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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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Industrial Art and Design, Victoria Kasuba Matranga(
Authored Entry
) ...base has continued to attract corporate headquarters and production facilities to the Chicago area....
...design in their curricula. Since the 1930s, Chicago's manufacturers and merchandisers have provided...
...designers from nearby Detroit transferred to Chicago-area employers. A typical career path for the...
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Edison Park, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...new residents and land uses have confronted old ones, reshaping the landscape. The wooded areas...
...Native Americans who continued to move along the old trail (now Milwaukee Avenue) near the farms. A...
...Park lies in the far northwest corner of Chicago, a little more than a mile west of the Chicago...
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Wilson & Co., (
Authored Entry
) ...Texas. Over the next few years, parts of the old Wilson were gradually sold off, until it was no...
...The giant Chicago-based meatpacker Wilson & Co. began as a New York slaughterhouse in the 1850s...
...in the early twentieth century in places like Chicago, Oklahoma City, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it...
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Moving Days, Emily Clark(
Authored Entry
) ...hiring fairs. Michaelmas Day (September 29) or Old Michaelmas Day (October 10) was also a time when...
...late nineteenth century as many as one-third of all Chicago households moved annually. It was a very...
...unpopularity of a fixed moving day, the Chicago and Cook County real-estate boards allowed leases to...
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Prostitution, Cynthia M. Blair(
Authored Entry
) ...joined the street trade in areas like Rush Street on the Near North Side and Wells Street in Old...
...Town . During the late 1970s and the 1980s, urban redevelopment turned these pockets of sexual...
...Chicago owes its reputation as a corrupt city in part to the history of one “vice” in particular—...
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Industrial Workers of the World, Melvyn Dubofsky(
Authored Entry
) ...however, the IWW held national conventions in Chicago and kept its national headquarters there,...
...by such famous radicals as Joe Hill and Ralph Chaplin. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Chicago has played a central role in the history of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In...
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Typhoid, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Water-Related Epidemics Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo...
...Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays:...
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Cabrini-Green, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...North Side, ca. 1942. Photographer: Unknown. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. FIGURE 1...
...white police officers in 1970 and of seven-year-old resident Dantrell Davis in 1992 drew national...
...Near North Community Area. Formerly “Swede Town” and then “Little Hell,” the site of the Cabrini-...
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Palatine, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...Hills Golf Course, on the northwest edge of town. Beyond that lay the Deer Grove Forest Preserve , a...
...Railroad was constructed across the township. A town emerged around the railroad depot, built just...
...but the name Palatine was adopted, after a town in New York. By the time Palatine was incorporated...
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Swimming at Pools and Lagoons, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Playgrounds and Small Parks ; Swimming West Town Swimming Pool, 1914 Photographer: Chicago Daily...
...Society (DN-0063111) While swimming at this West Town pool in 1914 was much more routinized than...
...in a pool supervised by adults. See also: West Town ; Swimming Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The...
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