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The Joliet JackHammers made the playoffs in their first season while the Gary SouthShore RailCats were forced to play an entire season on the road because the city of Gary did not have their stadium completed on time.
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Joliet and JackHammers
The JackHammers were sold and renamed to the Joliet Slammers, and moved to the Frontier League.
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In December 2007, Backman became manager of the Joliet JackHammers.
The Joliet JackHammers were a professional baseball team based in Joliet, Illinois, in the United States.
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Joliet and made
The Joliet file system was made by Microsoft.
Joliet and playoffs
The team beat Joliet three games to two in the first round of the playoffs, but were swept in three games by Fargo-Moorhead in the finals.
Joliet and their
The first visitors to present-day Hodgkins, explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, paddled down the Des Plaines River in 1673, passing through the area, making their camp in present-day Summit.
Portage was named for the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway, a portage between the Fox River and the Wisconsin River, which was recognized by Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet during their discovery of a route to the Mississippi River in 1673.
In 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were given life sentences to be served at Joliet ( after their successful defense -- from the death penalty -- by Clarence Darrow ).
" After they returned, Joliet used the name " Miskonsing " on a map that he drew in 1674, and when the news of their voyage was first published in 1681 the book's author, Melchisedec Thevenot, called it the " Mescousin " River.
The Chicago Tribune referred to their leader as " George ' Baby Face ' Nelson " who received a sentence of one year to life in the state penitentiary at Joliet.
In 1998, two men who were in a Blues Brothers tribute band changed their names officially by deed poll to Joliet Jake Blues and Elwood Jake Blues.
Twain reports that the early explorers De Soto, Marquette and Joliet, and La Salle visited " the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas " in their pioneering journeys.
Coyne convinced Joliet officials to meet with the Motorsports Alliance to discuss building their speedway adjacent to Route 66 Raceway.
In 1673 French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, were among the first Europeans to encounter the Osage as they explored southward from present-day Canada in their expedition to the Mississippi River.
Joliet and first
Joliet Junior College Main Campus, in Joliet, Illinois the first Community College in the U. S.
Joliet Junior College was the first two year higher education institution in the United States.
When Joliet was first planned in the early 1870s, it was still in Cook County.
The first European explorers in the Ottawa County region were the French-Canadian explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette who passed through the region in the mid 17th century.
Since Tipton County is one of the five counties of the State of Tennessee that is located along the Mississippi River, this area was first explored by white people during the noted expedition of the French Canadians Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet in 1673.
The first Europeans to reach Prairie du Chien were the French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, who arrived by canoe on June 17, 1673, discovering a route to the Mississippi River.
Construction began October 1, 1851, in Chicago, and the first train was operated on October 10, 1852, between Chicago and Joliet.
The first recorded visit to the area by Europeans was on September 24, 1669, when the French explorers La Salle and Joliet met near Tinawatawa, now Westover.
At the age of 15, she organized the Blue Moon Café, a fund-raising cabaret for Brown's Methodist Church in Joliet, where she gave her first public performance.
South of the first junction with I-55, Illinois 53 follows old U. S. 66 and parallels Interstate 55, entering downtown Joliet, which is about four miles ( 6 km ) east of I-55.
The section of IL 171 on Archer Avenue from Joliet to Summit is historically significant, originating as a Native American trail, and later serving for a time as part of the first numbered highway between St. Louis and Chicago.
The first road from Joliet to Chicago was shown as " Lone Star Route " on early road maps.
* October 10-The first revenue trains operate over the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, an early predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, between Chicago and Joliet, Illinois.
On Tuesday, March 10, 2009, the first two Canadian National trains debuted on the Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern, with plans to run six trains per day on the lines in the near future.
American steel producers brought Koppers to the United States and he built his first ovens in 1907 in Joliet, Illinois.
With runners on first and second and in motion, Joliet ’ s Wally Backman Jr. lined out to 2B Jose Valdez.
The newspaper was first printed in journal format in Joliet, Illinois, beginning in January 1906, incorporating " The Voice of Labor ," the newspaper from the former American Labor Union which had joined the IWW, and " International Metal Worker.
He established St. Patrick Church, which is still operating, as the first church in the Joliet area.
The team played its first game at home on May 27, defeating the Joliet Jackhammers 9 – 8 in 11 innings.
Joliet and season
On January 12th, 2011 GM John Dittrich announced for the 2011 season the new team would be called the Joliet Slammers.
Joliet and while
Chicago ( Joliet Slammers, Schaumburg Boomers and Windy City ThunderBolts ) has 3 teams and St. Louis ( Gateway Grizzlies & River City Rascals ) has 2 teams while Cleveland ( Lake Erie Crushers ), Cincinnati ( Florence Freedom ) and Pittsburgh ( Washington Wild Things ) each have one.
Meanwhile, Madison's team moved to Lincoln, Nebraska in 2001 to become the Lincoln Saltdogs while teams were awarded to Joliet, Illinois and Gary, Indiana in 2002.
Altgeld was working as a lawyer in Darrow's law firm when he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while delivering a speech on behalf of the Boers in Joliet, Illinois in March 1902.
Servite Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, ( 27 November 1934-19 July 1996 ), a native of Joliet, Illinois, was taken hostage in Beirut by five armed men in January 1985, while serving as director of Catholic Relief Services there.
briefly take a northeast direction while it bypasses the narrow, downtown area of Lake Zurich, including a grade separation at the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway ( EJ & E ).
Schwab died from respiratory disease contracted while at Joliet on June 29, 1898.
The Texas Eagle only stops at Chicago and Joliet, while the Lincoln Service also stops at Summit.
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