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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(
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) ...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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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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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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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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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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Water and Urban Life, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History. 2000. 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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Latvians, Andris Straumanis(
Authored Entry
) ...capital of Riga. Ojārs Kalniņš, who grew up in Chicago, served as Latvia's ambassador to the United...
...small Latvian population in the United States, Chicago has always been an important cultural center....
...Latvians from the Chicago area often have been leaders within their national ethnic community and—in...
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Fishing, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...of the Des Plaines River to the northwest of Chicago in Des Plaines in 1926. A dock is visible on...
...summer camps. See also: Des Plaines River ; Des Plaines, IL The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Swiss, Leo Schelbert(
Authored Entry
) ...life. In 1870 there were some 1,500 Swiss in Chicago out of 8,980 in Illinois; in 1930, 4,230 out of...
...more than 20,000 people in the greater Chicago metropolitan area reported some Swiss ancestry....
...The occupational status level of Chicago's Swiss resembled that of Americans at large. A 1915...
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Algerians, Stephen R. Porter(
Authored Entry
) ...Prior to the 1990s, Chicago's small Algerian population comprised mainly students and professionals...
...to attend French and American universities. Chicago received far fewer students than New York or...
...A prominent FIS official, Anwar Haddam, came to Chicago in the mid-1990s to study computer science,...
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Iraqis, Asad Husain and Khoshaba Jasim(
Authored Entry
) ...The Iraqi community of metropolitan Chicago reflects the ethnic and sectarian diversity of Iraq....
...maintain their distinct ethnic identities in Chicago, holding to traditional family values, cultural...
...The largest and oldest Iraqi community in Chicago are the Assyrians, who number in the tens of...
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Streets and Highways, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...trails that intersected at the confluence of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan , and that pattern...
...hard-surfaced roads occurred in the 1840s when Chicago covered some of its streets with planks, and...
...outlying areas. When they quickly deteriorated, Chicago turned to a parquet-like, wood-block paving...
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Railroad Stations, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...Built by the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in 1848, the city's first railroad depot was of a...
...which was used as a watchtower. The building was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ....
...The terminal railroad stations built in Chicago during the mid to late nineteenth century were...
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Clerical Workers, Lisa Michelle Fine(
Authored Entry
) ...as stenographers, 1909. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago's explosive growth and economic development during the late nineteenth century multiplied...
...transition derived from a combination of Chicago's characteristics. As a terminus for immigrants and...
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Gay and Lesbian Rights Movements, Carl Nash(
Authored Entry
) ...rights in the United States was founded in Chicago to bring homosexuals together as well as educate...
...of another lesbian and gay rights organization in Chicago for another 30 years. In the early 1950s,...
...Local chapters of both groups existed in Chicago by 1955; these organizations attempted to secure...
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