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  EZGeography - Chicago, Illinois
Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles, with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 US Census.
On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was incorporated as a town with a population of 350.
Chicago is a well-known theater capital and is the mecca for improvisational comedy.
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 Armour Square
The Armour Square Community Area illustrates the difference between a neighborhood and a community area.
Armour Square lay south of the burned area during the Chicago Fire of 1871 but was nonetheless greatly affected by the disaster.
Armour Square subsequently lost blocks of housing as the tracks of bordering railroads were elevated.
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Chicago is also considered to be the second-largest Serbian and Lithuanian city in the world, and the third largest Greek city after Melbourne, Australia.
Chicago and its suburbs are blessed with a diverse economic base, a wide range of housing stock, and an abundance of manmade and natural amenities.
Chicago is now the world’s largest intermodal port, with 50 percent of all goods shipped in the United States traveling on local state highways.
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  Armour Square, Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Armour Square, located on the southwest side of Chicago, is one of the 77 officially defined Chicago community areas.
Armour Square is also the name of one of three neighborhoods within the community area.
Armour Square is served by the Dan Ryan branch of the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line, with stops at Cermak-Chinatown and Sox-35th.
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 Philip Danforth Armour Summary
Armour was attacked because he operated family-owned companies rather than publicly owned ones and because he got his working capital from local (Chicago and Kansas City) banks and his investment capital from the plowing back of profits.
Armour's endeavor soon became the largest private refrigerator car fleet in the U.S., which by 1900 listed over 12,000 units on its roster, all built in Armour's own car plant.
Armour was one of the first to take action to reduce the tremendous waste inherent in the slaughtering of hogs and to take advantage of the resale value of what had been waste products.
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 Chicago Park District: Armour Square Park
In 1906, the year after Armour Square opened to the public, President Theodore Roosevelt described the square and nine other related properties as "the most notable civic achievement in any American city." The South Park Commission created the ten new innovative parks to improve the difficult living conditions in Chicago's congested tenement districts.
In addition to Armour Square, these were Mark White, Russell, Davis, and Cornell Squares, and Ogden, Sherman, Palmer, Bessemer, and Hamilton Parks.
Armour Square was named to honor Philip D. Armour (1832-1901), Chicago's "captain of industry." Owner and operator of the largest meat-packing company in the world, Armour donated a large amount of his fortune to charitable and educational institutions.
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 Chicago Real Estate Agents, Chicago Homes For Sale, REALTORS and Chicago
Chicago is best known for its cultural and ethnic diversity and history.
Chicago is home to prestigious institutions such as the University of Chicago and Northwestern University.
Chicago is also home to many sports teams such as the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago Bears, and the Chicago Bulls.
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 American Experience | Chicago: City of the Century | Teacher's Guide
Read about Haymarket Square and the anarchists and browse related primary sources to learn about the Haymarket Square violence in 1886 and the subsequent trial of anarchists accused of causing it.
The article describes Addams' efforts to bring to Chicago's poorest residents some of the finest examples of Western culture, including Shakespeare and classical music, as well as her later efforts to improve the physical conditions of the neighborhood and the introduction of classes on practical subjects such as sewing.
One way in which Chicago's strong neighborhood bonds can be seen is in the cross-town rivalry between the city's two baseball teams: the Cubs (who play in Wrigley Field, on the city's north side) and the White Sox (whose Comiskey Park is located on the city's south side).
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We offer local moving services in Chicago and also long-distance moving services, but we are primarily a Chicago moving company.
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 Chicago Fact Finder-Tech Notes and Definitions
A key feature of Chicago Fact Finder is that it also provides detailed information for each of the 77 community areas in the City of Chicago and for 59 towns and villages in Cook County where there are at least 1,000 Latinos or where Latinos are at least 10% of the population (Census 2000).
All social and economic data in Chicago Fact Finder that are enumerated by race and ethnicity are derived from the SF3 files of Census 2000 and STF4 files of the 1990 Census.
Chicago Fact Finder uses the SF3 files as the source for social and economic data for 2000 because the more detailed SF4 files (comparable to the 1990 STF4 files) were not available when Chicago Fact Finder was under development.
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 Chicago Athlete -- Regional News Article
CHICAGO - (July 17, 2005) - On a very hot summer Sunday morning in Chicago, nearly 2,500 runners, representing 200 colleges and universities, dressed in their school colors and ran the inaugural Chicago BIG 10K, presented by the Chicagoland Agents of Farmers Insurance.
The 6.2 mile city course started and finished at Armour Square Park, adjacent to U.S. Cellular Field, made its way to the beautiful Chicago lakefront and looped back.
Second finisher was Dwight Thomas, 27, from Atlanta, who was in Chicago on business, heard about the BIG 10K and decided to run it.
www.chicagoaa.com /news/big10k05final.html   (412 words)

  
 Illinois Homes For Sale Townhouse Condo New Construction Illinois Real Estate Illinois MLS Search
The first is Chicagoland, including the city of Chicago, its suburbs, and the adjoining exurban area into which the metropolis is expanding.
