CHAPTER XXII CHICAGO (1893)

[rich]

thx, Dave

my education continues...

rich


On 7/18/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old
> Northwest and the Territory North West of the Ohio,
> was a governmental region within the early United
> States and is still sometimes (as the Northwest)
> considered a geographical region; the term "Pacific
> Northwest" disambiguates it from the regular
> Northwest. Passed by the Continental Congress on July
> 13, 1787, the Northwest Ordinance provided for the
> administration of the territories and set rules for
> admission as a state. On August 7, 1789, the U.S.
> Congress affirmed the Ordinance with slight
> modifications under the Constitution. The territory
> included all the land of the United States west of
> Pennsylvania and northwest of the Ohio River. It
> covered all of the modern states of Ohio, Indiana,
> Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the
> northeastern part of Minnesota. The area covered more
> than 260,000 square miles (673,000 km²)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territory
>
> --- rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder what Adams is talking about when he refers
> > to the 'Northwest'--is this code for Chicago?
>
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