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105-657: The Daughters of Indiana, a group of women who were born in Indiana but resided in the Chicago metropolitan area , hosted the first annual Hoosier Salon in 1925 at the Marshall Field and Company 's galleries in Chicago . In 1942 the annual exhibition was relocated to Indianapolis , Indiana, where it has been held at several venues, including the William H. Block Company and the L. S. Ayres and Company department stores,

210-587: A Golden Age of literature in Indiana . Booth Tarkington served one term in the Indiana House of Representatives , was critical of the advent of automobiles, and set many of his stories in the Midwest. He eventually moved to Kennebunkport, Maine , where he continued his life work even as he suffered a loss of vision. He is often cited as an example of an author a great success when alive, whose reputation and influence did not survive his death. Tarkington

315-539: A "co-author" of his later books and dedicated three of them ( Rabble in Arms , Northwest Passage , and Oliver Wiswell ) to him. Tarkington underwent eye surgery in February 1929. In August 1930, he suffered a complete loss in his eyesight and was rushed from Maine to Baltimore for surgery on his right eye. He had an additional two operations in the latter half of 1930. In 1931, after five months of blindness, he underwent

420-564: A 200-mile (320 km) radius in every direction and reported on many different places in the area. The Tribune was the dominant newspaper in a vast area stretching to the west of the city, and that hinterland was closely tied to the metropolis by rail lines and commercial links. Today, the Chicago Tribune' s usage includes the city of Chicago, the rest of Cook County , eight nearby Illinois counties (Lake, McHenry , DuPage , Kane , Kendall , Grundy , Will , and Kankakee ), and

525-533: A 2020 census population of 9,618,502 and the combined statistical area, which spans 19 counties and additionally extends into southeast Wisconsin , had a population of nearly 10 million people. The Chicago area is the third-largest metropolitan area in the United States and the fourth-largest metropolitan area in North America (after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles), and the largest in

630-408: A Litt.D. from Princeton, and honorary doctorates from Columbia University and Purdue. He made substantial donations to Purdue for building an all-men's residence hall , which the university named Tarkington Hall in his honor. Tarkington was married to Laura Louisa Fletcher from 1902 until their divorce in 1911. Their only child, Laurel, was born in 1906 and died in 1923. Fletcher, a published poet,

735-649: A boarding school on the East Coast. He attended Purdue University for two years, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and the university's Morley Eating Club. Some of his family's wealth returned after the Panic of 1873, and his mother transferred Booth from Purdue to Princeton University . At Princeton, Tarkington is said to have been known as "Tark" among the members of the Ivy Club ,

840-478: A children's book and was one of the best-selling books of the era in that category. The Two Vanrevels and Mary's Neck appeared on the annual best-seller lists a total of nine times. Tarkington authored 25 plays, including three collaborations with Harry Leon Wilson . Some of the plays dramatized his novels. Some were eventually filmed, including Monsieur Beaucaire , Presenting Lily Mars , and The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy , made into

945-556: A fifth and final operation. The surgery resulted in a significant restoration in his eyesight. However, his physical energy was diminished for the remainder of his life. Tarkington maintained a home in his native Indiana at 4270 North Meridian Street in Indianapolis. From 1923 until his death, Tarkington spent summers and then much of his later life in Kennebunkport at his much loved home, Seawood . In Kennebunkport, he

1050-479: A large number of White , Black , Latino , Asian , and Arab American residents, and also has Native American residents in the region, making the Chicago metropolitan area population truly diverse. The Chicago metropolitan area represents about 3 percent of the entire US population. Chicagoland has one of the world's largest and most diversified economies. With more than six million full and part-time employees,

1155-494: A literary environmentalist —not just a 'conservationist,' in the [ Theodore Roosevelt ] mode, but an emerald-Green decrier of internal combustion": The automobile, whose production was centered in Indianapolis before World War I, became the snorting, belching villain that, along with soft coal, laid waste to Tarkington's Edens. His objections to the auto were aesthetic—in The Midlander (1923) automobiles sweep away

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1260-724: A population of over 8 million, which includes the following locations in Illinois: The city of Chicago lies in the Chicago Plain, a flat and broad area characterized by little topographical relief. The few low hills are sand ridges. North of the Chicago Plain, steep bluffs and ravines run alongside Lake Michigan. Along the southern shore of the Chicago Plain, sand dunes run alongside the lake. The tallest dunes reach up to near 200 feet (61 m) and are found in Indiana Dunes National Park . Surrounding

1365-545: A prize for Best Marine Scene. Marguerite B. Williams, art critic for the Chicago Daily News , remarked at the time of the first Salon that Indiana was well known for its writers; however, "it would seem that some of this desire for self-expression has overflowed into painting for there is probably no other state that could show as many and such a high average of practically unknown painters." Hoosier authors Tarkington, George Ade , and Meredith Nicholson supported

1470-494: A serialized film in 1920 and 1921. In 1928, he published a book of reminiscences, The World Does Move . He illustrated the books of others, including a 1933 reprint of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , as well as his own. Tarkington was an unabashed Midwestern regionalist and set much of his fiction in his native Indiana . His style has been compared to that of Mark Twain and William Dean Howells . Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of

