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A Chicago New Year's Day 1 Jan 2013 | 09:16 pm
The John T. McCutcheon cartoon shown above (click on for a larger image) appeared in the Chicago Tribune on January 1, 1909. In Chicago, one hundred four years ago, New Year's Day... was a day much ...
An Evening at Hull House 10 Sep 2012 | 08:53 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Jane Addams 1860-1935 A belated Happy Birthday, Miss Addams (September 6, 1860)! "Life in the Settlement discovers above all what has been called ...
The Day Book: A Newspaper for the Workingman 2 Sep 2012 | 06:03 pm
February 21, 1912 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE "Conceived by newspaper mogul Edward Willis Scripps as an experiment in advertisement-free newspaper publishing, the Chicago Day B...
More History Bits From the Burbs 1 Jun 2012 | 01:55 am
By Ray Johnson As a history geek, this has got to be one of the best kept secrets in the western burbs. As I have been on a crusade, as of late, finding bits of Chicago history in places other than ...
Was He Really That Bad?: Another Look at "Big Bill" 21 Apr 2012 | 11:41 pm
By Gary Krist Republican Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson (Mario Gomes Collection) If you read much Chicago history, you probably know all about Mayor William Hale Thompson. “Big Bill the Builder,” as h...
Chicagoans, Dr. Blackmarr and the R.M.S. Titanic 15 Apr 2012 | 02:06 am
Today marks the anniversary of the sinking of the luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic on April 14, 1912.(More accurately, Titanic struck the iceberg on April 14th, but sank on April 15th.) A List of Chicagoan...
McCutcheon and the Menagerie 10 Apr 2012 | 11:38 pm
On June 30, 1934 Chicago's world famous Chicago Zoological park at Brookfield was dedicated. It was an "invitation only" affair of over 2,000 guests, but the doors would officially open to the public ...
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes 31 Mar 2012 | 02:46 am
The German artist Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) once wrote, "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." Henry David Thoreau strongly advised "simplify, sim...
A Bit of Pre-Fire Chicago in the Burbs 10 Dec 2011 | 04:23 am
The Pre-Fire Cook County Courthouse and Chicago City Hall in Elmhurst, IL Stereo Card of the Cook County Courthouse ruins after the October 1871 Fire, Urns are just visible at the top of the buildi....
Isaac Woolf and The Newsboys: A Thanksgiving Tradition 25 Nov 2011 | 04:01 am
Isaac Woolf knew how to celebrate Thanksgiving. For twenty-five years Woolf, president of Woolf's Clothing House ("the store with a horseshoe over the door and the Palmer House across the way")hosted ...
