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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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| 912 |
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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| 913 |
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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| 915 |
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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| 916 |
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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| 917 |
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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| 918 |
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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| 919 |
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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| 920 |
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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| 921 |
Coal Mining, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...a century. Mining activity was centered at a town named for James Braidwood , a Scottish emigrant...
...was consumed in Chicago. By this time, the town was dominated by Chicago-based C&W, which employed...
...only a generation. By the 1960s, the last coal mining operations in the Chicago region were closed....
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| 922 |
Philip Klutznick: Shopping as a Real-Estate Deal, (
Authored Entry
) ...stockholder was the Sam Bronfman family. Sam was an old friend whom I used to see in New York when I...
...subsequent involvement in the creation of Oak Brook and Old Orchard Shopping Centers related to his...
...that shopping centers could play in suburban life. Old Orchard, designed as an outdoor, unenclosed...
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| 923 |
Uruguayans, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...increasing population of roughly 500 Uruguayans in Chicago, with an additional 100 or 200 living in...
...Although some Uruguayans came to Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and...
...Eucharistic Congress of 1926, very few settled in Chicago permanently before 1940. The first influx...
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| 924 |
Back of the Yards, James R. Barrett(
Authored Entry
) ...the city worked to develop a new manufacturing district on the site of the old Union Stock Yard, the...
...newer residents resumed the old struggle to maintain a strong community. i3404 Aerial view of the...
...of meatpacking in the neighborhood. Part of the town of Lake until annexation by Chicago in 1889,...
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| 925 |
Softball, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...the game back to indoor baseball , invented in Chicago in 1887 using a ball with a circumference of...
...a 13-inch ball. Around 1907 indoor baseball in Chicago began to move outdoors, as the game rapidly...
...on the city's playgrounds . That same year, Chicago's park, school, and church associations formally...
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| 926 |
Kindergarten Movement, Roberta Wollons(
Authored Entry
) ...Froebel, German creator of the kindergarten. Chicago was an early center of innovations linking the...
...and settlement work, and John Dewey's progressive education reforms at the University of Chicago ....
...The Chicago founder was Alice Putnam, who began the first kindergarten study club in 1874. She...
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| 927 |
Jefferson Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...or rest. In 1855 a resident recorded that the town consisted of approximately 50 buildings. When the...
...Chicago & North Western) laid tracks and built a depot near the town's center, population grew....
...The town of Jefferson was incorporated in 1872 and annexed by Chicago in 1889. In 1884 an estimated...
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| 928 |
School Desegregation, John L. Rury(
Authored Entry
) ...halfhearted efforts in the late 1960s and 1970s, Chicago never developed an exchange program between...
...School desegregation became an issue in Chicago during the years following World War II , as the...
...remained a controversial issue in Chicago, and plans to achieve integration contributed to white...
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Public Broadcasting, Allyson Hobbs(
Authored Entry
) ...international news and its ability to reach Chicago's international listening communities. Listeners...
...radio stations, including the University of Chicago 's WHPK (88.5 FM), Loyola University 's WLUW (...
...of a noncommercial television channel in Chicago. With enthusiastic viewer support and sufficient...
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Antecedents and Inspirations, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...in Chicago, "the great work of breaking through the old city, of opening it to light and air, and of...
...sometimes in convenient proximity to the old, as George Pullman did in constructing Pullman in the...
...coauthor of the Plan of Chicago , thirty-year-old Edward Bennett, with whom he had first worked on...
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