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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jamaicans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...and Evanston. In 1982, the Jamaican Consulate in Chicago began publishing a nationally circulated...
...The consular office has also published a newsletter for the Chicago community, the Jamaica Bridge....
...1940s saw the first major influx of Jamaicans to Chicago. Like other West Indians, Jamaican men were...
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Rock Music, Clark “Bucky” Halker(
Authored Entry
) ...collar credentials became a liability. Fewer Chicago artists got record contracts. Nevertheless, a...
...format in the 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1990s Chicago experienced a rock renaissance. Punk rock...
...and the critical arbiters of taste deemed Chicago “hip. ” The Smashing Pumpkins and rich-kid-turned-...
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Chemicals, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...making corporations with headquarters in the Chicago area at this time were IMC Global, a leading...
...and CBI Industries (a descendant of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company), which produced carbon...
...represented one of the leading economic sectors in Chicago, the metropolitan region has been home to...
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Rush Street Bridge, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...in use on the night of October 8, 1871, when it was destroyed by the Chicago Fire. See also: Fire of...
...Rush Street, c.1900 Photographer: Mellen Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-00170) The swing...
...bridge at Rush Street was rebuilt after the 1871 Chicago Fire. At the turn of the last century, the...
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Elgin, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...banks of the Fox River, linking the growing town to Chicago and other urban centers. Elgin showed...
...and in 1856 the Elgin Academy was founded. The town continued to thrive during the 1860s, both as a...
...of interurban trains, which linked together the towns of the Fox River Valley and their neighbors to...
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Kane County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...west bank awaited primarily Yankee- and New York–born settlers who edged out of Chicago after 1832....
...Easy fording sites concentrated road traffic from Chicago to the northwest (U.S. 20), west (Illinois...
...The third, a limestone building designed by Chicago architect John M. Van Osdel, served the county...
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Guyanese, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Guyanese immigrants continued to arrive in Chicago while many others struggled to obtain immigration...
...war industries during World War II . Some settled in Chicago after the war, joined by other Guyanese...
...which assisted West Indian immigrants in Chicago. The McCarran-Walter Act (1952) placed a quota on...
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Moroccans, Stephen R. Porter(
Authored Entry
) ...Ramadan, have been central in unifying both Chicago Moroccans and other area North African Muslims....
...degrees. From the mid-1960s through 1980, Chicago's Moroccan population seldom exceeded 15, with...
...Moroccans and non-Moroccans. The children of Chicago Moroccans provided the impetus for some parents...
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Syrians, Sarah Gualtieri(
Authored Entry
) ...friends in Ramallah, Damascus, Zahle, and other Syrian towns, prompting many to emigrate. Like their...
...drain. ” The majority of the immigrants who came to Chicago during this period were Palestinian and...
...these immigrants played leading roles in the Chicago Arab American community, 3 percent of whom were...
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Gangs, Andrew J. Diamond(
Authored Entry
) ...clubs” like the Hamburg Club, Ragen's Colts, and the Old Rose Athletic Club. Based in saloons and...
...their appeal by crossing gender lines. The Chicago Crime Commission estimated that females accounted...
...Chicago's first gangs developed along ethnic lines out of the volunteer fire departments during the...
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