Talk:Blue Island, Illinois

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message: I've tagged the 'claim to faim' section as trivia. It looks like theres some good information in there so I won't delete it, however if someone would like to relocate it that'd be great. I might delete all the unsourced information as the entire sections longer than the article. Thanks, --MattWT 21:40, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
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message: According to the article as it stands at the moment, Blue Island was so named because it once was an island in Lake Chicago. However, the text makes it clear that it was so named because the high ridge looked like an island in the surrounding flat plain. I believe that the text would be more accurate if it read something like this:
Early pioneers gave the ridge the name because at a distance it looked like an island set in a trackless prairie sea. The blue color was attributed to atmospheric scattering or to blue flowers growing on the ridge.The Encyclopedia of Chicago - "Blue Island", retrieved 4/1/2010 From the Chicago Democrat, February, 1834:
"Nearly south of this town and twelve miles [19 km] distant is Blue Island. This name is particularly appropriate. It is a table of land about six miles [10 km] long and an average of two miles [3 km] wide, of an oval form and rising some forty feet out of an immense plain which surrounds it on every side. The sides and slopes of this table, as well as the table itself, are covered with a handsome growth of timber, forming a belt surrounding about four or five thousand acres of beautiful table land. In summer, the plain is covered with luxurious herbage. It is uninhabited, and when we visited it, from its stillness, loneliness, and quiet, we pronounced it a vast vegetable solitude. The ridge, when viewed from a distance, appears standing in an azure mist of vapor, hence the appellation 'Blue Island'."
In fact, Blue Island once was an island when Lake Chicago covered the surrounding area. It is situated at the south end of a glacial moraine that was an island when the water level was higher.
Any comments or concerns? Michael Glass (talk) 05:50, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
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