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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Chicago history"”.
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Agnes Nestor: Labor Leader, Politician, and Social Reformer--A Portrait of a Leader
… public life included organizing women workers in Chicago in the early 1900s, running for public office, serving on national commissions to promote education, and in securing work-hour limitations for women. Sources for this study include historical newspaper clippings, books and articles written …
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Growth for Whom? Sacrifice of Chicago’s Chinatown Then and Now
… of many Chinatowns across America, including Chicago’s. The history of Chicago’s Chinatown tells a story of a community that has always been an afterthought in city planning and priority, continually sidelined for the purposes of “broader” city goals. Recent decades, however, have brought upon …
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Wet Chicago: Prohibition and the Development of the Informal Alcohol Economy
… participated in this black market in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The analysis describes the movement from small-time bootleggers operating within a narrow market to the development of a complex and hierarchical network of alcohol distribution that spanned across neighborhoods and outside the …
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Music as a birthright: Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music and participatory music making in the twenty-first century
… School of Folk Music (OTSFM), founded in 1957 on Chicago’s North Side, has over the course of its history developed pedagogies and social practices to transform its urban, cosmopolitan students from music consumers to music participants. By the 2000s, it had become the largest not-for-profit folk …
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Sacred sounds and natural grounds: designing acoustic communities within Prairie Style and Organic architectural spaces
This dissertation examines the relationship between music performance and Midwestern architectural spaces designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie Style and Organic Architectural contemporaries. It examines a period of nearly 100-years, from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s, and considers the …