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The shop and affiliated Kalo Arts and Crafts Community House, a practicing school and workshop noted for silver and jewelry in nearby Park Ridge, Illinois, were founded in 1900 by a group of six young women who had trained at the Art Institute of Chicago. Clara Pauline Barck Welles (1868-1965) was the group's leader and most notable member. [2]
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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 ...
Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America is a 2019 non-fiction history book by Erika K. Jackson, published by University of Illinois Press. The work describes how Scandinavian Americans were initially seen as not being at the top of the U.S. racial hierarchy but that this perception changed by the 1880s. [ 1 ]
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[2] Historic building in the district, former home of the Page Boiler Company (1930s-90s) [3] The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1976. Its boundaries were expanded three times in the 1980s (Reference Number 76000704). [1]
Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 200 %. Geographic limits of the map: N: 71.5° N; S: 53.6° N; W: 3.8° E; E: 32.3° E; Date: 27 September 2008: Source: own work, using World Data Base II data: Author: NordNordWest: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Fjord line route map.svg; Simplified map of dialects in Sweden.png
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