1575-662: A significant achievement that also achieved national recognition. After the Salon's run in Indianapolis, a special exhibition featuring all 168 pieces from the Indiana show were exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution 's National Museum of American Art in April 1949. The Indiana State Society of Washington, D.C. , sponsored two fund-raising events for the Salon's exhibition in Washington, D.C.—a style show at

1680-508: A tremendous rate since the early 1960s. Aurora, Elgin, Joliet, and Naperville are noteworthy for being four of the few boomburbs outside the Sun Belt , West Coast and Mountain States regions, and exurban Kendall County ranked as the fastest-growing county (among counties with a population greater than 10,000) in the United States between the years 2000 and 2007. Settlement patterns in

1785-792: A whiff of social criticism—he or she is not going to please later readers of inevitably different values and concerns. In 2004, author and critic Thomas Mallon noted: "Entirely absent from most current histories of American writing, Tarkington was generally scorned by those published just before or after his death." In 2019, Robert Gottlieb wrote that Tarkington "dwindled into America's most distinguished hack." Gottlieb criticized Tarkington's anti-modernist perspective, "his deeply rooted, unappeasable need to look longingly backward, an impulse that goes beyond nostalgia," for preventing him from "producing so little of real substance." Mallon wrote of Tarkington that "only general ignorance of his work has kept him from being pressed into contemporary service as

1890-474: Is further subdivided into four metropolitan divisions. A breakdown of the county constituents and 2021 estimated populations of the four metropolitan divisions of the MSA are as follows: Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL–IN–WI Metropolitan Statistical Area (9,509,934) The OMB also defines a slightly larger region as a Combined Statistical Area (CSA). The Chicago–Naperville, IL–IN–WI Combined Statistical Area combines

1995-964: Is home to the largest futures exchange in the world, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange . In March 2008, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced its acquisition of NYMEX Holdings Inc, the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange and Commodity Exchange. CME'S acquisition of NYMEX was completed in August 2008. A key piece of infrastructure for several generations was the Union Stock Yards of Chicago, which from 1865 until 1971 penned and slaughtered millions of cattle and hogs into standardized cuts of beef and pork . This prompted poet Carl Sandburg to describe Chicago as

2100-499: Is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner , John Updike , and Colson Whitehead . In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson , George Ade , and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create

2205-553: Is part of the Great Lakes Megalopolis , containing an estimated 54 million people. The term " collar counties " is a colloquialism for the five counties (DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry , and Will) of Illinois that border Chicago's Cook County. After Cook County, they are also the next five most populous counties in the state. According to the Encyclopedia of Chicago , there is no specifically known origin of

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2310-487: Is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. The interurban South Shore Line runs between Downtown Chicago and the northwest Indiana portion of the metropolitan area. In addition, Amtrak operates Union Station in Downtown Chicago as one of its largest rail hubs, with numerous lines radiating to and from the station. CTA bus routes serve the city proper, with some service into the suburbs. Pace bus routes serve

2415-576: Is the West Side , which has a somewhat lower median income, but the western suburbs contain many affluent and upper-middle class areas. According to the 2000 Census, DuPage County as a whole had the highest median household income of any county in the Midwestern United States , although there are individual cities and towns in other surrounding counties in the metro that have even higher median incomes. According to 2022 estimates from

2520-647: Is the nation's oldest continuously operating junior college today. Later U of C president Robert Maynard Hutchins was central to the Great Books movement, and programs of dialogic education arising from that legacy can be found today at the U of C, at Shimer College , and in the City Colleges of Chicago and Oakton College in the Northwest suburbs. From 1947 until 1988, the Illinois portion of

2625-461: Is to "create an appreciation of art by promoting Hoosier artists and their art." The Salon's exhibitions also provide viewers an opportunity to see and appreciate the talents of artists with ties to Indiana. The organization's vision is to foster an appreciation for visual art through activities that "educate, inspire, and enhance the lives of the citizens of our state while promoting the creativity, talent and technique of Indiana artists." The idea for

2730-812: The Chicago Evening Post , the Indianapolis Star , and newspapers in Muncie, Indiana , and Terre Haute, Indiana, became the Association's first president. Estella King, a native of Peru, Indiana , and chair of the Daughters of Indiana art committee for the first two Hoosier Salons, became the group's executive chairman. In addition to the Hoosier Salon Patrons Association, ongoing sponsors and supporters of

2835-641: The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times . Local television channels broadcasting to the Chicago market include WBBM-TV 2 (CBS), WMAQ-TV 5 (NBC), WLS-TV 7 (ABC), WGN-TV 9 (Ind), WTTW 11 (PBS), MeTV 23, WCIU 26 (CW), WFLD 32 (FOX), WCPX-TV 38 ( Ion ), WSNS-TV 44 (Telemundo), WPWR-TV 50 (MyNetworkTV), and WJYS-TV 62 (The Way). Radio stations serving the area include: WBBM (AM) , WBEZ , WGN (AM) , WMBI , WLS (AM) , and WSCR . Elementary and secondary education within

