| 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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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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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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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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| 1641 |
Tinley Park, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...Bremen Township was organized in 1850. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad arrived in 1852...
...War II . After the war young families from Chicago were attracted by the affordable housing. From...
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Bellwood, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
Authored Entry
) ...Harbor Belt tracks. Rail passenger service, available via the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railway (...
...interurban ) and the Chicago & North Western Railway, encouraged residential development in other...
...even as it contributed to the demise of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin in 1957. The population jumped...
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Berkeley, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
Authored Entry
) ...Union Pacific Railroad (formerly the Chicago & North Western) and the large Proviso classification...
...Settler's Cemetery . The 1902 completion of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad ( interurban ) gave...
...diverted to the new expressway system, the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin terminated its passenger service...
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Winfield, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...an early stagecoach line and the first railroad out of Chicago, Winfield remained in the shadow...
...of its neighboring towns, West Chicago , Wheaton , and Naperville . Until the 1920s, Winfield...
...home was established. In 1909 it became the Chicago-Winfield Tuberculosis Sanitorium, and since 1964...
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Boardinghouses, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...Residential boarding arrangements in the Chicago metropolitan area are at least as old as the...
...of the Fort Dearborn trading settlement. During Chicago's early boom years, when housing facilities...
...among the native-born in early twentieth-century Chicago and other large cities. Boarding provided a...
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Pilsen, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...a major route of trade from the hinterland into Chicago, which is now Ogden Avenue), the Illinois &...
...Michigan Canal (the South Branch of the Chicago River forms the southern and eastern borders of the...
...Side to expand the University of Illinois at Chicago , Mexican migrants became predominant in the...
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Elgin, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...enjoy a certain importance as a stage on the coach route from Chicago to the lead mines of Galena....
...In 1849, the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad reached Elgin, which later would be served by railroads...
...of the Fox River, linking the growing town to Chicago and other urban centers. Elgin showed great...
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| 1648 |
Flossmoor, IL, John H. Long(
Authored Entry
) ...lunch excursions for prospective buyers from Chicago, and steadily built ridership by touting the...
...more than half the workers commuted to jobs in Chicago. In the postwar period Flossmoor and Homewood...
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Free Speech, Franklin Rosemont(
Authored Entry
) ...Open (or free-speech) forums flourished in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century,...
...figure prominently in fiction by prominent Chicago's authors. Writers as diverse as Carl Sandburg,...
...has obscured their educational significance. Chicago writers and public intellectuals have affirmed,...
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| 1650 |
Grayslake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Gray followed a difficult Indian trail from Chicago and settled at the southeast shore of an unnamed...
...Central Railroad began building a line from Chicago to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in the early 1880s. A...
...gave village residents additional access to Chicago's products and amenities. Grayslake grew slowly,...
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