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Bridgeview, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...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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Ku Klux Klan, Kenneth T. Jackson(
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) ...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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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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Street Peddling, Lori Grove(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Taxation and Finance, Jon C. Teaford(
Authored Entry
) ...had boasted. Yet the various governments of the Chicago area remained solvent. The property tax...
...alternate sources of revenue. From the 1830s on, Chicago's city government levied a property tax,...
...improvements supplemented the property tax. Chicago relied more heavily on such assessments than...
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Quarrying, Stone Cutting, and Brick Making, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...During the years when Chicago grew from a small town into a metropolis, quarries in Cook and Will...
...quarries southwest of Chicago, near the town of Lemont along the Illinois & Michigan Canal ,...
...and brick was a major economic activity in the Chicago area. Millions of tons of limestone quarried...
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Wrestling, Robert Pruter(
Authored Entry
) ...In the suburbs, pro wrestlers competed at town fairs. Local professional wrestling essentially died...
...Chicago's wrestling tradition began in 1887, at Battery D Armory, where Evan “Strangler” Lewis beat...
...Coliseum. From the 1930s through the 1950s, the Chicago Stadium hosted famous matches featuring such...
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Ice Skating, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
...Growing Up Along Water 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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Kouts, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...A trading post existed just southwest of the town on the Kankakee River during theearly nineteenth...
...around a railroad station in the nineteenth century. The town has remained sparsely populated....
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Logan Square, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
Authored Entry
) ...settlers soon joined Kimbell in what was then the town of Jefferson . Beginning in 1850, farmers in...
...large, densely populated community northwest of Chicago's Loop . Long home to immigrant populations,...
...is named. The area is bounded on the east by the Chicago River and bisected diagonally by Milwaukee...
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Fire of 1871, Karen Sawislak(
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) ...place of opportunity, renewal, and future promise. i3524 Aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire, 1871....
...Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Public Library. FIGURE 1...
...gale-force wind, this blaze grew into the Great Chicago Fire. Advancing northward for 36 hours, the...
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Rap, Mark Swartz(
Authored Entry
) ...this hardly equaled the impact made on both coasts. Chicago rap acts have originated from the city's...
...lion's share of important rap artists, whereas Chicago has contributed little to the genre—little,...
...Bowl Shuffle,” a novelty hit recorded by the Chicago Bears football team in 1985. Meanwhile, it...
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Bridges, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...to bridge house to open the others. The U.S. Coast Guard has accepted lower vertical clearances for...
...18th and Canal. i3185 Looking east along the Chicago River at the LaSalle Street Bridge prior to...
...completion, 1928. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Bensenville, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...Bensenville has evolved from rural farming community to railroad town to mature airport suburb,...
...reflecting the changes of the Chicago area. As in other DuPage communities, the Potawatomi tribe...
...dairy products. A stage road connecting Chicago, Elgin, and Galena and a plankroad that paralleled...
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