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Cedar Lake, IN, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...for its excellent farmingand grazing land, the town lies on the northwest corner of Cedar Lake....
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Bucktown, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...Part of the West Town and Logan Square Community Areas. Roughly bounded by North, Ashland, Western,...
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| 1563 |
Diamond, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...after coal mining ended in the early 1900s. The town reincorporated in 1949 and had a population of...
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| 1564 |
Hometown, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...over 7,000 in 1958. In 1967, a tornado struck the town, destroying 86 homes and damaging 500 others....
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| 1565 |
Lake Station, IN, Peggy Tuck Sinko(
Authored Entry
) ...shipping center for agricultural products. The town became part of the new suburb of East Gary in...
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| 1566 |
Streamwood, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...looking to engulf neighboring unincorporated towns. Subdivision development came in 1956 when Maxon...
...buyers were arrested for disorderly conduct. The town's continued success was doubtful. Streamwood...
...Mudville. ” New residents often came from the same Chicago neighborhoods and rented with an option...
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| 1567 |
Thornton, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...white settler was William Woodbridge in 1834. The town was first platted in 1835 by John H. Kinzie....
...with I-80. The first railroad (later the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, now the Union Pacific) came to...
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| 1568 |
Carpentersville, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...son, Angelo, platted the land and renamed the town Carpentersville, which was incorporated in 1887....
...attempts to incorporate Meadowdale as an independent town. So Besinger had Carpentersville annex the...
...interests in Carpentersville. He persuaded the Chicago & North Western Railroad to extend its tracks...
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| 1569 |
Forest View, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...mid-1920s Nosek and others were forced to leave town by gangster Ralph Capone, and Forest View soon...
...generating plant. Revenues from the plant gave the town a new lease on life, and the annexation of...
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| 1570 |
Boardinghouses, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...at least as old as the taverns of the Fort Dearborn...
...Residential boarding arrangements in the Chicago metropolitan area are...
...trading settlement. During Chicago's early boom years, when housing facilities lagged behind...
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Hinsdale, IL, Tom Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...of present-day Hinsdale in an area along the Old Plank Road (Ogden Avenue) near the banks of Salt...
...W of the Loop. Hinsdale, a commutervillage along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad , roughly...
...Fullersburg. In 1858 Fuller petitioned the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad to build a line...
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| 1572 |
Sting, Mike Conklin(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago witnessed several attempts for professional soccer to gain a toehold in the local scene...
...and 1984. These were the first titles won by a Chicago pro franchise in any sport since the Bears...
...crowds of 20,000 or more for the first time in Chicago soccer. The Sting stopped playing after the...
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| 1573 |
Westinghouse Broadcasting, Douglas Gomery(
Authored Entry
) ...set manufacturer began operating a radio station in Chicago in 1921. On Armistice day, Westinghouse...
...Monday, enabling 1,300 “radio homes” in the Chicago area to hear opera . But profits proved elusive,...
...KYW-AM to Philadelphia and did not re-enter the Chicago market until late in 1956, when it purchased...
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| 1574 |
Robert Morris College, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...in liberal arts and business from its campus in Carthage, Illinois, 250 miles southwest of Chicago....
...In 1975, Robert Morris merged with Chicago's Moser School (a private business college founded in...
...of Robert Morris College moved into the landmark building at 401 South State Street in Chicago....
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| 1575 |
Catholic Worker Movement, Steve Rosswurm(
Authored Entry
) ...its heyday in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Chicago Catholic Worker was the most significant...
...the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Chicago distinguished it from its parent organization....
...The Chicago Catholic Worker, especially its newspaper published from 1938 to 1941, launched the...
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| 1576 |
John and Mary Jones: Early Civil Rights Activists, (
Authored Entry
) ...side—her husband John Jones—when their early Chicago home became one of the Underground Railway...
...residents. The couple worked tirelessly in Chicago during the late 1840s and 1850s against slavery...
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| 1577 |
Townships, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...The federal government surveyed the Chicago area, as part of the Northwest Territory, into townships...
...mid-nineteenth century, the townships ringing Chicago— Lake View , Jefferson , Cicero, Lake , and...
...proved too unwieldy and most were annexed into Chicago in 1889. Townships continue to provide basic...
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Conservation Areas, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...near-blighted” and “stable. ” The 1943 Master Plan of Residential Land Use of Chicago found that 56...
...square miles of Chicago constituted conservation areas. After...
...Conservation Act of 1953 became Illinois law, Chicago established the Community Conservation Board,...
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| 1579 |
Garfield Goose and Friends, Philip T. Hoffman(
Authored Entry
) ...A children's television show produced in Chicago, Garfield Goose and Friends captivated young...
...by Frazier Thomas, who introduced the show in Cincinnati. After Thomas moved to Chicago in 1951, the...
...show began appearing on Chicago television. From 1955 to 1976, it ran on WGN-TV , where it was one...
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| 1580 |
Constructing an Infrastructure, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...of protecting the city's drinking supply by directing the Chicago River away from Lake Michigan....
...Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-05859) Illustration 2986 1741...
...Raising the Grade Chicago's swampy setting led to its literally raising itself out of the mud....
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