tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30590576513921152002024-03-19T02:15:16.440-07:00Connecting the Windy CityChicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.comBlogger2103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-26186965979330634182020-10-11T00:30:00.003-07:002020-10-11T00:30:01.037-07:00October 11, 1969 -- S.D.S. March through Loop, 105 Arrested<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQktVTYF0xVmVQdYGQmf9YKWNJsiSiFKt9sbPKT1gSRya7e8XDmXZml8oXY6T6oBTZ9hhRdLgIE2WeGM5QTC4QOSf6cpPmSUdJPqov0QU1vvyzhv3uaQhJSeJu8uzf7PYrbxXKX-XGLHeb/s1600/October+11%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1440" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQktVTYF0xVmVQdYGQmf9YKWNJsiSiFKt9sbPKT1gSRya7e8XDmXZml8oXY6T6oBTZ9hhRdLgIE2WeGM5QTC4QOSf6cpPmSUdJPqov0QU1vvyzhv3uaQhJSeJu8uzf7PYrbxXKX-XGLHeb/s640/October+11%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 11, 1969 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> A march through the Loop by 300 members of the Students for a Democratic Society breaks bad as police face off against “demonstrators, using tire chains, clubs, railroad flares, and their fists smashed windows and fought a running battle … in the three-block area from La Salle street to State street.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, October 12, 1969]</i> When things finally wind down 105 demonstrators are under arrest, 27 police officers have been injured and two corporation counsels are hurt with one of them, Richard Elrod, suffering permanent paralysis when he attempts to tackle a demonstrator fleeing police. The march is supposed to proceed down La Salle Street to Jackson Boulevard, but it breaks apart a half-mile north at Madison Street and marchers head east, smashing windows in 15 buildings as they run. After the Loop is cleared, Governor Richard Ogilvie calls 300 Illinois national guardsmen into the area, but by 7:00 p.m., concluding that the trouble is at an end, he releases all 2,600 guardsmen on alert in the city since they had been summoned earlier in the week.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvpy0VU_O6mUnvjAvNdxH9J_2mufyS2tK4_n8-5nqV6cyfUdo1Ndigjp0ln89tqk1-jD-COPAEbnTcP_NDpoC5l3lSTy5mHTe69Zw8BqlxHixnII42dF_zkG1ymJLGgmOa32Cf3ImxYggm/s1600/October+11%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1142" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvpy0VU_O6mUnvjAvNdxH9J_2mufyS2tK4_n8-5nqV6cyfUdo1Ndigjp0ln89tqk1-jD-COPAEbnTcP_NDpoC5l3lSTy5mHTe69Zw8BqlxHixnII42dF_zkG1ymJLGgmOa32Cf3ImxYggm/s400/October+11%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="285" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">pubs.usgs.gov</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 11, 1954 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The rain finally stops. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On October 9, 1954 rain begins to move into the Chicagoland area, and from that Saturday afternoon until Monday morning, the storms continue, bringing 6.21 inches of rain, surpassing a record that has stood for nearly 70 years.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The Chicago Sanitary District orders the locks at the mouth of the river opened at 6:25 p.m. on October 10 and “A gigantic swell of water roared into the lake as the river for a time returned to the original direction of its flow before it had been reversed by canals to the Illinois waterway." [Chicago Daily Tribune, October 12, 1954]</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Water flows into the counterweight pits of most of the downtown bridges, immobilizing them, and traffic on the river is halted.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The new </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Edens Highway is closed, and the Racine Avenue pumping station is put out of commission with four feet of water on its main floor.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Before the locks are opened, the Chicago River rises five feet, overflowing in several locations, including the area around Union Station where stormwater pours into the basement of the main post office, where it short-circuits pumps that could have helped keep the water level lower.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Flowing through drains, the floods enter two sub-basements of the </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily News</i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> building, today’s Two Riverside Plaza, where 42 feet of water eventually collects, destroying paper stock valued at a quarter million dollars and shorting out electrical circuits to the paper’s pressroom.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune</i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> prints seven editions of the</span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Chicago Daily News</i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> while fire boats and several fire engines pump the water out of the basements.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> the above photo shows the railroad yard near Van Buren Street under water that has also flooded the counterweight pits of the bridge.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AvXzyx1O55YcPvRB03CXv3b1nUfx8pYqUdTvK8yPbd5i63ixdlxs-B-ztX1VpZBSGwRCVHE30BU50IiTR6XY3TxmAbzJgRotIzF91payF5Ixp1JVr0ICmx2RQCfrVntxLsXI5yaK1W8j/s1600/October+11%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="374" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AvXzyx1O55YcPvRB03CXv3b1nUfx8pYqUdTvK8yPbd5i63ixdlxs-B-ztX1VpZBSGwRCVHE30BU50IiTR6XY3TxmAbzJgRotIzF91payF5Ixp1JVr0ICmx2RQCfrVntxLsXI5yaK1W8j/s640/October+11%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 11, 1926 – </b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Machine guns spread a wave of death across the street from Holy Name Cathedral as two mobsters are killed and three others are wounded. The sniper targets his victims from the front room of a second-floor apartment at 740 North State Street, a building next door to William F. Schofield’s florist shop, about which you can find </span><a href="http://www.connectingthewindycity.com/2017/08/august-14-1960-obanions-shop-comes.html" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">more information in this entry at Connecting the Windy City</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. One of the men killed is Earl “Hymie” Weiss, a member of the North Side Gang that controlled bootlegging and other illegal activity on the north side of the city, a rival to a gang controlled by Al Capone. Also killed is Patrick Murray, a known bootlegger. Weiss holds in his pocket a list of all the men called for jury duty in the trial of Joe Sallis, a south side gang leader who is charged with the murder of another mob captain. Weiss also has $5,300 in walking-around money on his person. This is the fifth in a series of gang-related murders in the space of two years, beginning with the murder of mob boss Dean O’Banion in the florist shop on Sate Street. Police search the rented room from which the shots were fired and find 35 empty .45 caliber shells near the window and “a hundred or more” cigarette butts, “indicating a long period of watchful waiting</span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.” [Chicago Daily Tribune, October 13, 1926] </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Chicago Chief of Police says, “We knew it was coming sooner or later. And it isn’t over. I fully expect that there will be a reprisal, then a counter reprisal and so on. These beer feuds go in an eternal vicious cycle. I don’t want to encourage the business, but if somebody has to be killed, it’s a good thing the gangsters are murdering themselves off. It saves trouble for the police.”</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRb_Ik-2n0uT59a40keHWyc_KzY_KPqdpuHJybcNA5hf_ENXaM5fkv3lfUvBNP8Zl3eWrY93Q6NcYFUTZ4MAKX2exUvCjIHlCb_DMzaVSro7JtxE4iRo3D7FK3X3goUlNmy1YBHkiNAC8/s1600/October+11%252C+2016+BBlog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="947" data-original-width="625" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRb_Ik-2n0uT59a40keHWyc_KzY_KPqdpuHJybcNA5hf_ENXaM5fkv3lfUvBNP8Zl3eWrY93Q6NcYFUTZ4MAKX2exUvCjIHlCb_DMzaVSro7JtxE4iRo3D7FK3X3goUlNmy1YBHkiNAC8/s400/October+11%252C+2016+BBlog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="263" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 11, 1918 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> A city commission passes a resolution that all public dancing must be stopped in order to check the influenza-pneumonia epidemic. Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, says, “The order will take effect at once.