2940-573: The Chicago Automobile Trade Association 's "Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana" advertising campaign are directed at the MSA itself, as well as LaSalle, Winnebago ( Rockford ), Boone , and Ogle counties in Illinois, in addition to Jasper , Newton , and La Porte counties in Indiana and Kenosha , Racine , and Walworth counties in Wisconsin, and even as far northeast as Berrien County, Michigan . The region

3045-595: The Great Lakes megalopolis . Its urban area is one of the 40 largest in the world . According to the 2020 Census , the metropolitan's population is approaching the 10 million mark. The metropolitan area has seen a substantial increase of Latin American residents on top of its already large Latino population, and the Asian American population also increased according to the 2020 Census. The metro area has

3150-635: The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). The University of Chicago and Northwestern University are consistently ranked as two of the best universities in the world. There are many transportation options around the region. Chicagoland has three separate rail networks; the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra , and the South Shore Line . The CTA operates elevated and subway lines that run primarily throughout

3255-655: The Indiana State Museum , and the Indiana Historical Society . The Hoosier Salon has survived wars, economic recessions, a fire, venue changes for its annual exhibition, relocation of its offices and gallery spaces, and modifications to its outreach programs. In 2014 the Hoosier Art Salon celebrated its ninetieth continuous year of annual exhibitions. The Hoosier Art Salon is a statewide nonprofit arts organization whose mission

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3360-483: The Ivy Club . Wilson returned to Princeton as a member of the political science faculty shortly before Tarkington departed; they maintained contact throughout Wilson's life. Tarkington failed to earn his undergraduate A.B. because of missing a single course in the classics. Nevertheless, his place within campus society was already determined, and he was voted "most popular" by the class of 1893. Many aspects of Tarkington's Princeton years and adult life were paralleled by

3465-582: The Mayflower Hotel and a dance at the Shoreham Hotel , where Hoosier songwriter Hoagy Carmichael and his wife, Ruth, were special guests. In the 1950s several artists who had contributed to the first exhibitions in Chicago continued to submit works for the Salons, including Polley, Wheeler, and Wayman Adams, among others. Salons in the 1960s marked the changing times for Hoosier artists with

3570-575: The "Hog Butcher for the World". The Chicago area, meanwhile, began to produce significant quantities of telecommunications gear, electronics, steel, crude oil derivatives, automobiles, and industrial capital goods. By the early 2000s, Illinois' economy had moved toward a dependence on high-value-added services, such as financial trading, higher education , logistics , and health care. In some cases, these services clustered around institutions that hearkened back to Illinois's earlier economies. For example,

3675-482: The $ 300 merit prize for her outstanding sculpture called Victory . Wayman Adams won the $ 500 merit prize for the exhibition's outstanding picture, The Art Jury , a life-size portrait of the four surviving members of the Hoosier Group–;Steele, Stark, J. Ottis Adams, and Forsyth. (Steele and Stark died by the end of 1926; J. Ottis Adams died in 1927.) William Edouard Scott , a former student of Stark,

3780-463: The 15-year period from 1914 to 1928, seven of his novels ranked among the top ten best-selling books of the year: Penrod (1914), The Turmoil (#1 best seller of 1915), Seventeen (#1 best seller of 1916), Gentle Julia (1922), The Midlander (1924), The Plutocrat (1927) and Claire Ambler (1928). He produced both of his Pulitzer Prize -winning novels during the same period. Two of his novels achieved longer-term commercial success. Penrod

3885-497: The American class system and its foibles. Themes of the nouveau riche and upward social mobility appear frequently in his books. While Tarkington never earned a college degree, he was accorded many awards recognizing and honoring his skills and accomplishments as an author. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, in 1919 and 1922, for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams . Other achievements include: Tarkington's honorary degrees included an A.M. and

3990-604: The Association relocated its offices to North College Avenue in Indianapolis's Broad Ripple Village , where it had previously established a year-round gallery. The Hoosier Salon operated two other galleries in addition to the one in Broad Ripple. One gallery was at New Harmony, Indiana ; the other at Wabash, Indiana . As of 2014 the Hoosier Salon maintained gallery space at New Harmony, but the Wabash gallery closed and

4095-670: The Chicago CSA The Chicago metropolitan area , also referred to as Chicagoland , is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Illinois , and the Midwest , containing the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities. Encompassing 10,286 square mi (28,120 km ), the metropolitan area includes the city of Chicago, its suburbs and hinterland , that span 13 counties across northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana . The MSA had

4200-495: The Chicago Combined Statistical Area at the time. Within the boundary of the 16-county Chicago Combined Statistical Area lies the Chicago urban area , as well as 26 smaller urban areas. Some of the urban areas below may partially cross into other statistical areas. Only those situated primarily within the Chicago combined statistical area are listed here. The Chicago metropolitan area is home to

