The Chicago Freedom Movement: Bringing the Civil Rights Movement Northward
The Juvenile Protective Association
Creation of the Juvenile Court System
Pullman: A Model Town for Workers

Housing is a Right--the Introduction of Public Housing
Robert Taylor Homes and Large-Scale Public Housing
The Playground Movement
The Development of City Parks
The Conservation Movement
Lakefront as public space
Sheppard-Towner Act and Maternal Welfare
Washing machines and modern appliances change the home
Police Crowd Control following DNC
911: A New Way to Meet Emergencies
Effect of industrialism…pollution, poverty, need for culture, naturalism writing
Introduction of Bicycles: From Elite to Mass
Enrico Fermi and Splitting the Atom
Chicago’s building/loan and mutual societies
Chicago Area Project’s Study of Neighorhoods
Saul Alinsky and Community organizing
Chicago balloon-frame houses
Chicago Vice Commission
Chicago School of Sociology
The Social Gospel Movement
The Development of animal cruelty legislation and ISPCA
Chicago Tract Society and moral reform
Let there be light! How street lighting changed the city
Special Olympics
Harlem Globetrotters & Segregated Basketball
Immigrant Protective League
Segregated Medicine and the “Restraint of Trade” Innovative Lawsuit
Illinois and Michigan Canal: Connecting Chicago to the World
Mail-Order Catalogs: Bringing the Store to the Home
The Union Stock Yard: Feeding a Country
Chicago Board of Trade
The Race to Patent the Telephone
Ray Kroc and fast food
Refrigerated rail car
Invention of the cafeteria
Meatpacking and the "disassembly line"
Rand McNally and the mass production of maps
Claude Barnett and the Associated Negro Press
Rise of the department stores
Getting Us on the Same Clock: General Time Convention of 1883
From Military to Civilian: the Creation of the Urban Trauma Units
The cancer cure that didn’t work
Chicago Doctors and innovation in heart surgery
James Watson and DNA
Public health Innovations: Epidemics, Pasteurization, Baby Tents, Pediatrics
Making the City Healthy: Chicago's Struggle Against Sewage
Rise of hospital birth movement, Joseph Bolivar DeLee and Chicago Lying-In
Combatting VD: The Institute of Sex Hygiene
Reversal of the River
Pullman Cars and Luxury Train Travel
Pioneer Zephyr and the Modern Train
Moving the City People: Electric Interurban Railways
When Privatization Didn’t Work: Creating CTA
Paul Galvin Changes the Way We Communicate
Dr. Berry and his Gastroendoscope
Innovations from World’s Fairs that Changed Society
WTTW and public broadcasting
Second City and improvisational comedy
Early Chicago Architecture and the Skyscraper
The Chicago Black Renaissance: Identity and Expression
The South Side Community Art Center and Making Arts Available to All
Chicago Jazz, 1910-1930: New Forms, New Sounds
The Negro National League as a Response to Segregated Baseball
AACM Innovations in Jazz
Architecture—steel structured building, sears, mies, wright, Sullivan, bungalows
Auditorium Building: A History of Innovations
Balaban and Katz and Movie Palaces
Harriet Monroe & the Creation of Modern Poetry
Rise of professional sports
Gospel Music and a New Way to Pray
Chicago Blues in 1950s
Chicago and Early Film Industry
Burnham Plan
Art Institute and art for the public
The Museum of Contemporary Art and the Avant-Garde
New Thinking on Education: John Dewey and Francis Parker
Madeline Morgan and the Making of the First Black Studies Curriculum
John Johnson’s Innovations in Publishing
Chicago School of Literature
The Marriage of Industrial Production and Art: Arts and Crafts Society
Tarzan to Sister Carrie
American Little Theater Movement
The “Untrammelled Liberty” of Margaret Anderson
The Chicago Woman's Club: Influencing Politics through Other Means
Title 9
HERS: Feminism and the Protection of Women
Women's World Fairs
Worshipping “Up South” with Elder Lucy Smith
The Industrial Workers of the World as a Radical Labor Union
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: African Americans in the Labor Movement
The Eight-Hour Movement: New Labor Activism
CIO's "Negro and White Unite"

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