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  2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Chicago

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    National Register of Historic Places listings in West Side Chicago The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service : the settlement house Hull House , the Frank Lloyd Wright -designed Frederick C. Robie House , the Lorado Taft Midway Studios , and ...

  3. List of Chicago placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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    It is located at 3800 north and just north of Wrigley Field. The street is named after a core principal of the Lutheran Reformation and not after Mark Grace (Cubs player 1988-2000). Grand Avenue: Named for a statement by Thomas J. V. Owen, the first Town President of Chicago, who said "Chicago is a grand place to live." [26] Grant Park

  4. List of Chicago Landmarks - Wikipedia

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    Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970, as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...

  5. Roseland, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    First Reformed Church of Roseland was founded by the Dutch immigrant population. Roseland was settled in the 1840s by Dutch immigrants, who called the area "de Hooge Prairie", the High Prairie, because it was built on higher, drier ground than the earlier Dutch settlement several miles further south of the Little Calumet River, which was called "de Laage Prairie", the Low Prairie, now South ...

  6. Streets Named After Presidents: By Popularity, Home Prices - AOL

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    Zillow By Cory Hopkins One of the perks of being president of the United States is that many things are later named in your honor -- schools, libraries, even entire cities. And among the most ...

  7. Pilsen Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Pilsen Historic District is a historic district located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Pilsen is a neighborhood made up of the residential sections of the Lower West Side community area of Chicago. It is recognized as one of the few neighborhoods in Chicago that still has buildings that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [2]

  8. List of U.S. places named after non-U.S. places - Wikipedia

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    There are several towns and cities named Boston in the US, but this is the only one named after the one in England. All the others were named after this city or a person named Boston. [10] Bowdon, Greater Manchester (historically in Cheshire) Bowdon, North Dakota [22] Boxford, Suffolk: Boxford, Massachusetts [10] Bradford, West Yorkshire

  9. Hyde Park, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Engraving of the Hyde Park Water Works, 1882. In 1853, Paul Cornell, a real estate speculator and cousin of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell, purchased 300 acres (1.2 km 2) of land [9] between 51st and 55th streets along the shore of Lake Michigan, [10] with the idea of attracting other Chicago businessmen and their families to the area. [9]