Chicago - City of Broad Shoulders


This course is about Chicago, We will cover the history of the city and region, the politics, corruption, arts, plans, neighborhoods, humor, achievements and the future of the City.

Chicago 1833 and 1837



Chicago was organized as a Town in 1833 and Incorporated as a city in 1837. Chicago was ideally situated to take advantage of the trading possibilities created by the nation’s westward expansion. The completion of the Illinois & Michigan Canal in 1848 created a water link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, but the canal was soon rendered obsolete by railroads. Today, 50 percent of U.S. rail freight continues to pass through Chicago, even as the city has become the nation’s busiest aviation center, thanks to O’Hare
and Midway International airports.

  1. City of Chicago :: Chicago History

    https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/about/history.html‎

    "It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago. She outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them." - Mark Twain, 1883. Chicago ...

  2. History of Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chicago‎

    The history of Chicago, Illinois, has played an important role in the history of the United States. Americans founded the city in 1833. The Chicago area's recorded ...
    Flag - Historic overview - Timeline of major events - See also

  3. Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago‎

    Further information: History of Chicago and Origin of the name "Windy City". The name "Chicago" is derived from a French rendering of ...
    Chicago (disambiguation) - Climate of Chicago - Chicago metropolitan area - Crime
  		4. 1601 N Clark St
    Chicago
    (312) 642-4600

    Chicago History Museum

    www.chicagohs.org/


    Zagat: 25 / 30
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  		5. 740 E 56th Pl
    Chicago
    (773) 947-0600

    DuSable Museum of African American History

    www.dusablemuseum.org/


    Score: 25 / 30
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  		6. 11141 S Cottage Grove Ave
    Chicago
    (773) 785-8901

    Historic Pullman Foundation

    www.pullmanil.org/

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  		7. 1800 S Prairie Ave
    Chicago
    (312) 326-1480

    Glessner House Museum

    www.glessnerhouse.org/

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  		8. 1400 S Lake Shore Dr
    Chicago
    (312) 922-9410

    The Field Museum

    www.fieldmuseum.org/


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  		9. 5757 S Woodlawn Ave
    Chicago
    (312) 994-4000

    Frederick C Robie House

    www.gowright.org/.../wright-robie-hou...


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  		10. 800 S Halsted St
    Chicago
    (312) 413-5353

    Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

    www.uic.edu/jaddams/.../hull_house.ht...


    Score: 19 / 30
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  11. Chicago History - A View On Cities

    www.aviewoncities.com › ..‎

    Louis Jolliet, a Canadian explorer and the French-born Jesuit Jacques Marquette were the first Europeans to discover the Chicago area in 1673 1673 - First ...

  12. Chicago History Museum | Chicago: Crossroads of America

    chicagohistory.org/planavisit/exhibitions/crossroads‎

    Our permanent exhibition Chicago: Crossroads of America has something for everybody. Explore the city's history through a series of galleries that highlight ...

  13. Chicago History Museum | Classroom Resources

    www.chicagohistory.org/education/resources‎

    The Chicago History Museum's classroom resources include curriculum for grades 3 ...Explore the city's rich and diverse history through ten award-winning ...

  14. Chicago — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

    www.history.com/topics/chicago‎

    Explore the history of Chicago, Illinois, the largest city of the American Midwest. ... The most notorious gangster in American history, Al Capone ran Chicago's ...

  15. American Experience | Chicago: City of the Century - PBS

    www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/‎

    Chicago: City of the Century: Chicago rose from a swampy frontier town to become the quintessential American city.

  16. Chicago History | Newberry

    www.newberry.org › Research › Catalogs and Guides › Research Guides‎

    Chicago: A Chronological & Documentary History: 1784-1970. Dobbs ... The Newberry collections contain so many materials on the city of Chicago that keyword ...

  17. News for city of chicago history

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      Oral history has deep roots in Chicago. The city was the launchpad for "This American Life," the weekly public radio show that broadcasts true ...


History Snapshot


                HISTORY OF CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS

10000-8000 BC Paleo Indians roam the Area

8000-500 BC Archaic Indians inhabit forests, hunt deer and small game use stone tools

500 BC-900 AD Woodlands Indians develop maize build villages and burial mounds

900-1500 AD Misissippian culture improve agricultural methods

1673 Marquette and Joliet explore the Mississippi River. First European Explorers, friendly with the natives. Only 12 mile portage needed to connect Lake Michigan & Mississippi River

1680 LaSalle builds fort near present day St. Louis

1769 Illinois Indian tribes are trapped and starved near Fort St. Louis –now known as Starved Rock

1778 George Rogers Clark takes Kaskaskia and Vincennes, conquers west

1787 Illinois established as part of the Northwest Territory

1779 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable French/African decent establishes trading post at the mouth of Chicago River

