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State Street is a large south-north street, also one of the main streets, in Chicago, Illinois, USA and its south suburbs. Its intersection with Madison Street (41°52′55″N87°37′40″W / 41.8820°N 87.6278°W) has marked the base point for Chicago's address system since 1909. [ 1 ] State begins in the north at North Avenue, the ...
The southeastern end of Milwaukee Avenue is the most heavily bicycled stretch of road in Chicago, with cyclists accounting for 22% of all traffic there on a randomly selected day in September. [1] The street is lined with storefronts, restaurants and the occasional art gallery through most of the city. The CTA's Blue Line runs beneath or ...
Sauk County – named after the Sauk people. Sauk City. Saukville. Waukesha County – Potawatomi word meaning "little foxes". City of Waukesha. Waupaca County – Menominee word meaning "white sand bottom" or "brave young hero". Waushara County – a Native American word meaning "good earth". Winnebago County – named after the Winnebago people.
The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, which at one time consisted primarily of tribal members spread over 13 counties of Wisconsin, have a historical territorial claim in an area encompassed by a line from Green Bay to Long Prairie to St. Louis to Chicago. Some in the federal and state governments have undermined the Ho-Chunk land claims; however ...
1833 Treaty of Chicago. The 1833 Treaty of Chicago was an agreement between the United States government and the Chippewa, Odawa, and Potawatomi tribes. It required them to cede to the United States government their 5,000,000 acres (2,000,000 ha) of land (including reservations) in Illinois, the Wisconsin Territory, and the Michigan Territory ...
During the first half of the 20th century, Milwaukee was the hub of the socialist movement in the United States. Milwaukeeans elected three Socialist mayors during this time: Emil Seidel (1910–1912), Daniel Hoan (1916–1940), and Frank Zeidler (1948–1960), and remains the only major city in the country to have done so.
The history of Wisconsin encompasses the story not only of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.
The American Indian tribe that most likely used the trail was the Potawatomi, who may have used it until the early 1900s. [5] In the beginning of the 1800s, when early settlers moved West towards Chicago, the trail served as a mail route between Fort Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois, and Fort Howard, Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1832, the trail became ...