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301 Sri Lankans, Tracy Steffes( Authored Entry )
...occupations including taxi driving and service industries. Efforts to organize as a community have...
302 Pilsen, Erik Gellman( Authored Entry )
...During World War I , labor shortages in area industries induced over two dozen different immigrant...
303 Albanians, Nicholas C. Pano( Authored Entry )
...factories, restaurants , or the construction industry. Chicago's Albanians, like their compatriots...
304 Dixmoor, IL, Larry A. McClellan( Authored Entry )
...for Dixmoor was tied to the metal-fabricating industries in Harvey. The large Wyman-Gordon plant was...
305 Dominicans, Rafael Nuñez-Cedeño( Authored Entry )
...meatpacking , garment, and electronics industries as well as in the service sectors. Notwithstanding...
306 Downers Grove, IL, Mark S. Harmon( Authored Entry )
...economy included corporate headquarters, light industry, service, and retail businesses. Downers...
307 Edison Park, Ann Durkin Keating( Authored Entry )
...a major building boom. Businesses and industry began locating nearby and automobile travel made the...
308 Elmhurst, IL, Jane S. Teague( Authored Entry )
...farmers, local businessmen, and owners of area industries. In 1883 Adolph Hammerschmidt and Henry...
309 Evergreen Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz( Authored Entry )
...Park is predominantly residential, with little industry. The Little Company of Mary Hospital is the...
310 Flossmoor, IL, John H. Long( Authored Entry )
...local laws was an ordinance that prohibited industry within the town limits, thus guaranteeing the...
311 Forest Park, IL, Jean Louise Guarino( Authored Entry )
...in New York. Since the 1870s, Forest Park's main industry has been several large cemeteries —Jewish...
312 Fox River, David M. Solzman( Authored Entry )
...it provides picturesque water frontage for industries and for parks and other recreational uses....
313 Griffith, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski( Authored Entry )
...residents attracted to jobs in the railroad industry, at the steel mills in Gary and East Chicago ,...
314 Hanover Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...in DuPage County. North of Irving Park Road industries began to boom. Tradewinds Shopping Center on...
315 Harvard, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche( Authored Entry )
...quickly became the center of a thriving dairy industry. The railroad cheaply transported fresh milk...
316 Hickory Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan( Authored Entry )
...for migrant workers employed in defense industries in the Chicago region. In 1951, the desire on the...
317 Highland, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski( Authored Entry )
...much of the cabbage for the town's first industry, a kraut factory. A second kraut factory was also...
318 Highwood, IL, Lisa Cervac( Authored Entry )
...Fort Sheridan helped introduce the liquor industry to Highwood, the fort alone could not sustain the...
319 Hoffman Estates, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...land that Hoffman Estates planned to use for industry. Hoffman Estates continued, however, with a...
320 Homewood, IL, John H. Long( Authored Entry )
...to Chicago, and local businesses and some industry developed to serve their needs, including a...

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