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HARVEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 47 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARVEY  , a

city of Cook county,
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Illinois, U.S.A., about 18 m . S. of the Chicago Court House . Pop . (rwoo) 5395 (982
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foreign-born); (1910) 7227 . It is served by the Chicago Terminal Transfer, the
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Grand Trunk and the Illinois Central
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railways . Harvey is a manufacturing and residence suburb of Chicago . Among its manufactures are railway, foundry and machine-
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shop supplies,
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mining and ditching machinery, stone crushers, street-making and street-cleaning machinery, stoves and motor-vehicles . It was named in honour of Turlington W . Harvey, a Chicago capitalist, founded in 189o, incorporated as a
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village in 1891 and chartered as a city in 1895 .

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