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Tinley Park, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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| 1645 |
Boardinghouses, Douglas Knox(
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) ...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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| 1646 |
Pilsen, Erik Gellman(
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) ...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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| 1647 |
Elgin, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...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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Flossmoor, IL, John H. Long(
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) ...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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| 1649 |
Free Speech, Franklin Rosemont(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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| 1651 |
Hickory Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...quarter of Palos Township, southwestof Chicago. Approximately half of the township is forest...
...Slough and trails through the area to the Chicago portages . Settlers from eastern states arrived as...
...workers employed in defense industries in the Chicago region. In 1951, the desire on the part of...
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| 1652 |
Hillside, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...of a network of expressways serving the Chicago region. Interstate 290 cuts throughthe village from...
...crushed stone for road-building throughout the Chicago region. Against the wishes of most village...
...Central Railroad and from a spur of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin interurban that followed 12th...
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| 1653 |
Hinsdale, IL, Tom Sterling(
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) ...W of the Loop. Hinsdale, a commutervillage along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad , roughly...
...Fullersburg. In 1858 Fuller petitioned the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad to build a line...
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| 1654 |
Inverness, IL, Ronald Martin(
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) ...worked either in outlying communities or in Chicago. Route 68 provides residents access to the other...
...the city. Metra commuter rail service to downtown Chicago is available in neighboring Barrington and...
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| 1655 |
Itasca, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...established as early as 1866. This business increased in 1873 when the Chicago & Pacific Railroad ,...
...later the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, established a line through Itasca. Smith donated land for...
...people. More residents began commuting to Chicago and subdivisions replaced farms. Still cheese,...
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Lyric Opera, John von Rhein(
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) ...reorganized company—presented seasons at Chicago's Auditorium Theater and the Civic Opera House. All...
...father, the three formed the Lyric Theatre of Chicago in 1952. Their plan was to restore the city to...
...took sole command of a rechristened Lyric Opera of Chicago, the company had been nicknamed “La Scala...
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| 1657 |
Melrose Park, IL, Richard Harris(
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) ...miles W of the Loop. Melrose Park is one of Chicago's many pre–World War II suburbs that do not fit...
...subdivided a large tract almost due west of Chicago, well beyond city limits. At first the company...
...suburbs and satellites such as Cicero and Chicago Heights . Wartime growth sparked more of the same...
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Merrillville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
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) ...Merrillville in 1876 (later the Chesapeake & Ohio) and in 1880 (Chicago & Grand Trunk), opening...
...links to the Chicago markets. Through World War II , Merrillville was a typical Midwestern farming...
...of the industrial cities of Gary, Hammond , and East Chicago began to buy new homes in central Lake...
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| 1659 |
Midlothian, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...is on the lake plain formed by glacial Lake Chicago as a result of the Wisconsin glacier (12,000...
...Ward and Company, attracted the elites of Chicago society and was the first golf club south of the...
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Avalon Park, Wallace Best(
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) ...isolation made it a site for waste disposal . The borders of the community are South Chicago Avenue...
...and the Chicago Skyway to the northeast, 87th Street on the southern edge, and the Illinois Central...
...also made Avalon Park their home. Annexation to Chicago in 1889, the World's Columbian Exposition of...
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