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Bridgeport

By JoAnne Gazarek Bloom, Daniel Pogorzelski, Maureen Sullivan
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By JoAnne Gazarek Bloom, Daniel Pogorzelski, Maureen Sullivan
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Explore Bridgeport, the most political neighborhood in the most political of cities - home to five Chicago mayors and parades of politicians honoring its power at national conventions.

Once a Native American village traversed by Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, as Chicago grew the area was called Hardscrabble, then Cabbage Gardens, and finally Bridgeport. Immigrants built it: the Irish dredged a canal and mined a quarry that led to slaughterhouses, cooperages, rolling mills, and brewerie...

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HistoryUnited States HistoryUnited States History - Midwestern RegionIllinois - State & Local History