{"id":21,"date":"2004-10-19T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T19:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=21"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:12:17","slug":"history-of-chicago-1673-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/19\/history-of-chicago-1673-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Chicago 1673-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of the development of Chicago&#8217;s lakefront is as vast as the lake on which the city was founded.  As history records, in the 1640s the Miami Indians, a branch of the Illiwek Tribe, settled in a village on the southern extremity of Lake Michigan.  The village, Che-cau-gou, was named for a small river whose source was close to the Illinois River and ran into Lake Michigan.  Legend records the name as deriving from the odor of the abundantly growing wild onion. <\/p>\n<p>This fall the Todd Library is featuring a captivating display on the history of Chicago including articles, archival materials, books, photographs, and memorabilia.  Geology buffs may find the prominent <i>Shaping the Chicago Shoreline<\/i> poster, depicting its geological development, especially interesting.  Come visit the library and learn more about <i>&#8220;Our Kind of Town&#8221;.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of the development of Chicago&#8217;s lakefront is as vast as the lake on which the city was founded. As history records, in the 1640s the Miami Indians, a branch of the Illiwek Tribe, settled in a village on the southern extremity of Lake Michigan. The village, Che-cau-gou, was named for a small river &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/19\/history-of-chicago-1673-2004\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History of Chicago 1673-2004<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-display"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10360,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/10360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}