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Barrington Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...English , and Irish immigrants, and formed a town near present-day Sutton Road and Route 68....
...In 1962 Barrington Hills annexed the neighboring town of Middlebury (incorporated in 1953). The...
...community for their workers which they called Chicago Highlands. The foundry closed in 1903 and the...
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Northfield, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...railroad, which came through the village. The town was originally incorporated in 1926 under the...
...Village residents later adopted the name for their town. In the early 1950s the Edens Expressway was...
...are located on the eastern border along the Chicago & North Western Railway and the expressway....
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Leopold and Loeb, Paula S. Fass(
Authored Entry
) ...as the “crime of the century” when 14-year-old Robert (Bobby) Franks was kidnaped and killed. On May...
...On May 21, 1924, Chicago became the locale for an event long remembered...
...19 had just graduated from the University of Chicago and was on his way to Harvard Law School, fit...
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Country Club Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...development was close to the site of the old Cooper's Grove settlement dating to the 1840s, with the...
...One of the earliest congregations south of Chicago, it started with two wooden structures, built in...
...activity of Joseph E. Merrion, a major Chicago-area housing developer. In 1955, he sought to build a...
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Regional Transportation Authority, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...a referendum in 1974. A strong plurality in Chicago overcame opposition in the suburbs. The RTA was...
...public transportation systems in the six-county Chicago metropolitan area. Because of a decline in...
...reductions. The RTA's divisions include the older Chicago Transit Authority , created in 1945, as...
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Lombard, IL, Elizabeth M. Holland(
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) ...In 1837, Babcock's Grove was connected to Chicago by a stagecoach line which stopped at Stacy's...
...Historical Society. In 1849, the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad ran two trains daily each way...
...Grove. Farmers began to send their goods to Chicago along the railroad, quickly putting the...
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Community Organizing, Larry Bennett(
Authored Entry
) ...subsequent organizing campaigns. Since the 1970s Chicago has been the site of numerous organizing...
...Alinsky had come to Packingtown representing the Chicago Area Project, a program sponsored by the...
...initiated other important organizing efforts in Chicago, notably the Organization for the Southwest...
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Snow Removal, Joel Mendes(
Authored Entry
) ...winter of 1967 had been a relatively mild one in Chicago, with unusually warm temperatures. Early in...
...had fallen on the city. It was the most severe snowstorm Chicago had experienced in the century....
...In 1979, Chicago was again brought to a standstill with another unusually severe January snowstorm....
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O'Hare Airport, David Brodherson(
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) ...at O'Hare Airport, March 1963. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Company, the Corps of Army Engineers, the Civil Aeronautics Authority, Chicago Association of...
...Commerce, and the Chicago Regional Planning Association selected a site on the outskirts of the...
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Oak Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier and Camille Henderson Zorich(
Authored Entry
) ...lished, and subdivisions extended beyond the old stagecoach route later named Lake Street. The...
...Des Plaines River in 1835. He erected a house on the stagecoach route from Galena to Chicago. The...
...area was sparsely populated when the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad laid tracks parallel to the...
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Western Springs, IL, Tom Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...local mineral springs on the southwest side of town, Western Springs originally consisted of flat...
...Cook County, 15 miles W of the Loop. Western Springs, located along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy...
...Railroad between Chicago and Aurora, encompasses roughly the area between Willow Springs Road, Ogden...
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Mokena, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...started in 1850 several miles to the east of town, reflects the presence of many German immigrants...
...of a suburban fabric reaching southwest from Chicago. In the early 1830s the McGovney and Van Horne...
...Island Railroad had completed its line from Chicago through Will County, passing less than a mile...
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Public Housing, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...is one kind of subsidized housing found in the Chicago metropolitan area. Subsidized housing has...
...have been targeted at different classes. The Chicago Housing Authority and similar authorities in...
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True Value Hardware, (
Business Dictionary
) ...merged with Pittsburgh-based competitor ServiStar Coast...
...to Coast Corp. , the company became known as the TruServ Corp. Based in Chicago, TruServ was a...
...1980s, when the company employed about 1,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1997, after Cotter & Co....
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Fire Limits, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...They banned new wood construction and major repairs or improvements to old wood buildings....
...not emerge until the 1920s. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 , the fire limit was the focus of a...
...The Chicago Common Council enacted the city's first limit in 1845 and extended its area gradually,...
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Johnson Publishing Co., Adam Green(
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) ...Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co. , the 24-year-old Johnson began to publish Negro Digest, a weekly...
...when the company employed about 1,000 people in the Chicago area. By the end of the century, Johnson...
...moved with his family from Arkansas City to Chicago in 1933, when he was a teenager. In 1942, after...
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Washington Heights, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...the new residents is no different from that of the old. Neither are the social values. ... But many...
...Heights also boasts the Woodson Branch of the Chicago Public Library at 95th and Halsted. Its Vivian...
...S of the Loop. Located on the far South Side of Chicago, Washington Heights, is bounded by 89th and...
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North Park, David M. Solzman(
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) ...Avenue on the north, and the North Branch of the Chicago River on the south. The presence of the two...
...a charming and unusual ambience for the area. Chicago's only waterfall (about four feet high)...
...appears where the North Branch of the Chicago River tumbles into the North Shore Channel. North...
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Parish Life, Eileen M. McMahon(
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) ...center of a vital Roman Catholic subculture in Chicago. They created neighborhoods of shared values...
...centuries. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago initially organized parishes geographically,...
...other Catholic immigrant groups settled in Chicago, their foreign languages and different customs of...
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Radio Orchestras, Christopher Popa(
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) ...WGN (Mutual), under the same ownership as the Chicago Tribune, was financially able to maintain a...
...WBBM (CBS), and WLS (ABC), contracted with the Chicago Federation of Musicians to have their own 45-...
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