4305-588: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a trading exchange for global derivatives , had begun its life as an agricultural futures market . In 2007, the area ranked first among U.S. metro areas in the number of new and expanded corporate facilities. It ranked third in 2008, behind the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown and Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan areas , and ranked second behind the New York metropolitan area in 2009. The Wall Street Journal summarized

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4410-583: The Chicago Public Schools compared to those in some neighboring suburban schools. Historically, the Chicago metropolitan area has been at the center of a number of national educational movements, from the free-flowing Winnetka Plan to the regimented Taylorism of the Gary Plan . In higher education, University of Chicago founder William Rainey Harper was a leading early advocate of the junior college movement; Joliet Junior College

4515-631: The Chicago area's economy in November 2006 with the comment that "Chicago has survived by repeatedly reinventing itself." Chicago has been at the center of the United States' railroad network since the 19th century. Almost all Class I railroads serve the area, the most in North America. In addition to the Chicago Loop , the metro area is home to a few important subregional corridors of commercial activities. Among them are: Listing of

4620-426: The Chicago metro area was served by a single area code , 312, which abutted the 815 area code. In 1988 the 708 area code was introduced and the 312 area code became exclusive to the city of Chicago. Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He

4725-537: The Chicago metropolitan area is a key factor of the Illinois economy, as the state has an annual GDP of over $ 1 trillion. The Chicago metropolitan area generated an annual gross regional product (GRP) of approximately $ 700 billion in 2018. The region is home to more than 400 major corporate headquarters, including 31 in the Fortune 500 such as McDonald's, United, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. With many companies moving to Chicagoland, and many current companies expanding,

4830-541: The Chicago metropolitan area is provided by dozens of different school districts, of which by far the largest is the Chicago Public Schools with 400,000 students. Numerous private and religious school systems are also found in the region, as well as a growing number of charter schools . Racial inequalities in education in the region remain widespread, often breaking along district boundaries; for instance, educational prospects vary widely for students in

4935-400: The Chicago metropolitan area tend to follow those in the city proper: the northern and northwestern suburbs are generally affluent and upper-middle class , while the southern suburbs (sometimes known as Chicago Southland ) have somewhat lower median incomes and a cost of living, with the exception being the southwest suburbs which contain many upper-middle class areas. Another exception to this

5040-540: The Hoosier Salon Patrons Association moved into two donated rooms in the State Life Building (also known as the Thomas Building) on Washington Street in Indianapolis. These rooms also served as the Association's art gallery until 1973, when fire destroyed the building. After the Salon's relocation to Indiana, several new sponsors began their longtime support of the Hoosier Salon. Representatives from

5145-749: The Hoosier Salon originated in May 1924, when the 160-member Daughters of Indiana, a group of women who were born in Indiana but resided in the Chicago metro area, held a gathering devoted to Hoosier painters. Following this initial meeting, Estella King, chair of the group's arts committee, led the organization's plans for an exhibition featuring high quality artwork from Hoosier artists that would help gain more recognition for them outside of Indiana. The group's goals were to inspire Indiana artists to develop their talents, to showcase artists who depicted Indiana themes in their work, and to provide an opportunity to market their art. The Hoosier Salon's name and concept come from

5250-705: The Indiana State Museum. In 2012 the exhibition moved to the Indiana Historical Society's Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center in Indianapolis. The annual juried art exhibition continues to showcase the works of Hoosier artists from all walks of life. In 2014 the Hoosier Salon celebrated its ninetieth consecutive annual exhibition. In November 1974 the Hoosier Salon purchased the Victorian-era Bals-Wocher mansion on Indianapolis's North Delaware Street as

5355-469: The Salon for thirty-five years. Several southwestern artists were linked to Indiana as well. Shelbyville, Indiana , native William Victor Higgins , who was a member of New Mexico 's "Taos Ten", and Gustave Baumann , who worked in Brown County, Indiana , for seven years before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico , in 1918, were Salon exhibitors. Fairmount, Indiana , native Olive Rush , whose art studio

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5460-705: The Salon's exhibitions were held in Chicago. In June 1936 the Hoosier Salon held its annual exhibition during the summer months at the Spink-Wawasee Hotel at Lake Wawasee in Indiana. In 1937 the Art Department of the Woman's Department Club of Indianapolis sponsored a traveling Hoosier Salon exhibition at the William H. Block Company's department store in downtown Indianapolis. Following the success of this event in Indianapolis and continued support from

5565-466: The Salons could be exhibited and sold at the Chicago gallery. The Association also hosted traveling exhibitions, a tradition that continued over the years. For a brief time the group's Hoosier Program Bureau, which was formed in 1929, helped Hoosier musicians secure public appearances. The offering was discontinued in 1941, when the Salon moved its headquarters to Indianapolis and the group decided to focus on visual arts. During its early years, not all of

5670-463: The U.S. Census, poverty rates of the largest counties from least poverty to most are as follows: McHenry 4.0%, Dupage 6.7%, Will 6.9%, Kane 7.8%, Lake 8.0%, and Cook 13.6%. However, Cook County, which contains luxury high rises and expensive houses in sections of the city and expensive houses along the waterfront in the North Shore area, would also have the highest percentage of expensive homes in