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 12, 1913]<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></i>The commission also adopts a resolution that “attendance at all funerals, contagious disease or otherwise, shall be restricted to the immediate relatives, close friends and necessary attendants.” In the 24 hours before the commission adopts its resolutions 124 people in the city have died of influenza and 89 from pneumonia. The commission orders the cancelling of all dances as a necessary step “because of the close contact of the dancers, the exercise of the dance and the frequent chilling of the body that is apt to follow.” The 1918 pandemic, believed to have begun in a French hospital processing soldiers wounded in the war, led to the deaths of between 50 and 100 million worldwide. According to the digital encyclopedia at <a href="http://www.influenzaarchive.org/" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.influenzaarchive.org</a> “Between the start of Chicago’s epidemic on September 21 and the removal of restrictions on November 16, the Windy City experienced a staggering 38,000 cases of influenza and 13,000 cases of pneumonia . . . Yet, despite these numbers, Chicago actually did fairly well for a city of its size. In fact, with a population of 2.7 million, Chicago’s epidemic death rate for the period was only 373 out of 100,000, not much worse than its long-time rival St. Louis.”</span></span></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-30121425454574735332020-10-10T00:30:00.001-07:002020-10-10T00:30:07.166-07:00October 10, 1977 -- Walter Mondale Cheered in Columbus Day Parade<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKg5L1GZc2VFaLIJ0ErrFa61EPv_jpf1ulQmaM7Cn2sNmxtoplxTdCwQSoJBfOUYYU2-7lc6jJL5UanVAYcQwX4z2koQQEKahntxwZHhTHeR6C-jfknTJ6Lw1tjVLwMzHGeQ2K6PDAaIt1/s1600/October+10%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="725" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKg5L1GZc2VFaLIJ0ErrFa61EPv_jpf1ulQmaM7Cn2sNmxtoplxTdCwQSoJBfOUYYU2-7lc6jJL5UanVAYcQwX4z2koQQEKahntxwZHhTHeR6C-jfknTJ6Lw1tjVLwMzHGeQ2K6PDAaIt1/s640/October+10%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 10, 1977 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Thousands of Chicagoans stand in the sunshine along a ten-block parade route as Vice-President Walter Mondale marches down State Street with Mayor Michael Bilandic and other officials in the city’s annual Columbus Day parade. Clearly, the Vice-President has an eye toward moving one office higher as “Three times during the parade he distressed his Secret Service contingent by plunging into crowds to shake hands, trade pleasantries, and pat children on the head.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, October 11, 1977]</i> Before the parade Mondale attends a mass celebrated by John Cardinal Cody in Our Lady of Pompeii at 1224 West Lexington Avenue. After a reception at the church, Mondale and other officials walk two blocks west on Lexington to place a wreath at the statue of Christopher Columbus. Most importantly, Mondale announces on his arrival in the city that a bill signed earlier in the week by President Jimmy Carter will increase federal money for community development in the city from $69 million to $134 million.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fQ5iphL04y9rifVQ9ua11V7l-E8o3MC9fPBZtUX885ONKQ02i70qLrN2H26cvjqqjmrz8cC8DVD_bb6xS6ckLR_n3i0FQ0VCqsyXTcRW_x71WkRlSZYOIk_TGScFFsjjgjI7_m7zXDvs/s1600/October+10%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.png" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="881" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fQ5iphL04y9rifVQ9ua11V7l-E8o3MC9fPBZtUX885ONKQ02i70qLrN2H26cvjqqjmrz8cC8DVD_bb6xS6ckLR_n3i0FQ0VCqsyXTcRW_x71WkRlSZYOIk_TGScFFsjjgjI7_m7zXDvs/s640/October+10%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.png" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune photo</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGrKDjJKVTvAbfrDn5c1Y_kTXJHhVK98-HASCLB3Xb8s5f4-ePVXaGM6gPCB1iEe-z27fTqkA6_R0Y1iYxJAQ_pxViDu2GeJUsYDlBUgIvsIiVnO7mNt4IeQY1-fMObiXDL7xfqKkzNKjA/s1600/October+10%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="1600" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGrKDjJKVTvAbfrDn5c1Y_kTXJHhVK98-HASCLB3Xb8s5f4-ePVXaGM6gPCB1iEe-z27fTqkA6_R0Y1iYxJAQ_pxViDu2GeJUsYDlBUgIvsIiVnO7mNt4IeQY1-fMObiXDL7xfqKkzNKjA/s640/October+10%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">google.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 10, 1975 –</b> The <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune</i> editorializes favorably about a proposal, unveiled four days earlier, for a “Lakefront Gardens for the Arts” to be established where Millennium Park stands today. On October 6, 1975 four civic organizations – the Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council, Friends of the Parks, the Open Lands Project, and the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects – propose a 20-acre park that would replace a surface parking lot just east of Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Monroe Streets. A portion of the park would be built over the Illinois Central Railroad’s commuter line while another section would bridge the extension of Columbus Drive, which was still under construction at the time. Included in the project would be a 10,000-seat outdoor music bowl that would be surrounded by a grassy area that could seat an additional 20,000 people. The plan is an alternative to a much more modest Chicago Park District plan that involves rehabilitating the dilapidated band shell in Butler Field east of the Art Institute. The <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tribune </i>editorial clearly states the choice: “A comparatively small but safe investment in the Butler Field band shell, which would put the Grant Park concerts on a stronger footing; or a bold attempt to make this orchestra a key to greater things, energizing Chicago’s cultural life, giving new life to the downtown area, turning an eyesore into a park, and giving the city the most sophisticated outdoor music facility of any urban area in the nation.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, October 10, 1975]</i> Despite the scale of the project the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tribune</i> concludes, “… the dazzling opportunities offered by the Lakefront Gardens plan should be examined and exploited to the full.” The plan clearly did not get a full examination. Three days after the editorial is published the Chicago Plan Commission votes, 5-1, to approve the Butler Field band shell with bids to be submitted by November 15. It would be 25 years before talk once again turned to the site proposed for the Gardens, but it was probably worth the wait as Millennium Park, when it opened in 2004, is as fine a plot of civic green space as one will find anywhere in the world. The two photos show the way the area looked at the time of the 1975 proposal and the way it looks today.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFhpHHUjUSm12TMChGSt7xMvVah2mk_-azCJJUMKKfgJbpfQi5OCAkFLUzUybyeNm0TARp5T4YtMfukaD8yzopQXFkFP3dzUHXEldOm5IjstGVz3eNVgIr87C7UcJycc-Z_H3-jhrMIhRq/s1600/October+10%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1111" data-original-width="1600" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFhpHHUjUSm12TMChGSt7xMvVah2mk_-azCJJUMKKfgJbpfQi5OCAkFLUzUybyeNm0TARp5T4YtMfukaD8yzopQXFkFP3dzUHXEldOm5IjstGVz3eNVgIr87C7UcJycc-Z_H3-jhrMIhRq/s640/October+10%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 10, 1975 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The federal office building at 230 North Dearborn Street is formally dedicated in a ceremony held in the Federal Center plaza at Dearborn and Adams Streets.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The building is named after John C. Kluczinski, who represented the Fifth District in the United States House of Representatives from 1951 until his death from a heart attack in 1975.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Four premier architecture firms in the city joined forces in the Federal Center design – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as chief designer; Schmidt, Garden and Erikson; C. F. Murphy Associates; and A. Epstein and Sons.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The 42-story office building is part of a complex of three buildings which are exquisitely unified.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">According to the General Services Administration description of the plan, “The entire complex is organized on a 28-foot grid pattern subdivided into six 4-foot, 8-inch modules.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This pattern extends from the granite-paved plaza into the ground floor lobbies of the two towers, where the floors and elevator lobby walls are also granite.