| 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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1853 |
Woodridge, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...suburban development that took place outside Chicago after World War II. In less than 40 years,...
...and construction decreased travel times to and from Chicago and opened up new areas for development....
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| 1854 |
Home Building and Sanborn Insurance Atlases, Richard Harris(
Authored Entry
) ...as Samuel Gross did on Alta Vista Terrace in Chicago's Lake View Community Area, they left their...
...mark. Many Chicago areas were developed with a singular vision. Riverside was the province of the...
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| 1855 |
Clarendon Hills, IL, Tom Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...Loop. Clarendon Hills, a commuter village along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad , roughly...
...as much as 70 feet above Lake Michigan. When the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad began service...
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| 1856 |
Congress of Industrial Organizations, Steve Rosswurm(
Authored Entry
) ...the CIO were the Memorial Day Massacre , when Chicago police officers attacked striking Republic...
...who accounted for 100,000 to 125,000 of Chicago-area CIO members, on average, throughout much of its...
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| 1857 |
Darien, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...suburban development that occurred outside Chicago after World War II. Darien is often associated...
...grew up along a stagecoach route between Chicago and Ottawa (paralleled by Interstate 55 today). An...
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| 1858 |
Deer Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...farmers followed, and in 1854 the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad (Chicago & North Western Railway)...
...laid track from Chicago. When the railroad sought to buy land surrounding the station in hopes of...
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| 1859 |
Des Plaines, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...a network bringing commuters and visitors from Chicago to Des Plaines and beyond. The Des Plaines...
...Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad (later known as the Chicago & North Western Railway) came through Des...
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| 1860 |
Elmhurst, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...local gathering place. In 1849 the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad arrived, and the community was...
...Hammerschmidt and Henry Assman founded Elmhurst-Chicago Stone Company near the village's western...
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