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2. 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.

3. 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 ...

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. Chicago Portage - Wikipedia

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   Location. (historic dividing point) 3100 West 31st Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, US. Range. Valparaiso Moraine. Coordinates. 41°50′14″N 87°42′8″W  /  41.83722°N 87.70222°W  / 41.83722; -87.70222. The Chicago Portage was an ancient portage that connected the Great Lakes waterway system with the Mississippi River ...

6. 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 ...

7. Union Stock Yards - Wikipedia

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   Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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.