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141 Geneva, IL, Sherry Meyer( Authored Entry )
...Of their 10 children, James became the first mayor and Augustus a U.S. District Attorney. Geneva's...
142 Glencoe, IL, Adam H. Stewart( Authored Entry )
...settled and the maiden name of former Chicago mayor Walter Gurnee's wife. While there appears to be...
143 Harvard, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche( Authored Entry )
...to form a city with ward divisions. The first mayor was N. B. Helm. In 1939, the Kenosha Rail Line...
144 Highland Park, IL, Derek Vaillant( Authored Entry )
...By 1855, Walter S. Gurnee, former Chicago mayor, North Shore real-estate speculator, and president...
145 Kensington, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...store, Secord and Hopkins, owned by Chicago Mayor John P. Hopkins, offered credit and support to...
146 Lincolnwood, IL, Laura Milsk( Authored Entry )
...the 1931 election of its longest-serving mayor, Henry A. Proesel, a grandson of George Proesel, one...
147 Lisle, IL, Patricia K. Kummer( Authored Entry )
...voted to incorporate as a village with a mayor and six trustees elected at large. The crossing of...
148 Telegraph, Christopher Thale( Authored Entry )
...During the Fire of 1871 , a telegram from the mayor brought fire-fighting equipment from Milwaukee;...
149 Belizeans, Robert Morrissey( Authored Entry )
...conch fritters, and potato pound. In 1998, Mayor Richard M. Daley declared the first Sunday in...
150 West Englewood, Franklin Forts( Authored Entry )
...residents had high-school educations. Under Mayor Harold Washington's administration, many abandoned...
151 East Chicago, IN, Derek Vaillant( Authored Entry )
...1930, federal investigators indicted East Chicago mayor Raleigh Hale and police chief James W. Regan...
152 Environmental Politics, Harold L. Platt( Authored Entry )
...social exclusion and physical segregation. The mayor and the aldermen used funds earmarked for slum...
153 Forest Glen, David M. Solzman( Authored Entry )
...its highest population of 20,531 in 1970. Mayor Richard J. Daley's insistence that city workers live...
154 Garfield Ridge, Jonathan J. Keyes( Authored Entry )
...In 1853, John “Long John” Wentworth, one-time mayor of Chicago, farmer, and fellow land speculator,...
155 Greater Grand Crossing, Wallace Best( Authored Entry )
...Roswell B. Mason, who was to become a Chicago mayor , secretly had intersecting tracks built for the...
156 Hammond, IN, Joseph C. Bigott( Authored Entry )
...in 1883, Towle served as Hammond's first mayor. From its inception, Hammond was a German , working-...
157 Horse Racing, Steven A. Riess( Authored Entry )
...of questionable honesty, only to have reform mayor Hempstead Washburne close it in 1892. Gamblers...
158 Suburbs and Cities as Dual Metropolis, Michael H. Ebner( Authored Entry )
...five to one. The United States Conference of Mayors itemized the accumulating urban afflictions in...
...the spatial mismatch. Originally advanced by the mayor of Schaumburg in 1997 and endorsed by other...
159 Tourism and Conventions, Anne Moore( Authored Entry )
...as well, and by the 1960s, under the guidance of Mayor Richard J. Daley, convention halls, highways,...
160 Zoning, Joseph P. Schwieterman and Dana Caspall( Authored Entry )
...its zoning ordinance on July 26, 2000. Mayor Richard M. Daley appointed a 21-member commission, the...

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