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This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Chicago, Illinois. This project is in the Cook County, Illinois project. The name "Chicago" is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as "Checagou" was by Robert ...
The University of Chicago ( UChicago ) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1890, its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. In Fall 2021, it enrolled 18,452 students, including 7,559 undergraduates and 10,893 graduate students. The university is composed of an undergraduate college and five graduate research divisions, which contain all of the...
Homewood Memorial Gardens is comprised of several older cemeteries and burial grounds. Holland (Mount Holland) Cemetery was the burial place of the early Dutch settlers from nearby South Holland, Illinois and saw its first burials in the late 1850s. The other early cemeteries included Fremont Holbrook Cemetery , Oak Ridge Cemetery , and the Doepp Estate Plot . By the early 1900s all of these ce...
This project is part of the State of Illinois Portal. This project is for those FROM Illinois and/or their respective Cities, Towns & Counties. Projects on Geni Cities & Towns Aurora Bloomington Champaign Elgin Galesburg Joliet Knoxville Monee
Please add those who were born, lived, or died in Rock Island County, Illinois. Rock Island County was formed in 1831 out of Jo Daviess County. It was named for Rock Island, an island in the Mississippi River now known as Arsenal Island. The Rock River (which the Sauk and Meskwaki peoples called Sinnissippi, meaning "rocky waters")[5] flows from Whiteside County and points further east and nor...
The traditional Polish community in Chicago, Illinois , an organization-rich ethnic settlement that developed in the years after the Civil War, reached maturity and almost complete institutional self-sufficiency before World War I. Polish Chicago, sometimes referred to as “Polonia,” has been shaped by at least three distinct immigration waves. The first and largest lasted from the 1850s to the...
This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Cook County, Illinois. Cook County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the second-most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles County, California. As of 2015, the population was 5,238,216. Its county seat is Chicago , the largest city in Illinois and third-most populous city in the United States. More than 4...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Hancock County, Illinois. Official Website Hancock County was part of the "Military Tract" set aside by Congress to reward veterans of the War of 1812. Actual settlement of the interior of the county was delayed by concerns about hostile American Indians. After their defeat in the Blackhawk War in 1832, settlement proceeded quickly...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Whiteside County, Illinois. Official Website Whiteside County was organized in 1836. It was named for General Samuel Whiteside, an Illinois officer in the War of 1812 and Black Hawk War. Adjacent Counties Carroll County Ogle County Lee County Bureau County Henry County Rock Island County Clinton County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Kankakee County, Illinois. Official Website An act of the Illinois Legislature created Kankakee County in February 1853 and was named for the Kankakee River. French Canadian Settlers came to Kankakee County in 1834, after the federal government signed the Treaty of Camp Tippecanoe in 1832. They were soon joined by migrants from Ne...
Wikipedia =Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university with campuses in Evanston and Chicago in Illinois, United States, as well as Doha, Qatar. Home to twelve schools and colleges, Northwestern offers 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the City of Evanston is named, and eight other lawye...
Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Cook County, Illinois, 60655 USA Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Illinois. Official Website Monroe County was formed in 1816. It was named in honor of James Monroe,[4] who had just served as United States Secretary of War and who was elected President later that same year. Adjacent Counties Jefferson County, Missouri St. Louis County, Missouri Ste. Genevieve County, Missour...
Located in Proviso Township, Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois. Burials began in 1912. There are 100 acres of lawn, and 2 large mausoleums. The most famous burials are the victims of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train crash in 1918. Tragedy struck the circus before 4:00 a.m. on June 22, 1918, in the Hammond Circus Train Wreck when the engineer of an empty troop train fell asleep, and colli...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Illinois. Official Website Jefferson County was organized in 1819, out of parts of White, Edwards and Franklin Counties. It was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, principal draftsman of the Northwest Ordinance and 3rd president of the United States. Adjacent Counties Hamilton County Franklin County Perr...
Chanute Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force facility, located in Champaign County, Illinois, south of and adjacent to Rantoul, Illinois, about 130 miles south of Chicago. Its primary mission throughout its existence was Air Force technical training. Chanute Field was established on 21 May 1917, being one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the Unite...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the cities of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.==Both cities are located in Champaign County with Urbana being the county seat.The area has a population of 231,891 as determined by the 2010 U.S. Census. It is home to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system. Journalists frequen...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Chicago. Jews came to Chicago from virtually every country in Europe and the Middle East, but especially from Germany and Eastern Europe. Unlike most other immigrant groups, Jews left the Old Country with no thoughts of ever returning to lands where so many had experienced poverty, discrimination, and even sporadic massacres. J...
Wikipedia The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (U of I, University of Illinois, UIUC, or simply Illinois) is a public research-intensive university in the U.S. state of Illinois. A land-grant university, it is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system. The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (founded, 1867) is the second oldest public university in the state (a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carroll County, Illinois. Official Website Carroll County was formed in 1839 out of Jo Daviess County. The county is named for Charles Carroll who signed the Declaration of Independence. Adjacent Counties Stephenson County Ogle County Whiteside County Clinton County, Iowa Jackson County, Iowa Jo Daviess County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lake County, Illinois.= Official Website =The county, which was primarily unsettled prairie and was still home to its native Potawatomi Indians, was created by the Illinois State Legislature in 1839. Adjacent Counties * Kenosha County, Wisc. * McHenry County * Cook County Cities *Highland Park*Highwood*Lake Forest*North Chicago*Park ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in LaSalle County, Illinois. Official Website LaSalle County was formed on January 15, 1831 out of Tazewell and Putnam Counties. It is named for the early French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. William D. Boyce founded the Boy Scouts of America in Ottawa. He and two other founders established the BSA, but Boyce is gi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Illinois. Official Website Established in 1824, its name is in honor of Henry Clay, famous American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and United States Secretary of State in the 19th century. Clay was an unsuccessful candidate for president in the year the County was named. Adjacent Counties ...
Wikipedia The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery covers 982 acres in Elwood, Illinois . It is located approximately 50 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois . Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kane County, Illinois. Official Website Kane County was formed in 1836 and was named in honor of Elias Kane, United States Senator from Illinois, and the first Secretary of State of Illinois. Adjacent Counties DuPage County Cook County Will County DeKalb County McHenry County Kendall County Cities Aurora (part)