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McHenry, IL, John D. Schroeder(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1623 |
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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| 1624 |
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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| 1625 |
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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| 1626 |
Ukrainian Village, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1627 |
Goose Island, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1628 |
Aragon Ballroom, Geoffrey Klingsporn(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1629 |
Jewelers' Row, Eli Rubin(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1630 |
Juvenile Protective Association, Michael Willrich(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1631 |
Kelly-Nash Machine, Paul Green(
Authored Entry
) ...The Kelly-Nash Machine dominated Chicago government and the local Democratic Party from 1933 to...
...organization, these men shared political power in Chicago until Nash's death in 1943. Nash viewed...
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| 1632 |
Polish National Alliance, Joseph John Parot(
Authored Entry
) ...the PNA has maintained its national headquarters in Chicago, where it administers a sizeable library...
...simultaneously organized in Philadelphia and Chicago in 1880 by Polish exiles devoted to the twin...
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| 1633 |
Jules Guerin, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...message to Burnham, informing the architect of his imminent arrival in Chicago to work on the Plan....
...Author: Jules Guerin Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2355 2942 Burnham Plan Burnham &...
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| 1634 |
U.S. Steel Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...giant Pittsburgh-based company never had its headquarters in Chicago, but it was a leading local...
...employer throughout the twentieth century, and Chicago-area plants produced a large fraction of all...
...operated most of the large steel mills in the Chicago region, including the original plant and South...
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| 1635 |
Irving Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and the Steven Race House. In the 1980s the Chicago Landmark Commission named 43 other buildings as...
...farmer, but his land was so close to the Chicago & North Western railroad , he realized there would...
...annexation of Irving Park into the city of Chicago as part of Jefferson Township occurred in 1889,...
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| 1636 |
Fair Planners and Builders, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...chief designer. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-02208) Illustration...
...of Construction. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-13663) Illustration...
...4159 3251 Burnham Plan Planning Chicago World's Columbian Exposition Burnham's Team on the Site This...
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| 1637 |
Tribune Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company employed nearly 6,000 people in the Chicago area. It continued to grow vigorously through...
...The Chicago Daily Tribune newspaper was founded in 1847. In 1861,...
...associated with the paper, the name changed to Chicago Tribune. After a few years in other pursuits,...
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| 1638 |
Rosemont, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...a milk stop drew truck farmers, mostly of German heritage, who peddled produce in Chicago. Parcels...
...of Rosemont land were sold in Chicago at the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition . Construction...
...hangars. Following World War II , the city of Chicago bought the plant and in 1949 changed the name...
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| 1639 |
Round Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...they could not craft on the farm. In the 1890s, when officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul...
...extended a branch line from their Milwaukee–Chicago main line at Libertyville Junction (later...
...Lake County farmers gained easy access to Chicago. Landowners near Hainesville such as Amarias M....
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| 1640 |
Schaumburg, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...Dortmund and Hannover. They settled along the Chicago–Elgin Road (Irving Park) and other local...
...railroad depot to open the communications with Chicago and stimulate rapid growth. By the end of the...
...once an Indian trail and then the route of the Chicago–Galena stagecoach. In the northeastern area...
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