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  2. Pontiac, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    In 1851, there was a second attempt to displace Pontiac. On June 23, 1851, a town called Richmond was platted two miles east of Pontiac. Its backers included powerful local business and political figures. These men had calculated that the new Chicago and Mississippi Railroad would miss Pontiac and cross the Vermilion River at their location.

  3. Pontiac, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    The Pontiac State Hospital, c. 1912 Buckland Memorial Chapel at Oak Hill Cemetery. Present-day Pontiac, Michigan was traversed for thousands of years by indigenous peoples due to the confluence of the Saginaw Trail and the Nottawassippi River; the river's indigenous name was replaced with the Clinton River name by settlers coming from New York State where DeWitt Clinton served as Governor.

  4. Michigan–Wacker Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Michigan–Wacker Historic District is a National Register of Historic Places District that includes parts of the Chicago Loop and Near North Side community areas in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The district is known for the Chicago River, two bridges that cross it, and eleven high rise and skyscraper buildings erected in the 1920s. [3]

  5. Illinois and Michigan Canal - Wikipedia

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    In Illinois, it ran 96 miles (154 km) from the Chicago River in Bridgeport, Chicago to the Illinois River at LaSalle-Peru. The canal crossed the Chicago Portage , and helped establish Chicago as the transportation hub of the United States, before the railroad era.

  6. Geography of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Nearly the entire western boundary of Illinois is the Mississippi River, except for a few areas where the river has changed course. Illinois' southeastern and southern boundary is along the Wabash River and the Ohio River, whereas its northern boundary and much of its eastern boundary are straight survey (longitudinal and latitudinal) lines ...

  7. U.S. Route 66 in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Five roads in Illinois were designated to receive federal money under the legislation; they were: the National Old Trails Road (National Road, present-day US 40), Lincoln Highway, Dixie Highway, the road from Chicago to Waukegan, and the road from Chicago to East St. Louis, including portions of IL 4, which was the actual predecessor to US 66 ...

  8. Lake Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The edge of the retreating glacier formed moraines, the Park Moraine in present-day Illinois and the Lake Borders Moraine in Indiana and Michigan. [4] Early Lake Chicago at the edge of the ice sheet, near the head of the Chicago Outlet River, lower left Map of Glacial lakes Whittlesey, Saginaw and Chicago, based on the USGS Report of 1915 ...

  9. U.S. Route 16 in Michigan - Wikipedia

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    In Howell, Grand River Avenue meets Hartland Road which carries M-59; the highway also met M-155 in downtown, which at the time provided access to the Howell State Hospital. In the approach to Brighton, Grand River Avenue passes through rural southeast Michigan lake country. In Brighton, Grand River Avenue crossed the western end of the I-96 ...

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