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Guatemalans, Heather McClure and José L. Oliva(
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) ...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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| 971 |
French Missionaries and Traders, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...missionary. So he spent the winter in the Chicago area along the south branch of the Chicago River....
...His account of his months in Chicago show the importance of the river and Lake Michigan on the...
...Indians toward this lonely man. See also: Chicago in the Middle Ground The Electronic Encyclopedia...
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Jazz Dance, Anthea Kraut(
Authored Entry
) ...jazz-based vocabulary with ballet and modern techniques, emerged on the Chicago scene. The founding...
...dance companies like Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago (1968), Joel Hall Dancers (1974), Joseph Holmes...
...Theatre (1974–1995), and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (1977) exemplified this trend. In the 1990s,...
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Burnham, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...workers in regional industries, connects with the old center of town. In this area, several small...
...wire of them all. ” One account from 1920 refers to it as the “cabaret town” of Cook County and adds...
...that of all the small towns in the country, Burnham is “perhaps the one most often visited by...
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Dance Training, Nancy G. Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...opened a dance studio in Oak Park before leaving town in 1917 for an illustrious career as a modern...
...study of ballet included Daniel Duell's Ballet Chicago and the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance....
...In Chicago, dance classes were multicultural and technically diverse long before such training was...
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Merrillville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
Authored Entry
) ...quickly fell behind the inflation rate and the town struggled to maintain services. To compound...
...Loop. Known as “Downtown Northwest Indiana,” the town of Merrillville, just south of Gary , embraces...
...boom, little of that prosperity reached town government. In 1972 Indiana passed legislation freezing...
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The Plan Comes Together, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
...first generation consisted of the so-called Old Settlers, who had arrived in the promising village...
...and Pullman as well as Burnham, were from small-town New England or upstate New York. W. L. Jenney,...
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Skyscrapers, Charles Laurier(
Authored Entry
) ...Saarinen design in scintillating contemporary garb. Chicago continues to be a living museum of the...
...of business and services that have in turn made Chicago the great metropolis of the interior United...
...Chase. Source: The Newberry Library. FIGURE 1 Chicago has been the site of many of the skyscraper's...
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Fishermen, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...the Calumet River (Ewing and 92nd). See also: Calumet River 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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Field Museum, Steven Conn(
Authored Entry
) ...of natural history to compete culturally with East Coast cities, and Chicagoans agreed. When retail...
...quickly outgrew the space available in the old Palace of Fine Art, and in the early years of the...
...In 1891, Harvard professor Frederic Ward Putnam, in town to help oversee anthropological exhibits at...
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Graphic Design, Victor Margolin(
Authored Entry
) ...but succeeded only to a modest degree. Although Chicago has remained a large and active center of...
...i3453 The Society of Typographic Arts was Chicago's premier design professional organization from...
...Chicago's flourishing graphic design practice owes largely to the communication needs of a large...
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