North ChicagoArticle Free Pass North Chicago, city, Lake county,
northeastern Illinois, U.S. North Chicago lies on Lake Michigan,
about 35 miles (55 km) north of Chicago. The area was primarily
agricultural until the establishment of a wire manufacturing
plant in 1891. Other industries soon followed. A strike at a
plant in 1937 led to a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1939
(National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical
Corporation) declaring sit-down strikes illegal. Today the city
is a centre of pharmaceutical research and production; candy is
also produced. North Chicago is the site of Rosalind Franklin
University of Medicine and Science and the Great Lakes Naval
Training Center (1911). A Veterans Administration hospital is to
the south. Inc. 1909. Pop. (2000) 35,918; (2010) 32,574. What
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