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The lines of the grid continue vertically up the buildings, integrating each component of the complex” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[https://www.gsa.gov/historic-buildings/john-c-kluczynski-federal-building-chicago-il]</i></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbhMQxXJavW64pe-WR8pX_pby4A92CxJ-GyUaFuWxkQ-veO2rIrglMY0R9xih-yO7ZmJZK-U7pHaWZSTFfV3DwK0AhcreEtUyaUpOslPocM06cRBn1am3F8fPZw9tNlWOZInBM5ieuZDYi/s1600/October+10%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="760" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbhMQxXJavW64pe-WR8pX_pby4A92CxJ-GyUaFuWxkQ-veO2rIrglMY0R9xih-yO7ZmJZK-U7pHaWZSTFfV3DwK0AhcreEtUyaUpOslPocM06cRBn1am3F8fPZw9tNlWOZInBM5ieuZDYi/s640/October+10%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 10, 1909 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Former United States Assistant Secretary of State John Callan O’Laughlin, a </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> reporter, writes of the vice he finds in the heart of the city. “I have been through the red light districts of Chicago,” O’Laughlin begins, “and I am filled with a great loathing. I have seen your dance halls, where temptation to sin is offered in the form of lights, and music, and drink. I have seen saloons which are but the ante-rooms to iniquity. I have visited your vice quarters, and have been astounded at the open traffic that exists therein. I have learned of how ‘white slavery’ is conducted in Chicago. I have been told of women imprisoned behind bars and forced to do the will of their keepers. I have learned of police service to prevent the escape of unfortunates. The condition that exists is at once heart-rending and disgusting. It is a blot upon the fair name of Chicago.” </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 10, 1909</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">] O’Laughlin urges the new police chief to get to work, saying, “It is about time for action.” He rails at the courts for the dollar or five-dollar fines they dole out, calling the fines “a small commission received by the city from the earnings of vice.” He suggests that the city take a lesson from Japan, saying, “It can forbid dance halls to sell liquor and to be a rendezvous at all hours for young men and girls. It can forbid the sale of liquor in any house where women are allowed. It can forbid the sale of liquor in houses of ill repute. It can punish as a vagrant or otherwise every man who runs such a house or who has any connection with it or with inducing women to become inmates. It can stop the youth of the city, including messenger boys, from entering the districts.”</span></span></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-22071054157221427922020-10-09T00:30:00.001-07:002020-10-09T00:30:06.296-07:00October 9, 1921 -- Chicago Fire, a 50-Year Recollection<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihQWvaE5MAD6rnXlDyEQ3CKkpPM3bjiXyRB5CTyZvQRq096ZeIA6amgoEYegqz9pIsfTEPFWYhThzvpCHWQGRZ8gKOlHF5SxhGTx-VVSZIeKQSqeenCXrfWgQYFz1XNMs4qfMK8wGc-SY7/s1600/October+9%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1248" data-original-width="1475" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihQWvaE5MAD6rnXlDyEQ3CKkpPM3bjiXyRB5CTyZvQRq096ZeIA6amgoEYegqz9pIsfTEPFWYhThzvpCHWQGRZ8gKOlHF5SxhGTx-VVSZIeKQSqeenCXrfWgQYFz1XNMs4qfMK8wGc-SY7/s640/October+9%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 9, 1921 – </span></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On the fiftieth anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune </i>features the recollection of the only newspaper reporter who covered the 1871 story who is still alive. Michael Ahern, working for the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Republican</i>, was a night reporter on duty when the fire started on October 8, 1871. Ahern begins his recollection with a description of what happened on the night before the fire. On Saturday night, October 7, a fire started in a planing mill on Canal Street, and “it wiped out everything from Clinton street to the river and from Adams street to Van Buren street.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 8, 1921] </i>That fire brought every piece of fire-fighting equipment in the city to the scene, and “all that kept the entire west side from burning up was the strenuous work of the fire brigade.” Some firefighters did not return to their quarters until Sunday afternoon and “The department was exhausted from the long, hard battle and some engines were disabled.” That was the state of affairs at 9:30 p.m. on October 8 when Ahern is called “to a red glow in the sky east of Halsted street and north of Twelfth.” When he reaches the scene, he finds several cottages and sheds burning “in the vicinity of De Koven and Jefferson streets.” The fire is “only a small one compared with the previous night’s fire,” so small that Ahern does not even take notes. The fire had apparently burned for 20 minutes to a half-hour before the first unit responded, a problem attributed, for the most part, to the fire that had occurred on the previous day. Matthias Schaeffer, the watchman in the courthouse tower downtown, spotted the fire, but, due to the haze left by all of the smoke from the previous fire, reported it in a spot nearly a mile away from its actual location. The attendant in the alarm office also saw a glow in the sky, but he assumed that it was the product of embers still glowing from the October 7 fire. A druggist near Canalport Avenue and Halsted Streets tried twice to turn in an alarm from a box in the area, but the previous fire had destroyed some of the lines, and neither alarm registered at fire headquarters. The first unit on the scene was the “Little Giant” company, but it was only half-manned. Other companies were nearer to the fire, but they were sent out of their way to fight the non-existent fire that Schaeffer reported from his perch downtown. Engine Company No. 5, with the steamer “Chicago,” was the second company to arrive. Its crew had worked over 15 hours in the Saturday night fire, and the men were exhausted. The No. 5 men laid lines from a hydrant at Forquer and Jefferson, but the equipment broke down and was out of service for nearly an hour. The Fire Chief, Bob Williams, arrived early on and called out every company in the city – 17 steamers, 54 hose carts, and 3 or 4 hook and ladder trucks. Before long three particularly incendiary businesses – the Bateham shingle mill and box factory, the Frank Mayer Furniture company, and the Roelle Furniture company – went up in flames and the fire quickly reached the west bank of the river. One steamer, the Fred Gund, set up at the west approach of the Van Buren Street bridge. Its crew fought until their clothing caught fire, and the men were forced to run for their lives. Ahern reports, “The Gund went down in a sea of flame with steam up and fighting the foe.” Not long before midnight the fire crossed the river between Adams and Van Buren Streets. In its path were a tar works and the gas company’s reservoir. All of the fire apparatus was still on the west side of the river, and at this point Chief Williams ordered a few companies to the other side of the river. But the battle was lost. “Blazing bits of timber were carried to the court house from the west side … more than a mile distant … The flames swept east toward Michigan avenue, and there were a dozen fires burning at the same time.” Several companies stood bravely at Michigan Avenue and Harrison Street, and their efforts kept the fire from spreading south, but “All night long the work of devastation went on ceaselessly, ruthlessly. Business blocks, public buildings, theaters, churches, hotels, banks, newspaper offices, retail and wholesale emporiums of trade, railroad depots, grain elevators, marble mansions, and breweries – all went down in the blazing mass.” Only two buildings escaped the flames downtown -- the Lind Block, at Randolph Street and the river, and a three-story building on the northwest corner of La Salle and Monroe Streets, a building under construction. Just before 2:00 a.m. the courthouse on Washington Boulevard caught fire. In its basement sat 150 prisoners awaiting trial. Except for a few who were kept under guard, they were all turned loose. At about 6:00 a.m. the waterworks on the north side caught fire, and with that, with no water, the fire department’s efforts were at an end. Just about that time the huge Galena elevator on the north side of the main branch of the river caught fire between State and Rush Streets. The fire continued on, burning all the way north to Fullerton Avenue, consuming “twenty-nine churches, nineteen hotels, nine theaters and halls, five public schools, twenty-seven daily newspaper offices, about seventy-five other publications, seventeen breweries, the post office, the courthouse, the chamber of commerce, one police station and every big store in the city.” The last paragraph of Ahern’s reminiscences contains news that Catherine O’Leary’s cow, Daisy, would appreciate … “I wish to state that the fire was not started by Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicking over a lamp. Nothing of the kind occurred. That version of the origin of the fire was a concoction which the writer of these reminiscences confesses to a guilty part. In justice to the maligned animal and to Mrs. O’Leary, who died many years ago, I make this belated reparation.