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Mount Prospect, IL, David MacLaren(
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) ...Electronics, and Eastman Kodak, or commuted to Chicago. By 1992, the village's chamber of commerce...
...Wisconsin Railroad (later renamed the Chicago & North Western) ran through Mount Prospect, but it...
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Palos Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...community for people commuting to jobs in Chicago. Palos Park's population (4,689 in 2000) contains...
...Southwest Highway and connected the area to Chicago. In the 1890s Palos Park became known as a...
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Trout Valley, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...horse-breeding farm owned by John Hertz of Chicago taxi and auto rental fame and, later, a Curtiss...
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Union, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Platted in 1851 as a station on the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad , the village failed to prosper....
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Volo, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...of the Loop. Formed at the junction of the Chicago—Lake Geneva and Waukegan — Woodstock stage trails...
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Braidwood, IL, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...Braidwood soon became a major coal supplier to Chicago. Irish , Welsh , Scottish , and Czech miners,...
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Yorkville, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...in local importance with the arrival of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1870. Smaller...
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Hebron, IN, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...only the 1863 arrival of the Pittsburgh, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad motivated significant growth....
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Lowell, IN, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...and other industries or commute to jobs in Chicago, Gary , Hammond , or areas further south....
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Gilberts, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1855 as Gilbert's Station along the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad , the community served as a...
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Hampshire, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Henpeck, settled in 1839 along the Galena–Chicago Road north of the present village, was abandoned...
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Hebron, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...the township's farmers to ship livestock to Chicago's stockyards. Incorporated in 1895, Hebron...
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Huntley, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...NW of the Loop. Platted beside the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in 1851 by Thomas Huntley and...
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Oakwood Hills, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...is a bedroom community for local workers and Chicago commuters. The 2000 population was 2,194....
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Polonia, Wallace Best(
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) ...Americans. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Chicago's Polonia has been centered on the city's...
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Lager Beer Riot, Robin Einhorn(
Authored Entry
) ...riot ended in minutes. The riot mobilized Chicago's immigrant voters. In March 1856, a heavy German...
...Chicago's first civil disturbance, on April 21, 1855, resulted in 1 death, 60 arrests, and the...
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Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens, Dennis A. Meritt, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...Society assumed the zoo's management from the Chicago Park District , which remains the owner, and...
...the development of a formal animal collection in Chicago's lakefront park began. The zoo's first...
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Palatine, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...appearance of many of the suburbs nearer Chicago. By 1970 virtually all the land had been taken up,...
...produce to the Palatine depot for shipment to Chicago. Some commuters also began to settle in the...
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Zenith Radio Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Karl Hassel and Ralph H. G. Mathews founded Chicago Radio Laboratory in 1919 as a small manufacturer...
...came from the call letters of their small Chicago radio station, 9ZN. In 1923, Hassel, Mathews, and...
...manufacturing, Zenith still employed about 5,000 Chicago-area workers by 1990. Losses mounted,...
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People's Gas Light & Coke Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Energy grossed more than $2 billion and had employed over 3,000 workers in the Chicago area....
...Chicago's first gas...
...company, the Chicago Gas Light & Coke Co. , was organized in 1849 and began to sell gas (used for...
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