Becoming the Second City: Chicago's Mass News Media, 1833-1898

Index

index Abbot, Willis, 39, 54, 123 abolition, 26, 38, 41, 48–49, 66, 84 abortion, 39, 41–42 Addams, Jane, 153, 169, 172, 178 advertising: agencies, 94; business, 34; early, 4, 6; false news stories, 144; great fire, 78; labor, 100, 111; newspaper, 11, 16, 109; St. Louis, 84; street, 17; vice, 158, 162, 165–66; world’s fair, 145–48, 151 African Americans: criticized, 49; disenfranchisement , 24; early residents, 61; great fire, 72, 76–77; immigration, 66; Negrophobia, 48; newspaper, 85; rioting , 38; slave catchers, 18; stereotyping, 150; vice, 15, 61, 165, 167; world’s fair, 132, 151 agriculture: business, 37; early, 29; farming , 30, 32, 36; hinterland relationship, 29; newspapers, 30; pork, 80, 134; produce , 85; St. Louis, 83, 86; swindlers, 57; twentieth century, 191; vegetables, 31, 101 Ahern, Michael, 72 Alarm, 112 alcohol: advertising, 162; beer gardens, 23–24; consumption habits, 23, 126; Germans, 25; great fire, 74; Haymarket, 112, 114; licenses, 23, 104; Milwaukee, 80; newspaper war, 187, 136, 139; police, 17; politics, 179; prostitution, 160–61; St. Louis, 87; Sunday (Sabbath) laws, 23, 104; world’s fair, 150, 153, 166 alcoholism, 40, 50, 57, 68, 73, 154, 163 Altgeld, John P., 119–20, 141, 184 American Railway Union, 121 anarchism, 106, 119–21, 125, 141–42, 187 Andreas, Alfred, 54, 71 Andrews, James, 24 Andrews, Ransom (Shang), 162–64, 167 annexation, 88, 189, 191 Army, 49, 54, 74, 109, 121, 123 Arnold, Charles D., 145–46, 148 Arnold, Isaac N., 52–54 Associated Press (Western), 74, 114 Avrich, Paul, 116, 120 Baker, Edward, 47 Baker, Ray, 153 Barnum, P. T., 136 Barron, Elwyn, 109 bathhouses, 135, 165, 174–75 Baum, Frank, 148–49 Beer Riot (1855), 23–25, 26, 103 belly dancers, 126, 151–52, 156 Better Class, 26, 52, 76 blacklegs, 61, 165 228 . index bloomers, 41, 180 Bohemians, 99, 105 boilerplate (ready prints), 144–45 bombs, 91, 112, 113, 115 boodling, 157, 178–79, 180, 182, 184, 191 Boone, Levi, 23, 24, 25, 104 boosterism: against New York, 27, 135; against St. Louis, 86, 131; early, 8, 9–10, 14, 29; newspaper, 11, 15, 35, 79, 128; twentieth century, 192; world’s fair, 126, 141, 142–45, 147, 149 Boston, 60, 87, 141 bread riot (1873), 95, 100, 101, 104 Brennan, Michael, 123 Bridgeport, 98, 125, British, 3, 4, 7, 12, 25 broadsides, 52, 146 Bross, William, 24, 34, 35, 59, 77 bulletin (news) boards, 10, 17 Burnham, Daniel, 140, 143, 145 Burnside, Gen. Ambrose, 29, 50–51, 53, 55 business: commodities, 33, 77; early, 6, 8, 23, 29; German, 111; great fire, 77–78; information, 34–35; mail order, 94; mid-century, 100, 102, 114; New York, 133, 139; newspaper, 29, 34, 43, 95, 159, 160, 168; politics, 181; promotion, 15; St. Louis, 83–84; telephone, 181; vice, 158, 159, 169; world’s fair, 148, 153 businessmen: advertising, 94; civic responsibility , 35, 59, 174; commodities, 30, 31, 33, 36, 46; early, 11, 16; great fire, 77; leaders, 33, 172, 175; New York, 129, 135; newspaper war, 130; radicalism, 99, 109; St. Louis, 82, 84; social order, 26; vice, 160; world’s fair, 134, 137 Calhoun, John, 10–12, 96 Camp Douglas, 48, 51, 115–16 Cameron, Andrew, 99–100 cannons, 110, 111, 112, 139 cartoons: beauty and beast, 126; beauty queens, 138; Haymarket, 118; Tammany Hall, 191; world’s fair, 139, 140; Yerkes, 186 Catholicism, 22–23, 25, 26–27, 106, 172 census, 79, 84, 86–88, 189–91 Century of Progress World’s Fair (1933), 6 Chamberlin, Everett, 71, 86–87 Chamberlin, Joseph, 72–73 Cherry, Colin, 30, 94 Chicago: early 3–4; future, 191; location in Illinois, 1, 2, 87, 134; name variants, 2–3; patriotism, 119, 136–40 Chicago Arbeitor Verein, 95 Chicagoer Arbeiter Zeitung, 91, 92, 111, 113–14, 157 Chicago Board of Education, 68, 93, 189 Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), 33, 61, 112, 147, 165, 169 Chicago Building and Loan Association, 89 Chicago Chronicle, 92, 170 Chicago Daily News: anarchism, 113, 117– 19; civic federation, 172; Coughlin, 175, 179; Haymarket, 112, 116–17; immigration , 92; Kenna, 177, 179, 185; linotype, 182; New York, 134, 138, 191; Pullman strike, 121–22; railroad strike, 107–9; St. Louis, 128; scooping, 93; vice, 166, 167, 170, 175; Yerkes, 182–83 Chicago Democrat: boosting, 8; commercial printing, 15; commodities market, 30, 31, 34, 80; founding, 10–12; futures trading, 36; Lincoln, 45; St. Louis, 81–84; technology, 15; Tribune, 18; vice, 15–16; Wentworth, 12–14 Chicago Evening Journal: beer...