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Lake Bluff, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...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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Cook County Hospital, John Raffensperger(
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) ...Cook County Hospital, ca. 1900. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...A permanent hospital was built by the city of Chicago in 1857 at the urging of Brockholtz McVicar,...
...result, the best surgeons and physicians in Chicago volunteered their services to care for the sick...
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Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Karen Mary Davalos(
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) ...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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River Forest, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...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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Romeoville, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...Romeoville, attracted by the village's proximity to Chicago and Joliet, the existing industry along...
...boasted the second-highest industrial tax base by percentage within the Chicago metropolitan area....
...throughout the canal corridor southwest of Chicago. Anticipating increased commerce and rising land...
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Roselle, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...son, Roselle, an army colonel, a prominent Chicago businessman, and a driving force for Roselle. As...
...linen and rope, and used his financial and political clout to persuade the Chicago & Pacific...
...Railroad (Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul) to reroute through his land. Hough hired ex-convicts and...
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Stickney, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...Cook County, 8 miles SW of Chicago. Until about 1900 most of the village...
...of Stickney was covered by Mud Lake, a large marshy area stretching from Chicago to Lyons . Across...
...Mud Lake ran a historic portage trail between the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers . Mud Lake began to...
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Warrenville, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...for the development of the 650-acre Elmhurst-Chicago Stone Company quarry . It was one of the last...
...to Naperville strengthened in 1849, when the Chicago-Southwest Plank Road linked both communities....
...Warrenville finally became a stop along the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railway between 1902 and 1959....
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Berwyn, IL, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...only via the Ogden Avenue plank road. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ran through the area...
...nearly doubling the town's size. By 1900 Chicago was hungrily annexing surrounding communities. To...
...Michigan City , Indiana, capsized in the Chicago River , drowning 812. Berwyn experienced phenomenal...
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Waukegan, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...which existed until 1760. Thomas Jenkins of Chicago constructed a two-story frame structure on Lake...
...growth of Waukegan, located 36 miles north of Chicago and 60 miles south of Milwaukee, can be...
...was further stimulated by the construction of the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad by 1855, which was...
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Wheaton, IL, Thomas O. Kay(
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) ...becoming a suburban community. The Galena & Chicago Union Railroad arrived in 1849, on land donated...
...century. In 1902 a second railroad, the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin electric line, connected Wheaton to...
...offering a course for horse racing and the Chicago Golf Club (the first 18-hole golf course in the...
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Worth, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...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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Burnham, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...residential village in the fabric of suburban communities tied together just south of Chicago....
...boundaries were (and are) Hammond on the east, Chicago on the north, and Calumet City to the south...
...Over the years, he developed the clout to bring Chicago water and sewer services into Burnham along...
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Dixmoor, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...and 1830s reached from the small settlement of Chicago down to Vincennes in Indiana. Western Avenue...
...sought to link points in the north, including Chicago, with passable roads going through to Florida....
...From 1907 to 1926, an interurban from Chicago to Kankakee, the Chicago and Southern Traction...
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Downers Grove, IL, Mark S. Harmon(
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) ...a stonemason who was working on the first Chicago lighthouse. Downer staked his claim to 160 acres...
...community around their grove. The year before the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad came through...
...In 1892, just north of the Belmont station, Chicago businessmen, including Marshall Field, founded...
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DuSable Museum, Amina J. Dickerson(
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) ...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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Harvard, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...63 miles NW of the Loop. In 1855 the Chicago & North Western Railway built toward Janesville,...
...Wisconsin, from Cary .Calculating where trainsfrom Chicago would have to stop for servicing in the...
...cheaply transported fresh milk products to Chicago. Hay-handling equipment manufacturer Hunt, Helm,...
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Harwood Heights, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...to as an “island” surrounded by the city of Chicago. It is often mistaken for part of the city...
...did not want to pay taxes. Most presumed that Chicago would eventually annex their land as it had...
...flooded basements. Hopeful that annexation to Chicago would improve their area, property owners were...
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Maywood, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
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) ...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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Merrionette Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...a quiet bedroom suburb. It borders the Chicago neighborhood of Mount Greenwood and otherwise is...
...surrounded by five cemeteries. By 1943, Chicago developer Joseph E. Merrion built over 120 small...
...had negotiated water service from the city of Chicago, purchased a community school bus, put in...
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