This is meant to be a very, basic timeline, meant to give you an idea of some events that took place during your ancestors lives.
Click here for any letters, photos, documents etc. that reference Chicago, or of residents that lived there. Click here for the County list of Illinois. Click here for the list of States I have some letters or documents for as well.
1673 - The site of Chicago is explored
1696 - Mission of Guadian Angel
1754 - 1763 French and Indian Wars
1765 - 1783 War of independence
1803 - Fort Dearborn Established
1812 - Battle of Fort Dearborn
1818 - State of Illinois admitted to the Union
1832 - Black Hawk War
1832 - Cholera Epidemic
1837 - Chicago Incorporated as a City
1848 - Chicago's first City Hall Built
1848 - Illinois and Michigan Canal complete
1849 - 1855 Cholera Outbreaks
1861 - 1865 - Civil War
1862 - Camp Douglas becomes a Confederate prisoner of war camp
1866 - 1867- Cholera Epidemic
1871 - Chicago's Great Fire
1878 - Telephone Service begins
1886 - Haymarket Riot
1914 - 1918 - WW1
1915 - Eastland Disaster
1919 - Race Riots
1939 - 1945 - WW2
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