5775-667: The Woman's Department Club and its Art Department, Kappa Kappa Kappa, Psi Iota Xi, and women from the Indiana Federation of Clubs and the Indiana Federation of Art Clubs formed the Hoosier Salon Executive Committee. After the move from Chicago, the Association's next annual Hoosier Salon opened in downtown Indianapolis on January 19, 1942, for a two-week run in the sixth-floor auditorium of the William H. Block Company department store at Market and Illinois Streets. The event took place shortly after

5880-556: The acrylics of James Lee Cunningham, and abstract art from Martha Slaymaker. The following is a partial list of past exhibitors: The Hoosier Salon became known for "offering one of the richest purses in the United States." For the first Hoosier Salon in 1925 the top merit prize was $ 500, and the total merit prize money was $ 4,375. In 2009 its best of show won a record $ 10,000, and the total merit prize money for that year exceeded $ 25,000. Chicago metropolitan area Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL–IN MSA Other Statistical Areas in

5985-549: The annual Hoosier Salon have included Kappa Kappa Kappa, first connected to the Salon in 1927; Delta Sigma Kappa sorority, a supporter since 1937; and Psi Iota Xi , a sponsor since 1941. In addition to hosting the annual Salon during its seventeen-year run in Illinois, the patron’s association opened a year-round gallery on October 15, 1928, in donated space in the Chicago Evening Post Building on West Wacker Drive. Art that had appeared in at least one of

6090-410: The annual event. Both of these artists had contributed art for the original exhibition in 1925. The annual Hoosier Salon exhibition remained at Block's department store in Indianapolis from 1942 to 1977. The event moved to the L. S. Ayres department store in downtown Indianapolis at Meridian and Washington Streets in 1978, and remained there until 1989. From 1990 to 2011 the annual exhibition was held at

6195-468: The annual exhibition has taken place at various sites around Indianapolis. The first Hoosier Salon ran from March 9 to 19, 1925, at the art galleries of Marshall Field and Company at 28 East Washington Street in Chicago. The Daughters of Indiana, who organized and sponsored the first Salon, were assisted by several other groups, such as the Indiana Society of Chicago and volunteers from Chicago's Earlham College Alumni Association. The first Hoosier Salon

6300-423: The area ranked as the nation's top metropolitan area for corporation relocations and expansions for nine consecutive years, the most consecutive years for any region in the country. The Chicago area is home to a number of the nation's leading research universities including the University of Chicago , Northwestern University , the University of Illinois at Chicago , DePaul University , Loyola University , and

6405-513: The art field and selected for the annual exhibition. The works of well-established master artists are displayed alongside the work of newcomers to the field. The annual Hoosier Salon claims ties to the Hoosier Group and several members of the Brown County Art Colony. However, not all of the Salon's art has Indiana as it subject. Work from Salon artists with Hoosier ties is inspired from locales outside Indiana as well. New York City-based Wayman Adams, born near Muncie, Indiana , exhibited his artwork at

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6510-501: The arts. In May 2014 the Hoosier Salon closed its main gallery in Broad Ripple and moved to a new gallery space in the Carmel Arts and Design District in Carmel, Indiana. Since 1925, many of Indiana's most notable artists have exhibited at the Hoosier Salon. In order to qualify as a Salon exhibitor, an artist must be a Hoosier Salon member and must have lived in Indiana for a minimum of one year at any point during their life. Salon entries are independently reviewed by experienced judges in

6615-440: The back of the William A. Block department store’s auditorium and resumed plans for the annual exhibition. A Lilly Endowment grant of $ 5,000 and additional $ 1,000 contributions from several sponsors allowed the Hoosier Salon to open in January 1974, although the other planned events were cancelled. The Salon's fiftieth anniversary exhibition included 163 pieces from 117 different artists. Goth and William A. Eyden Jr. were honored at

6720-426: The bombing at Pearl Harbor , and the war effort "dominated the show." Lillian Alt's Men and Guns and William A. Eyden Jr.'s Steel for Defense were among the 261 pieces on display. The annual Salon was scaled back during World War II, and the wartime themes that continued for several years frequently outnumbered the usual landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. In 1949 the Hoosier Salon marked its twenty-fifth year,

6825-486: The city, Downtown Chicago , and into some suburbs. The CTA operates some of its rail lines 24 hours a day, every day of the year, nonstop service, making Chicago, New York City, and Copenhagen the only three cities in the world to offer some 24 hour rail service running nonstop, everyday throughout their city limits. The Metra commuter rail network runs numerous lines between Downtown Chicago and suburban/satellite cities, with one line stretching to Kenosha, Wisconsin , which

6930-553: The club's Shakespearean spoof Katherine , one of the first three productions in the Triangle's history written and produced by students. Tarkington established the Triangle tradition, still alive today, of producing students' plays. Tarkington returned to the Triangle stage as Cassius in the 1893 production of a play he co-authored, The Honorable Julius Caesar . He edited Princeton's Nassau Literary Magazine , known more recently as The Nassau Lit . While an undergraduate, he socialized with Woodrow Wilson , an associate graduate member of

