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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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Record Publishing, Mark Clague(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's performers drive its record industry....
...maintain regional distribution offices in Chicago, their studios are in New York or Los Angeles....
...of Midwest piano manufacturers, recorded Chicago's leading blues and jazz talents, making the city a...
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Treaties, Helen Hornbeck Tanner(
Authored Entry
) ...provisions granted sections of land along the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers to several people of...
...Potawatomi wife of Antoine. The famous Treaty of Chicago (1833) brought an estimated three thousand...
...The Chicago area was directly affected by five of the approximately 370 ratified treaties between...
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Flags and Symbols, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...may not be apparent without explanation. On Chicago's seemingly straightforward flag, five stripes...
...and West Sides, Lake Michigan , and the Chicago River . Four stars stand for important moments in...
...Like Fort Dearborn itself, each of these helps answer the question “Why is Chicago here? ”...
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Ethiopians, D. Bradford Hunt(
Authored Entry
) ...Orthodox Church in Evanston remain important congregations in Chicago's Ethiopian community....
...The Ethiopian Soccer League connects the Chicago community with Ethiopian Americans in other cities...
...and social events. Five Ethiopian restaurants in Chicago also serve as informal networking sites....
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Lake County, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...established a number of trails, including the Old Sauk, the Calumet, the Toleston, and the Calumet...
...Indiana, settlers squatted lands near the current towns of Crown Point , Hobart , and Cedar Lake ....
...of North Township. By 1900, the industrial towns of Hammond , Whiting, and East Chicago contained 52...
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Sikhs, Paul D. Numrich(
Authored Entry
) ...century, with significant settlement on the American West Coast beginning in the early 1900s....
...Most of the first Sikhs to settle in Chicago came as university students in the 1950s. The Sikh...
...religious gatherings on the University of Chicago campus, drawing students from several Midwestern...
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La Grange, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
Authored Entry
) ...real-estate developers bought land and built towns along the lines, offering affluent Chicagoans the...
...Unable to find open and affordable land in Chicago, manufacturers like General Motors Corporation...
...rates of suburbanization and exodus out of Chicago increased, the population of La Grange continued...
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Shopping Districts and Malls, Larry Bennett(
Authored Entry
) ...region but, in effect, functioned as suburban town centers complete with shopping, entertainment,...
...Illinois, 1929. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3509 Pullman...
...decades of the twentieth century, many of Chicago's neighborhood shopping districts catered, in...
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Filipinos, Barbara M. Posadas(
Authored Entry
) ...Some were the newly married wives of pre-1934 “old-timers. ” By 1960 Chicago's Filipino population...
...of Carmelito Llapitan, who, with others of his “old-timer” generation, purchased a former Swedish...
...Spanish American War, young male Filipinos came to Chicago, first as family-supported or government...
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Trees, George H. Ware(
Authored Entry
) ...to influence the character of countless young towns of the Midwest as it became queen of the street...
...the elm populations of hundreds of cities and towns in the Midwest, including many in the Chicago...
...Recent extensive tree planting has enriched the Chicago streetscape. Downtown Chicago has a rich...
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