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2. River Forest Historic District - Wikipedia

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   August 26, 1977. The River Forest Historic District is a national historic district encompassing much of the village of River Forest, Illinois. The district includes 830 buildings, most of which are houses as the village is almost entirely residential. The oldest structure in the district is the 1831 Bickerdike and Noble sawmill, the first ...

3. River Forest, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   River Forest is a suburban village adjacent to Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 11,717. [2] Two universities make their home in River Forest, Dominican University and Concordia University Chicago. The village is closely tied to the larger neighboring community of Oak Park.

4. River Forest Township, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   429645 [1] Website. www.riverforesttownship.org. River Forest Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois. The population was 11,717 at the 2020 census. [2] River Forest Township is coterminous with the Village of River Forest. It is one of four coterminous townships in Cook County and one of seventeen coterminous townships ...

5. William H. Hatch House - Wikipedia

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   September 5, 2007. The William H. Hatch House is a historic house at 306 Keystone Avenue Keystone Avenue in River Forest, Illinois. Grain trader William H. Hatch built the house for his family in 1882, early in the village's development and two years after its incorporation. The house has a Queen Anne style design, a popular choice both locally ...

6. History of Walmart - Wikipedia

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   The history of Walmart, an American discount department store chain, began in 1950 when businessman Sam Walton purchased a store from Luther E. Harrison in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and opened Walton's 5 & 10. [1] The Walmart chain proper was founded in 1962 with a single store in Rogers, expanding inside Oklahoma by 1968 and throughout the rest ...

7. Walgreens - Wikipedia

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   Walgreen Company is an American company that operates the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States, behind CVS Health. [3] It specializes in filling prescriptions, health and wellness products, health information, and photo services. [4] It was founded in Chicago in 1901, and is headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield ...

8. History of pharmacy in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The first "drugstores" in North America "appeared in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia," [11] with likely proto-drugstores—for example Gysbert van Imbroch ran a "general store" that sold drugs from 1663 to 1665 in Wildwyck, New Netherland, [12] today's Kingston, New York—preceding the dedicated apothecary shops of the 1700s, and providing a model.

9. History of pharmacy - Wikipedia

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   History of pharmacy. The history of pharmacy as a modern and independent science dates back to the first third of the 19th century. Before then, pharmacy evolved from antiquity as part of medicine. The history of pharmacy coincides well with the history of medicine, but it's important that there is a distinction between the two topics.