7035-404: The contours of a contiguous territory inhabited at urban density levels. It usually incorporates the population in a city, plus that in the contiguous urban, or built-up area. Chicagoland is an informal name for the Chicago metropolitan area. The term Chicagoland has no official definition, and the region is often considered to include areas beyond the corresponding MSA, as well as portions of

7140-402: The corporate headquarters of 57 Fortune 1000 companies, including AbbVie Inc. , Allstate , Kraft Heinz , McDonald's , Mondelez International , Motorola , United Airlines , Walgreens , and more . The Chicago area also headquarters a wide variety of global financial institutions including Citadel LLC , Discover Financial Services , Morningstar, Inc. , CNA Financial , and more. Chicago

7245-439: The department store, the Woman's Department Club was instrumental in helping to move the Salon's headquarters and its annual exhibition to Indianapolis in 1942. Around this same time several of the early leaders in Chicago began to retire, moved away, or experienced failing health, so it was not unexpected that on June 30, 1941, the Salon's trustees formally voted to approve the move of its headquarters to Indianapolis. In late 1941

7350-412: The first of Princeton's historic eating clubs . He had also been in a short-lived eating club called "Ye Plug and Ulster," which became Colonial Club . He was active as an actor and served as president of Princeton's Dramatic Association, which later became the Triangle Club , of which he was a founding member according to Triangle's official history. Tarkington made his first acting appearance in

7455-408: The following core-based statistical areas , listed with their 2021 estimated populations. The combined statistical area as a whole had a population of 9,806,184 as of 2022. The Chicago urban agglomeration , according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report (2023 revision), lists a population of 8,937,000. The term "urban agglomeration" refers to the population contained within

7560-581: The greater CSA. Colonel Robert R. McCormick , editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune , usually gets credit for placing the term in common use. McCormick's conception of Chicagoland stretched all the way to nearby parts of four states (Indiana, Wisconsin , Michigan , and Iowa ). The first usage was in the Tribune' s July 27, 1926, front page headline, "Chicagoland's Shrines: A Tour of Discoveries", for an article by reporter James O'Donnell Bennett . He stated that Chicagoland comprised everything in

7665-402: The idea of an annual exhibition featuring Indiana artists. In the forward to the Hoosier Salon's exhibition catalog in 1926, Nicholson wrote, "we are anxious for our brothers and sisters who paint or draw or sculpt to have their day in court, just as we have had it." Following the critical and popular success of the first exhibition, the Daughters of Indiana wanted to make it an annual event that

7770-481: The introduction of new materials, such as prints, metal sculpture, collage, and fewer of the more traditional landscapes of southern Indiana. Just a few weeks before the Hoosier Salon's fiftieth anniversary exhibition of 1974, disaster struck. On November 5, 1973, a fire destroyed the Thomas Building, including the Salon's historical materials and 311 paintings. The Association established temporary offices at

7875-436: The land is covered by the tree and shrub canopy, made up of about 157,142,000 trees. The five most common tree species are buckthorn , green ash , boxelder , black cherry , and American elm . These resources perform important functions in carbon storage, water recycling, and energy saving. As of 2022, the metropolitan area had a population of 9,442,159. The population density was 1,312.3 per square mile. The racial makeup

7980-418: The later life of another writer, fellow Princetonian F. Scott Fitzgerald . Tarkington's first successful novel was The Gentleman from Indiana (1899). In 1902–1903, he served one term as a Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives , an experience reflected in his 1905 short story collection, In The Arena. As a novelist, Tarkington was both prolific and commercially successful. During

8085-516: The later twentieth century, however, he was ignored in academia: no congresses, no society, no journal of Tarkington Studies. In 1981, The Avenue (Penguin) Companion to English and American Literature described him as "the epitome of the middle-brow American novelist." In 1985, he was cited as an example of the great discrepancy possible between an author's fame when alive and oblivion later. According to this view, if an author succeeds at pleasing his or her contemporaries—and Tarkington's works have not

8190-475: The low plain are bands of moraines in the south and west suburbs. These areas are higher and hillier than the Chicago Plain. A continental divide , separating the Mississippi River watershed from that of the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River , runs through the Chicago area. A 2012 survey of the urban trees and forests in the seven county Illinois section of the Chicago area found that 21% of

8295-561: The more beautifully named " phaetons " and "surreys"—but also something far beyond that. Dreiser , his exact Indiana contemporary, might look at the Model T and see wage slaves in need of unions and sit-down strikes; Tarkington saw pollution, and a filthy tampering with human nature itself. "No one could have dreamed that our town was to be utterly destroyed," he wrote in The World Does Move . His important novels are all marked by

8400-660: The new location for its year-round gallery. Because the nonprofit did not have the funds to operate two galleries, it closed its gallery in the former Indianapolis Hilton Hotel lobby at Meridian and Ohio Streets in December 1974. By 1978 the Bals-Wocher mansion proved too costly for the group to maintain, so the Salon sold it and moved its gallery to the Morrison Opera building on Indianapolis's South Meridian Street, where it had been renting office space. In March 1991

