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Leopold and Loeb, Paula S. Fass(
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) ...On May 21, 1924, Chicago became the locale for an event long remembered as the “crime of the...
...19 had just graduated from the University of Chicago and was on his way to Harvard Law School, fit...
...rich, respected, and socially well connected among Chicago's Jewish business class. Because of their...
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Magnificent Mile, John W. Stamper(
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) ...Chicago's North Michigan Avenue, one of the city's most prestigious commercial and residential...
...proposed in Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, and constructed in the 1920s. The avenue replaced...
...Station, are among the oldest structures in Chicago. Buildings constructed on the avenue during the...
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Mokena, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...of a suburban fabric reaching southwest from Chicago. In the early 1830s the McGovney and Van Horne...
...Island Railroad had completed its line from Chicago through Will County, passing less than a mile...
...The growth of Mokena paralleled that of many Chicago suburbs that began as railroad stops. One of...
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Newberry Library, Martha T. Briggs and Cynthia H. Peters(
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) ...the estate of Walter Loomis Newberry, an early Chicago pioneer involved in banking, shipping, real...
...W. Blatchford established the library in 1887 on Chicago's Near North Side and hired its first...
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Old Mill Creek, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo(
Authored Entry
) ...the Scottish word for creek. The placement of the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad several miles east of...
...Mill Creek was incorporated in 1959. In the 1950s, Chicago millionaire Tempel Smith, of Tempel Steel...
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Operation PUSH, James Ralph(
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) ...movement . When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) targeted Chicago in 1965, Jesse...
...Jackson helped formally organize Chicago ministers to promote more employment opportunities for...
...it was the leading civil rights group in Chicago. In 1971, Jackson broke with SCLC, and Operation...
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Robbins, IL, Andrew Wiese(
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) ...Robbins remained one of the few places in greater Chicago where African Americans with very limited...
...is the oldest majority-black suburb in the Chicago area and one of the oldest incorporated black...
...territory. Robbins was one of few places in the Chicago suburbs where African Americans could...
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Washington Heights, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...Heights also boasts the Woodson Branch of the Chicago Public Library at 95th and Halsted. Its Vivian...
...S of the Loop. Located on the far South Side of Chicago, Washington Heights, is bounded by 89th and...
...and Brainerd were annexed to the city of Chicago, and in 1891 Fernwood was annexed and designated as...
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Willow Springs, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...commissioners built Archer Avenue to connect Chicago with Lockport . Canal construction began in...
...in the mid-nineteenth century. The Joliet & Chicago railroad arrived after 1854, and Willow Springs...
...near Willow Springs. In the fall of 1883 the Chicago, St. Louis & South-Western Railroad came...
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Lake Villa, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...service to O'Hare Airport and to downtown Chicago, opened in 1996 with a station at Lake Villa. This...
...of the Fair Department Store on State Street in Chicago. Lehmann bought land between Cedar Lake and...
...convenient transportation to the resort from Chicago. Lehmann's leadership ended in 1890, when he...
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McHenry, IL, John D. Schroeder(
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) ...commuting to work in other localities, including Chicago. McHenry's population tripled from 2,080 in...
...was able to secure the route of the Fox Valley Railroad (afterward a branch of the Chicago & North...
...Western) from Chicago in 1854. Consequently, Gagetown (later West McHenry) began to eclipse the...
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Plainfield, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...for Plainfield. The increasing movement of Chicago residents to suburbia also contributed to the...
...became a stop on the stagecoach line between Chicago and Ottawa. Chester Ingersoll and Squire Arnold...
...own transportation systems were boosted when the Chicago Belt Line Railroad laid track through the...
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McDonald's Corp., (
Authored Entry
) ...a symbol of America around the world. In the Chicago area, the company employed about 6,000 people....
...Plaines; it was the first McDonald's in the Chicago area. The chain grew at an extraordinary rate:...
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Burnett (Leo) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...As part of that firm, Leo Burnett USA continues its activities from offices in Chicago and New York....
...the Midwest, including a stint as a vice president at the Chicago ad firm of Erwin, Wasey & Co. ,...
...44-year-old Leo Burnett started his own firm in Chicago in 1935. His venture soon became one of the...
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Metropolitan Statistical Area, William Erbe(
Authored Entry
) ...into the metropolitan area. The sprawling Chicago urbanized area is populous enough to characterize...
...Porter Counties in northwestern Indiana, combined to form a three-state Chicago-Gary-Kenosha CMSA....
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Ukrainian Village, Wallace Best(
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) ...developed the area bounded by Division, Damen, Chicago, and Western. After the first of wave of...
...neighborhood. By 1930 estimates placed the Chicago Ukrainian population between 25,000 and 30,000,...
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Goose Island, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...when he had a canal cut across the meandering path of the Chicago River's North Branch approximately...
...from North Avenue to Chicago Avenue. The waterfront sites drew noisome industries, including...
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Aragon Ballroom, Geoffrey Klingsporn(
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) ...became a center of dance-hall culture in Chicago. Designed by Huszagh & Hill, the interior lavishly...
...alongside the “L,” it drew dancers from across Chicago and the suburbs. In 1927, WGN began live...
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Jewelers' Row, Eli Rubin(
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) ...and retailers. By World War II , the most important Chicago firms, like Sherman Tucker and M. Y....
...son Marshall brought international fame to the Chicago jewelry trade in international gem markets...
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Juvenile Protective Association, Michael Willrich(
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) ...as a vital center of social service and advocacy on behalf of child and family welfare in Chicago....
...established America's first juvenile court in Chicago, this women-led reform organization emerged in...
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