| 2093 |
Horner (Henry) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Henry Horner founded a grocery store in Chicago in 1842, two years after he emigrated from Bohemia....
...at Randolph and Canal Streets, was one of Chicago's earliest retail groceries; Horner started a...
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| 2094 |
Morrison, Plummer & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...wholesaling business from Richmond, Indiana, to Chicago. At the turn of the century, Morrison's son...
...the McKesson & Robbins; in the 1930s, the Chicago-based firm was known as McKesson-Fuller-Morrison....
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| 2095 |
Origins of the Grid, (
Historical Source
) ...acre. See also: Government, City of Chicago ; Mapping Chicago ; Schools and Education ; Townships...
...The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 2096 |
Elgin National Watch Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...manufacturers of timepieces, was founded in Chicago during the Civil War by a group of investors...
...mayor of the city, and John C. Adams, a Chicago watchmaker. Other founders of this new company,...
...watches at a new plant in Elgin, west of Chicago. By 1870, the plant, which over the previous year...
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| 2097 |
Rolling Meadows, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...a floor plan of his basic house in the Chicago Tribune. Although the response was positive,...
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| 2098 |
Round Lake Beach, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...growth was so strong that Metra , which directs Chicago metropolitan rail commuter activity, added...
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| 2099 |
South Holland, IL, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...gardening, supplying the burgeoning city of Chicago with fresh produce. In 1892, Dutch and German...
|
| 2100 |
Steering, Pierre deVise(
Authored Entry
) ...January 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. , chose Chicago for a national campaign against housing bias....
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| 2101 |
Streamwood, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Mudville. ” New residents often came from the same Chicago neighborhoods and rented with an option...
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| 2102 |
Thornton, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...with I-80. The first railroad (later the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, now the Union Pacific) came to...
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| 2103 |
Vernon Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...once belonged to John F. Cuneo, a prominent Chicago businessman. The former Cuneo Estates continued...
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| 2104 |
Zion, IL, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...States from Australia in 1888 and settled in Chicago in 1893 near the site of the World's Columbian...
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| 2105 |
Bridgeview, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...hay, wheat, and potatoes. By the 1880s former Chicago mayor “Long John” Wentworth owned land in the...
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| 2106 |
Carpentersville, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...interests in Carpentersville. He persuaded the Chicago & North Western Railroad to extend its tracks...
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| 2107 |
Countryside, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...too much time at Wrigley Field watching the Chicago Cubs to make the farm economically viable. In...
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| 2108 |
Geneva, IL, Sherry Meyer(
Authored Entry
) ...began moving west along the new axis of the Chicago & North Western Railroad . In the twentieth...
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| 2109 |
Kenilworth, IL, Jan Olive Nash(
Authored Entry
) ...farmland lying along Lake Michigan just north of Chicago. Much of the land was covered with native...
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| 2110 |
Lake Barrington, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...populated until after World War I, when Chicago businessmen began turning farms into estates. One...
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| 2111 |
Lincolnwood, IL, Laura Milsk(
Authored Entry
) ...population grew after the establishment of a Chicago & North Western Railway station in nearby...
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| 2112 |
Oak Forest, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...Poor Farm in Dunning on the Northwest Side of Chicago. The facility was completed in 1910 as the Oak...
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