April 7, 1910 – Chicago Police Chief LaRoy T.
Steward tells managers of the city’s beaches that “Bizarre bathing costumes,
whether for women or men, will be censored by the police” [Chicago Daily Tribune, April 8, 1910] at the city’s beaches in the
coming summer. Uniformed police officers
will be stationed at the doors of every beach dressing room and will inspect
the bathing attire of patrons as they come out to the sand. “If they escape the initial inspection,” the Chicago Daily Tribune reports, “there
will be other bluecoats along the shore to correct the oversight. The chief says that special attention will be
given to the men’s costumes, but women will also be closely monitored “lest
there be a too marked inclination to follow objectionable styles permitted at
some ocean beaches near eastern cities.”
Regarding the fashions of women bathers, the rules place “an official
ban on the sheathe and directoire
styles in feminine bathing costumes.
Bloomers cut to hang loosely must be worn under the skirt and must reach
to the knees. Sleeveless garments will
not be allowed, although quarter length will be considered sufficient covering
for the arms.” Men must follow these
directives … “The vanity of men of athletic mold is to be restrained when they
display chests or shoulders by a too low cut of their bathing suits. Also, the back must be well covered. Trunks alone or the one piece bathing suits
for men are not to be considered and the trunks of the two piece suit must not
be unduly abbreviated.” Chief Steward
observes that his hope is that the city’s beaches will have the “reputation of
being the best conducted in the country.” The above photo shows the Diversey Parkway beach five years later in 1915 with everyone playing by the rules.
April 7, 1893 – Huge waves crash into the mouth
of the river from the lake, tearing ships from their moorings “as if the heavy
hawsers with which they were fastened had been merely bits of twine.” [Chicago
Daily Tribune, April 8, 1893] At 2:30 a.m. the first wave sweeps into the
harbor, and four vessels are ripped from their moorings, damaged heavily, and
swept toward the lake. A second wave
follows the first, and The City of Venice
is grounded at the life-saving station while the Mabel Wilson becomes stuck in the mud, broadside to the
channel. The A. P. Wright strikes the pier and then becomes stuck fast in the
middle of the channel, stopping just 20 feet from the grounded Mable Wilson. One lake captain says, “These sudden squalls
in the lake cause a great movement of water in one direction. They soon spend themselves and a reaction
takes place. Then a squall will come
from an opposite direction to the first and make the swell larger. Such a
swell striking the shore at the mouth of a river will force the water into a
huge wave which will carry everything before it.” Boat owners from Lincoln Park to Racine,
Wisconsin report their boats and boathouses are missing as the waves do damage all
along the shore north of Chicago.
April 7, 1955 -- Walsh Brothers, Inc. is the low bidder at $334,995 on a contract to construct an arcade along the south side of the Auditorium building to clear the way for the Congress Street expressway's route to Grant Park. The 1889 building, designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, is the last of six buildings along East Congress Street to be arcaded. A part of the building that will be lost is a bar on the southeast corner believed to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright at the beginning of his career. The photo above shows the Auditorium as it existed in 1900.
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If you ever check the Cook County Criminal History then you will be shocked a bit as for how they minimize the criminal records in day to day in their city and how beautifully they can manage the whole city to do it.
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