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EAST CHICAGO

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 828 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

EAST See also:
CHICAGO
CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF
CHICAGO , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

Lake See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

INDIANA

Indiana, U.S.A., on Lake See also:

Michigan, about 19 m. S.E. of the business centre of Chicago. Pop. (1890) 1255; (1900) 3411 (1331 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1910) 19,098. It is served by several See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, including the See also:

Pennsylvania, the See also:

WABASH

Wabash, the Chicago Terminal See also:

TRANSFER (from Lat. transferre, to bear across, carry over)

Transfer (whose shops are here), the Lake See also:

SHORE

Shore & Michigan See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern, the Chicago, Indiana & Southern, and the Indiana Harbor railways. East Chicago covers an See also:

AREA

area whose greatest dimensions are 4 by 32 M. That See also:

PART

part of the city along the lake, known as Indiana Harbor, See also:

DATES

dates from 1901 and has grown very rapidly because of its position at the southernmost part of the See also:

CALUMET (Norm. Fr. form of chalumet, from Lat. calamus, a reed)

Calumet See also:

DISTRICT

District, and because of the See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting here of railway and lake See also:

commerce. A See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour has been constructed, a new See also:

SHIP

ship See also:

canal connecting the harbour with the Calumet See also:

RIVER

river. East Chicago is industrially virtually a part of " Greater " Chicago; among its manufactures are See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron and See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel, See also:

CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

cement, See also:

LUMBER

lumber, boilers, See also:

hay presses, chains, chemicals and foundry products. East Chicago was chartered as a city in 1893.

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