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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.
The Chicago Water Tower. 1869 Chicago Water Tower built. The first Illinois woman suffrage convention was held in Chicago; The Chicago Club is established. Washington Square Park being developed. [6] 1870 St. Ignatius College founded, later Loyola University; Population: 298,977. [4] 1871: October 8 – 10, the Great Chicago Fire. [6] [11] 1872
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...
The city and its surrounding metropolitan area contain the third-largest labor pool in the United States with about 4.63 million workers. [209] Illinois is home to 66 Fortune 1000 companies, including those in Chicago. [210] The city of Chicago also hosts 12 Fortune Global 500 companies and 17 Financial Times 500 companies.
Gladys Park is also named for her. Another city street, Langley Avenue, and city park is named for another relative, Esther Gunderson Langley. [24] Grace Street Named after the Lutheran Chicago Theological Seminary [25] (1890-1908) located at Clark/Addison to Grace/Sheffield. It is located at 3800 north and just north of Wrigley Field.
In 2010, late-night comedian Stephen Colbert spookily made the quip during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill should be renamed as the Gulf of America stating “I don’t think we can call it the Gulf ...
"The City that Works" – slogan from Richard J. Daley's tenure as mayor, describing Chicago as a blue-collar, hard-working city, which ran relatively smoothly [24] " Heart of America " – Chicago is one of the largest transportation centers in America, and its location was once near the center of the United States.
The Chicago Portage was an ancient portage that connected the Great Lakes waterway system with the Mississippi River system. Connecting these two great water trails meant comparatively easy access from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River on the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, and the Gulf of Mexico.