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Additionally, it includes 442 maps, more than 400 vintage photographs, [25] over 250 sketches of "historically significant business enterprises", [6] a dictionary of Chicago-area businesses, a biographical dictionary and a 21-page timeline that traces the history of Chicago from 1630 to 2000. [3] [10]
Site of Chicagou on the lake, in Guillaume de L'Isle's map (Paris, 1718) 1673: French-Canadian explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, on their way to Québec, pass through the area that will become Chicago. 1677: Father Claude Allouez arrived to try to convert the natives to Christianity
Aleman Brewing Company, Chicago, founded in 2013. Initially the beer was contract brewed. [501] Opened their own brewery in 2016. Closed in 2023. Ale Syndicate was founded in Chicago in 2013. The beer was originally contract brewed at several locations, including Big Chicago Brewing Company, Galena Brewing Company, and Excel Brewing Company. [502]
Du Bois is a village in Washington County, Illinois, United States. The population was 205 at the 2010 census and as of 2018, the population had declined to an estimated 150. The population was 205 at the 2010 census and as of 2018, the population had declined to an estimated 150.
At its first appearance in records by explorers, the Chicago area was inhabited by a number of Algonquian peoples, including the Mascouten and Miami.The name "Chicago" is generally believed to derive from a French rendering of the Miami–Illinois language word šikaakwa, referring to the plant Allium tricoccum, as well as the animal skunk. [3]
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Aging barrels at Goose Island Brewery in Chicago. Goose Island Beer Company is a brewery in Chicago. The oldest currently operating brewing company in Illinois, it began as a brewpub that opened in 1988 in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, and was named after a nearby island. A larger production brewery opened in 1995.
The DuBois Pioneer Home is turning 125 years old. The home, pictured here, was built in 1898 along the banks of the Jupiter Inlet by Harry DuBois as a wedding present to his new bride, Susan.