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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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| 983 |
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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| 984 |
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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| 988 |
Cabrini-Green, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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| 991 |
Bridgeview, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...he chose not to run for reelection. The town's motto, “A Well Balanced Community,” is indicative of...
...what is now Bridgeview was built near this old Indian trail in the 1830s. By the 1870s German...
...occupation. Archer runs through the northwestern edge of the town, and one of the earliest homes in...
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Photography, Larry Viskochil(
Authored Entry
) ...and professional photographers have created a rich visual heritage of life in Chicago. Aside from...
...a few landscapes, the earliest photographs of Chicago are daguerreotype, ambrotype, and tintype...
...the growth of the photographic profession. In Chicago, the studios of Edwin Brand, John Carbutt, S....
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| 993 |
Ku Klux Klan, Kenneth T. Jackson(
Authored Entry
) ...American Patriots. The secret order's demise in Chicago was largely the result of the work of the...
...the names, addresses, and occupations of thousands of Chicago-area Klansmen. The tactic worked,...
...and by 1925 the Ku Klux Klan had almost disappeared from Chicago....
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Grain Trade, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
...Goose Island Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors...
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| 995 |
Glencoe, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
Authored Entry
) ...of the wooded bluffs upon which the original town planners settled and the maiden name of former...
...wife. While there appears to be no direct connection with the Scottish town of the same name, the...
...north suburban village adopted the elder town's seal when it incorporated in 1869. In 1835 several...
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| 996 |
Street Peddling, Lori Grove(
Authored Entry
) ...which started with the peddling of wares on Chicago's streets. i3400 This 1959 photo of a huckster...
...located further away. Photographer: Clarence W. Hines. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...As early as 1847 the city of Chicago established official markets where peddlers could set up their...
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Gardening, Ellen Eslinger(
Authored Entry
) ...Vaughan's Seed Store, with two stores in Chicago and extensive greenhouses in Western Springs , was...
...audience through its regular radio program on Chicago station WDAP. The needs of urban gardeners...
...as “Landscaping the Small Home Grounds. ” The Chicago Park District made parallel efforts, issuing...
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Plainfield, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...in damage, destroying the west and south sides of town and Plainfield High School. Between 1990 and...
...in Will County. Long considered a small town, Plainfield has experienced substantial growth since...
...The first post office opened in 1833, and the town became a stop on the stagecoach line between...
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Subsidized Housing, Devereux Bowly, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...for high-rise housing. Photographer: Clarence W. Hines. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Francisco Terrace, designed by then 28-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright. The developer, Edward Waller,...
...and the Marshall Field Garden Apartments in Old Town , both built in 1929 and both modeled after the...
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Métis, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy(
Authored Entry
) ...this stream of migration increased to the point where the old French-speaking Métis and other Creole...
...Mackinac, Prairie du Chien, and Detroit. In these towns, Indian women, European men, and their Métis...
...residents became a minority in their own town. The fur trade declined, as Indian tribes were removed...
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