Posted by Jean Hogan on January 15, 19101 at 13:43:26:
I just married a Hogan, and newfound interest is the Irish who during or following the potato famine years came to the US and eventually settled in Chicago. Many worked on the drainage canals there, as I understand it. Would like to hear from anyone who has knowledge of this group of Irish immigrants, perhaps where they came into the country and how they got to Chicago. My husband's parents, and grandparents were born and died Chicago but perhaps gr grandparents came over? Just beginning with this and anxious to learn more.
Jean
~a Yankee adrift in the cornfields of Illinois