Union General Ulysses S Grant and President Abe Lincoln were two of the biggest figures at the time, and they both called Illinois home (2010). ... Around the same time this is taking place, the construction of the Illinois Waterway and rapid growth of the Illinois Railroad System was beginning to take place producing many jobs for those who moved North (Jensen). ... Chicago currently ranks second to Los Angeles in manufacturing products which include machinery, construction equipment, food processing, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, printed material, and book and newspaper publishing....

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Baseball's capital crime, gambling, calls for baseball's capital punishment: banishment. ... What the lawyer produced is known as the Dowd Report: "225 pages cataloging alleged baseball-related gambling, with an added 7 volumes of betting slips, some supposedly with Rose's fingerprints, numerous suspicious phone calls to bookmakers, and other data" (D7). ... James Reston Jr., author of the authoritative book on Rose called Collision at Home Plate, said that "between the handwriting and fingerprint evidence, the fact that Rose bet on baseball on at least two occasions is absolu...

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The count was 3-2, the pitch was a hanging curve ball by pitcher David Price and in return, Jeter crushed a home run into the left-center stands. ... This, along with a few other great achievements, guarantees his place in the Hall of Fame. ... People may argue that Jeter can be called the greatest captain in history because of Lou Gherig being diagnosed with ALS, which forced him to retire at the age of 36. ... In Ian O'Conner's book, "The Captain, The Journey of Derek Jeter", Jeter said "Being the highest-paid player is not something I covet. ... Nowadays, it's ...

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The list of professional and amateur athletes who have become involved with PEDs reads like an index: Slugger Barry Bonds (anabolic steroids) who broke Hank Aaron's longstanding record for career home runs in 2007, Alex Rodriguez (human growth hormone or HGH) who signed one of the richest baseball contracts in the history, cyclist Lance Armstrong (performance enhancing drug or PED) who won the Tour De France seven consecutive times, as well as Roger Clemens (performance enhancing drug or PED) a seven time CY Young Award winning pitcher. ... Some athletes have made the decision that they w...

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