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Set Design, Robert R. Boyle(
Authored Entry
) ...enhance set design in Chicago, resurrecting old Chicago Civic Opera productions from the warehouse...
...destroyed nearly every theater building in town, to the Iroquois Theatre fire in 1903, resulted in...
...is no longer an inhibiting force, and two Chicago productions transferred from Chicago to Broadway...
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Lemont, IL, John D. Schroeder(
Authored Entry
) ...of a new urban core on the southern edge of town. This new center was unabashedly modern in tone,...
...the displacement of indians was the “paper town” of Keepataw, platted in 1836, followed by Athens in...
...its identity as a small, spatially distinct canal town; with the growth of these religious and...
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Overview, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...and ran the terminus of the first railroad in Chicago right to the banks of the north branch....
...He worked to gain for the Chicago Canal and Dock Company (he was a...
...major investor) control of property along the Chicago River and adjacent Lake Michigan, even hiring...
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Cubans, Mirza L. González(
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) ...social status who had been picked up by U.S. Coast Guard ships, beginning in 1990. By the end of...
...of Cuban American identity and political culture . Chicago has harbored various Cuban political...
...Cubans began migrating to Chicago during the 1950s. A few were attracted by economic opportunities,...
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Finns, Timo Riippa(
Authored Entry
) ...the Swedes in the Near North Side and West Town neighborhoods, where a small but scattered Finnish...
...women. The small Finnish community within Swede Town underwent growth in its businesses, churches,...
...why there were only four or five hundred Finns in Chicago, a figure that paled in comparison to the...
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Americanization, James R. Barrett(
Authored Entry
) ...But the process also has involved answering the old question of what it meant to be an American....
...Each of Chicago's immigrants has had to come to terms with a new life in a large American city....
...born people. Formal Americanization efforts in Chicago were sparse and rather subdued until 1917–...
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Automobile Parts, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...of foreign companies. At the end of the century, Chicago-area companies continued to participate in...
...The manufacture of automobile parts was never one of Chicago's largest industries. Nevertheless, the...
...parts industry cannot be written without Chicago-based companies. The production and distribution of...
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Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...commuters moved out to new suburban rail towns, they were confronted with the fact that fittings for...
...in New York, Caroline Clarke describes the new town she is living in. She is most concerned with...
...land was miles beyond the built-up settlement at Chicago and was used mostly for farms, pasture, and...
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Libertyville, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...merchants to fund a three-mile spur line into town in 1880. The resulting railroad boom led...
...side of the upper Des Plaines River along the Chicago-Milwaukee Road in 1835. Vardin thought that he...
...a sidewalk contractor and president of the Chicago City Council, constructed a large, porticoed...
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Settlement Houses, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Chicago's Hull House was the best-known settlement in...
...1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr launched Hull House in Chicago. As word of these experiments...
...in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Hull House inspired Charles Zueblin to organize...
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Crib Tenders, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Supply ; Housekeeping Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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Bangladeshis, Ajay K. Mehrotra(
Authored Entry
) ...the majority of Bangladeshis did not arrive in Chicago until after 1965 when the newly amended...
...its educational and economic opportunities Chicago has also developed a relatively large and vibrant...
...reported 712 Bangladeshis living in the Chicago metropolitan area. Local community leaders estimate,...
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Edward Eggleston and Literary Realism, Bruce Levy(
Authored Entry
) ...he acknowledged Edward Eggleston's place as a precursor of the Chicago literary renaissance, the...
...movement that made Chicago and the Midwest the focal point of American writing....
...of American literary realism. Lured in 1866 to Chicago by Alfred Sewell, publisher of The Little...
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Gambians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...The first Gambians in Chicago came in the early 1970s for higher education opportunities not...
...and business, while a small number remained in Chicago and began building a community. A steady flow...
...attracted friends and other family members to Chicago in the 1990s. As a result of these migration...
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| 945 |
Emergence of Plumbers and Specialized Fixtures, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...with among other things, plumbing arrangements in Chicago. See also: Construction ; Water Supply ;...
...Catalogues Creator: Thomas Kelly & Bros. Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37291) Creator:...
...Thomas Kelly & Bros. Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37292) By the 1890s, Chicago companies...
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| 946 |
Ecology and Conservation, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...investment opportunity for real estate developers. Towns like Ogden Dunes, which was incorporated in...
...1925, grew slowly at first (by 1930, the town had fifty permanent residents). This 1939 newsletter,...
...IN ; Real Estate The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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| 947 |
Modern Kitchen, Bathroom, and Laundry Room, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...modern bathroom, with fixtures still familiar today. See also: Near North Side ; Architecture ; Gold...
...Coast Report on Under-Sidewalk toilets, 1936 Author: Edith Abbott Source: Chicago Historical...
...and Water Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water in Chicago Essay: People and the Port...
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Dutch, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...and research facility for Dutch history in the Chicago area. This institution reflects the active...
...Dutch ethnic consciousness that takes pride in its long association with metropolitan Chicago....
...European ethnic groups to settle in the Chicago area. Through the years they left the Netherlands in...
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| 949 |
Great Depression, Tracey Deutsch(
Authored Entry
) ...When the stock market crashed in October 1929, Chicago had a Republican mayor, a virtually insolvent...
...When general prosperity returned in 1940, Chicago had an entrenched Democratic machine, a fully...
...Great Depression was particularly severe in Chicago because of the city's reliance on manufacturing,...
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Itasca, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...such as Nordic Hills. While the center of Itasca remains quaint and old-fashioned with the rural...
...look of yesteryear, the town's borders are dedicated to larger industrial and business complexes,...
...Bremen was established. Later renamed Pierce, the town became known as Sagone in 1864. In 1873 the...
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