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Forest Park, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
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) ...in New York. Since the 1870s, Forest Park's main industry has been several large cemeteries —Jewish...
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Fox River, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...it provides picturesque water frontage for industries and for parks and other recreational uses....
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Griffith, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
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) ...residents attracted to jobs in the railroad industry, at the steel mills in Gary and East Chicago ,...
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Hanover Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...in DuPage County. North of Irving Park Road industries began to boom. Tradewinds Shopping Center on...
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Harvard, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...quickly became the center of a thriving dairy industry. The railroad cheaply transported fresh milk...
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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...
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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...
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Highwood, IL, Lisa Cervac(
Authored Entry
) ...Fort Sheridan helped introduce the liquor industry to Highwood, the fort alone could not sustain the...
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Hoffman Estates, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...land that Hoffman Estates planned to use for industry. Hoffman Estates continued, however, with a...
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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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Itasca, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and coal store provided jobs when the dairy industry left the area. In the 1960s construction moved...
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Kensington, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...Kensington police station, and St. Anthony's. As industries began to close in the 1960s and 1970s,...
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Lake Zurich, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...icehouses were built with a view to developing an industry, it failed to prosper because of poor...
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Macedonians, Gregory Michaelidis(
Authored Entry
) ...Macedonians worked almost exclusively in heavy industry. Many found work in Chicago's rail yards....
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Motorola Inc., Timothy J. Gilfoyle(
Authored Entry
) ...of semiconductors for the booming computer industry. In 1993, Robert Galvin's son Christopher was...
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Mount Greenwood, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...new homes were built. But there was only one industry in Mount Greenwood, the Beverly Shear Company,...
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Niles, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Air Electric Ventilating Company, later Ilg Industries, was located in Chicago, Ilg lived in Niles....
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Northbrook, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Loop. Prior to the establishment of a brick industry, Northbrook was a sleepy little settlement. In...
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Posen, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...farmers, and immediately to the east, the new industries in Harvey provided jobs. Although Harvey...
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Water in Chicago, Ann Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...turned lakes and waterways into resources for industry, recreation, and transportation, and made...
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