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Garfield Ridge, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...Michigan Canal (completed 1848), and the Chicago & Alton Railroad (1850s). William B. Archer, I&M...
...John “Long John” Wentworth, one-time mayor of Chicago, farmer, and fellow land speculator, purchased...
...name occupies ground once owned by Wentworth. Chicago annexed the area in bits and pieces in 1889,...
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Greater Grand Crossing, Wallace Best(
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) ...community areas . The entire area was annexed to Chicago in 1889 as part of Hyde Park Township ....
...40 others. The accident occurred at what is now 75th Street and South Chicago Avenue when Roswell B....
...Mason, who was to become a Chicago mayor , secretly had intersecting tracks built for the Illinois...
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Archer Heights, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...as a part of the passage that connected the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers . The swamps and prairies...
...where the Stevenson Expressway does now; the Chicago & Alton Railroad , which paralleled the canal;...
...and Archer Road were the first thoroughfares to Chicago, but they had little effect on the area's...
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Virgil, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Virgil in the early twentieth century witnessed the town at its peak with a general store, bank, and...
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Channahon, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Des Plaines , Kankakee, and DuPage Rivers. The town grew inthe 1840s with the construction of the...
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Minooka, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Loop. Minooka incorporated in 1869 as a thriving town along the Rock Island Railroad . Originally...
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Peotone, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...tional Register of Historic Places in 1982. The town remained a small farming community throughout...
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Porter, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...the name to Porter Township, from which the town of Porter later took its name. Industry followed...
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North Lawndale, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...group. Eastern European Jews still living in the old Near West Side ghetto mocked those who left for...
...the Great Fire of 1871 and then bustled as Chicago's Jewish ghetto. The neighborhood's landscape was...
...an improved toll road . The extension of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad prompted further...
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Rainbow Beach, Charles E. Clifton(
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) ...and challenge de facto segregationist policies in Chicago. On Sunday, despite the presence of the...
...Dating back to the race riots of 1919, Chicago has had a history of youth violence connected to the...
...families had lived near the steel mills of South Chicago . However, black families had for the most...
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Salvation Army, Jonathan H. Ebel(
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) ...At the close of the twentieth century, Chicago's Salvation Army maintained nearly two hundred...
...and Edwin Gay, the Salvation Army came to Chicago. Upon arrival, the small corps of Salvationists...
...volunteers provided valuable assistance to Chicago's needy during the panic of 1893 and the Great...
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Streeterville, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...court ruled Streeter's claims invalid. Some of Chicago's most expensive land and famous buildings,...
...Neighborhood in the Near North Side Community Area. Early maps of Chicago showed little but lake...
...immediately north of the Chicago River and east of Pine Street (Michigan Avenue) where Streeterville...
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Anarchists, Bruce C. Nelson(
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) ...leaders, anarchism could no longer claim to be a mass movement in Chicago and the United States....
...favor of voluntary association and cooperation. Chicago's anarchists were largely skilled, immigrant...
...1880s the IWPA published seven newspapers in Chicago, in German , Czech , Norwegian , and English....
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Merchandise Mart, Michael Paul Wakeford(
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) ...White, it still stands downtown along the Chicago River . Though increasingly servicing commercial...
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National Association of Negro Musicians, Adam Green(
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) ...the country, and continues to be headquartered in Chicago, with two chapters still active locally....
...of Negro Musicians (NANM), headquartered in Chicago, is dedicated to conserving concert music...
...Dunbar (Washington DC) and Wendell Phillips (Chicago), worked closely with the organization, while...
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South Lawndale, Christopher R. Reed(
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) ...units standing in 1990 were less than 20 years old. However, commercial revitalization has begun to...
...inmates, the Cook County Jail and the city of Chicago's House of Corrections add many nonHispanics...
...Technical Institute, part of the City Colleges of Chicago. By 2000, 91,071 people made their home in...
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Deerfield, IL, Thomas A. Auger(
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) ...1903, but in 1910 Deerfield was still a small town with a population of only 476. The completion of...
...area and used the nearby Des Plaines , Fox , and Chicago Rivers as a means of transportation. Jacob...
...as timber, venison, and wheat to the markets in Chicago as well as to bring supplies to the area. In...
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Lake County Discovery Museum, Ian McGiver(
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) ...particular interest are thousands of views of towns and cities across the United States and in more...
...Established by German immigrant Curt Teich, the Chicago-based Curt Teich & Co. operated from 1898...
...World Wars, Teich's Irving Park Road plant on Chicago's North Side sometimes printed several million...
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Property Assessment, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...divorce between politics and property assessment in Chicago, and taxpayers remained disgruntled and...
...Throughout Chicago's history taxpayers and good-government groups have complained about inequitable...
...were Catharine Goggin and Margaret Haley of the Chicago Teachers Federation , who claimed that the...
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Wilmette, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
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) ...residents has remained among the highest in the Chicago area throughout the twentieth century. In...
...is named for Antoine Ouilmette, a French-Canadian fur trader who settled in Chicago in 1790 on the...
...north bank of the Chicago River . Ouilmetteand his part- Potawatomi wife, Archange Chevallier, moved...
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