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1820 Chicago 1821 Survey of Chicago. 1830 August 4, Chicago is surveyed and platted for the first time by James Thompson. Population: "Less than 100". [1] 1833 1833 Treaty of Chicago; Chicago incorporated as a town. [1] 1835 August 31, about 800 Potawatomi men gathered for a war dance in Chicago before being removed to west of the Mississippi ...
This is a list of the 137 National Register of Historic Places listings in Cook County, Illinois outside Chicago and Evanston. Separate lists are provided for the 62 listed properties and historic districts in Evanston and the more than 350 listed properties and districts in in Chicago .
1968 Chicago riots - One of the over 100 riots that erupted nationwide after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Most of the Chicago rioting occurred on the West Side and was the second deadliest (11 fatalities, versus 13 in the Washington D.C. riots) of the riots in the nation after King's death. 11 500 August 23–28, 1968 Political
This is a list of properties and districts in Illinois that are on the National Register of Historic Places. There are over 1,900 in total. Of these, 85 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in all of the state's 102 counties. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 14, 2025.
August 25, 1814: Washington, D.C.-c. 30 fatalities: Killed several British soldiers occupying the city. The British subsequently abandoned the city. September 1821 New England tornado outbreak: Sep 9, 1821: New England >5: 8 fatalities: One of the most destructive New England outbreaks ever documented. Produced a deadly multiple-vortex tornado ...
Four historical events are commemorated by the four red stars on Chicago's flag: The United States' Fort Dearborn, established at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1803; the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed much of the city; the World Columbian Exposition of 1893, by which Chicago celebrated its recovery from the fire; and the ...
August 25 is the 237th day of the year ... "Historical Events on August 25". OnThisDay.com. This page was last edited on 17 February 2025, at 09:26 ...
Counties that have no townships. Of the 102 counties of the state of Illinois , 84 are organized into civil townships , usually referred to as simply "townships" in state law. All told, Illinois has 1,428 such townships, and they are the slight majority of the state's general units of local government.