Edited by James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin
Keating, and Janice L. Reiff
Major funding provided by
James R. Grossman is vice president for
research and education at the Newberry Library and senior lecturer in history
at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Land of Hope: Chicago,
Black Southerners, and the Great Migration and A Chance to Make Good:
African Americans 1900-1929. Ann Durkin Keating is professor of
history at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She is the author of
Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided
Metropolis, Invisible Networks: Exploring the History of Local
Utilities, and Chicagoland. Janice L. Reiff is associate professor of history at
the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Structuring
the Past: The Use of Computers in History and coeditor of The Settling
of North America: The Atlas of the Great Migrations into North America from the
Ice Age to the Present.
A-Z Entries in the print edition of the Encyclopedia of
Chicago
- p. 5 (Advice Columns): "christened" should be "named"
- p. 36 (Architecture: The Second Chicago School): "Bertram" should be "Bertrand" in photo caption
- p. 178 (Clothing and Garment Manufacturing): in first line of first full paragraph, delete "overview" (after "By the late 1920s,")
- p. 224 (Czechs and Bohemians): change "Czech National Cemetery" to "Bohemian National Cemetery"
- p. 224 (Czechs and Bohemians): change "possessed few marketable skills" to "possessed few locally marketable skills"
- p. 250 (photo caption): caption should be "Dutch dancers, Palmer Park festival, 1910."
- p. 295 (Film Criticism): change "film critic Richard Roeper" to "columnist Richard Roeper"
- p. 314 (Fox River Grove): change "converted the Kosatka Hotel to Lou's Place" to "established Louis's Place"
- p. 413 (photo caption): change "1886" to "1880"
- p. 443 (Kane County): thumbnail highlights Kendall rather than Kane, directly north of the highlighted rectangle
- p. 517 (Meatpacking): Union Stock Yard "closed in 1970, the same year" should be "1971, a year after"
- p. 611 (photo caption): change "ca. 1908" to "1908" in caption
- p. 631 (photo caption): change "1907" to "1908"
- p. 646 (Printer's Row): change "on the NEAR SOUTH SIDE" to "in the southern part of the LOOP"
- p. 719 (Roman Catholics): "Rerum Novarum (1893)" should be 1891
- p. 731 (Sauk Village): at end of first full paragraph, delete "the current historic church …" to end of sentence, replace with "the structure served as a community center into the 1990s"
- p. 770 (South Loop): change "in the NEAR SOUTH SIDE Community Area" to "in the LOOP and NEAR SOUTH SIDE Community Areas"
- p. 844 (Union Stock Yard): market closed "July 30, 1971" rather than "August 1, 1971"
- p. 851 ("Resorts: Summer Journey to Saugatuck"): correct spelling of "Polachek" to "Polacheck" (4 times)
- p. 1009 (Brookfield data 1930): Change "18,016" to "10,016" and "179.5%" to "99.8%"
