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In 1832, Charles Taylor purchased 80 acres of canal land now known as Goose Island for $100. Once a thriving community, only one house remained on the island by 1985. By early 1990’s the area was known as a Planned Manufacturing District and today virtually all of this industrial park’s land has been filled.
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Mitch, the story of Goose Island is so much better than that! I'm not sure about Charles Taylor, but the history from the Encyclopedia of Chicago (http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/529.html) and the history I've read in other places is that William Ogden (of Odgen Road fame) bought the land in between a meadering section of the North Branch. In a brilliant stroke, he decided to cut a canal to make MORE valuable riverfront land. And then, to be even more brilliant, he discovered the canal detrius was clay good for bricks. So Ogden created a little brick factory next to the canal, and sold many of the bricks used in Chicago buildings.