Editing Harvey, Illinois (section)

==History==
[[File:Harvey land for sale November 8, 1890 p. 10.jpg|thumb|left|upright=.5|Advertisement by The Harvey Land Association that appeared on November 8, 1890, in the ''Chicago Daily Tribune'']]
Harvey was founded in 1891 by Turlington W. Harvey, a close associate of [[Dwight Moody]], the founder of the [[Moody Bible Institute]] in Chicago. Harvey was originally intended as a model town for Christian values and was one of the [[List of temperance towns|Temperance Towns]]. It was closely modeled after the company town of [[Pullman, Chicago|Pullman]], which eventually was annexed into the city of Chicago.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gilbert|first=James|title=Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893|url=https://archive.org/details/perfectcitieschi0000gilb_w4o4|url-access=registration|year=1991|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago|pages=[https://archive.org/details/perfectcitieschi0000gilb_w4o4/page/192 192–198]|isbn=9780226293172 }}</ref>

The city had its greatest growth in the prosperous postwar years, when it was home to the [[Buda Engine Co.]], which was acquired by [[Allis-Chalmers]] in 1953. The city reached its peak population in 1980. By this time, it was beginning to suffer losses in jobs and population through restructuring of steel and similar industries. The [[Dixie Square Mall]] closed in November 1978.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/537936991/|title=Harvey's JCPenney store closing after January|work=Southtown Star|date=December 24, 1978|page=13}}</ref>

In the 2000s and 2010s, Mayor Eric Kellogg attempted to boost Harvey's economy, with little success.  Kellogg offered developers millions of dollars in incentives to revive the long-vacant Dixie Square Mall, but trends in retail adversely affected malls around the country.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20060325/ISSUE01/100025532/new-retail-in-store-for-dixie-mall-site|title=New retail in store for Dixie Mall site|publisher=Chicago Business|date=25 March 2006 |access-date=2 November 2017}}</ref> The city granted a developer $10 million in incentives to redevelop the Chicago Park Hotel, but he abandoned the project before completion, leaving the building gutted.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2013/07/05/failed-multimillion-dollar-harvey-hotel-deal-rife-with-red-flags/|title=Harvey hotel deal rife with red flags|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date= 5 July 2013| access-date=2 November 2017}}</ref>

In February 2018, Harvey became the first city in Illinois to have its revenue [[Garnishment|garnished]] by the State in order to fund the city's pension liabilities. The city laid off employees in order to deal with the changes.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-harvey-layoffs-st-0411-story.html|title=Harvey lays off 40 police and fire employees, union officials say|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|author=Zak Koeske|date=10 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424004548/http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-harvey-layoffs-st-0411-story.html|archive-date=24 April 2018}}</ref>
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