History
Looking back on German history in Lincoln Square and Chicago as a whole |
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Prominent People |
A German immigrant born in 1859, Oscar F. Mayer, first lived in Detroit when arriving to The United States. A few years later, he moved to Chicago to work in the stock yards and hold various other jobs in the meat industry. Around the turn of the century, Mayer founded his own meat company now known as Oscar Mayer meat company.
Dankmar Adler- Born in Germany, Adler, like Oscar Mayer, immigrated to Detroit. He began his study of architecture there, and later went to Chicago to work with other well know architects. The most famous of these being his work with Louis Sullivan on the world famous Auditorium Theater.
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World War One
When the United States announced their joining of the war on April 6, 1917, There were mixed feelings among the many German immigrants in Chicago. Many of the German immigrants had sympathy for the central powers, one of which being Germany. At the least, they favored America's neutrality in the war. A fear of Germans in the U.S. grew, and many German terms brought to the country were beginning to change. For example, Americans began calling sauerkraut "freedom cabbage" and what we know as hot dogs, were previously frankfurters.
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Lindberg, Richard. Ethnic Chicago. Lincolnwood, IL: Passport Books, 1997
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The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. (n.d.). Dankmar Adler. Retrieved May 18, 2016, from http://www.britannica.com/biography/Dankmar-Adler
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World War I. (n.d.). Retrieved May 18, 2016, from http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1383.html
Illinois Hall of Fame: Oscar Mayer. (n.d.). Retrieved May 18, 2016, from http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2006/09/illinois_hall_o_25.html
The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. (n.d.). Dankmar Adler. Retrieved May 18, 2016, from http://www.britannica.com/biography/Dankmar-Adler
Lincoln Square. (n.d.). Retrieved May 18, 2016, from http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/747.html
World War I. (n.d.). Retrieved May 18, 2016, from http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1383.html