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Description The Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners hired James Thompson, a surveyor from Kaskaskia in downstate Randolph County, to create Chicago's first plat (or map showing proposed lots) in 1830. He laid out the town with straight streets uniformly 66 feet wide (the length of a surveyor's chain) with alleys 16 feet wide bisecting each block.
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Source Andreas, Alfred Theodore (1884). History of Chicago. Volume I, page 112.[1]
Author James Thompson
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23:46, 18 July 2010Thumbnail for version as of 23:46, 18 July 20101,000 × 1,586 (274 KB)JeremyA (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Plat of Chicago made in 1830 by James Thompson |Source=Andreas, Alfred Theodore (1884). History of Chicago. Volume I, page 112.[http://books.google.com/books?id=wP0TAAAAYAAJ] |Date=1830 |Author=James Thompson |Permission=public

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