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Chicago Times-Herald Race of 1895, Keith R. Gill(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Times-Herald Race of 1895...
...America's first auto race was held in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1895. The race was...
...the idea of H. H. Kohlsaat, the publisher of the Chicago Times-Herald. Hoping to promote this new...
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Chicago Relief and Aid Society, Karen Sawislak(
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) ...Chicago Relief and Aid Society...
...until the mid-1880s. In 1909, the society was absorbed into the United Charities of Chicago....
...The Chicago Relief and Aid Society, founded in 1851, sought to exercise a “scientific” and “...
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John Kikulski and Chicago Labor, Dominic A. Pacyga(
Authored Entry
) ...John Kikulski and Chicago Labor...
...1919. Later that year he became entangled in Chicago's labor wars. Various factions accused him of...
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Louis Henri Sullivan and the Chicago School, David Garrard Lowe(
Authored Entry
) ...Louis Henri Sullivan and the Chicago School...
...Building, with its shimmering gold-leafed entrance, boldly dramatized his rejection of the...
...art nouveau. At the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893, Sullivan's Transportation...
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Amos Alonzo Stagg and Football at Chicago, Robin Lester(
Authored Entry
) ...Amos Alonzo Stagg and Football at Chicago...
...Prize winner—Albert Michelson, in 1907). The Maroons' Old English “C” and the motto “Monsters of the...
...the Pacific, retiring at 84. Stagg's years as Chicago's football coach included several milestones....
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James Farmer: A Chicago Lunch Counter Sit-In, (
Authored Entry
) ...James Farmer: A Chicago Lunch Counter Sit-In...
...James Farmer came to Chicago in 1941 to work as the race-relations secretary with the Fellowship of...
...an interracial group, mostly University of Chicago graduate students, to study Gandhi and his...
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Robert Maynard Hutchins and the University of Chicago, Leon Botstein(
Authored Entry
) ...Robert Maynard Hutchins and the University of Chicago...
...to college. Under his watch, the University of Chicago became a unique community of scholars and...
...universities. After leaving the University of Chicago, Hutchins became the guiding force at the...
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Implementation Map (Chicago River Straightening), (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Special Feature)
) ...Implementation Map (Chicago River Straightening)...
...Implementation Interpretive Digital Essay : The Plan of Chicago...
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University of Illinois at Chicago, Gerald A. Danzer(
Authored Entry
) ...University of Illinois at Chicago...
...Jane Addams. By 1889, when Addams moved into the old Hull mansion to create a pioneering settlement...
...The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) originated in 1982 with the consolidation of the two...
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Art Institute of Chicago, Diane Dillon(
Authored Entry
) ...Art Institute of Chicago...
...in the 1920s and 1930s deepened the holdings in Old Master and modern works and established the...
...as a tiny academy, the Art Institute of Chicago has grown into an internationally renowned...
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Chicago Housing Authority, Harvey M. Choldin(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Housing Authority...
...demolition of failed high-rise buildings. Chicago demolished several high-rise buildings in 1996 and...
...have been two categories of public housing in Chicago: for families and for the elderly. Founded in...
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Architecture: The Second Chicago School, Franz Schulze(
Authored Entry
) ...The Second Chicago School...
...Chicago River . i3510 The 1966 demolition of the old Post Office, with the new Federal Building in...
...began to persuade many observers that the Chicago frame, whose structural neutrality differentiated...
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Architecture: The First Chicago School, David Garrard Lowe(
Authored Entry
) ...The First Chicago School...
...overwhelmingly Beaux-Arts. Nonetheless, the First Chicago School was an astonishing and a profoundly...
...and aesthetic boldness would surface again in Chicago in the 1930s with the arrival of the Bauhaus,...
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Government, City of Chicago, Loomis Mayfield(
Authored Entry
) ...Government, City of Chicago...
...a town in 1833, approved Chicago's incorporation as a city four years later. Source: Chicago...
...to selected aldermanic candidates. i3732 The state legislature, which had incorporated Chicago as...
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Crime and Chicago's Image, David E. Ruth(
Authored Entry
) ...Crime and Chicago's Image...
...arson, and other mayhem filled the frontier town's many newspapers . In its 1840 complaint that “the...
...Chicago's criminal reputation long preceded Al Capone and the beer wars. Born in the same years as...
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House of the Good Shepherd / Chicago Industrial School for Girls, Suellen Hoy(
Authored Entry
) ...House of the Good Shepherd/Chicago Industrial School for Girls...
...the first nuns to serve African Americans on Chicago's South Side . In 1953, this “school-home”...
...Irish Sisters of the Good Shepherd arrived in Chicago from St. Louis to care for “abandoned women. ”...
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Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...Global Chicago...
...century? How much more difficult is it to realistically imagine the Chicago world they inhabited?...
...Southern European immigrants streamed through East Coast ports of entry and headed straight for the...
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Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...Global Chicago...
...How much more difficult is it to realistically imagine the Chicago world they inhabited? i3485 Gold...
...Coast aerial view, 1929. Photographer: Underwood & Underwood. Source: The Newberry Library. FIGURE 1...
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Planning Chicago, Carl Abbott(
Authored Entry
) ...Planning Chicago...
...to subdivide and profit from new neighborhoods and towns. Most efforts were simple grids with poorly...
...Evanston (1853) and the “pleasant woodland town” of Lake Forest (1856) matched universities to...
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Early Thoughts on Remaking Chicago, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Early Thoughts on Remaking Chicago...
...in support of remaking the lakefront. Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2499 3211...
...Daniel H. Burnham Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2467 3205 Speech to the Commercial...
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