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9. Developer Jesse Bowman helped establish the village of Bowmanville in the late 1800s. The big problem, though, was that he didn't own the land he was selling. When found out, he skipped town (imagine that in Chicago), but the name stayed on the neighborhood located just south of Rosehill Cemetery.
Many small towns on Chicago's outskirts were annexed as the city grew in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
10. Towertown, named after the famous water tower that survived the Great Chicago Fire, was a community of artists, writers and free-love advocates who settled on the Near North Side just west of Michigan Avenue in the early 20th century. But high property values drove them out and the neighborhood no longer exists.
Again, thanks to the Chicago Tribune and writers Mark Jacob and Stephan Benzkofer for doing all the research.
Didn't Know Most of This Stuff. --Cooter
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