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Chicago Looks Back A Hundred Years As Exposition Draws Near
The city of Chicago plans centennial celebrations with a Century of Progress Exposition site breaking in 1933. The piece traces Chicago’s growth from a hundred-person settlement in 1810 to a metropolis of over nine million, outlines early explorers and traders, Fort Dearborn’s history, and Sauganash landmarks. It notes incorporation in 1833, major fires, and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 as precursors to a grand 1983 centennial celebration.
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Elmo Scott Watson
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American Bureau of Hihnology
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Louis Pettle
John Kinzle
St. Joseph
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Fort Dearborn
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