Aldine Square. Cleaverville.   Conley's Patch . Hyde Park Township.   Lee's Place / Hardscrabble a Chicago Community. Little Sicily ...

Aldine Square was built on untouched prairie land on the South Side of Chicago. Since the onset of the 20th century, Aldine Square has been ...

In historical writing and analysis, PRESENTISM introduces present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the pas...

Hyde Park Township was founded by Paul Cornell, a real-estate speculator and cousin of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell. He paid for ...

Early settlers named the area’s first post office for President James Monroe. The name "Monroe" was already in use in another comm...

The Town of Lake was bounded north by 39th street, east by State street, south by 87th street, and west by Harlem Avenue (Lyons, IL eastern ...

In historical writing and analysis, PRESENTISM introduces present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the pas...

Later:   Little Sicily "Little Hell" Neighborhood. Later Still: Cabrini-Green Neighborhood. Chicago's first Swedish settle...

Earlier: Swede Town Neighborhood. Later: Cabrini-Green Neighborhood. The name “Little Hell” was derived from the large gas house that w...

Mopetown was a tiny neighborhood tucked in between the Bridgeport and McKinley Park neighborhoods. Mopetown's borders were from Ashland ...

Captain George Wellington Streeter George Wellington Streeter was born in Flint, Michigan, in 1837. Before the Civil War, he wandered th...