In 2000, 23.3% of the population lived in the city of Chicago, 43.3% in Cook County and 65.6% in Illinois's part of Chicagoland, the leading industrial and transportation center in the region, which includes Will, DuPage, Kane, and Lake Counties as well as Cook County.
Blacks are present in large numbers in the city of Chicago, East St. Louis, and the southern tip of the state.
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 Chicago Real Estate Illinois Homes for sale, Buy a home, Sell a home, Josh Feeney, Selling homes, Buying homes.
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 Chinatown, Chicago, Illinois - Chinese Restaurant - Chinese Restaurant and Chinese Food
The Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, is on the near South Side (located in the Armour Square, ChicagoArmour Square community area), centered on and around Cermak and Wentworth Avenues.
Chinese immigrants began arriving in Chicago in the late 1870s as ex-railroad workers faced increasing discrimination in the Western states.
The population rose slowly, until the Chinese Civil Warcommunist revolution in China coupled with a relaxation on immigration laws brought on a surge in immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s, leading to the formation of a Chinatown.
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 Chicago Neighborhood Real Estate Information
As you may only know an area by the neighborhood name, when you look for a Chicago home for sale using our website search, we provide you the ability to search with both the official community areas as well as many of the known neighborhood names.
As real estate properties map to the official community names rather than the neighborhood, if you select a neighborhood name, you will likely get data for the broader community of which it is a part.
Below is a map of Chicago's 77 community areas.
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 Armour Square, Chicago: Armour Square Moving & Real Estate Guide
One of the largest Asian communities, Armour Square is home to the major tourist attraction, Chinatown.
The average home price in Armour Square is a little over $200,000, with housing styles including rowhouses and 2- and 3-flats.
Armour Square Park proper includes such activities as baseball, boxing, a fitness center, tennis courts and outdoor swimming.
www.relocate-america.com /bigcities/Chicago/South-Side/Armour-Square   (211 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Backdraft: Unbox Video: Kurt Russell,William Baldwin,Robert De Niro,Donald Sutherland,Jennifer Jason ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these explosive crimes.
The numbers of the fire companies are all "dead" numbers in the Chicago Fire Dept. Engine 17, Truck 46, Engine 24, Truck 6 (now back in service as of March of 2004), and Engine 33, (referred to, not actually seen in the movie), are all out of service.
The Chicago Fire Dept. has 24 battalions, battalion 25 was created for the movie.
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 Chicago Real Estate Illinois Homes for sale, Buy a home, Sell a home, Alex French, Selling homes, Buying homes.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Chicago Real Estate Illinois Homes for sale, Buy a home, Sell a home, Alex French, Selling homes, Buying homes.
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Alex’s extensive understanding of Chicago’s real estate market has facilitated transactions in all areas including, multi-million dollar land deals and up to 72 unit new construction projects.
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 Chicago Real Estate Illinois Homes for sale, Buy a home, Sell a home, Sam Jenkins, Selling homes, Buying homes.
Chicago Real Estate Illinois Homes for sale, Buy a home, Sell a home, Sam Jenkins, Selling homes, Buying homes.
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 Armour Square Park on Centerstage Chicago - Armour Square Park : 3309 S. Shields Ave., Chicago, (312) 747-6012 , ...
Just across from US Cellular field, Armour Square Park is a great place to grab a slice (there’s pizza across the way) and read a book while waiting for the game to get going.
Armour’s indoor facilities feature two gyms and a hall with an events stage.
Armour Square Park was mentioned in these articles...
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 Chicago Reporter December 1997: Keeping Current   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Impoverished minority youths are selectively targeted by police and treated differently in the courts, writes Wilfredo Cruz in the fall edition of One City, a quarterly magazine of the Chicago Council On Urban Affairs.
The March attack on Lenard Clark, the 13-year-old fl youth allegedly beaten by three white teens in Chicago’s Armour Square neighborhood, was not about race, said Tommy, a 23-year-old white resident of the area, in the Nov. 24 issue of Time magazine.
There were 183 hate crimes reported in Chicago as of Oct. 21, compared to 155 for the same period last year, city records show.
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 Chinatown, Chicago | Where's Chinatown
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Chinatown is part of Chicago's Armour Square neighborhood.
This is the "true" Chinatown, not to be confused with New Chinatown / Argyle Street on Chicago's north side.
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 Bridgeport, Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bridgeport is a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Because of inadequate funding for the project, the State of Illinois began issuing "Land Scrip" to the workers rather than paying them with money.
Dunne's Mr Dooley charcacter lived on "Archey Road" (present day Archer Avenue, Chicago) in Bridgeport.
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 Square Dance Clubs and Dances in the Chicago Area
Square Dance Clubs and Dances in the Chicago Area
Square Dances and Clubs in the Chicago Area
Please EMAIL squaredancechicago@hotmail.com any changes, corrections or additions so that this list will be current and reliable.
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