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Hampshire, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Henpeck, settled in 1839 along the Galena–Chicago Road north of the present village, was abandoned...
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Hebron, IL, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...the township's farmers to ship livestock to Chicago's stockyards. Incorporated in 1895, Hebron...
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| 1723 |
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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| 1724 |
Oakwood Hills, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...is a bedroom community for local workers and Chicago commuters. The 2000 population was 2,194....
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| 1725 |
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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| 1726 |
Lager Beer Riot, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...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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| 1727 |
Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens, Dennis A. Meritt, Jr.(
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) ...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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| 1728 |
Palatine, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...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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| 1729 |
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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| 1730 |
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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| 1731 |
Provident Hospital, Paul A. Buelow(
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) ...a well-known black surgeon and graduate of Chicago Medical College, organized Provident Hospital and...
...Dearborn in the Douglas Community Area on Chicago's near south side . His aim was to provide this...
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| 1732 |
Pullman Strike, Carl Smith(
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) ...Pullman cars. The boycott, although centered in Chicago, crippled railroad traffic nationwide, until...
...and then by dispatching regular soldiers to Chicago and elsewhere. The soldiers joined with local...
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| 1733 |
Balaban & Katz, Geoffrey Klingsporn(
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) ...of unprecedented size and splendor across the Chicago region, enjoyed a monopoly from Minneapolis to...
...1918), Tivoli (1921), Uptown (1925), and Chicago (1921)—all but one were located in outlying areas...
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| 1734 |
Michael Reese Hospital, Wallace Best(
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) ...many institutions destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was the hospital on LaSalle street (...
...named in his honor and that it serve all of Chicago without regard to race, creed, or nationality....
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| 1735 |
Renaissance Society, Lisa Meyerowitz(
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) ...The Renaissance Society, a noncollecting museum founded in 1915 at the University of Chicago ,...
...is Chicago's oldest contemporary art museum. Named for the spirit of rebirth, the society sought to...
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| 1736 |
Shakman Decrees, Roger R. Fross(
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) ...1969, one man made his stand against the Chicago political machine . Michael Shakman, an independent...
...against one of the most enduring traditions in Chicago's politics : political patronage , or the...
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| 1737 |
Smart Museum, Ronne Hartfield(
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) ...Affiliated with the University of Chicago , the Smart Museum opened as a gallery in 1974 with a one-...
...Esquire magazine here in 1933. Designed by Chicago architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, the building...
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| 1738 |
Soap Operas, Rich Samuels(
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) ...Broadcasting's most enduring genre emerged in Chicago's radio studios in the early 1930s, the...
...War II did the soaps begin their irreversible exodus from the Chicago studios where they were born....
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Street Musicians, Don McLeese(
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) ...color that enhances the culture. Historically, Chicago has not been one of them. Instead, police and...
...expansion of the University of Illinois at Chicago claimed much of the prime territory. From Muddy...
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Taylorism, Keith Andrew Mann(
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) ...the twentieth century left an indelible mark on Chicago's industrial landscape. Taylorist principles...
...that cattle entered the killing floor in the Chicago stockyards in one piece and emerged after...
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