Little Chicago, Wisconsin Explained

Little Chicago, Wisconsin
Settlement Type:community
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:U.S.A.
Subdivision Type1:state
Subdivision Name1:Wisconsin
Postal Code Type:ZIP code
Postal Code:54448
Pushpin Map:Wisconsin#USA
Coordinates:45.0472°N -89.8442°W

Little Chicago is an unincorporated residential and agricultural community on Marathon County Highway A in located along the border of the towns of Hamburg and Berlin, in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.[1] [2]

History

The community was originally named Ziegler.[3] [4] In 1898, Ziegler had 60 people, a planing mill and a saw mill, one cheese factory; one hardware and one shoe store, and a Lutheran church. The United States Post Office delivered mail three times a week. In 1909, Ziegler had a post office.[5]

The community reportedly got the name Little Chicago during the Prohibition era in the early 20th century, when a local tavern was dispensing illegal alcoholic beverages.[6]

Notable people

Media

Little Chicago was the setting of Adam Rapp's novel Little Chicago.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Little Chicago Populated Place Profile / Marathon County, Wisconsin Data .
  2. Plat Book of Marathon County, Wisconsin . Township 30 North. Range 5 East . 1901 . Northwestern Publishing Co. . Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  3. Book: Turner's Hand Book and Gazetter of Wisconsin . Lura J. Turner, Joseph M. Turner, Paul S. Reinsch: L.J. Turner and J.M. Turner . Burlington, Wisconsin . 1898 . 266.
  4. Book: History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, part 2 . Marchetti, Louis . Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co. . 1913.
  5. 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1909,' pg. 630
  6. Web site: Small Communities . www.pchswi.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20020729212920/http://www.pchswi.org/archives/communities/smallcomms.html . July 29, 2002.
  7. 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1895,' Biographical Sketch of Robert Plisch, pg. 684