Harvey (Illinois)
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Location in Illinois
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1891 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Illinois | ||
| County : | Cook County | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 37 ′ N , 87 ° 39 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 25,282 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 1,580.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 16 km 2 (approx. 6 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 184 m | ||
| Area code : | +1 708 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 409903 | ||
| Website : | cityofharvey.org | ||
Harvey [ ˈhɑrvi ] is a city in Cook County in the northeast of the American state Illinois . The center of Chicago , of which Harvey is part of the metropolitan area, is located 30 kilometers north of the city, which is completely surrounded by populated areas. Harvey had a population of about 25,000 as of 2000 , about 75% of them black and 12% Hispanics .
history
Harvey belongs together with Riverside , Oak Park and Pullman to the “planned communities” around Chicago, which were founded at the time of the world exhibition of 1893 with reformist aspirations. In 1889, Turlington Harvey (1835–1909), a wealthy timber magnate, organized a syndicate to develop the properties around Harvey. The Harvey Country Association had put under Harvey's guidance to the destination to set up a model city where temperance would prevail, social equity and "Christian values". The new settlement was advertised in the religious press. Harvey, who was under the influence of the evangelical preacher Dwight Moody , was able to win industrial friends around to set up factories in the city. In contrast to Pullman as a “company town”, the model for Harvey provided for the skilled workers to own their houses. Therefore, it was not in Harvey's power to set the rules for the further development of the city. Accordingly, there was a slim majority in 1895 for the approval of alcohol serving. By 1900 Harvey had more than 5,000 residents, a bank and 11 factories.
In 1948, Sinclair Oil established a research facility in Harvey with an area of 150,000 m². In 1960 the city had about 29,000 inhabitants, most of whom worked in local companies. In 1966 the Dixie Square Mall opened on the western outskirts of the city . Between 1960 and 1980, Harvey changed dramatically: the proportion of blacks in the population rose from 7 to 66%. Race riots broke out in 1969, and almost all large companies subsequently left the city. In 1978 the Dixie Square Mall also closed, which was demolished in 2012 after years of vacancy and decay and had previously gained fame as a film location for the film Blues Brothers . Today, Harvey has the highest rates of unemployment, crime and poverty among Chicago suburbs.
Due to poor public finances and outstanding payments to the pension fund for city workers, the bankruptcy of the city of Harvey was feared in mid-2018.
Sons and daughters of Harvey
- Ralph W. Gerard (1900–1974), physiologist
- Lou Boudreau (1917-2001), baseball player and manager
- Newton Thornburg (1929-2011), writer
- Eugene Beier (* 1940), physicist
- Mark Weiser (1952–1999), computer scientist
- Kevin Duckworth (1964-2008), basketball player
- Louis Tylka (* 1970), Roman Catholic clergyman and coadjutor bishop of Peoria
- Ariel McDonald (born 1972), basketball player
- Nelsan Ellis (1977-2017), actor
- Maurice Brown (* 1981), jazz musician
- Eddy Curry (* 1982), basketball player
- Eric Gehrig (* 1987), soccer player
- Solomon Hill (born 1991), basketball player
- Ben Kanute (* 1992), triathlete
- Keke Palmer (* 1993), actress and singer
literature
- James Gilbert: Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893 . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 0-226-29317-3 .
- Carol Rahn: Local Elites and Social Change: A Case Study of Harvey, Illinois . University of Chicago, Chicago 1980. (Dissertation)
Web links
- Official website of Harvey
- Entry on Harvey, IL in the Chicago Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Chicago
- Harvey statistics on city-data.org
- Historical photographs of Harvey, IL in the Archives of the Library of Congress
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quickfacts Census on Harvey, IL ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b c Joseph C. Bigott: Harvey, IL . In: Encyclopedia of Chicago , ed. Chicago Historical Society.
- ↑ Dawn Rhodes: Dixie Square Mall being demolished, finally . In: Chicago Tribune, February 15, 2012.
- ↑ The untold story of the $ 25m shopping mall trashed in Blues Brothers epic police chase that was only just torn down after 30 years , report in the British daily Daily Mail of April 28, 2013, accessed on August 31, 2018
- ^ This Illinois Town Is on the Brink of Bankruptcy. How Many Will Follow? , Report on the website of the US political magazine Governing on May 18, 2018, accessed on August 31, 2018
