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  2. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable - Wikipedia

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    Children. 2. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (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]

  3. Oak Brook, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Oak Brook is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.The population was 8,163 at the 2020 census.. A suburb of Chicago, it contains the headquarters of Ace Hardware, Blistex, Federal Signal, CenterPoint Properties, Sanford L.P., TreeHouse Foods, Lions Clubs International, U.S. Census Bureau Chicago regional office, and former headquarters of McDonald's and Ferrara Candy.

  4. Flag of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Four bright red stars, with six sharp points each, are set side by side, close together, in the middle third of the flag's surface. [1] Chicago is a city in Illinois, United States. Its flag was adopted in 1917 after the design by Wallace Rice won a City Council sponsored competition. It initially had two stars until 1933, when a third was added.

  5. Timeline of organized crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    1837 – Chicago became incorporated as a city. 1850s. 1850 – Chicago had a population of 80,000 people, but the city had no police force, only nine "watch marshals". 1855 – The city had a bare-bones police force. 1850s (late) – Because Chicago was built over a swamp, mud constantly oozed from beneath the city's wooden streets.

  6. Chicago Mercantile Exchange - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Mercantile Exchange ( CME) (often called " the Chicago Merc ", or " the Merc ") is a global derivatives marketplace based in Chicago and located at 20 S. Wacker Drive. The CME was founded in 1898 as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board, an agricultural commodities exchange. For most of its history, the exchange was in the then common ...

  7. Fred Hampton - Wikipedia

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    Fred Hampton Jr. Fredrick "Chairman Fred" Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist. He came to prominence in his late teens and very early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter.

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