Dundee Township 1935 1985

A comprehensive historical narrative fo Dundee Township, including East and West Dundee, Carpentersville amd Sleppy Hollow, Illinois.

"Recommended for all who want to learn about the origins of the contemporary urban crisis." —Library Journal Teaford writes a definitive history of the transformation of "America's heartland" into the "Rust Belt," chronicling the development of the cities of the industrial Midwest as they challenged the urban supremacy of the East, from their heyday to the trying times of the 1970s and '80s. The early part of this century brought wealth and promise to the heartland: automobile production made Detroit a boomtown, and automobile-related industries enriched communities; Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School of architects asserted the Midwest's aesthetic independence; Sherwood Anderson and Carl Sandburg established Chicago as a literary mecca; Jane Addams made the Illinois metropolis an urban laboratory for experiments in social justice. Soon, however, emerging Sunbelt cities began to rob such cities as Cincinnati, Saint Louis, and Chicago of their distinction as boom areas, foreshadowing urban crisis.

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Descendants of William and Mary Simms of Buckinghamshire, England. They had twelve children. Three of them emigrated. First to emigrate was James Simms (1792-1884), who came to Wayne Co., Illinois in 1819 to what is now called Cled Gaston farm. In 1830 William Simms II (1788-1861) and his wife Ann Sears and four of their children emigrated and settled for a short time in what is now Carroll Co., Ohio. In the late 1830's they moved to Wayne Co., Ill. A third son, Benjamin Simms (1798-d. ca. 1883), also emigrated. A grandson of William and Mary Simms, William IV (1815-1876), emigra- ted to Canada in 1833. Later in 1836 he came to Edwards Co. Ill. and in 1840 to Wayne Co., Ill. He married Mary Simms (1819-1893), daughter of William II and Ann Sears Simms, and his first cousin, in 1840. Descendants live in Illinois, California, Texas and elsewhere.