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Oct 12, 2018 · Between the 1830s and 1900, lawmakers, engineers, and thousands of long-forgotten laborers created a new, manmade geography for Chicago—building a canal and sewers, raising city streets, and ...
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
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Mar 3, 2014 · Largely forgotten now, the Illinois and Michigan Canal was the subject of some of the United States’ earliest geopolitical maneuvering, determined Chicago’s location, nearly bankrupted the State of Illinois, created a land rush in Chicago and served for 50 years as Chicago’s sewer.
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois.
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.
Enter Daniel Burnham. First Regiment Armory. The most important antecedents and inspirations for the Plan of Chicago , however, were not the works of others but of Daniel Burnham himself. If the culminating act of Burnham's career as a city planner was the release of the Plan of Chicago , his initial triumph was the 1893 World's Columbian ...
Tourism and Conventions. Always a place of commerce and spectacle, Chicago from its infancy played host to major conventions and to individual travelers. As early as 1847, Chicago hosted a meeting of American business and political leaders that brought 20,000 to a city whose population was only 16,000. The city's central location in the United ...
