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71 Toll Roads, David M. Young( Authored Entry )
...Tri-State Tollway, a beltway between the Indiana and Wisconsin state lines, the 76-mile Northwest...
...with construction of the 7.8-mile Chicago Skyway to Indiana Toll Road's western terminus. The Skyway...
72 Calumet City, IL, Dominic Candeloro( Authored Entry )
...up completely of candidates with Polish names. When Indiana went dry in 1916, West Hammond became an...
...watering hole for the drinkers of northwest Indiana. Bootleggers like Al Capone built on this base...
73 Frankfort, IL, Sarah S. Marcus( Authored Entry )
...from the area, Euro-American settlers from Indiana, Ohio, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and...
...Creek with the railroad's main line in Indiana. In the same year, Sherman W. Bowen, a current...
74 New Thought, Beryl Satter( Authored Entry )
...Thought seminary and training school at 2019 S. Indiana. Almost every major New Thought leader came...
75 Lake Michigan, Theodore J. Karamanski( Authored Entry )
...young Chicagoans were attracted to the wild dunes and beaches of the Near North and South Sides....
...the transformation of the coastal areas of Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan into discrete zones of...
76 Valparaiso University, Mel Doering( Authored Entry )
...founded in 1859. It later became the Northern Indiana Normal School and then Valparaiso University (...
77 Crown Point, IN, Peggy Tuck Sinko( Authored Entry )
...and has served as the county seat of Lake County,Indiana , since 1840. The name was changed to Crown...
78 Chicago in the Middle Ground, R. David Edmunds( Authored Entry )
...located on the Calumet River near the modern Indiana border, and at the junction of the Des Plaines...
...moving to the Maumee and Wabash Valleys in Indiana, while the Illinois ceased to hunt in the region...
...and small towns along the Wabash Valley of Indiana, and in the thin scatter of trading posts, forts,...
79 Soils, Donald J. Fehrenbacher( Authored Entry )
...around the lakes and later were shaped into dunes by the wind. Flowing sheets of meltwater dumped...
...parallel to Lake Michigan, from Valparaiso, Indiana , to Wisconsin. The Des Plaines River runs on...
80 Valparaiso, IN, Mel Doering( Authored Entry )
...Valparaiso, the county seat of Porter County, Indiana, is at best an hour's drive south and east...
...After Porter County was established by the Indiana General Assembly in 1836, the first county board...
81 Whiting, IN, John Bodnar( Authored Entry )
...cleaning the refinery stills. Standard Oil of Indiana dominated the life of the town throughout the...
82 Bosnians, Asad Husain( Authored Entry )
...organization established chapters in Gary , Indiana, in 1913 and Butte, Montana, in 1916 and is the...
83 Gospel, John Russick( Authored Entry )
...a gospel choir at Pilgrim Baptist Church on South Indiana Avenue. He was the director of the Pilgrim...
84 Griffith, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski( Authored Entry )
...passed the Swamp Land Act, and the State of Indiana offered swamplands for $1.25 an acre. Area...
...Gary, East Chicago, and Hammond in northwest Indiana. By 1960, the population reached 9,483 and it...
85 Mongolians, Tracy Steffes( Authored Entry )
...Mongolians attend cultural events in Bloomington, Indiana, where a small community of Mongols...
...is gathered around the Mongolia Society and Indiana University's Department of Central Eurasian...
86 West Englewood, Franklin Forts( Authored Entry )
...In February 1852 the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad began rail service to the region....
...the area of Junction Avenue, now 63rd Street, from Indiana Avenue to Halsted Street. Farther west, a...
87 Calumet Region, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...of 79th Street, stretching from Joliet to Gary , Indiana. That region supplied 95 percent of the...
88 Erring Women's Refuge, Mary Linehan( Authored Entry )
...a permanent home two years later at 3111 South Indiana. Challenging the legal and social inequity of...
89 Calumet River Bridges, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...Dunes Essay: Sanitation in Chicago Photo Essays: The Sanitary and Ship Canal Water-Related Epidemics...
...City of Bridges Chicago Harbors Essay: Using the Chicago River Photo Essays: Goose Island Indiana...
...linking the Dan Ryan Expressway with the Indiana Toll Road. This 7 ½ -mile toll road was completed...
90 South Side, Dominic A. Pacyga( Authored Entry )
...South Siders. To the east, Lake Michigan and the Indiana state line have provided enduring points of...
...Mayriv (KAM) Synagogue moved in 1890 to 33rd and Indiana Avenue. Other European ethnic groups also...

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