8505-517: The nineteenth-century French tradition of annual art exhibitions held in the Grand Palais des Champs- Élysées in Paris , France . Chicago, Illinois , was selected as the site for the first Hoosier Salon because of its large population and its reputation as a midwestern art center. The annual Salon ran in Chicago from 1925 through 1941, when it moved to Indianapolis, Indiana . Since January 1942

8610-539: The number of their residents employed within Cook County, they met Census criteria to be added to the MSA. The Chicago MSA, now defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL–IN–WI Metropolitan Statistical Area , is the third-largest MSA by population in the United States. The 2022 census estimate for the population of the MSA was 9,441,957. The Chicago MSA

8715-466: The phrase, but it has been commonly used among policy makers, urban planners, and in the media. However, it also notes that as growth has spread beyond these counties, it may have lost some of its usefulness. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) is an Illinois state agency responsible for transportation infrastructure, land use, and long-term economic development planning for the areas under its jurisdiction within Illinois. The planning area has

8820-563: The professional sports teams in the Chicago metropolitan area Major league professional teams: Other professional teams: The Chicagoland Speedway oval track has hosted NASCAR Cup Series and IndyCar Series races. The Chicago Marathon is one of the World Marathon Majors . The Western Open and BMW Championship are PGA Tour tournaments that have been held primarily at golf courses near Chicago. NCAA Division I College Sports Teams: The two main newspapers are

8925-467: The property owner converted it to another purpose. Although the annual Hoosier Salon remains the organization's biggest event, it also provides other outreach efforts. In 2006 the Hoosier Salon initiated the French tradition of a Salon Des Refusés (exhibition of rejects) at its Broad Ripple gallery. The Salon also provides educational outreach to schools and collaborates with other organizations to promote

9030-445: The region. In an in-depth historical analysis, Keating (2004, 2005) examined the origins of 233 settlements that by 1900 had become suburbs or city neighborhoods of the Chicago metropolitan area. The settlements began as farm centers (41%), industrial towns (30%), residential railroad suburbs (15%), and recreational/institutional centers (13%). Although relations between the different settlement types were at times contentious, there also

9135-619: The soul-killing effects of smoke and asphalt and speed, and even in Seventeen , Willie Baxter fantasizes about winning Miss Pratt by the rescue of precious little Flopit from an automobile's rushing wheels. In June 2019, the Library of America published Booth Tarkington: Novels & Stories , collecting The Magnificent Ambersons , Alice Adams , and In the Arena: Stories of Political Life . Two film musicals were loosely based on

9240-401: The state. At the first Hoosier Salon merit prizes were awarded to Steele for Winter Morning, First Snow , judged best picture and painted by a man more than sixty years of age. Wayman Adams won a $ 200 merit award for his oil portrait of Indiana author Booth Tarkington , and Forsyth's Glory of Autumn still life won a $ 100 merit prize. Savage, who was originally from Covington, Indiana , won

9345-613: The suburbs, with some service into the city. In addition, numerous CTA bus routes operate 24 hours a day, nonstop. The Chicago metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was originally designated by the United States Census Bureau in 1950. It comprised the Illinois counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake and Will, along with Lake County in Indiana . As surrounding counties saw an increase in their population densities and

9450-506: The syndicated cartoon" Toonerville Trolley "; and Pulitzer Prize -winner John T. McCutcheon , who drew editorial cartoons. Gray, Hubbard, Williams, and McCutcheon also provided artwork to help advertise the Salon. In more recent years Salon entries have changed to reflect the new artistic styles of Hoosier artists. Past Salon works have included Kanwal Prakash (K. P.) Singh's architectural renderings, lithographs from Garo Z. Antreasian , watercolors from Floyd Hopper, portraits by Nancy Noel ,

9555-653: The theatre, and his contributions as a Midwesterner and "son of Indiana" in its Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre. Tarkington died on May 19, 1946, aged 76, in his home in Indianapolis. He was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery . In the 1910s and 1920s, Tarkington was regarded as "the most important and lasting writer of his generation", perhaps as important as Mark Twain . His works were reprinted many times, were often on best-seller lists, won many prizes, and were adapted into other media. Penrod and its two sequels were regular birthday presents for bookish boys. By

9660-453: The top prize of $ 500 for Recessional . Thirty percent of the accepted entries came from women artists, including two works submitted by Marie Goth . Several women were recognized with merit prizes for their art: Dorothy Morlan for Frosty Morning, Southern Indiana ; Lucy M. Taggert for Eleanor ; Laura A. Fry for A Shaft of Sunlight ; Lucie Hartrath for The Valley, Morning ; and Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer for A Garden . Louise Zaring received

9765-477: The two Indiana counties of Lake and Porter . Illinois Department of Tourism literature uses Chicagoland for suburbs in Cook, Lake, DuPage, Kane, and Will counties, treating the city separately. The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce defines it as all of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties. In addition, company marketing programs such as Construction Data Company's "Chicago and Vicinity" region and

