Little Chicago is an unincorporated residential and agricultural community on Marathon County Highway A in located along the border of the towns of Hamburg and Berlin, in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.
History The community was originally named Ziegler. In 1898, Ziegler had 60 people, a planing mill and a saw mill, one cheese factory; one hardware and one shoe store, and a Lutheran church. The United States Post Office delivered mail three times a week. In 1909, Ziegler had a post office.'Wisconsin Blue Book 1909,' pg. 630
The community reportedly got the name Little Chicago during the Prohibition era in the early 20th century, when a local tavern was dispensing illegal alcoholic beverages.
Notable people Robert Plisch, Wisconsin state legislator and farmer, lived in Ziegler.'Wisconsin Blue Book 1895,' Biographical Sketch of Robert Plisch, pg. 684
Media Little Chicago was the setting of Adam Rapp's novel Little Chicago.
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