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William Dunton sculpture by Fran
Volz at Friendship Corner
(Northwest Highway and Arlington
Heights Road). In 1845 William
Dunton settled in the first house
in the upcoming Arlington Heights
area. He built the house in a
trading post known as West
Wheeling, later known as Dunton,
and finally the Village of
Arlington Heights.
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Ethnic
Chicago
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Ethnic
Chicago
is an excellent book
about the ethnic history
of Lithuanians, Poles,
Ukranians, Germans,
Chinese, Japanese and
Greeks among
others.
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HISTORICAL
SOCIETIES
Arlington
Heights Historical
Museum
Chicago
Historical
Society
City
of the Century : The Epic of
Chicago and the Making of
America
by Donald L. Miller
Illinois
Labor History
Society
REFERENCE
Village
of Barrington: Barrington
History
District
25 Arlington Heights
Tour
Illinois
Historic Preservation
Agency
(Illinois
History.gov)
IllinoisTrails.org
ASSOCIATIONS
Historic
Arlington Neighborhood
Association
(HANA)
ARLINGTONCARDS.COM
HISTORY LINKS
.../archives
.../archives/years
.../disasters
(Arlington Heights
disasters
Chicago area disasters)
.../famous
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