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A (160)

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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 (13)
Art Institute of Chicago (9)
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Chicago Daily News (96)
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Chicago History Museum (17)

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Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 (14)
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Douglas, Paul Howard, 1892- (10)
Dewey, George, 1837-1917 (4)

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Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund (4)
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Edgewater Beach Hotel (3)
Essanay Film Manufacturing Co (3)
E.R.A. Central (2)
Eisenhower, Dwight D. , 1890-1969 (2)

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Field Museum of Natural History (2)
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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 (2)

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Government National Mortgage Association (3)
Grant, Ulysses S (3)
Griffin, Joseph P (3)

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Hotel Florence (4)
Harris, Everette B (3)

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Illinois Institute of Technology (18)
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International Harvester Company (6)
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Jackson, Jesse, 1941- (2)
Jackson, Mahalia (2)

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Lebeck, Warren W (8)
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Liebenow, Robert C (6)
Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904-1971 (4)
Lowden, Frank O. , 1861-1943 (4)

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Marshall Field & Company (4)
Mary Crane Nursery (4)
Mauff, John R (4)
McClintock, J.O (4)
MidAmerica Commodity Exchange (4)

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Nixon, Richard M., 1913- (4)
North Loop News, Inc (4)
Northwestern University (4)
National Grain & Feed Association (3)
New Bauhaus (3)
Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (3)

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O (53)

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Orr, 1890- (4)
O'Hara, Barratt, 1882-1969 (2)
Oglesby, Richard James (2)
Olander, Victor A (2)
Open Lands Project (2)
Owings Building (2)

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P (152)

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Pullman, George Mortimer, 1831-1897 (4)
Pearson, Elmer R (3)
Pullman Company (3)
Palmer, Bertha Honoré (2)

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Quan, Emmett (1)

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Ryerson, Joseph Turner, 1813-1839 (5)
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R.C. Wieboldt Construction Company (3)
Reed, Earl H (3)
Reed, Earl H. , 1884-1968 (3)
Roosevelt, Eleanor (3)

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Society of the Golden Section (9)
Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924 (8)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (6)
Stevenson, Adlai , 1900-1965 (6)
Sawyer, Eugene (3)
Schmidt, Ernst (3)

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Taylor, J. W (4)
Taylor, Lea Demarest, 1883-1975 (3)
Terkel, Studs, 1912- (3)
Thall, Bob (3)
Tillstrom, Burr (3)
Triggs, Thomas L (3)

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Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago (76)
United States (55)
United States. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (15)
University of Chicago (13)
United States. Department of Agriculture (10)
Union Stock Yards (9)

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Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (3)
Van der Marck, Jan (2)
Vittum, Harriet E., 1872-1953 (2)
Vogele, Robert (2)
Van Hoosen, Bertha, 1863-1952 (1)
Van Ness, Bessie (1)

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Washington, Harold, 1922-1987 (16)
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 (6)
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Welfare & Health Council of New York City (3)

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Young Men's Christian Association (4)
YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago (3)
Yarros, Rachelle S. , 1869-1946 (2)
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago (1)
Yarros, Victor S (1)
Yates family (1)

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Zimmerman, Anne (2)
Zakoian, Paul (1)
Zearing, James Roberts (1)
Zenkl, Peter (1)
Ziegfeld, Florenz (1)
Zonta Club of Chicago Loop (1)

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