HARVEY

harvey, a city of cook county, illinois, u.s.a., about 18 m. s. of the chicago court house. pop. (1900) 5395 (982 foreign-born); (1910) 7227. it is served by the chicago terminal transfer, the grand trunk and the illinois central railways. harvey is a manufacturing and residence suburb of chicago. among its manufactures are railway, foundry and machine-shop supplies, mining and ditching machinery, stone crushers, street-making and street-cleaning machinery, stoves and motor-vehicles. it was named in honour of turlington w. harvey, a chicago capitalist, founded in 1890, incorporated as a village in 1891 and chartered as a city in 1895.