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC3IpBTGdTbsjs6kY1RkbBnQSEbrJ89ZrVkUeCM58GOSnYhXgxw1PaCx5uoKQygeOOURhA-XzOqymU8ILkIYzefSUkDUsfKD-QdGUslmpL5wxlPWkO7FJwo0Qilc_Tln23TUyaP0KmVw2-/s1600/October+9%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="960" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC3IpBTGdTbsjs6kY1RkbBnQSEbrJ89ZrVkUeCM58GOSnYhXgxw1PaCx5uoKQygeOOURhA-XzOqymU8ILkIYzefSUkDUsfKD-QdGUslmpL5wxlPWkO7FJwo0Qilc_Tln23TUyaP0KmVw2-/s640/October+9%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 9, 1915 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Governor Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne, speechifying at nearly every stop, leads an intrepid band of travelers as they start off on the first day of the 1,500-mile drive on the new Dixie Highway. Twenty cars leave Chicago “for the land of orange blossoms, over the ceremonially virgin road.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 9, 1915] </i>Short ceremonies are held in Grant Park as Juilia Stubblefield, representing Florida, and Lucille Finnegan, representing Illinois, lead a procession of girls representing the states in between, as they place flowers at the Fountain of the Great Lakes, “forming a floral highway, over which Miss Dixie and Miss Chicago crossed the waste of mud and mountains.” Governor Dunne says, “The main essentials for the future development of Illinois is the development of its highways and waterways. First in agricultural development, second in the production of wealth, third in population, political and commercial importance, Illinois is nevertheless lamentably behind in the development of its roads – twenty-third of all the states.” Representing Mayor William H. Thompson, Henry D. Miller, the city prosecutor, then leaves a letter intended for the mayor of Miami with the motorists. The first day’s drive ends in Danville, Illinois with a night’s rest there before the group continues on to Indianapolis.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsroRq0oMEu0gSeNkt_FWB5Q1-RLsJkr2CoAAgKeGMmdoye7heiP_lZ5sphwiFBE69FlpXrY2U2A3xRa_9iFEC6CZ0AJQHxfChPk-65q5ZZdtRJt5PB9qltqrBxsTS5ct4hXY74KKl2oO/s1600/October+9%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="583" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsroRq0oMEu0gSeNkt_FWB5Q1-RLsJkr2CoAAgKeGMmdoye7heiP_lZ5sphwiFBE69FlpXrY2U2A3xRa_9iFEC6CZ0AJQHxfChPk-65q5ZZdtRJt5PB9qltqrBxsTS5ct4hXY74KKl2oO/s400/October+9%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="275" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 9, 1908 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The informal dedication of the new County Building on Clark Street between Washington and Randolph sees several thousand Chicagoans tour the new government headquarters. The County Recorder’s office on the first floor has vases of flowers on each desk while “festoons of autumn leaves [are] draped from post and pillar<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.”<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 10, 1908]</i> The County Clerk has a store of carnations for those passing through. County Board President Busse receives callers as they move through his offices on the fifth floor. Busse says at the end of the day, “First of all I wish to acknowledge the indebtedness of the county board to the people of Cook County for their constant and general support. No extras, no scandal, not even adverse criticism grew out of the work, and the cost of the building was kept within the contract price. The cost per cubic foot was from 15 to 25 per cent less than that of some of Chicago’s notable buildings.” The Holabird and Roche designed building is one-half of the government complex, designed in the Beaux-Arts style, stretching from Clark Street halfway to La Salle. The Chicago City Hall, also designed by Holabird and Roche, is a near mirror image of the county building and sits west of the 1908 structure and is completed two years later. The County Building is pictured above with the old City Hall still standing to the west.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu5YenfrDdSGg4sAW2oaqqgFeiKr6vDncsxHqhuLArmMQeEKEotgicuwhpXguQh6iDbNLefQBc-X_d73hZEedCRk1LOHGYJymZLpsiXX-ouq_Qp74X6xU-yJY6pBpkEYO3FJzgZ1SL7VM-/s1600/October+9%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="940" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu5YenfrDdSGg4sAW2oaqqgFeiKr6vDncsxHqhuLArmMQeEKEotgicuwhpXguQh6iDbNLefQBc-X_d73hZEedCRk1LOHGYJymZLpsiXX-ouq_Qp74X6xU-yJY6pBpkEYO3FJzgZ1SL7VM-/s640/October+9%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">chicagology.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 9, 1881 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> On the tenth anniversary of the Chicago Fire, the </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune</i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> runs an editorial that touts the strides that the city has made since the day that 90,000 of its residents lost everything in a conflagration that consumed over 17,000 structures. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On October 9 of 1871 the smoldering city had 330,000 inhabitants … a decade later that number had jumped to 555,000.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The losses suffered in the fire amounted to $200,000,000 (nearly $4.5 billion in today's dollars) with insurance and salvage payments covering about $55,000,000 (about $1.1 billion today) of that amount.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With that seed money “the people of the city undertook to cover the vacant places, and upon the ruins to build up again that stores, and warehouses, and dwellings and public buildings.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 9, 1881]</i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Borrowing liberally and with city-mandated fire limits established, the city rebuilt with architecture that was “more ornate and the structures more costly, more substantial, more uniform, more durable, and far more numerous.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Unfortunately, in the fall of 1873 the bottom dropped out of the nation’s economy and the borrowed money, most of it secured at high interest rates, took its toll and the city “overwhelmed with debt, private and public, was subjected to trials under which no other city less blessed with imperishable resources could have been maintained.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Then in 1874 another huge fire leveled a sizeable portion of the newly rebuilt city.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Those who held mortgages on city property showed confidence in Chicago’s citizens and were rewarded for their patience.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“… at this date, on this tenth anniversary of The Great Fire,” the </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tribune</i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> editorializes, “there is not practically a mortgage given for money borrowed to rebuild Chicago that has not been paid or discharged with interest and taxes, or on which the money to pay the unmatured mortgage cannot be obtained on demand.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Concluding the piece, the editorial extends the gratitude of the city to all those who helped it back to prosperity.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> “To the people of the United States, to whom this city owes so much of gratitude, Chicago makes report today of the great growth in all the essentials of commercial and manufacturing metropolis which she has made during the ten years which have followed the disaster which has become memorable in the record of public calamities.” The Chicago and North Western Railroad's station on Wells Street, pictured above, was completed in 1881, just ten years after the destruction of the city. That same year Union Station on Van Buren Street near the West Bank of the river, was also completed. </span></span></div></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-16874279721953474732020-10-08T00:30:00.002-07:002020-10-08T00:30:04.461-07:00October 8, 2003 -- Sting Entertains 40,000 at Grant Park Free Concert<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMu35iWxpUHYr8qVRk-VMwEA35IAZ4GnbZOPKNSPDlatcjQidlo_BSPTgCUPjYsMqCt-sh3YzSb7zzAVPJXZuna6_aCzXauiUsia3cBvtCuHHLnO-9jDXN5nkn1x1PlKNbPeNCdV2wbOvp/s300/October+8%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMu35iWxpUHYr8qVRk-VMwEA35IAZ4GnbZOPKNSPDlatcjQidlo_BSPTgCUPjYsMqCt-sh3YzSb7zzAVPJXZuna6_aCzXauiUsia3cBvtCuHHLnO-9jDXN5nkn1x1PlKNbPeNCdV2wbOvp/w400-h400/October+8%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">bing.com</span></i></b></div><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>October 8, 2003 –</b> As the Chicago Cubs are in the midst of defeating the Florida Marlins, 12-3, in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series at Wrigley Field, Sting performs before a crowd of 40,000 at a free concert in Grant Park. The show takes place on a 140-foot stage that took eight days, 150 laborers, 24 trucks and $2 million to construct. <i>[Chicago Tribune, October 9, 2003]</i>. With an eight-piece band behind him, Sting makes his way through 19 songs, ranging from his first hits to a couple of songs from his just-released “Sacred Love” album. The concert was received favorably ... it is best not to reflect upon what happened in the 2003 National League Championship. Certainly, don't ask Moises Alou about it. Ever.