| 1833 |
Crown Point, IN, Peggy Tuck Sinko(
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) ...Point was a popular elopement destination for Chicago-area couples because there was no waiting...
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| 1834 |
Lily Lake, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...when dairy farmers shipped their products to Chicago on the Great Western railroad (established in...
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| 1835 |
Little Italy, Max Grinnell(
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) ...Chicago's “Little Italy” developed in the Near West Side around Halsted and Taylor Streets near Jane...
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| 1836 |
Pingree Grove, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...2000. In the 1870s, the construction of the Chicago & Pacific railroad brought modest growth. At the...
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| 1837 |
South Deering, David Bensman(
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) ...Roman Catholics worshiped in nearby South Chicago . After 1900, new settlers arrived from Eastern...
...Organizing Committee began to organize South Chicago mills in 1936, they faced difficulties at the...
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| 1838 |
Dance Halls, Lewis A. Erenberg(
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) ...arriving on the “L” to dance. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Dance halls have played central roles in Chicago's civic life. In the 1820s and 1830s, Mark...
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| 1839 |
Hines (Edward) Lumber Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...wholesale lumberyard was a 45-acre facility on Chicago's South Side; it also had several smaller...
...the company employed about 500 people around Chicago, sales neared $300 million. Hines went out of...
...he moved with his family from Buffalo to Chicago in 1865, when he was still a boy, Edward Hines...
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| 1840 |
Veluchamy Enterprises, (
Business Dictionary
) ...owned nearly a dozen direct marketing businesses in the Chicago area, and one each in New Jersey and...
...India. With 1,500 Chicago-area employees, 1,500 more worldwide, and over $200 million in...
...ues, this family-owned and -operated company was one of Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
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| 1841 |
Automatic Electric Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...telephone equipment manufacturer located in the Chicago area, Automatic Electric spent most of its...
...invented an automatic telephone switch. In 1891, Joseph B. Harris of Chicago convinced Strowger...
...to move to Chicago, and the Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange was established. In 1901, the...
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| 1842 |
River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...using the trail and bridge took passengers from Chicago to Galena. In the 1840s the Spencer brothers...
...Park . In 1920 Volk Realty established the Chicago Home Gardens subdivision north of the Oak Park...
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| 1843 |
Schiller Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...the way she ran her household. As the city of Chicago encroached upon nearby land, Schiller Park...
...would be annexed by the city. But although Chicago's planning commission bought farmland for what...
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| 1844 |
South Barrington, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...for the Rose Packing Company, located in Chicago. Over the years Rose used farm buildings for the...
...Barrington was donated to the Audubon Society of Chicago by Alexander Stillman in 1976. The 80-acre...
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| 1845 |
Steger, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...the Loop. Columbia Heights, platted along the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad and the Vincennes/...
...Steger engaged with the industrial leaders of Chicago, joining the Union League Club and serving on...
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| 1846 |
Valparaiso, IN, Mel Doering(
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) ...best an hour's drive south and east from Chicago's Loop . The roads are often so clogged, however,...
...of Valpo, as it is familiarly known, work in Chicago or frequently take advantage of its cultural...
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| 1847 |
Welfare Capitalism, Stuart Brandes(
Authored Entry
) ...relations. While no American city became its hub, Chicago firms have presented prime examples of...
...as a profession and its linkage to the Chicago settlement house movement. Beeks's assignment was...
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| 1848 |
West Dundee, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...include evergreens, some of which were sent to Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893....
...of seasonal workers traveled to work from Chicago by electric car, while the majority lived on the...
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| 1849 |
Westchester, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...the Garfield Park rapid transit line from Chicago made this location ideal for suburban development....
...timbers set Westchester apart from many other Chicago suburbs. Completion of the rapid transit line...
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| 1850 |
Westmont, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Avenue and the other down Naperville Road. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad began stopping...
...of working people. In 1872, following the Chicago Fire, William Gregg found the region to have good...
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| 1851 |
Wheeling, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Road, had become a stagecoach route between Chicago and Green Bay, Wisconsin. This prompted Joseph...
...of bicycling prompted races between Wheeling and Chicago with as many as a hundred participants. In...
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| 1852 |
Whiting, IN, John Bodnar(
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) ...officials selected a site south of down- town Chicago on Lake Michigan filled with large sand ridges...
...massive that it could be seen from downtown Chicago. The damage caused the company to modernize the...
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