February 25, 1905 -- Ground is broken for the new
Illinois Athletic Club as Colonel Frank O. Lowden uses a silver-plated pick to
hack away at “some decayed oak flooring at the site of the projected building
at 147-149 Michigan avenue.” [Chicago Daily Tribune, February 26, 1905]
The president of the organization, William Hale Thompson, introduces Lowden, who
says, “It has been only ninety days since the first work toward this new
athletic club for Chicago was begun and in that time more than 3,000 members
have been secured and more than $250,000 has been raised. The celerity with which this movement has progressed
is wonderful, and it will not be long until the new Illinois Athletic
association has a waiting list.”
February 25, 1873 -- The Chicago Daily Tribune reports on the annual report of the City Steam-Boiler Inspector for 1872, and the news is not encouraging. 765 boilers were inspected with nearly a third found defective. The paper reports, "In view of the rapid increase of the manufacturing and commercial interests of th city, requiring the use of steam as a motor in the factories, its use as a heater and ventilation in the schools, churches, hotels, and other public buildings, the consequent increase in the number of steam-boilers -- the majority of them distributed among the most populous districts int he city, beneath pavements, etc., -- he [the inspector] urged the necessity for further legislation to secure the object for which the ordinance was passed, -- the security of lives and property from dangers attendant upon the ignorant or careless management of steam."
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