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Harris Trust & Savings Bank, (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1883, 35-year-old Norman Wait Harris founded N. W. Harris & Co. , a small Chicago-based...
...when assets passed $4 billion, Harris employed about 3,500 people in the Chicago area. In 1984,...
...Harris ranked as the third-largest bank in Chicago, it was purchased by the Bank of Montreal. By the...
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| 1712 |
Deer Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Lanes bowling alley. In the late 1990s, Deer Park Town Center was approved by village trustees over...
...farmers followed, and in 1854 the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad (Chicago & North Western Railway)...
...laid track from Chicago. When the railroad sought to buy land surrounding the station in hopes of...
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| 1713 |
Des Plaines, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and called it Des Plaines. In 1869 the town became Des Plaines by act of the state legislature. In...
...a network bringing commuters and visitors from Chicago to Des Plaines and beyond. The Des Plaines...
...Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad (later known as the Chicago & North Western Railway) came through Des...
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| 1714 |
Elmhurst, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...built a country house. His contributions to the town led residents to refer to him as “The Father of...
...local gathering place. In 1849 the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad arrived, and the community was...
...Hammerschmidt and Henry Assman founded Elmhurst-Chicago Stone Company near the village's western...
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| 1715 |
Lake Bluff, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...on the transportation corridor connecting Chicago to Waukegan and Milwaukee, first by stagecoach (...
...to development. Walter S. Gurnee , mayor of Chicago (1851–52) and speculator, foresaw this place as...
...civic leaders lobbied in opposition. The North Chicago post office was chosen instead. Citizens...
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| 1716 |
Hart, Schaffner & Marx, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and other retailers; its headquarters remained in Chicago, where it employed about 1,000 people....
...strikes in Chicago. Hannah Shapiro, an 18-year-old Russian-born woman working at one of the Hart...
...$630 million a year. In 1983, after buying its old Chicago rival Kuppenheimer Manufacturing Co. , a...
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| 1717 |
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Karen Mary Davalos(
Authored Entry
) ...their communities, goals the Museum pursues in Chicago. In 1994, the MFACM inaugurated Del Corazon:...
...and preserve for our people. ” Influenced by the Chicago Freedom Movement, Malcolm X's call for...
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| 1718 |
Picnic Groves: Ogden's Grove, (
Authored Entry
) ...and blabbering ... and groups of young and old men and boys drinking beer ... Ha! The Germans like...
...are among the picnic groves that dotted the Chicago metropolitan area well into the twentieth...
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| 1719 |
Folklore of the Middle Ground, (
Authored Entry
) ...breed. They all had hustler's blood. And kept the old Sauganash in a hustler's uproar. They hustled...
...his complex essay exploring the psyche of Chicago. He began with a common romanticized folklore of...
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| 1720 |
American Planning Association, Ruth Eckdish Knack(
Authored Entry
) ...to the Loop , where it has occupied space in the old People's Gas Building at 122 South Michigan...
...associations on the campus of the University of Chicago in Hyde Park . The location owed much to the...
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| 1721 |
Gary, IN, Raymond A. Mohl(
Authored Entry
) ...Gary a national reputation as a troubled town. The city's population continued to grow moderately,...
...southern shore of Lake Michigan 30 miles east of Chicago, Gary was the creation of the U.S. Steel...
...cities,” or industrial suburbs, growing up in Chicago's widening orbit of economic influence. The...
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| 1722 |
River Forest, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...enjoys some of the highest property values in the Chicago area. Ojibwa , Menominee, and Potawatomi...
...to Noyesville, attracted by its proximity to Chicago. The area's fertile land, thick forests, and...
...the construction and opening of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in the late 1840s further helped...
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| 1723 |
Worth, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...County, 16 miles SW of the Loop. Southwest of Chicago, Worth is bounded on the south by the Calumet-...
...Its incorporation was simultaneous with that of Chicago Ridge on its northern border. At the end of...
...as an alternative to the South Branch of the Chicago River . In the 1820s and 1830s, some Illinois...
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| 1724 |
DuSable Museum, Amina J. Dickerson(
Authored Entry
) ...Upon moving to its current home, a former Chicago Park District facility in Washington Park , in...
...1973, the museum was renamed in honor of Chicago's first permanent nonnative settler, Jean Baptiste...
...history and culture and a focal point in Chicago for black social activism, particularly because of...
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| 1725 |
Maywood, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
Authored Entry
) ...building commenced on the north side of the Chicago & North Western Railroad tracks, which bisected...
...on light industry, starting in 1884 with Chicago Scraper and Ditcher, a manufacturer of agricultural...
...by excellent transportation , including the Chicago & North Western train (1870), electric street...
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| 1726 |
Tollway Authority, Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...suburban development, however, and soon became Chicago-area commuter routes. When the system opened,...
...a bypass route running south and west of Chicago as I-294, continuing north to the Wisconsin border...
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| 1727 |
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Paul Finkelman(
Authored Entry
) ...was convicted in federal district court in Chicago of aiding a fugitive slave who had escaped to...
...by northerners, many with antislavery sentiments, Chicago was a relatively safe haven for fugitive...
...runaway also escaped. On October 21, 1850, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution condemning...
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| 1728 |
Jolliet and La Salle's Canal Plans, Charles J. Balesi(
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) ...the mouth of the Mississippi, went through the Chicago Portage. La Salle did not favor the portage...
...on the Illinois River to the mouth of the Chicago River. Jolliet made a careful notation of the...
...his companions spent several days there. The Chicago Portage fascinated Jolliet. He recognized the...
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| 1729 |
Copperheads, Robin Einhorn(
Authored Entry
) ...but this effort went nowhere. Luckily for Chicago, conscription occurred peacefully, with no...
...order to charge the Democrats with disloyalty. In Chicago, there were many Democrats, but few openly...
...an upsurge of antiwar feeling. Wilbur Storey's Chicago Times was nationally famous for its strident...
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| 1730 |
Willie Dixon and the Blues, Adam Green(
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) ...continuing his festival work and organizing the Chicago Blues All-Stars touring group. In 1982, he...
...musicians. His first motivation for coming to Chicago in 1936 was boxing: Dixon won a Golden Gloves...
...with the emerging blues recording industry in Chicago. Dixon's best work came during his years at...
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