9870-734: Was 50.1% Non-Hispanic White, 23.4% were Hispanic, 15.5% were Non-Hispanic African Americans, 7.2% were Asian, 0.1% were Non-Hispanic Native American, 0.4% identified as “some other race,” and 3.2% were non-Hispanic multiracial. According to 2022 estimates from the American Community Survey , the largest ancestries in the Chicago metro area were Mexican (18%), African (17.7%), German (12.8%), Irish (9.9%), Polish (8%), Italian (5.9%), English (5.2%), Indian (2.7%), Puerto Rican (2.3%), Filipino (1.7%), Swedish (1.5%), and Chinese (1.4%). The suburbs, surrounded by easily annexed flat ground, have been expanding at

9975-629: Was a set of three " Little Orphan Annie " cartoons from their creator, Harold Gray , a 1917 graduate of Purdue University . Hoosier artists whose work also appeared at the first Salon included all four Hoosier Group members who were still living ( T.C. Steele , William Forsyth , Otto Stark , and J. Ottis Adams ). Other exhibitors with Indiana ties included Wayman Elbridge Adams , Frank V. Dudley , Frederick M. Polley, J. Will Vawter , Eugene Savage , and Clifton Wheeler, among others. Traditional Indiana landscapes and still-life paintings were represented, as well as works from Hoosier artists who lived outside

10080-483: Was a trustee of the John Herron Art Institute . He made a gift of some his papers to Princeton, his alma mater, and his wife Susannah, who survived him by over 20 years, made a separate gift of his remaining papers to Colby College after his death. Purdue University's library holds many of his works in its Special Collection's Indiana Collection. Indianapolis commemorates his impact on literature and

10185-695: Was born in Indianapolis, Indiana , on July 29, 1869, the son of John S. Tarkington, a judge, and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington. He came from a patrician Midwestern family that had lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873 . Tarkington was named after his maternal uncle Newton Booth , then the governor of California . He was also related to Chicago Mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth through Woodworth's wife, Almyra Booth Woodworth. Tarkington attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, and completed his secondary education at Phillips Exeter Academy ,

10290-409: Was cooperation in such undertakings as the construction of high schools. As the Chicago metropolitan area has grown, more counties have been partly or totally assimilated with the taking of each decennial census. Counties highlighted in gray were not included in the MSA for that census. The CSA totals in blue are the totals of all the counties listed above, regardless of whether they were included in

10395-590: Was in Santa Fe, was a Salon prizewinner. In the past, Hoosier cartoonists have been well represented at the Salons. In addition to comic-strip illustrator Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie", cartoonists who competed for the Salon's prizes and recognition were Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard 's nationally syndicated "Abe Martin" cartoons; Gaar Williams , who created "Among the Folks in History"; Fontaine Fox , creator of

10500-634: Was involved in adapting his fiction for the stage. Her prosperous Indiana banking family is thought to be the model for certain characters in Tarkington's writing. Tarkington's second marriage was to Susanah Keifer Robinson in 1912. They had no children. Tarkington began losing his eyesight in the 1920s. He continued producing his works by dictating to his secretary Elizabeth Trotter . Despite his failing eyesight, between 1928 and 1940 he edited several historical novels by his Kennebunkport , Maine , neighbor Kenneth Roberts , who described Tarkington as

10605-422: Was one of a select group of novels that sold more than 750,000 copies during the period 1895–1975, according to Publishers Weekly book sales data from that period. At one time, his Penrod series was as well known as Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain . Seventeen , a coming-of-age story, sold some 1.7 million copies during the 1895–1975 period. Although written for an adult audience, it came to be regarded as

10710-491: Was one of the first African American artists to participate in the Hoosier Salon. Scott exhibited Lights on a Summer Night at the second Hoosier Salon. In 1926, after the Daughters of Chicago hosted the second exhibition, the group partnered with other art patrons to formally organize the Hoosier Salon Patrons Association, a nonprofit organization that would continue the event and its original mission of recognizing talented Indiana artists. John C. Shaffer, editor and publisher of

10815-416: Was open to artists with ties to Indiana. In 1926 the second Hoosier Salon ran for fourteen days at Marshall Field's galleries in Chicago. It featured 339 works by 149 artists and drew more than 50,000 visitors. For the first time the show was opened to sculpture in addition to paintings. Janet Scudder , a native of Terre Haute, Indiana , who gained an international reputation for her work as a sculptor, earned

10920-410: Was open to painters who had lived in Indiana for at least a year. Entries for the juried exhibition were submitted from across the United States. The selections featured 253 works of art from 132 artists. Hoosier Group artist T. C. Steele and his wife, Selma, attended the opening of the Salon's first exhibition, which was well received by art critics and the public. Among the first exhibition's favorites

11025-623: Was well known as a sailor, and his schooner, the Regina , survived him. Regina was moored next to Tarkington's boathouse, The Floats , which he also used as his studio. His extensively renovated studio is now the Kennebunkport Maritime Museum. It was from his home in Maine that he and his wife Susannah established their relation with nearby Colby College . Tarkington took a close interest in fine art and collectibles and

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