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Gary, IN, Raymond A. Mohl(
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) ...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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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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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1731 |
West Garfield Park, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...southwest to Lyons . Truck farmers going to Chicago and stagecoaches traveling west to Moreland (...
...Park took the Elgin Road (Lake Street). The West Chicago Park Commission established three West Side...
...Park course or the Hawthorne track. In 1892, the Chicago police raided the Garfield Park track three...
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| 1732 |
Hodgkins, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...Company opened a large limestone quarry. The town was named for Jefferson Hodgkins, president of the...
...others arrived in the 1890s to help build the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal . The quarry continued...
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| 1733 |
Pace, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...into increasingly larger companies like West Towns Railway, National City Lines, and United Motor...
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| 1734 |
Washington Park, Robin F. Bachin(
Authored Entry
) ...pool. By the 1990s, Washington Park boasted some of the premier aquatics facilities in Chicago....
...and gathering spots for picnics. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the building that housed...
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| 1735 |
American Fur Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...most important economic institution in the tiny town. Several of the company's Chicago employees...
...1808 by John Jacob Astor, was the first big business enterprise to operate in Chicago. Between 1817,...
...when the company first sent traders to Chicago, and 1832, American Fur was the...
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| 1736 |
Burnett (Leo) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...As part of that firm, Leo Burnett USA continues its activities from offices in Chicago and New York....
...the 44-year-old Leo Burnett started his own firm in Chicago in 1935. His venture soon became one of...
...the Midwest, including a stint as a vice president at the Chicago ad firm of Erwin, Wasey & Co. ,...
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| 1737 |
Hilton Hotels Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...At the end of the 1990s, Hilton, based in California, still owned luxury hotels in downtown Chicago....
...Hotels Corp. , his company bought two large Chicago luxury properties: the Palmer House and the...
...became the Conrad Hilton). Together, the two Chicago hotels had about 5,300 rooms and employed 4,500...
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| 1738 |
Streets, One-Way, Christopher Miller(
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) ...maze of narrow, car-filled streets confronted by Chicago residents each night as they return home....
...One-way streets in Chicago took on citywide significance with the passage of the Uniform Vehicle...
...on left turns, one-way streets in downtown Chicago were an integral part of the city's response to a...
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| 1739 |
Burnside, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...11 miles S of the Loop. Burnside, the smallest of Chicago's community areas, is bounded entirely by...
...and Chatham . Only with the mapping of University of Chicago sociologists did the area once known as...
...of 95th Street on what is now the site of Chicago State University , did developer W. V. Jacobs...
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| 1740 |
Shoreline Erosion, Karen M. Rodriguez(
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) ...Chicago's entire 28-mile Lake Michigan shoreline is man-made. The original sand dune and swale...
...the harbor entrance were built at the mouth of the Chicago River , barriers have been constructed to...
...shoreline from erosion. Throughout the 1800s, Chicago's importance as a center of commerce required...
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