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He is considered the single most important figure in having it recognized as an official U.S. holiday.The city dedicated a bronze monument to General Logan in 1897, but it’s located in Grant Park instead of the neighborhood bearing his name. Chicago annexed Lake Township in 1889, and the area officially became known as New City.

1915 - The American Federation of Labor, then the most powerful union in the country, opened its headquarters in Shaw. Logan Circle is named after a traffic roundabout (originally called Iowa Circle) where Rhode Island Avenue NW, 13 th Street NW, and Vermont Avenue NW intersect. The area also went by “Little Hell” for a time because of the smoke that poured from its many power plants, tanneries, factories, and rail yards.Goose Island will soon be neighbors with an entirely new neighborhood, which is being built by developers right now. James Logan, 14th mayor of Philadelphia. Early on, Back of the Yards wasn’t part of Chicago; it belonged to the independent Lake Township, founded in 1850. Don’t fall for it. It was here that Native Americans (and, later, European fur traders) portaged—or carried—canoes between the Chicago and Des Plaines rivers. As German and Irish immigrants arrived to take jobs at the stockyards and other nearby industries, Junction Grove joined Lake Township in 1865. There's a statue. Nearly 40 years later, the riots in the late 1960s tore apart much of the city, Logan Circle included; for the 25 years that followed, the neighborhood … Parents campaigned to save it.Row houses on the northeast corner of Logan Circle, including the former residence The friendly, urban neighborhood of Logan Circle is named after a traffic roundabout; a park sits at the center. Bus service is frequent, including a Circulator bus that connects Logan Circle and Adams Morgan. Due to sanitary concerns, the city removed most, Created in the 1880s, this Far South Side community was a master-planned industrial town where employees of George Pullman’s railcar company both lived and worked. Others say it was named Canaryville because the Irishwomen there bought canaries from Marshall Field’s and hung them in cages in the trees to remind them of home. The camp served as a refugee camp for the newly freed slaves. There's a statue in the middle of it, which is the most interesting thing. Today, it is the only major traffic circle in downtown DC that remains entirely residential. Originally, the city’s white population called the area “the Black Belt” (along with other racist names). During the Civil War, it was the location of a refugee camp for freed slaves from Virginia and Maryland. Logan Circle named after John A. Logan, Civil War general and senator.

Most noticeably the large The city undertook an extensive rehabilitation plan and by 2012 the city had refurbished the original squares with restoration and new greenery bringing the Parkway’s entertainment capabilities full-circle.The city has expressed support of transitioning the circle back into a square, and increasing its aesthetic nature as an urban green space.To commemorate the end of every school year since the 1960s, the newly appointed Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors of Thomas Holme's "Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia" Combined, the land area for these four parks, including the roads (Benjamin Franklin Parkway is wide and scenic) is about four city blocks. The area was annexed by Chicago in 1898 following a violent labor strike and a ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court that required the company to sell the town to the city. You can trace the name of this Northwest Side neighborhood back to Chicago’s earliest inhabitants. But recent research by the Complicating things further is the fact that the area’s old 1850s schoolhouse at the corner of Foster and Clark was recorded with both the AndersWhen the neighborhood now known as Englewood developed in the early 1850s, it went by Junction Grove. National Geographic Traveler magazine named 28 neighborhoods in different cities, including Logan Circle, as the nation's friendliest.

Streeter illegally claimed the waterfront landfill as his own. Congress renamed the roundabout in 1930 in honor of Major General John Logan, a hero of the Civil War. The upscale Lincoln Park neighborhood is obviously named after the 1,200-acre park by the same name, but the area didn’t always look like it does today. It’s still Humboldt Park. Logan Circle, once home to barracks for soldiers and a refuge for freed slaves, was designated a historic location by the the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The name stuck around even after Englewood’s annexation by Chicago in 1889. According to Washington street name-whisperer Michael Harrison, Kingman Place near Logan Circle was named by, and after, Eliab Kingman. Where Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut avenues converge sits Dupont Circle — a traffic circle, a park, a historic district and a spectacular neighborhood that is one of DC’s most sought-after places to live. There were so many goats here, the area came to be known as “The origin of this South Side community’s name boils down to marketing. 1860s - The park now called Logan Circle housed a gallows for hanging Civil War defectors. As Eastern European residents spread west from Pilsen, a shopping district known as “Czech California” emerged around 26th Street in the South Lawndale area. Two men are thought to be its founder. Although the company folded in 1968, the Pullman neighborhood is still home to many architecturally significant structures, like the Hotel Florence and the old This North Side neighborhood gets its name from brothers Charles G. and Joel H. Wicker, who donated the four-acre triangular park and divided up the surrounding land into building lots. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1972. The area’s population exploded after the Civil War, as workers and their families settled west of the newly opened livestock complex. 1930 - Logan Circle was named after Civil War general John A. Logan, who lived on the circle while serving in the House of Representatives. As a result, Victorian row homes, broad boulevards, and well-manicured parks became a hallmark of the neighborhood. Historic neighborhood has been gentrified.