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McHenry, IL, John D. Schroeder(
Authored Entry
) ...and on the river's west bank, at the site of an old Indian ford, the hamlet of McHenry developed....
...crossed the Fox on a new two-lane bridge. The old wagon trail, now Highway 31, doglegged along the...
...newly dammed Boone Creek, and a wagon road entered town from the south in 1851. In 1864, the famed...
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| 782 |
Togolese, Charles Adams Cogan and Nourou Yakoubou and Ben Kokouvi Mensah(
Authored Entry
) ...War I , when joint British-French forces invaded and annexed its western half to Britain's Gold...
...Coast colony. In 1956, the people of British Togoland voted in a United Nations plebiscite to join...
...the Togolese scholars visiting or teaching on Chicago's North Side were drawn there by the Africana...
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| 783 |
Calumet Harbor, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...additional industrial and terminal sites. See also: Planning Chicago Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Page...
...3 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 784 |
Suffrage, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...Voters . i3740 Woman suffrage sample ballot, 1912. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Full suffrage became a political issue for Chicago in the 1860s. On the eve of the Civil War ,...
...office in the state, and John W. E. Thomas of Chicago was elected to the state legislature in 1876....
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| 785 |
Clothing and Garment Manufacturing, Youngsoo Bae(
Authored Entry
) ...but small ones began to leave for nonunion towns in the Midwestern countryside. By the late 1920s,...
...produced in the early nineteenth century. In Chicago this industry developed rapidly after the Great...
...Joseph Beifeld began producing ready-made cloaks. Chicago was increasingly involved in nationwide...
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| 786 |
Urban Renewal, Arnold R. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...of individuals and hundreds of businesses in an old, largely Italian community before it opened in...
...members) and 18,000 individuals were displaced. Old neighborhoods disappeared, and new ones faced...
...acknowledged in deciding the 1966 suit brought by Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) resident Dorothy...
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| 787 |
Lake County, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...and manufacturing in the hinterland of Chicago's growing economy. Beginning in 1836, stagecoaches...
...Bay Road along a route paralleling Lake Michigan that connected Chicago and Milwaukee. Waukegan ,...
...along Green Bay Road 40 miles north of Chicago, became Lake County's economic and government center...
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| 788 |
Bolingbrook, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago, attracted thousands of residents. By 1972, 15,000 called Bolingbrook home. In 1975, the Old...
...first shopping center/amusement ride park,” Old Chicago combined vaudevillian themes with county...
...Chicago entertainment complex opened for business in Bolingbrook....
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| 789 |
Lynwood, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...of Lynwood, following the path of an ancient trail that connected the old Sauk Trail at what is...
...now Dyer , Indiana, with the old Vincennes/Hubbard's Trail at a point near Thornton , Illinois....
...village, Route 30 follows the alignment of the old transcontinental Lincoln Highway, designated in...
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Automobile Manufacturing, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...paved to permit intercity travel by auto, out-of-town customers would buy cars along Auto Row south...
...maintained one in in Belvidere, but the last Chicago manufacturer of consequence was Elgin Motor Car...
...carriages didn't receive much notoriety until the Chicago Times-Herald offered $5,000 in prizes to...
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| 791 |
Maple Park, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...heated debates over incorporation culminated in the establishment of the town of Lodi in 1865....
...In 1880, the town changed its name to Maple Park....
...In 2000 Maple Park remained a small town of 765 residents on the border of Kane and DeKalb counties....
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| 792 |
Jane Addams: Halsted Street around 1890, (
Authored Entry
) ...houses and have lived in the neighborhood for years; one man is still living in his old farmhouse....
...and Harrison Street, Addams found a “fine old house standing well back from the street, surrounded...
...When Jane Addams arrived in Chicago in 1889 with the intention of founding a settlement house in one...
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| 793 |
Russians, Katarzyna Zechenter(
Authored Entry
) ...Russians and Russian Jews settled on the East Coast, Chicago became the largest center of Russian...
...early twentieth century settled most often in West Town , eventually earning the area around West...
...precisely how many Russian immigrants have made Chicago home over the course of the city's history....
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| 794 |
Musical Instrument Manufacturing, Craig H. Roell(
Authored Entry
) ...choices available in the postwar culture. Many old Chicago trademarks still in production at that...
...After the Great Fire of 1871 , Chicago quickly became a national center in musical instrument...
...especially organs and pianos. Indeed, by 1910 Chicago manufacturers were supplying about half of all...
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| 795 |
Slovenes, Emily Brunner(
Authored Entry
) ...Women's Union also maintains its headquarters and a small Slovenian heritage museum in the town....
...a new sense of personal grievance to the old split between religious Slovenes and freethinkers. In...
...lodges in the city and suburbs. Unlike South Chicago and Pilsen, Joliet continues to be home to a...
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| 796 |
Bus System, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...railway routes. Surface-system ridership in Chicago, which includes both buses and streetcars but...
...and Randolph, 1992. Photographer: Janet Schleeter. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Although public transportation systems in the Chicago area at the opening of the twenty-first...
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| 797 |
Glaciation, Ardith K. Hansel(
Authored Entry
) ...to deliver sediment to the leading edge. In the Chicago area, from oldest to youngest, are the...
...Rivers ) and/or lakes (like glacial Lake Chicago) formed between the retreating glacier margin and...
...older moraines. The city of Chicago is built on the flat plain of glacial Lake Chicago....
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| 798 |
Lectures and Public Speaking, Lisa Krissoff Boehm(
Authored Entry
) ...longer serve as such a popular form of recreation, Chicago universities , colleges, and educational...
...organizations. Perhaps the largest current public-speaking venue is the Chicago Humanities Festival....
...neighborhood hall. Several significant events in Chicago have related closely to public lectures....
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| 799 |
Stickney, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...many would find little cachet in living in a town with the world's largest sewage treatment plant,...
...worked as truck farmers or in the quarries near town. Neighboring Cicero and Berwyn boomed in the...
...population stood at about 2,000, and the town was known more for its taverns than anything else....
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Norwegians, Odd S. Lovoll(
Authored Entry
) ...Moving north and west from the center of town, they established a colony centering on Milwaukee...
...faiths, however, gained a following. Although Chicago became the center of Methodism for Norwegian...
...Norwegian settlement in Chicago had its beginning in 1836 when a few families decided to remain in...
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