Soap Creek Valley · Place

Chicago

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Chicago: 6 transcript mentions across 3 records, grouped by who was speaking.

city Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 6

These two numbers count different things and rarely match. The first is how often the back-of-book indexes the books themselves print point at this place; an indexer chose those. The second is how often the name occurs in the transcript text, counted by machine. More on the difference.

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Provenance

Coordinates: 41.87556, -87.62442
How they were found: coordinate from OpenStreetMap Nominatim; name match verified
How far to trust it: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
Built from: The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Who speaks of it

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 106
Edward Sekermestrovich in #4 Edward Sekermestrovich p. 4, p. 31
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 9, p. 74, p. 75

In their words

Quoted character for character from the printed page, with the page it is on.

The town was 16 miles west of Chicago on the Chicago & Great Northwestern Railroad.

James Hanish, #6 James Hanish , p. 75

We left Akron, Ohio, and we stopped along the way, like Chicago or Indiana.

Edward Sekermestrovich, #4 Edward Sekermestrovich , p. 4

Dated statements about this place

1900s — My mother's mother, Pearl Meador, was of New England stock. From what I heard, the early ancestors came over on the Mayflower and the ship made several trips from England. The Meador family settled in Battle Creek, Michigan. During that time Kellogg was starting to experiment with Corn Flakes. My grandmother, Pearl Meador, met Thomas O'Neil, her future husband and James Hanish · source · 1891–1920
1915 — I remember as a boy, about three or four years old, riding the El train going to the Circus on the lake front. Downtown was very crowded and windy, very hot in the summer, cold in the winter. Cobblestone streets, chain driven trucks and large horses pulling freight wagons, going on the steam boats. Sunday rides on Lake Michigan. My James Hanish · source · 1891–1920

How to cite this item

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As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Chicago (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Chicago. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/chicago/
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