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2. Swedish Americans - Wikipedia

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   Gustafson, Anita Olson. "'We hope to be able to do some good': Swedish-American women's organizations in Chicago." Swedish-American Historical Quarterly (2008) 59#4 pp 178–201; covers 1840 to 1950. Gustafson, Anita Olson. Swedish Chicago: The Shaping of an Immigrant Community, 1880–1920 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018). Hale ...

3. Swedish emigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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   During the 19th and early 20th centuries, about 1.3 million Swedes left Sweden for the United States of America. While the land of the American frontier was a magnet for the rural poor all over Europe, some factors encouraged Swedish emigration in particular. Religious repression and idiosyncrasy practiced by the Swedish Lutheran State Church ...

4. Swedish American Museum - Wikipedia

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   The Swedish American Museum in Chicago was founded by Kurt Mathisson in 1976. It moved to its current location on 5211 North Clark Street in 1987. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden was present at the museum's founding and at its move to its new home. [1] The museum is housed in a 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m 2 ), three-story building and has a ...

5. Provident Hospital (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   Provident Hospital was founded in 1891 by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams after Emma Reynolds, a Chicago woman, was denied admission to Cook County School of Nursing because she was Black. [2] Williams garnered financial support from Chicago’s Black community and White philanthropists, such as Philip Armour, T.B. Blackstone, and George Pullman, to ...

6. Swedes in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Like other European ethnic groups, people left Sweden in search of better economic opportunities during the mid-1800s. In the year 1900, Chicago was the city with the second highest number of Swedes after Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. By then, Swedes in Chicago, most of whom settled in the Andersonville neighborhood, especially in the years following the Great Chicago Fire, had founded the ...

7. Swedish Hospital - Wikipedia

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   Swedish Hospital (formerly Swedish Covenant Hospital) is a 312-bed [1] nonprofit teaching hospital located on the north side of Chicago, Illinois.The hospital offers over 50 medical specialties, including neurosurgery for the spine and brain, integrative cancer care, heart services (including electrophysiology), women's health services, childbirth and emergency services. [1]

8. Swedish Public Employment Service - Wikipedia

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   Swedish Public Employment Service. The Swedish Public Employment Service (Swedish: Arbetsförmedlingen) is a Swedish government agency organized under the Ministry of Employment mainly responsible for the public employment service in Sweden and the implementation of labour market policies. The agency should help facilitate meetings and bring ...

9. Consulate General of Sweden, Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Closed. July 1, 1993. The Consulate General of Sweden, Chicago was the diplomatic mission of Sweden in Chicago between 1943 and 1993. The consulate general originated from the honorary vice consulate opened in 1852, which was converted into an honorary consulate in 1908, and into a consulate in 1913 and finally into a consulate general in 1943.