</span></div></span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8q0EM0faluZNxh8mWt2ACqlKHsKZAzPHEdmtKTmVqlulhQY1tfsKOa6EByfc2G3TUhrIEGCYEvZ1hSoBOnk4A8Pp5adhGG4G59r5Y1MFDC0507jLJJREmmEi4tm71QBw2rTLTnJsb0FxQ/s1600/October+8%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="770" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8q0EM0faluZNxh8mWt2ACqlKHsKZAzPHEdmtKTmVqlulhQY1tfsKOa6EByfc2G3TUhrIEGCYEvZ1hSoBOnk4A8Pp5adhGG4G59r5Y1MFDC0507jLJJREmmEi4tm71QBw2rTLTnJsb0FxQ/s640/October+8%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">undereverystone.blogspot.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 8, 1949 </b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">– The Edens Parkway is dedicated with a bronze plaque honoring William G. Edens placed at the new road’s grade separation over Cicero Avenue just north of Foster Avenue.</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In 1912 Edens, a banker, became the first president of the Illinois Highway Association and in that capacity began a campaign to pave the state’s roads, an effort that ultimately saw over $60 million in bond issues raised to fund highway construction.</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Although construction continues on the new highway, by the end of 1950 it is anticipated that the new six-lane highway will carry more cars in a 24-hour period than existed in the entire state when Edens began urging a plan for the area’s future transportation needs.</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Speaking at the event is Virgil E. Gunlock, the Chicago Commissioner of Subways and Superhighways and Illinois Lieutenant Governor Sherwood Dixon, who praises the cooperation of the state, county and city in the construction of the 15-mile highway as the three governmental bodies shared the $21 million cost of the project. The highway ultimately opens on a December day in 1951 and is considered to be the city’s first true expressway. <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[newswttw.com]</i> It was a better day in October than the official opening of the road on December 20, 1951 as the above photo shows.</span></span><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Zi5lpVaIqZ-1Og7eS7S6DFe2ktP4mohbmGb3ZnNa-ZoaUnvVlmD9lm6h2TQB9Ie3ON3AEYh7jfPZJBzG3vpJssjHAQ61FAkOZbzVCi8K7v8H0NKiGDtqYYFYPbaMUB-EYKo4wNh58nKE/s1600/October+8%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="1600" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Zi5lpVaIqZ-1Og7eS7S6DFe2ktP4mohbmGb3ZnNa-ZoaUnvVlmD9lm6h2TQB9Ie3ON3AEYh7jfPZJBzG3vpJssjHAQ61FAkOZbzVCi8K7v8H0NKiGDtqYYFYPbaMUB-EYKo4wNh58nKE/s640/October+8%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9.6px; font-weight: bold;">artic.org</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 8, 1943 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The Art Institute of Chicago announces that it has acquired Salvador Dali’s “Inventions of the Monsters,” a 20- by 30-inch canvas that will be added to the Winterbotham collection, a group of paintings the acquisition of which was made possible through a trust fund established by Joseph Winterbotham in 1921. According to stipulations of the trust agreement, the fund was to be used solely to purchase modern paintings by foreign artists with the total number of paintings acquired to be capped at 35. Although the painting has been on display at the museum since July, this is the first indication that the Art Institute will add it to its permanent collection. According to the Art Institute’s website, Dali, when he learns that the Chicago museum has obtained his work, responds, “Am pleased and honored by your acquisition. According to Nostradamus the apparition of monsters presages the outbreak of war. This canvas was painted in the Semmering mountains near Vienna a few months before the Anschluss and has a prophetic character. Horse women equal maternal river monsters. Flaming giraffe equals cosmic masculine apocalyptic monster. Cat angel equals divine heterosexual monster. Hourglass equals metaphysical monster. Gala and Dali equal sentimental monster. The little blue dog alone is not a true monster. Sincerely, Salvador Dali.” </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> [artic.edu] </i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Today “Inventions of the Monsters” can be viewed in Gallery 396 at the Art Institute of Chicago.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic8HtJCQECL-jN2VPR2mJgUxlcQU2l2ef5u4mGv8zxGGa8zvUXKtBMDbmiYFlA2gEXi786P53P0zPIfVkCiYRWvRRK4cvIhO1VOBJK8VsvNJK5mhaKdEFaydjA5LUSYMCXDGkZLN-ZUeqi/s1600/October+8%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="989" data-original-width="1280" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic8HtJCQECL-jN2VPR2mJgUxlcQU2l2ef5u4mGv8zxGGa8zvUXKtBMDbmiYFlA2gEXi786P53P0zPIfVkCiYRWvRRK4cvIhO1VOBJK8VsvNJK5mhaKdEFaydjA5LUSYMCXDGkZLN-ZUeqi/s640/October+8%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></b></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 8, 1937 –</b><span style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Less than 72 hours after the new bridge opens carrying Lake Shore Drive across the Chicago River, the first accident occurs at 3:00 a.m. when a northbound auto hits the wall on the west section of the tricky s-curve leading onto the bridge. The 21-year-old driver continues driving north in the darkness, rather than making the right angle turn and heading toward the lake where the second right angle carries the bridge across the river. He ends up traveling over an 18-inch divider, crossing the southbound lanes of traffic, and slamming his car into a retaining wall. A spokesman for the Illinois Automobile Club had observed earlier that no motorist would be able to make either of the two right-angle turns south of the bridge traveling any faster than 15 miles-per-hour. Otto Jelinek, the traffic engineer for the Chicago Park District, says, “The new bridge is of benefit to the entire Chicago street transportation system, and if critics will be patient we’ll iron out the wrinkles in a few weeks.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 8, 1937]</i> It would be 49 years before the “wrinkle” that choked Lake Shore Drive south of the bridge would be ironed out, but in 1986 a sweeping curve was opened, allowing for a far more efficient movement of traffic. The above photo shows the dedication of the bridge on October 7 ... the accident occurs 72 hours later at the right angle shown in the bottom left of the photo</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ8-0TvwXePPoZdkJ5x_GmDKr_zrqExRKV-0v98Ld721wA4a2-1DMr2ldnjAXj73fW8iKimiBZLoaccSEeX4pzdb769J1hR1pH3aWfzUZ_1a3OaJ9GZqFyWekiMsWWaob3N3hllVORUO2f/s1600/October+8%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="564" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ8-0TvwXePPoZdkJ5x_GmDKr_zrqExRKV-0v98Ld721wA4a2-1DMr2ldnjAXj73fW8iKimiBZLoaccSEeX4pzdb769J1hR1pH3aWfzUZ_1a3OaJ9GZqFyWekiMsWWaob3N3hllVORUO2f/s640/October+8%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 8, 1934 –</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune</i> presents information gained from an interview with the three remaining survivors of the 225 fire fighters who lost the battle to save the city 63 years earlier. Hoseman George Leady, 89-years-old, starts the reminiscing as the Retired Fireman’s Association of Chicago honors the few remaining surviving firemen who fought the inferno. On the anniversary of the fire that destroyed 17,500 buildings and left between 90,000 and 100,000 people homeless, it is interesting to think about what Leady had to say. It wasn’t until the third alarm came that the city’s largest fire wagon was dispatched, Engine No. 9 with a pumping capacity of 500 gallons per minute. “It got hotter and hotter,” Leady says. “We took doors off their hinges and held them in front of the pipemen to keep their coats from igniting. The hose in the street, full of water as it was, began to smoke and char.” The fire drove the men to Polk Street and finally all the way to Michigan Avenue and South Water Street where hoses were dropped directly into the river because the hydrants no longer worked. “I was the last man on the south side of the