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A a post office was first established in Chicago on March 8, 1831, with Johnathan N. Baily, a fur trader, being appointed Chicago's first postmaster. [1] [2] Chicago was long the hub of the Railway Mail Service of the United States. Chicago saw particularly large volumes of mail in the peak era of mail-order business by Chicago-based retailers ...
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Several United States post offices are individually notable and have operated under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971) or the United States Postal Service (since 1971).
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The Rutter Store in St. Libory, Illinois, former site of a fourth-class post office. [1]A fourth-class post office in the United States, from 1864 to the 1970s, was a post office at which the postmaster received the lowest tier of annual commission income from postage stamps. [2]
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A group of local politicians, including both of Illinois' U.S. senators and one of Peoria's congressmen, sent a letter to the head of the United States Postal Service on Tuesday asking him to ...
In this 1988 file photo, Tracy Dearing, left, and Mary Dobrydnia hold a T-shirt in front of the former Skewer Inn, now The Gap, in Northwoods Mall. Dearing is also holding her 13-month-old son, Sean.