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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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Ashburn, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...railroads , just after the area was annexed to Chicago as part of the town of Lake . The original...
...platted near 83rd and Central Park along the new Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway in the hope that the...
...later just 18 more residences had been added. Chicago's first airport, Ashburn Flying Field, opened...
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Aurora, IL, Catherine Bruck(
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) ...a self-sufficient community, independent of Chicago for its identity, but connected to it through...
...together. Aurora is frequently referred to as a Chicago suburb, most often by the nonlocal media or...
...of heavy-machine building equipment. In 1856 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad located its...
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Posen, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...98 percent Polish ) reflects the enterprise of a Chicago real-estate agent, whose 75 Polish salesmen...
...lots were concentrated in an area south of Chicago, and the name Posen was chosen to remember the...
...petitioned the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago for a church of their own, a mission was...
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Roosevelt University, Lynn Y. Weiner(
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) ...By 2004 the 65,000 alumni included the late Chicago mayor Harold Washington, jazz great Ramsey...
...In 1945, 68 professors from Chicago's Central YMCA College, protesting racial quotas imposed on...
...repairing the grand old facility. In 1954, the Chicago Musical College (founded by Florenz Ziegfeld...
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Tollway Authority, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...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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Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Paul Finkelman(
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) ...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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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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Copperheads, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...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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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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Company Housing, Anna Holian(
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) ...it sold lots and built houses for employees of the steelworking industries south of Chicago....
...directly intervened to provide housing. In Chicago, company housing dates from the great industrial...
...who in 1880 founded the town of Pullman on Chicago's southern suburban fringe. As part of Pullman's...
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