senegalese have immigrated to Chicago since the 1970s as students, wage laborers, and itinerant...
...worked in hotels and retail establishments. Chicago also boasts a sizable population of Senegalese...
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| 893 |
South Africans, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...working with the South African consulate in Chicago, aims to increase awareness and exchange between...
...the areas. In addition, the Chicago Sister Cities International Program maintains an official...
...The first South Africans to migrate to Chicago were primarily academics and doctors in the 1960s....
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| 894 |
Tibetans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Lama visited Chicago and gave audiences to the Chicago Tibetan community. As part of its religious...
...Tibetans began arriving in Chicago in 1992. After Chinese forces invaded and occupied Tibet in the...
...exiles as part of the Immigration Act of 1990. Chicago was one of several destinations for Tibetan...
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| 895 |
Estonians, Bernard Maegi(
Authored Entry
) ...much of the urgency behind the activities of Chicago's Estonian Americans. Faced moreover with a...
...and upward social mobility, the missionary zeal of Chicago's Estonian Americans began to subside....
...Estonian-speaking immigrants formed one of Chicago's most active ethnic communities in the decades...
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| 896 |
Leather and Tanning, David Blanke(
Authored Entry
) ...industry within the city. The closure of Chicago's meatpacking facilities added to these problems by...
...suitcases, ca. 1900. Photographer: Ed Stratton. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...as boots, shoes, horse tack, and book bindings. Chicago's proximity to oak and hemlock tanbark from...
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| 897 |
Mailing To the World, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Machinery Industry ; Innovation, Invention, Chicago Business ; International Harvester Co. ;...
...Unionization 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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Highland Park, IL, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...concerts in a wooded outdoor setting, including performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ....
...bluffs, lake vistas,ravines, and accessibility to Chicago support the foresight of nineteenthcentury...
...this picturesque suburb as a retreat for Chicago's affluent professionals. Indian trails and mounds...
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| 899 |
Judaism, Arnold Jacob Wolf(
Authored Entry
) ...of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago's Jewish community was solid and growing. An...
...Many, like Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati (Chicago's rival for leadership in the Reform movement),...
...where young people whose parents had come to Chicago in 1900 or slightly later could meet, court,...
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Funeral Service Industry, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...of rituals and activities connected with death. In Chicago, as in most cities, much of this work has...
...with particular religious or ethnic groups. The Chicago area is historically distinctive, however,...
...century. During the city's first decades, Chicago families who required undertaking services often...
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