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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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Hillside, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
Authored Entry
) ...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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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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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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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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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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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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Hart, Schaffner & Marx, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and other retailers; its headquarters remained in Chicago, where it employed about 1,000 people....
...Max Hart, German immigrants who arrived in Chicago as boys 14 years earlier, founded Harry Hart &...
...a target of one of the biggest strikes in Chicago. Hannah Shapiro, an 18-year-old Russian-born woman...
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Burnham & Root, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and the Masonic Temple, which became Chicago's first 20-story building when it was completed in...
...his associates continued to design many notable Chicago buildings, including the Reliance Building;...
...the Field Museum, completed in 1920. Outside Chicago, major works of the Burnham firm included the...
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, (
Business Dictionary
) ...late 1980s, when it employed about 700 people in Chicago, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was the city's...
...architecture firm. At the end of the 1990s, Chicago-area projects accounted for about one-third of...
...local workforce, it maintained offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Los...
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Building Trades and Workers, Richard Schneirov(
Authored Entry
) ...changes were well underway by midcentury, when Chicago experienced its greatest growth. With the...
...were often aided by a hands-off approach from Chicago police . In 1890–91, during construction of...
...for contractors. Under intense pressure from Chicago business, Democratic mayor Carter Harrison II...
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Illinois Tool Works Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in size by buying other companies, including Signode, another old Chicago-based fastener company. At...
...of the 1990s, Illinois Tool bought Premark, a Chicago-area company that made kitchen appliances and...
...sales and employed nearly 5,000 people in the Chicago area, which the company still called home....
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Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...with the company. Included among the many landmark Chicago buildings for which Northwestern supplied...
...moldings were the Civic Opera House, the Chicago Theater, the Wrigley Building, and the Randolph...
...Tower. Northwestern's operations in Chicago declined alongside the construction industry during...
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Ben Hecht: Lake Thoughts, (
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) ...In 1921, the Chicago Daily News began running a column by Ben Hecht entitled “One Thousand and...
...Afternoons. ” Ruminating on life in general and on Chicago more particularly, Hecht considered the...
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Ida B. Wells: African Americans at the World's Columbian Exposition, (
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) ...a fierce opponent of lynching. She came to Chicago in 1893 to protest the exclusion of African...
...died in 1895, but Wells moved permanently to Chicago and became involved in a wide range of civic...
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Philip Klutznick: Shopping as a Real-Estate Deal, (
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) ...century had a profound effect on the Chicago region. He was instrumental in the development of Park...
...shopping. Klutznick brought this perspective into Chicago in 1973, when Marshall Field's asked him...
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Oswego, IL, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...Aurora owing to the latter's position on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad . Oswego is home...
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