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  2. Cook County Jail - Wikipedia

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    The city Bridewell moved to the site of the present jail complex at 29th and California in 1871 (at the time of the Great Chicago Fire) but the county's serious alleged offenders did not generally move there until the 1920s. When the two facilities began to be located together, they first gained the reputation as the 'largest concentration of ...

  3. List of jail and prison museums - Wikipedia

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    Jail Old Jail Museum (Silverton, Texas) Silverton: Texas: United States Jail Old Jail Museum (St. Augustine, Florida) in the Old St. Johns County Jail: St. Augustine: Florida: United States Jail Old Jail Museum (Taylorsville, North Carolina) Taylorsville: North Carolina: United States Jail Old Jail Museum (Thompson Falls, Montana) Thompson ...

  4. History of United States prison systems - Wikipedia

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    Because Auburn relied on female inmates for its washing and cleaning services, women remained part of the population but the first separate women's institution in New York was not completed until 1893.) [142] A jury convicted the keeper who beat the woman of assault and battery, and fined him $25, but he remained on the job. [143]

  5. List of city name changes - Wikipedia

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    102.36 Texas. 102.37 Utah. 102.38 Vermont. ... East Chicago Heights → Ford Heights — in Cook ... The name used by the city in its official documents and on its ...

  6. List of Chicago placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. At least 30 Tren de Aragua gang members busted in Chicago in ...

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    In Chicago, TdA has been spilling into the already gang-ridden South Side of the city aggravating the local gangbangers. The city shelled out almost half a billion dollars over the last two years ...

  8. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable - Wikipedia

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    Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Patrick had tagged some variation of his name or initials on the book’s surfaces with a ballpoint pen, and its pages were full of highlighting and bristling with Post-its. Back in the wood-paneled living room of their Lexington, Kentucky, home that afternoon, Patrick and his parents began an impromptu family meeting about what to do next.

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