Though Illinois is not often associated with the Trail of Tears, Cherokee were struggling through southern Illinois as the state’s militia were marching north to face the Sac under Black Hawk
The eight White Sox players who were involved in throwing the 1919 World Series has haunted Chicago fans for decades. The scandal, though, may have as much about baseball becoming a big business as it did about the game’s efforts to clean up the sport.
Who actually farmed the Illinois frontier?
In providing for the systematic surveying of the land, the Northwest Ordinance encouraged settlement by insuring that settlers could secure firm title to the land, but it may have also determined how the land was settled.
Upton Sinclair’s intent in writing “The Jungle” was not to spur the public interest in sanitation but was instead to encourage a revolution.
Though we tend today to associate urban riots with the succession of riots that began in Watts in 1965, rioting was no stranger to American cities and one of the more vicious occurred in Springfield, Illinois, in 1908 when a mob of whites attached the city’s African American community.
Though we tend to dismiss the Temperance Movement as verging on the silly, the movement was a good deal more successful than we generally suppose.
Did geography alone determine Chicago’s future?
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