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The Town Hall in Austin Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaking at St. Hyacinth Basilica in Avondale The Back of the Yards neighborhood derived from the Union Stockyards, at one time a significant employer in Chicago. Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle revolves around the life of a Lithuanian immigrant working the Stockyards named Jurgis Rudkus.
A map of the 77 community areas, broken down by purported regions. While the areas have official use and definition, the color groupings are unofficial, and such "regions" may be defined differently, grouped differently, or not be used at all. The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes.
English: Map of Chicago community areas. Data compiled using the Chicago Community Areas List numbered 1-77 and 'Sides' descriptions. Date: 12 November 2012, 14:32:41:
Some of the larger settlements of Essex This is a list of towns , villages and most notable hamlets and neighbourhoods in the ceremonial county of Essex (not the historic county ). Contents:
Chicago is the third largest city in the United States with a population of 2,853,114 (2009). It is located in the state of Illinois , on the shores of Lake Michigan . The city is the county seat of Cook County .
The Grand Crossing and Brookline neighborhoods were predominantly made up of German immigrant craftsmen, farmers and factory workers; Essex had residents of English, Irish and Scottish immigrants who worked for the railroads; Brookdale was settled mostly by Chicago-born residents employed in the building trades and by the railroads; and Park ...
List of census-designated places in Illinois; List of cities in Illinois; List of Illinois townships; List of towns and villages in Illinois; List of counties in Illinois; List of precincts in Illinois
The legal name of each township is the form "___ Township" or "Town of ____". [2] State law specifies that no two townships in Illinois shall have the same name, [ 3 ] and that, if the Illinois Secretary of State compares the township abstracts and finds a duplicate, the county that last adopted the name shall instead adopt a different name at ...