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=== {{Anchor|Origin of the name}} Etymology === [[File:Lake Chicago.JPG|thumb|right|[[Lake Chicago]] at the Glenwood Stage showing the geological formation of Blue Island (middle lower right) protruding above the waters. The city of Blue Island occupies the lower quarter of the island and the surrounding plain in its vicinity.<ref>"Bulletin No. 1", [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724113453/http://www.geographicsociety.org/index2.html The Geographic Society of Chicago], 1899</ref>]] The north-central section of the city of Blue Island is located at the south end of a glacial [[moraine]] that once was an island when the waters from [[Lake Chicago]] covered the surrounding area at the former lake's Glenwood Stage. 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.<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/150.html ''The Encyclopedia of Chicago'' β "Blue Island"], retrieved 4/1/2010</ref> The Chicago [[Chicago Democrat|''Democrat'']], February, 1834 described it: <blockquote> "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 [3.2 km] wide, of an oval form and rising some forty feet [12 m] 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'." </blockquote>
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