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Comments: edit  · history  · watch  · purge Needs an appropriate lead per WP:LEAD, references, and expansion. See History of Pittsburgh for an example of a good article on this sort of topic. Quadzilla99 19:06, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

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I'm taking a stab at organizing this page into subsections (incorporation, early days, etc.). Please play around with your thoughts on the logical formation of this. --Jason 19:50, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

I'd really like to create a comprehensive timeline for Chicago and would like suggestions on format. What we have today is very basic. What I have in my head is a sidebar listing on the left with the years and then several major colum headings with different colors that break out yearly events into columns by topics such as Politics, Culture, Population & Health, Arts & Education, Leisure & Sports, Work & Economy, etc. This is a format followed by many encylclopedias in print. Thoughts or suggestions? This will be a big task.

Also - Take a look at this

--Jason 01:27, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)

--In 1830s Chicago was mostly Yankee; all the French and Indians were long gone 67.176.74.236 05:54, 10 November 2005 (UTC) RJensen

--In the late 1700s and early 1800s Chicaco was called Eschikago.

[edit] Manufacturing decline

From the book called "Remaking Chicago", here is data on change in number of people employed in manufacturing. 1958: 329 thousand. 1972: 389 thousand. 1983: 258 thousand. Just adding this in case anyone feels it might have use in this article or the general Chicago article. CalumetandHecla (talk) 19:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)