Chicago
- Names
Chicago
Fort Dearborn
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on post-glacial plain beside Lake Michigan, noted for extremes in climate. Site was visited by the French in the 17th century; it was a fur-trading post, then an Army post. It expanded greatly in the 19th century due to its strategic position; was a center of transportation and industry. Much of the city was destroyed by fire in 1871, and rebuilt. It is noted as the birthplace of an important architectural development, the steel-frame skyscraper.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Library of Congress HABS/HAER (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
Katherine Ace (American, 1953-2023)
Keith Achepohl (American, 1934-2018)
Frank Barsotti (American, 1937-2012)
Larry Bell (American, born 1939)
Norman Bluhm (American, 1921-1999)
Judith Ann Chambliss (American, born 1942)
Judy Chicago (American, born 1939)
Gordon Cook (American, 1927-1985)
Barbara Crane (American, born 1928)
Frank Hallam Day (American, born 1948)
Joseph R. Goldyne (American, born 1942)
Leon Golub (American, 1922-2004)
Leon Albert Golub (American, 1922-2004)
Lawrence Hudetz (American, 1937-2016)
Richard Hunt (American, born 1935)
Jessica Jackson Hutchins (American, born 1971)
Dianne Kornberg (American, born 1945)
Robert Natkin (American, 1930-2010)
Joyce Neimanas (American, born 1944)
Richard Notkin (American, born 1948)
Vanessa Renwick (American, born 1961)
Barbara Jo Revelle (American, born 1946)
Marvin Saltzman (American, born 1931)
Karen Savage (American, born 1948)
Moishe Smith (American, 1929-1993)
Adam Sorensen (American, born 1976)
Lynd Kendall Ward (American, 1905-1985)
June Wayne (American, 1918-2011)
Jeffrey Wertheimer (American, born 1950)
Emerson Woelffer (American, 1914-2003)
- Active
Nathan Baker (American, active 20th century)
Caleb Charland (American, born 1980)
Howard Henry Chen (American, born 1972)
Eldzier Cortor (American, 1916-2015)
Karen Glaser (American, born 1954)
Howe Studio, Chicago, Illinois (American, active late 19th century)
Denise Keim (American, active 20th century)
Arnold J. Kemp (American, born 1968)
Landfall Press (American, established 1970)
The Randahl Shop (American, active 1911-1965)
Bob Thall (American, born 1948)
W.M. Smith Studio, Chicago, Illinois (American, active late 19th century)
- Died
Robert B. Harshe (American, 1879-1938)