1803 For. Dearborn established at Wacker Dr. & Michigan Ave. Affirms U. S. dominance over Chicago River passage

1809 US Congress makes Illinois a territory

1812 Fort Dearborne Massacre

1818 Illinois Admitted as 21st State, a free State. First state Constitution established

1833 Chicago Harbor is dredged. Chicago incorporated into a Municipality

1848 I & M Canal completed connecting the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River, with Chicago as hub

1820 Vandalia becomes new state capital

1832 Black Hawk War drives out Sauk and Fox Indians

1837 Chicago becomes a city (population 4,000), John Deere
develops self scouring steel plow

1838 Springfield becomes state capital. National Road is completed from Cumberland Maryland to Vandalia

1839 Mormons driven from Nauvoo

1847 Cyrus McCormick begins manufacturing wheat reapers in Chicago. 

1848 Second Constitution of Illinois ratified. Chicago Board of Trade organized. Illinois and Michigan Canal completed 

1851 Illinois Central Railroad is incorporated. ICRR is given every other section of land on each side of the road as an incentive to build. They sell it to settlers and were able to build the railroad.

1856 10 Railroads hubbed in Chicago, becomes railroad capital of the U. S. Chicago is the launching ground for western U. S. expansion

1871 Chicago Fire kills 300, leaves 100,000 homeless, burns an area 4 miles x 1 mile, including the entire downtown area

1865 Chicago Union Stockyards opened. 


1867 Illinois Industrial University established (later University of Illinois) 

1870 Third Constitution of Illinois ratified. Great Chicago fire. Over 18,000 buildings destroyed with losses of $200 million 

1873 Joseph Glidden of DeKalb develops barbed wire fencing, patented in 1874

1886 Haymarket Square bombing and riot in Chicago during a labor rally.

1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

1897 elevated "El" under construction

1900 Sanitary and Ship Canal reverses flow of Chicago River from Lake Michigan to the Des Plaines, Illinois, and Mississippi River, prevents sewage into Lake

1904 The Jungle by Upton Sincair published about Chicago Stockyards, leads to the Pure Food and Drug act 2 years later.
1909 Burnham and Bennett’s Plan of Chicago - Lakefront protection, expanding roads & transportation, Forest Preserves

1922 A.E. Staley opens first commercial soybean-processing plant in Decatur. 

1933 Century of Progress World's Fair - 100th Anniversary of Incorporation of City
1939 Chicago adopts plans for system of “super highways”

1941 Work begins on mass production of Penicillin at the USDA Ag Research Center in Peoria. Mass production for the war Effort will be complete by 1944. 

1943 Chicago's first Subway constructed

1954 Ray Kroc opens first McDonald’s restaurant in Chicago

1995 CHA begins redevelopment plans, including demolition of highrises

1966 Illinois for the first time leads the nation in the export of agricultural and manufactured products.  

Chicago Population Changes

1833 3,000
1871 300,000
1900 1,700,000
1957 3,700,000
2012 2,700,000



Community Areas / Neighborhoods

From Wikapedia

Community areas in Chicago refers to the work of the Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago, which has unofficially divided the city of Chicago into 77 community areas.[1] These areas are well-defined and static. Census data are tied to the community areas, and they serve as the basis for a variety ofurban planning initiatives on both the local and regional levels.

The Social Science Research Committee at University of Chicago defined seventy-five community areas during the late 1920s. At the time, these community areas corresponded roughly to neighborhoods within the city. In the 1950s, with the city's annexations for O'Hare airport, a seventy-sixth community area was added. Other than the creation of the seventy-seventh community area in 1980 (by separating #77 Edgewater from #3 Uptown), boundaries have never been revised to reflect change but instead have been kept relatively stable to allow comparisons of these areas over time.

Although many community areas contain more than one neighborhood, they may also share the same name, or parts of the name, of some of their individual neighborhoods. Community areas often encompass groups of neighborhoods. In some cases, the character of the community area is independent of that of the individual neighborhoods it comprises.


Central


The center city area covers about 3 square miles (7.8 km2), lying roughly between Chicago Avenue (800 North) on the north, Lake Michigan on the east, Roosevelt Road (1200 South) on the south and Halsted (800 West) on the west. This area is city's commercial hub.

The area known as the Loop is a section within downtown, surrounded by elevated tracks of the rapid transit network. Many of downtown's commercial, cultural, and financial institutions are located in the Loop. Today, the Loop is also used to identify the larger downtown area.

River North contains the Magnificent Mile, a concentration of high-end retail. The central area is home to Grant and Millennium Parks, skyscrapers, museums, and shopping; and is the site of the city's largest parades: the annual Christmas, Thanksgiving and Saint Patrick's Day parades. The Chicago Bears play in Soldier Field on the Near South Side.
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