river,” Leady says. “. . . all our men were gone, gassed or knocked out by the smoke, except the driver and me . . . we abandoned the hose in the street and got four scared horses harnessed up.” The driver, Johnny Reese, provides a crucial piece of information about the cause of the fire, snorting at the idea that a cow burned the city to the ground. “Why I saw the whole bunch of loafers who started that fire,” Reese says. “Those fellows had been drinking all afternoon in O’Leary’s barn, and smoking their pipes. Some sparks of burning tobacco – they didn’t have cigarets (sic) in those days -- got into the hay and set the barn. The whole bunch was standing round the hydrant at Forquer and DeKoven streets and I know, because I heard them talking among themselves.” \</span></span></b></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><div style="clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-7589464276219069242020-10-07T00:30:00.001-07:002020-10-07T00:30:04.636-07:00October 7, 2007 -- Chicago Marathon Cut Short Amid Record Temperatures<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: left;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjROhRFPewEUG1sMZAuFEHwAgfEtJlgfNFgqVPZPst4zFGB4MFqrvCOE-urfXQHxb7h3Mf6lLw_eqOcrhUZQnAksjMf0vwQiYGjM_otMhlqzQzu4daCAuDZpTAgjoorD3m-IA05J5hPlbCD/s450/October+7%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="450" height="471" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjROhRFPewEUG1sMZAuFEHwAgfEtJlgfNFgqVPZPst4zFGB4MFqrvCOE-urfXQHxb7h3Mf6lLw_eqOcrhUZQnAksjMf0vwQiYGjM_otMhlqzQzu4daCAuDZpTAgjoorD3m-IA05J5hPlbCD/w626-h471/October+7%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="626" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">whyrun.files.wordpress.com</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">October 7, 2007 –</b><span style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> The La Salle Bank Chicago Marathon, for the first time in its history, is cut short as hundreds of runners melt in the unseasonably warm weather, requiring treatment for heat-related illnesses. It isn’t until three-and-a-half hours after the start of the race that the marathon is ended, a decision that comes after numerous complaints from runners that there is not enough water on the course, and a 35-year-old Michigan police officer dies around the 19-mile mark. A fire department spokesman says that about 315 runners out of the 35,000 who started the race were transported by paramedics to hospitals with five people still in serious or critical condition in the evening. Of the 35,867 runners who begin the race, 24,933 make it to the finish line. With temperatures approaching 90 degrees the decision to cut the race short comes about 11: 30 a.m. Runners who had not reached the halfway point at that time are diverted toward Grant Park. Police and firefighters tell those farther ahead in the pack that they should begin walking. Although each of the 15 aid stations along the route is stocked with 50,000 to 70,000 servings of water and 37,000 servings of Gatorade, it just isn’t enough to make up for the extreme heat as volunteers can not keep up with the demand.</span></div><b style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiId3Hx_iz7zpl8UQYLVMSb0z9WPc9xjK8x544sThvl7-P7rbO9n21Vqf_Ocfek_VAC2x-pf4A24BhAcr1d4RrXUtH-8lTlOhhOFSF-tjL8U61JMUI73qLDibQw0dVJjrO1CaldmmPCK5fp/s1600/October+7%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="1600" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiId3Hx_iz7zpl8UQYLVMSb0z9WPc9xjK8x544sThvl7-P7rbO9n21Vqf_Ocfek_VAC2x-pf4A24BhAcr1d4RrXUtH-8lTlOhhOFSF-tjL8U61JMUI73qLDibQw0dVJjrO1CaldmmPCK5fp/s640/October+7%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">arch daily.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 7, 2012 – </b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune </i><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">reports that funds left over from the city’s hosting of the NATO summit will “drive a $7 million city investment in parks, building boathouses along the Chicago River and other recreational projects.”</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, October 7, 2012] </i><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The cost of sponsoring the NATO summit on May 20 and 21 came in under budget and close to six million dollars of private and federal funds remain.</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Chicago Park District will use capital funds to fill out the last million in the improvement projects.</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mayor Rahm Emanuel says that Riis Park in the Belmont Central neighborhood will be renovated, along with the Jackie Robinson, Cornell Square, Pleasant Point and Bronzeville-Buckthorn Parks.</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Two million dollars will go toward construction of four boathouses along the banks of the Chicago River – at River and Clark Parks on the North Side, at the South Side’s Ping Tom Park and near the 2800 block of South Eleanor Street.</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> A proposed 2.65-mile elevated trail through the Northwest Side, today’s “606,” will get $2 million, and a half-million dollars will go to expanding the Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks program. The WMS Boathouse at Clark Park, designed by Studio Gang, is pictured above.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; font-family: Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEVbGpUnNs-m3ZBPqm9DYgaT8Tg2cfDTHm3V46mXkxa2fNwzZDG3_WNESUitK8Ihp1kZDRjb6_a722OcYedFXRm9tAwcKTt18GZDp9TmW1MuwZ2XSJk7BSrsBLwOryJpRiwkKroXKEniV7/s1600/October+7%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="800" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEVbGpUnNs-m3ZBPqm9DYgaT8Tg2cfDTHm3V46mXkxa2fNwzZDG3_WNESUitK8Ihp1kZDRjb6_a722OcYedFXRm9tAwcKTt18GZDp9TmW1MuwZ2XSJk7BSrsBLwOryJpRiwkKroXKEniV7/s640/October+7%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 7, 1984 –</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> “Paradise Lost,” screams the headline of the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune</i> the day after the Chicago Cubs lose 6-3 to the San Diego Padres in the fifth game of the National League Championship series. “I’ve never been a good loser,” says General Manager Dallas Green. “I really feel bad for our guys and all the Chicago fans. We had them by the throat but we just didn’t go for the jugular. It all came down to one ballgame and we just didn’t get the job done. We played good until the last three games of the season.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, October 8, 1984] </i>The Cubs are ahead by a run until the disastrous seventh inning. Carmelo Martinez leads off with a walk, and Garry Templeton sacrifices him to second. Tim Flannery, a pinch-hitter, then hits a ground ball to first for a sure out, but first baseman Leon Durham cannot field the nine-hopper and Martinez scores to tie the game. Three more runs cross the plate before the Cubs retire the side, and the damage is done. The loss is particularly painful because in the first two games of the series, played in Chicago, the Cubs outscored the Padres 17-2. Then the trip out west saw the Padres come back to win three games in a row and clinch the championship. It was nearly dark in a Chicago suburb when I wordlessly turned off the television and left my wife and two daughters, aged 7 and 5. A mist was falling outside as I left the house at dusk and walked in the cold rain, one more walk to shake off the bitter disappointment that being a Cubs fan had brought through the years and would continue to bring until 2016. If you can bear to look, the Game Five boot <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugOdiF1y2E0" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">can be found here</a>.