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Industry and nation
1825 to 1914
Reform, invention, nationalism, and new public expectations of leadership.
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Modern
1825 to 1914
Reform, invention, nationalism, and new public expectations of leadership.
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21 place stories active in the same years
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Chicago, Illinois · 1889 CE to 1889 CE
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1889 · Chicago, Illinois
Chicago becomes the site of a new civic experiment where poverty, immigration, labor, culture, and reform are forced into the same neighborhood reality.
Jane Addams keeps the event human because institutional reform begins here as an act of shared urban presence rather than distant policy alone.
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