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Cook County Places & Things Named forPoliticians

Cook County is named forDanielPope Cook    Lucy FlowerPark,on West Moffat Street, and Lucy Flower TechnicalHighSchool (opened, 1911; moved to new building, 1927; renamed FlowerVocational High School, 1956; renamed Lucy Flower Career Academy HighSchool, 1995; closed, 2003), both in Chicago, were named forLucyL. Flower.    SullivanHighSchool (opened 1926), in Chicago, is named forRogerC. Sullivan.    CorlissHighSchool (opened 1974), in Chicago, is named forGeorgeH. Corliss.    Thecityof Evanston is named forJohnEvans.    George B. SwiftSchool,in Chicago, is named forGeorgeB. Swift.    Thevillageof Morton Grove is named forLeviP. Morton.    The Harold WashingtonPublicLibrary, in Chicago, is named forHaroldWashington.    The Toman Branch of the ChicagoPublicLibrary (built 1927), in the Little Village neighborhood, SouthLawndale, Chicago, is named forJohnToman.    The EisenhowerExpressway,from downtown Chicago west to Hillside, in Cook County, is named forDwightD. Eisenhower.    Wendell PhillipsHighSchool (opened 1904), in Chicago, is named forWendellPhillips.    Altgeld Gardens Homes (built 1944-45), apublichousing complex in Chicago, is named forJohnP. Altgeld.    CermakRoad(formerly 22nd Street), from Chicago to Oak Brook, is named forAntonJ. Cermak.    FullerPark(opened about 1914), in Chicago, is named forMelvilleW. Fuller.    KedzieAvenue,in Chicago, is named forJohnH. Kedzie.    KedzieStreet,in Evanston, is named forJohnH. Kedzie.    MedillAvenue,in Chicago, Illiois, is named forJosephMedill.    OgdenAvenue,in Chicago, is named forWilliamB. Ogden.    PershingRoad,in Chicago, is named forJohnJ. Pershing.    RushStreet,in Chicago, is named forBenjaminRush.    WentworthAvenue,in Chicago, is named forJohnWentworth.    Wrigley Field (opened 1914, named 1927),ballparkfor the Chicago Cubs, in Chicago, is named forWilliamWrigley, Jr..    Carl SchurzHighSchool, in Chicago, is named forCarlSchurz.    TrumanCollege,Chicago, is named forHarryS. Truman.    TaftHighSchool, in Chicago, is named forWilliamH. Taft.    The EdensExpressway(opened 1951, now mostly part of I-94), in Cook County, is named forWilliamG. Edens.    EckhartHall(completed 1930), at theUniversityof Chicago, Chicago, is named forBernardA. Eckhart.    EckhartPark(opened 1907), in Chicago, is named forBernardA. Eckhart.    HoyneElementarySchool, in Chicago, is named forThomasHoyne.    HoyneAvenue,in Chicago, is named forThomasHoyne.

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