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31 Monee, IL, Larry A. McClellan( Authored Entry )
...Dunes National Lakeshore...
...Bailly. Marie and Joseph Bailly operated a fur trading post now within the grounds of the Indiana...
...in Chesterton , Indiana. Because of language difficulties, Marie was often referred to as “Mo-Nee”...
32 Near South Side, Dennis McClendon( Authored Entry )
...of former rail yards and air rights east of Indiana Avenue between Roosevelt Road and 18th Street....
...spread to buildings on Wabash, Michigan, and Indiana Avenues, making them residential streets again...
...wealthy families built new mansions on Prairie, Indiana, Calumet, and Michigan Avenues south of 16th...
33 House of the Good Shepherd / Chicago Industrial School for Girls, Suellen Hoy( Authored Entry )
...during the 1880s, this school at 49th and Indiana received regular support from the county. In 1911...
34 Wheaton, IL, Thomas O. Kay( Authored Entry )
...Gary (founder of U.S. Steel and the city of Gary , Indiana), Senator C. Wayland Brooks, John Quincy...
35 Abolitionism, Linda J. Evans( Authored Entry )
...was the primary abolitionist press for Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Abolitionism enjoyed...
36 Air Quality, David Stradling( Authored Entry )
...the Calumet Region , and northern Lake County, Indiana , were the most polluted districts in the...
37 Lynwood, IL, Larry A. McClellan( Authored Entry )
...the old Sauk Trail at what is now Dyer , Indiana, with the old Vincennes/Hubbard's Trail at a point...
...of Lynwood sits between State Route 394 and the Indiana state line. Settlement in the area has been...
38 Skyway, Dennis McClendon( Authored Entry )
...connection between the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Indiana Toll Road , including a high-level bridge...
...Calumet River . When the terminus of the Indiana Toll Road was set at 106th Street and Indianapolis...
39 Calumet River System, Christopher Thale( Authored Entry )
...i3891 Politicians who established the Illinois-Indiana boundary showed no regard for the beach-ridge...
...Konomick River flowed west from LaPorte County, Indiana, to near Riverdale , where it emptied into...
...Grand Calumet was moved and straightened. The Indiana Harbor Canal connecting the Grand Calumet with...
40 Ring Lardner and Chicago Sports Reporting, James Diedrick( Authored Entry )
...Sox rookie named Jack Keefe to his friend in Indiana, reveal Lardner's unerring ear for American...
41 Armenians, Robert Morrissey( Authored Entry )
...Side, as well as in Evanston , Waukegan, and Indiana Harbor. Between 30 and 60 families settled in...
...established in the 1920s, in West Pullman and Indiana Harbor. The incorporation of Armenia within...
42 Planning, City and Regional, Lawrence Christmas( Authored Entry )
...southern Wisconsin and northwestern Indiana, but its main distinction was its comprehensiveness. In...
...southern Wisconsin and three in northwestern Indiana. The first regional successor to the original...
43 Sailing and Boating, Geoffrey Baer( Authored Entry )
...fishing are also popular on inland lakes from Indiana to the Wisconsin border. For those who do not...
...to such cities as Waukegan ; Michigan City , Indiana; and St. Joseph, Michigan. Racers compete in...
44 Special Districts, Donald F. Stetzer( Authored Entry )
...This number grew to 621 districts in 1992. In Indiana, the special district device has been used...
...only 36 special districts in Lake County, Indiana, in 1992, fewer than in any of the six Illinois...
45 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...
46 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...
47 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...
48 New Thought, Beryl Satter( Authored Entry )
...Thought seminary and training school at 2019 S. Indiana. Almost every major New Thought leader came...
49 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...
50 Valparaiso University, Mel Doering( Authored Entry )
...founded in 1859. It later became the Northern Indiana Normal School and then Valparaiso University (...

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