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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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Guatemalans, Heather McClure and José L. Oliva(
Authored Entry
) ...Prior to the 1980s, Chicago was home to a small number of Guatemalan professionals and students. The...
...campesinos (small farmers). Later that decade, Chicago became the destination for Guatemalan Mayans...
...By the early 1990s, Guatemalans residing in Chicago included representatives from each of the 21...
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Antiwar Movements, Elizabeth McKillen(
Authored Entry
) ...Allen, Gordon, Schroeppel and Redlich, Inc. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...interest. From the Civil War to the Gulf Wars, Chicago has hosted powerful movements opposing...
...Particularly important were the roles played by Chicago groups in opposing World War I , World War...
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Luxembourgers, Kathleen Neils Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...Immigrants from Luxembourg created one of Chicago's smallest but most self-conscious and enduring...
...ethnic groups. Chicago's Luxembourgers also played a central role not only in the group's American...
...duchy (population 175,000 in 1839) arrived in Chicago about 1842, seeking on the American frontier...
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Romanians, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...Bucovina Mission helped Romanians settle in Chicago. Others, like the Romanian Missionary Society,...
...Community united these groups together in a Chicago-wide alliance. Mayor Richard J. Daley declared...
...and 25,050 residents of Romanian ancestry in the Chicago metropolitan region, community leaders...
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Race Riots, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...the largely Puerto Rican communities of West Town and Humboldt Park during the summer of 1966, but...
...that the issues surrounding racial violence are by no means a finished chapter in Chicago history....
...Chicago developed a reputation as a cauldron of specifically “racial” conflict and violence largely...
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Gospel, John Russick(
Authored Entry
) ...turn of the twentieth century in a small, rural town outside Atlanta, Georgia. In 1919, in the midst...
...Martin and Kenneth Morris, were also located in Chicago. i3571 Promotional flyer for Spells Brothers...
...no date). Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 Gradually, new...
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Whigs, Thomas F. Schwartz and Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...Whig party collapsed in the mid-1850s, many of Chicago's former Whigs joined a new party: the...
...temperance and other moral-reform laws. In Chicago, as in the nation as a whole, this platform often...
...The Whig party attracted some of early Chicago's leading businessmen and lawyers, including John H....
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Armory Show of 1913, Paul Kruty(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Arts Club in 1916; and the growth of Chicago's many radical exhibition societies of the...
...24 and April 16, 1913, the Art Institute of Chicago hosted the International Exposition of Modern...
...from Goya to the Cubists. The show arrived in Chicago fresh from its first, month-long showing in...
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Swimming in the Lakes and Streams, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Fitness and Athletic Clubs 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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Koreans, Youn-Jin Kim(
Authored Entry
) ...to 428 in 1991, an estimated 70 percent of Chicago's Korean businesses. Korean community life has...
...Ilbo, Chung'ang Ilbo, Hangyore Sinmun, Chicago Sinbo), social service centers (Korean American...
...while solidifying ethnic ties. However, Chicago's Korean community is neither as harmonious nor...
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