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; font-family: Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifR3OPysmQrTvrKlE1UBSk_CsyTahVt5tfbcxFzMv4tuLnSds6sVCUMPCnFWpkTC6JC7tyQkZkprjd_1YtK7sdB7jAnXTZvgC72GFB_SGMscOdzxQP1oK4sBDLqHhyphenhyphenbkFX3Ib_GPxj2CfR/s1600/October+7%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifR3OPysmQrTvrKlE1UBSk_CsyTahVt5tfbcxFzMv4tuLnSds6sVCUMPCnFWpkTC6JC7tyQkZkprjd_1YtK7sdB7jAnXTZvgC72GFB_SGMscOdzxQP1oK4sBDLqHhyphenhyphenbkFX3Ib_GPxj2CfR/s400/October+7%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="300" /></a></div><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 7, 1947 --</b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune</i> uses its editorial page to support a movement afoot i</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">n the city to change the name of Balbo Avenue, the former Seventh Street. “It is disgraceful,” the paper observes, “to have a Chicago street named for a man who represented and helped found a system of government that Americans despise.” The city council fails to take action on a petition requesting a n</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ame change for the street because that petition did not have a sufficient number of signatures from actual property owners on the street, many of whom were members of trusts and estates scattered throughout the country. The paper ignores this technicality, telling the city’s aldermen to “change the name of Balbo Drive immediately,” also suggesting that the street might be renamed after Lieutenant Commander John Waldron who died at the command of Torpedo Squadron 8 in the battle of Midway. Seventh Street had been renamed in honor of Italo Balbo, the commander of a squadron of 24 seaplanes that flew from Rome to Chicago in 1933 to appear at the Century of Progress World’s Fair that summer. More information about the Balbo <span style="color: #990000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">mission can be found here. </span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The renamed Seventh Street is not the only reminder of the Italian fascist aviator. The Balbo Column, pictured above, was a gift from Balbo in 1934. It stands not far from Soldier Field.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; font-family: Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; font-family: Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: left;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXa7utY1xP3oyUt5SKtKJO_LjM6anyQXpnMc-WQqEQMzd39zU-mcsMEtTYerBNdHS_En2YKIxEoob8UMJa80mBd-hA6Xn1t2ztX4lZCqJJTzOLdNxdlxpBjYU251tf8gkjNTEHlezsGPjm/s1600/NgqnnUwsSa2gsA9bEz%2525q3w.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXa7utY1xP3oyUt5SKtKJO_LjM6anyQXpnMc-WQqEQMzd39zU-mcsMEtTYerBNdHS_En2YKIxEoob8UMJa80mBd-hA6Xn1t2ztX4lZCqJJTzOLdNxdlxpBjYU251tf8gkjNTEHlezsGPjm/s640/NgqnnUwsSa2gsA9bEz%2525q3w.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">jbartholomew photo</td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 7, 1891 –</b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The equestrian statue of General Ulysses S. Grant is unveiled in Lincoln Park as a quarter of a million people come together for the ceremony to honor the commander of the Union Army who brought the Civil War to a close. A late morning rain falls throughout the first part of the day, but, just as 20,000 veterans of the Civil War begin their parade to Lincoln Park, “the sun burst forth and the clouds rolled toward the horizon. Then the gray and the blue blended in the skies even as at the close of the war they blended forever in the heaven of Grant’s heart.” </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 8, 1891]</i><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Soon after Grant died on July 23, 1885 the decision was made to erect a fitting memorial to him. People from all over the nation, 100,000 strong, responded to the call, contributing “dimes, quarters, and dollars to commission a monument in his honor.” <i> [chicagoparkdistrict.com] </i> Chicago architect William Le Baron Jenney recommended that the statue be placed atop an impressive Romanesque arched base, a structure on which the 18-foot equestrian sculpture of Louis T. Rebisso stands, wrapped in a shroud of two large American flags on Dedication Day. The day of the dedication is chosen to coincide with the annual reunion of the veterans of the Army of the Tennessee, the troops that made up Grant’s first major command in late 1861, and on this day “Wherever there was any public place there were gatherings of men whose names are part of history.” Mrs. Julia Grant, staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, comes down to the Palmer House before the ceremony to meet the survivors of her husband’s first regiment, the Twenty-First Illinois Infantry. The veterans gather around her “and she took each one by the hand, and each one gave his name. It was not a meeting for any sort of effect. It was more of a communion.” Somewhere near 4:00 p.m. the parade of 20,000 men that had started near the Auditorium Theater reaches the southern boundary of the park. Offshore, boats of all descriptions – lake steamers of the Goodrich and Lehigh Valley lines, private yachts, and government cutters – toss on an unsettled lake. The ceremony is brief, consisting of an opening prayer and the presentation of the monument to the Lincoln Park Commissioners, followed by the unveiling. Chicago Mayor Hempstead Washburne accepts the statue on behalf of the people of the city, and Judge W. Q. Gresham, former United States Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treasury, delivers an oration before calling Rebisso, the sculptor, to the dais. Mrs. Grant is also called to the speaker’s platform, but she is overcome with emotion and “She wept before the old soldiers who had called her out and they bowed their heads, while not a few were visibly affected.” Long before the last contingents of the long parade reach the park, the ceremony ends and 200,000 or more people head home.</span></div></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-89588016433340616772020-10-06T00:30:00.001-07:002020-10-06T00:30:10.378-07:00October 6, 1939 -- Cardinal Mundelein Laid to Rest<div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #383434;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCKIvNJHA6GZ-OmdPwTUY1Yx0llK0Fbr3U0XCj2MSXmFrqVfDYPFfvNGEnAHCViebgWV7yvN1FCDZDQzU8D8gQ1DEvLVZ4OyfFNwk_NFwlHAE7lPt6MnxmGlEq5ZdE7bNylRrjFhilBWf/s2048/October+6%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1553" data-original-width="2048" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCKIvNJHA6GZ-OmdPwTUY1Yx0llK0Fbr3U0XCj2MSXmFrqVfDYPFfvNGEnAHCViebgWV7yvN1FCDZDQzU8D8gQ1DEvLVZ4OyfFNwk_NFwlHAE7lPt6MnxmGlEq5ZdE7bNylRrjFhilBWf/w651-h494/October+6%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="651" /></a></div><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Chicago Tribune photo</span></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #383434;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #383434; font-family: arial;">October 6, 1939 – </b><span style="color: #383434; font-family: arial;">Chicagoans turn out to say their final good-byes to the Most Reverend George Mundelein, who had served as the third Archbishop of Chicago from 1915 until his death on October 2, 1939 at the age of 67. The funeral service is celebrated at Holy Name Cathedral by the papal delegate to the United States, the Most Reverend Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani of Washington, D. C. A public address system delivers the liturgy and music of the service to those who are outside Holy Name, with nearby rooftops crowded with mourners and the top of Holy Name School at the corner of Wabash and Chicago Avenues, “thronged with black-robed sisters in the warm October sunshine.”</span><i style="color: #383434; font-family: arial;"> [Chicago Daily Tribune, October 7, 1939] </i><span style="color: #383434; font-family: arial;"> Cardinal Mundelein lies, dressed in purple vestments with a white mitre on his head and purple shoes and stockings on his feet. Red gloves cover his hands which hold a crucifix. The Most Reverend John J. Cantwell, the Archbishop of Los Angeles is the eulogist, and in his remarks he names the accomplishments of Mundelein … the dedication of 205 new churches, the erection of the $20,000,000 St. Mary of the Lake seminary and the Quigley seminary, the founding of the Lewis Holy Name Technical School in Lockport, the construction of Lewis Memorial Hospital, and the doubling of the enrollment of the parochial school system in the city. After the service, the funeral cortége leaves the cathedral and heads east to Michigan Avenue “lined by thousands who realized that a notable builder had become a tradition deeply graven in a city’s life.” The American Federation of Musicians’ band plays Chopin’s “Marche Funebre” and the death march from Beethoven’s “Saul,” and the 750,000 onlookers are so quiet that only the footsteps of the procession rise above the solemn music. After the procession Mundelein’s bronze coffin is taken to the seminary in Mundelein where he is interred in the Immaculate Conception chapel. His crypt will rest six steps beneath the high altar of the chapel under a half-ton slab of black Belgian marble, chosen by the Cardinal himself, inscribed with words, translated from the Latin, “George William Cardinal Mundelein. Third archbishop of Chicago. Born July 2, 1872. Died October 2, 1939. I shall await God my Savior.” The photo shows the funeral procession turning onto Monroe Street from Michigan Avenue. From there it would head up the Outer Drive and onto St. Mary of the Lake.