The diverse food processing industry and migration into Chicago.
Time Periods: 20th Century
Chicago’s Catholic Immigrants and Church Architecture, 1850s to 1924
While modern Catholic immigrants into Chicago are from Central and South America, Chicago’s Catholic churches, built from the 1850s to 1924, reflect the European immigrants who were their original parishes. The reasons behind the styles, though, are less straightforward.
The Television Show Good Times and the Chicago Public Housing System
Good Times and Urbanization and Chicago’s Public Housing System
Chicago Freedom Movement
This project is about the Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement.
Pullman: A Company Town in an Industrial Age
The company town of Pullman was built in response to industrialization in the United States in the 19th century.
The Creation of Early Childhood Intervention
Influences to the Creation of Early Childhood Intervention in Chicago Early Child Intervention began in the 1870s, when Americans began to open free child care centers for the poor. They did this as a means to save the impoverished children from falling into the same patterns of misfortunate as their parents. The centers were places […]
Italian Immigrants in Progressive Era Boston
Italian immigrants emigration to the United States affected Americans, especially in Boston. The racial and ethnic prejudices and discrimination by American and Bostonian society, was a factor in the Sacco-Vanzetti Case that proved monumental in Italian ethnic relations in the United States in the twentieth century. How the press handled and covered these Italian ethnic relations and the case was a major factor in the development of the racial and ethnic tensions at that time.
Sewers and Urban Planning in Boston
Though private citizens and companies built the early sewers of Boston the infrastructure was changed and expanded in the late 1800s with the development of the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission.
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority
In 1894, Boston was authorized to build the first subway system in the United States, a pivotal undertaking in terms of public transportation. [1] For over a century mass public transportation in Boston changed, shifting from the private, financially unstable Boston Elevated Railway Company to the modernized, publicly funded, popular, Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. This shift from […]
Urban Renewal of the West End Neighborhood
This project is about the Urban Renewal project of Boston’s West End neighborhood in the 1950’s and the displacement of many working poor communities.
