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  2. McKinley High School (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    In 1901 it moved a third time, to a former streetcar barn, and the building was sold to the College of Physicians & Surgeons, now the University of Illinois College of Medicine. [1] In 1904 the school moved into its final building, on West Adams Street between Seeley and Hoyne Avenues, and was renamed in honor of President McKinley.

  3. History of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Chippewa, Odawa and Potawatomi ceded land in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan in the 1833 Treaty of Chicago and were forced to move west of the Mississippi River by 1838. [ 17 ] On July 12, 1834, the Illinois from Sackets Harbor, New York , was the first commercial schooner to enter the harbor, a sign of the Great Lakes trade that would ...

  4. History of education in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    A City and Its Universities: Public Policy in Chicago, 1892–1919 (1980). online; Goodspeed, Thomas Wakefield. A History of the University of Chicago, founded by John D. Rockefeller: the first quarter-century (1916) online; Kearney, Edmund W., and Maynard E. Moore. A History: Chicago State University, 1867–1979 (1979). Laub, Martin H.

  5. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable - Wikipedia

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    Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]

  6. Edexcel - Wikipedia

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    Edexcel (also known since 2013 as Pearson Edexcel) [2] is a British multinational education and examination body formed in 1996 and wholly owned by Pearson plc since 2005. It is the only privately owned examination board in the United Kingdom. [3] Its name is a portmanteau term combining the words education and excellence.

  7. Henry Horner Homes - Wikipedia

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    Henry Horner Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the Near West Side community area on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The original section of Henry Horner Homes was bordered by Oakley Boulevard to the west, Washington Boulevard to the south, Hermitage Avenue to the east, and Lake ...

  8. Westward expansion trails - Wikipedia

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    Also branching off to the south was the Mormon Trail from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. During the twenty-five years 1841–1866, 250,000 to 650,000 people "pulled up stakes," and headed west along these trails. About one-third immigrated to Oregon, one-third to California and one-third to Utah, Colorado, and Montana.

  9. Raising of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    In January 1858, the first masonry building in Chicago to be thus raised—a four-story, 70-foot-long (21 m), 750-ton (680 metric tons) brick structure situated at the north-east corner of Randolph Street and Dearborn Street—was lifted on two hundred jackscrews to its new grade, which was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) higher than the old one, “without the slightest injury to the building.” [9 ...