| 1791 |
Palos Heights, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...Hills. Photographer: Robert C. Long. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 The last remaining...
...northwest corner of town, train tracks ran to Chicago and Orland Park, although the nearest train...
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| 1792 |
Illinois Central Railroad (Corporate History), (
Business Dictionary
) ...it sold much of this track to concentrate the Chicago–New Orleans corridor, its primary route since...
...the nineteenth century. In 1988, the IC sold its Chicago commuter lines to the Metropolitan Rail (...
...completed—ran down the length of the state, from Chicago and other northern towns all the way to the...
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| 1793 |
True Value Hardware, (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company employed about 1,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1997, after Cotter & Co. merged with...
...became known as the TruServ Corp. Based in Chicago, TruServ was a member-owned cooperative supplying...
...$4 billion and nearly 2,000 employees in the Chicago area. See also Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co....
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| 1794 |
Batavia, IL, Marilyn Robinson(
Authored Entry
) ...The Windmill City. ” Following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 , quarries in Batavia shipped Niagara...
...produced most of the newsprint used by the Chicago Tribune, and the Western Paper Bag Company made...
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| 1795 |
Tax Strikes, David T. Beito(
Authored Entry
) ...Between 1931 and 1933, Chicago and Cook County experienced one of the largest tax strikes in...
...budget of over $600,000 and a radio show in Chicago. But it suffered a demoralizing blow in October...
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| 1796 |
Torrens Title, John T. Durkin(
Authored Entry
) ...a substantial improvement over past systems. The Chicago fire of 1871 destroyed Cook County real-...
...estate records. As Chicago and Cook County were expanding rapidly, providing an adequate...
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| 1797 |
Traction Ordinances, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...Passed in February 1907 by the Chicago City Council, the traction ordinances represented the...
...The roots of the controversy lay in Chicago's tremendous growth in size and population following the...
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| 1798 |
DePaul University, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...institution with campuses in the heart of Chicago and its outlying suburbs, DePaul is also (since...
...its founding Vincentian fathers traveled to Chicago from LaSalle, Illinois, and established a church...
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| 1799 |
Bungalows, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...houses built throughout the United States. In Chicago, a few architects had begun to design and...
...of all residential structures in metropolitan Chicago were less than 10 years old, many of them...
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| 1800 |
Capital Punishment, Jess Maghan(
Authored Entry
) ...murder, arson, horse stealing, and rape. In Chicago, a bitter legacy of justice is found in the 171...
...penalty remained a controversial issue in Chicago's legal and civic community. Execution by lethal...
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| 1801 |
Coal City, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...the vast coal reserves that lie just south of Chicago. Peter Lansett, a Canadian , has been credited...
...made Coal City a major contributor of coal to Chicago. By the twentieth century, the manufacturing...
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| 1802 |
Deerfield, IL, Thomas A. Auger(
Authored Entry
) ...area and used the nearby Des Plaines , Fox , and Chicago Rivers as a means of transportation. Jacob...
...as timber, venison, and wheat to the markets in Chicago as well as to bring supplies to the area. In...
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| 1803 |
Elmwood Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier(
Authored Entry
) ...eastern section of Leyden Township between Chicago and the Des Plaines River . Native Americans made...
...area, which was then known as Orison. The Chicago & Pacific Railroad laid tracks in Leyden Township...
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| 1804 |
Fermilab, Adrienne W. Kolb(
Authored Entry
) ...Accelerator Laboratory (NAL). Continuing Chicago's tradition of scientific discovery that began with...
...nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago in 1942, NAL became an international center for...
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| 1805 |
Fort Sheridan, Eleanor Hannah(
Authored Entry
) ...Designed by the Chicago architecture firm of Holabird & Roche, Fort Sheridan occupied over 600 acres...
...purchased in 1887 by the Commercial Club of Chicago and donated to the federal government with the...
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| 1806 |
Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program, Paul Fischer(
Authored Entry
) ...of class-action law suits filed against the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) and the U.S. Department...
...throughout the country as well as within the Chicago area. What began as a controversial experiment...
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| 1807 |
Glen Ellyn, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...nearby mineral springs were discovered, and Chicago's infamous Madam Rieck purportedly moved her...
...Glen Ellyn. In 1891 Glen Ellyn, advertised as Chicago's newest suburb and health resort, became the...
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| 1808 |
Jungle, The, James Diedrick(
Authored Entry
) ...emerged from a seven-week investigation of Chicago's slaughterhouses. Researching the book in 1904,...
...to a nightmare on the “killing floors” of the Chicago packinghouses. Jurgis Rudkus and his bride Ona...
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| 1809 |
Kitchenettes, Wendy Plotkin(
Authored Entry
) ...described a newly constructed small apartment in Chicago, first appearing around 1916 in Uptown , at...
...80,000 conversions of this type had occurred in Chicago, leading to a 52 percent increase in units...
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| 1810 |
Lake County Discovery Museum, Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...Established by German immigrant Curt Teich, the Chicago-based Curt Teich & Co. operated from 1898...
...World Wars, Teich's Irving Park Road plant on Chicago's North Side sometimes printed several million...
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