Douglas
Territory Data | |
Open Territory
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Territory Claimed by: | None |
Sphere: | Changeling |
Location Value: | 20 |
Specialty: | History (Academics) |
Cost Reductions: | Encyclopedic Knowledge (History), Area of Expertise, Virtuous |
Unique Bonus: | Once per month, use a Resources point to make use of a college intern as Retainer 3 for a day. |
Travel Code: | none |
Description
The community is named for Stephen A. Douglas, an Illinois politician, whose estate included a tract of land given to the federal government. This tract later was developed for use as the Civil War Union training and prison camp, Camp Douglas, located in what is now the eastern portion of the Douglas neighborhood. Douglas gave that part of his estate at Cottage Grove and 35th to the Old University of Chicago.
This area contains the follow neighborhoods: Bronzeville, Prairie Shores and Groveland Park.