French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, in 1673, were the first Europeans of record to visit the region paddling b
...ailroads were expanding, bringing immigrants to work factories in Chicago, Joliet, and Rockford. Chicago led the nation in grain and meatpacking production.
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...One hundred and thirty-one years later, two Frenchmen named Marquette and Joliet visited Arkansas briefly. In 1682, at the mouth of the Mississippi, LaSalle
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...plorers, fur traders, and missionaries, including Jacques Marquette, Louis Joliet, and sieur de la Salle, the region was claimed for Louis XIV by Daniel Grey
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...ders and missionaries, among them Radisson and Groseilliers; Marquette and Joliet, who discovered the upper Mississippi; and Aco and Hennepin, from the party
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...$16.1 million for Crete Unified School District #201 and $6.6 million for Joliet School District #86
...$16.1 million for Crete Unified School District #201 and $6.6 million for Joliet School District #86
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...n gas transportation line was to begin in Emerson, Manitoba, and extend to Joliet, Illinois. NICOR Inc., a Naperville, Illinois-based holding company, also j
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