Morton Grove, Illinois
Cook County
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Morton Grove is a village in Cook County in the northeast of the U.S. state of Illinois, about 20 km north- west of Chicago. Morton Grove is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. In 2000, the city had 22,451 inhabitants.
The first settlers came from England in the 1830s, followed by an influx of German settlers a decade later. 1872, when the railroad reached the place, had Morton Grove to 100 inhabitants.
In honor of the financiers of the route, the later U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton, the town got its name. Around the year 1890 a second railway line to Morton Grove was born. At about the same time the first greenhouses were built in place. The cultured in them flowers was for the next 40 years the main industry of the village with up to 500 employees. During Prohibition, many roadhouses were added that served the illegal gambling and alcohol consumption.
The world economic crisis hit Morton Grove massive, closed the greenhouses. Created smaller industrial factories in the town was only in the 1940s.
Until the 1970s, Morton Grove was an almost exclusively by " whites" inhabited place, however, since the mid- 1980s there was an influx is amplified by Asians residents. In 2004, they constituted nearly 1/4 of the population, the highest proportion in the village in Illinois.
1981 Morton Grove gained some international notoriety when it first municipality in the United States by regulation prohibited the carrying of firearms for everyone. This prohibition applies as Title 6, Chapter 2, No. 3 of Village codes today.
Morton Grove is the seat of the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. This is one of the oldest Christian communities in the world and was founded by the Apostles Thaddeus and Thomas 37 AD Seleucia- Ctesiphon in ( Mesopotamia ). Due to the persecution of Christians in Turkey and Iraq, the Patriarchate was moved in 1940 to the United States, incumbent since 1976 Mar Dinkha IV Khanania. The Assyrian Church is, however, divided since 1968, the other half is called since Ancient Church of the East and is headed by a patriarch with headquarters in Baghdad.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Derek Edwardson ( born 1981 ), ice hockey player
- Marlee Matlin (born 1965 ), actress