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    The Whole Foods Case Study Whole Foods is determined to align themselves as close as they possible can to the company’s vision and mission, by providing the highest quality of natural and/or organic products available. By providing and implementing customer awareness, coming up with innovative ways that teaches customers that being health conscious is the way to go, creating a healthy environment for both their team and their customers. They serve both local and governmental environments, they are

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    Chicago in the 1920s was a turning point for the development of ethnic neighborhoods. After the opening of the first rail connection from New York to Chicago in the 1840s, immigration sky rocketed from that point on. Majority of the immigrants to Chicago were Europeans. The Irish, Italians, eastern European Jews, Germans, and Mexicans were among the most common ethnicities to reside in Chicago. These groups made up the greater part of Chicago. The sudden increase in immigration to Chicago in the

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York. The parents of Franklin D. Roosevelt were James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. Both of his parents had a wealthy past. His parents shaped his personality and has a large part of making him who he is. Roosevelt had a much older stepbrother from James Roosevelt’s side of the family. Although he was not very close to his half-brother, he gained financial support from his stepbrother when he needed

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    subject of crime, business, and politics in Chicago to be fascinating, and taking this class has broadened my knowledge and understanding of the way Chicago has and continues to function in the pursuit of money. One of my earliest memories that piqued my interest in the class was the trip to the Chicago History Museum on the South end of Lincoln Park. I found the portion of the trip where we were on the second floor of the museum and exploring how Chicago grew from a small hustler’s town to the booming

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    20 as the new first family reveled in Inauguration Day events. Separately in Chicago, comedian Shannon Noll played the title character in ‘Barron Trump: Up Past Bedtime,’ Which had a recent run at a theater in Hyde Park”(Superville 1). Barron was turned into a joke over the media and he was being made fun of for being the president’s son. This illustrates the reality of all the fame and glory of

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    located in Hyde Park New York. It was after graduation that his career blossomed into a very bright future. Upon graduation Chef Achatz applied for and began working under Thomas Keller at the French Laundry in Yountville California. Chef Achatz spent four years working for Chef Keller and worked up through the ranks to eventually become his Sous Chef. Under Thomas Keller's watchful eye Chef Achatz gained extensive knowledge which lead to him leaving in 2001 and moving to the Chicago Illinois area

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    Diane Judith Nash was born May 15, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in a middle class Catholic family, where her father, Leon Nash worked as a clerk in the military during WWII and her mother, Dorothy Bolton Nash who worked as a keypunch operator.Nash, attended both public and catholic schools growing up and once considered becoming a nun. As a teenager she won several beauty contests and in 1956, Nash graduated from Hyde Park High School in Chicago.

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    Jeff Fort and the Black P. Stone Nation Chicago, IL is a city that is well known for its high violent crime rate. Over the years, gangs such as the Black P. Stone Nation played a huge role in Chicago’s crime. Jeff Fort was the founder of the Black P. Stones, and controlled Chicago’s south side at a very early age. Even though Fort found himself in and out of prison; he was still able to run the gang from the inside. The crimes in Chicago committed by the former Blackstone Rangers now known as El

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    “alter public spaces in ugly ways,” as he is seen as a suspect and danger by individuals who merely make assumptions based on the color of his skin. He recounts his experience of walking down a desolate street in a poverty-stricken area of Chicago called Hyde Park. A white twenty-year old woman, who was walking on the same avenue, cast back a few worried glances, picked up her pace, and was “soon running in earnest”. Although Staples was simply an innocent bystander “stalking sleep, not defenseless

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    Introduction Beverly is one of the most integrated areas in hype-segregated Chicago. Like that of Hyde Park or Rodgers Park, except Beverly obtains this diversity without the presence of a university. As well, “Beverly has retained its reputation as one of Chicago’s most stable middle-class residential districts” (Skerrett 2005). Black families during the 1950s and 60s started moving south as there was the historical “white flight”, leaving these communities mainly black. Beverly, however, was the

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