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #383434; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="1093" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Dzi5dbEGA-88QN3e9W3C3JXppG7ooDPKkQx1hlbZiCDk6a2oyWJrm_Aiit7WQM92I6QA15ieDcnsuZ1EOMurdgvtDOHlAKSza4gpx_isKcgcQm_FPdRrWuqvJa-X8ChdKCF5DZF3XrSQ/s640/October+6%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></div></div></div></div></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHyf_nzA42flKLJWoZsIFeinrN_q7YEVnOgqSJCDIHOLwEX6ZhUriOMrzAgPc-exQWTHHrAdlQBV0QEEyMLQ9FW0nSHzGkCkhogTPhIysMLsLKf02EgWPViPXiSuYmhiEEc510m0NXtnA/s1600/October+6%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHyf_nzA42flKLJWoZsIFeinrN_q7YEVnOgqSJCDIHOLwEX6ZhUriOMrzAgPc-exQWTHHrAdlQBV0QEEyMLQ9FW0nSHzGkCkhogTPhIysMLsLKf02EgWPViPXiSuYmhiEEc510m0NXtnA/s640/October+6%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434;"></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 6, 1981 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The fireboat </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fred A. Busse </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">makes its way down the Chicago River for the last time, headed for a south side dry dock where it will be retired. When the boat came to Chicago in 1937 from Bay City, Michigan where it was built, it was hailed as the largest fireboat in existence. The boat, 92-feet long and weighing 157 tons, continually proved itself over the years. Just two years after the </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fred A. Busse </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">came to the city, its crew pumped 32.5 million gallons of river water for over 50 hours as it fought the four-million-dollar fire at the Rosenbaum-Norris grain elevator on the South Branch. The </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fred A. Busse </i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">still exists. In fact, you can actually ride the boat. After a stint in Door County, Wisconsin the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fred A. Busse</i> returned to Chicago this summer, where you can</span></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> book yourself a nice cocktail cruise on an authentic part of Chicago history. The top photo shows the fireboat at the Rosenbaum-Norris fire. Below that is the </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fred A. Busse</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> in its latest incarnation.</span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP1tVND7oIKeaveSiCdKJ-cUXkgRd56126FjS6CT87NYu_AbUrt-y3Xd6k-qlVjE4gaNh0d0-2PYvfrz_DPkhVgBQEF39UZ6LNJfZP1SUby23Bg2kc70M7JL8JpHBvxJq6uYFLyo9KCpjJ/s1600/October+6%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="1600" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP1tVND7oIKeaveSiCdKJ-cUXkgRd56126FjS6CT87NYu_AbUrt-y3Xd6k-qlVjE4gaNh0d0-2PYvfrz_DPkhVgBQEF39UZ6LNJfZP1SUby23Bg2kc70M7JL8JpHBvxJq6uYFLyo9KCpjJ/s640/October+6%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434;"></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 6, 1977 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Four city groups – the Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council, Friends of the Parks, the Open Lands Project, and the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects – come together to propose a large park, featuring a 10,000-seat outdoor music venue, to be located in a new 20-acre lot east of Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Monroe Streets. Part of the park, it is anticipated, will be built over the Illinois Central commuter tracks with another section over the extension of Columbus Drive under construction at the time. The proposal for this “Lakefront Gardens for the Performing Arts” contradicts a proposal that the Chicago Park District has made for a new performance space in Butler Field to replace the existing Petrillo band shell. The photo above shows Grant Park in 1979 close to where Jaume Plenza's Crown Fountain stands today.</span></span></div><div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGoBGMhnH7x9d1oq-enNzvSWVPEO8gKbAQeVH9QA45mpLXLjvvznWc_Qrr8n_ewz61BHo0AraKB2r9lcrMeFswtV3_Hne-M_-sWG7ZHpv9VWmL_2uHyreqBozvw6pcCYtpzTH7FRMLCtK/s1600/October+6%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="549" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGoBGMhnH7x9d1oq-enNzvSWVPEO8gKbAQeVH9QA45mpLXLjvvznWc_Qrr8n_ewz61BHo0AraKB2r9lcrMeFswtV3_Hne-M_-sWG7ZHpv9VWmL_2uHyreqBozvw6pcCYtpzTH7FRMLCtK/s640/October+6%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 6, 1906 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune</i> reports that W. A. Gardner, the Vice-President of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, has announced the company will build a new railroad station between Madison, Lake, Canal and Clinton Streets.<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>The paper says that the new station “will take its place among the great transportation centers of the world<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.”<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 6, 1906]</i> With two-thirds of the property for the new station already in hand and the remainder in negotiation, it is anticipated that construction will begin in spring of 1907.<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>The railroad has spent $2,000,000 (close to $58,000,000 in today's dollars) on the property, in one of the oldest sections in the city with many structures dating from just after the Chicago fire in 1871.<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>Another $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 will still be spent on the remainder of the property with between $12,000,000 and $15,000,000 (between $350,000,000 and $430,000,000 today) needed to build the great station itself.<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>The plans, drawn up by the architectural office of Frost and Granger, will “bring to the patrons of the railroad the conveniences and the facilities which they have been without and always would be without on the present Wells Street site.” <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>The station on Wells Street north of the river was built in 1882 when the railroad had only four dozen or so trains arriving in or leaving the city, carrying about 4,000 people a day.<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>In 1906 the road carried 45,000 passengers a day or 24,000,000 people a year.<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>A singular advantage of the new station will be its location on the west side of the river, which means that trains will no longer be delayed by the raising of bridges and passengers will be able to access the station from five different streets, rather than having Wells Street and the bridge across the river as the only path to the trains.</span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-15469681366676667722020-10-05T00:30:00.001-07:002020-10-05T00:30:02.597-07:00October 5, 1929 -- Merchandise Mart Provides First Exhibit of Air Rights Taxation<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1PI8yZ5Letsct3kQYb3GF830XPFnghYSfVoNP8nln-AtYvau8qTSgnDahosXJc-j5-gg90NgvFDxXtJYFiReq1_rMOS-dr5qt3nmltxLO_v4dCF_OpW98eCFClhUkBqqnSrhbwBc10hem/s780/October+5%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="780" height="487" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1PI8yZ5Letsct3kQYb3GF830XPFnghYSfVoNP8nln-AtYvau8qTSgnDahosXJc-j5-gg90NgvFDxXtJYFiReq1_rMOS-dr5qt3nmltxLO_v4dCF_OpW98eCFClhUkBqqnSrhbwBc10hem/w636-h487/October+5%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="636" /></a></div></span><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">October 5, 1929 --</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> The Chicago Board of Assessors agrees on a tax assessment against the Merchandise Mart that rises above the Chicago and North Western Railroad tracks north of the Chicago River and west of Wells Street, the first time in the history of the city that taxes have been assessed against "air rights". The rule the board applies is "the value of the air rights is the size of the entire fee under the building, less the added cost of constructing a building on air rights over a railroad, and less the loss in value owing to the loss of rentable space." <i> [Chicago Daily Tribune, October 6, 1929].</i> In the case of the Merchandise Mart the formula determines that the total area covered by the structure is 267,775 feet, resulting in a taxable value of $2,677,750. The cost of constructing the building over the railroad tracks, determined by examining the books of the architects, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, is fixed at $200,000. That sum is subtracted from the total price. An additional debit from the building's total cost is estimated for the loss of rentable office space that cannot be used because of the existence of the railroad tracks. That sum is estimated at $104,164. Another $67,267 is subtracted because of delays in finalizing the agreement between the building's owners and the railroad. The final figure is 86.12% of the building, the sum on which the massive building will be taxed. The photo shows the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railroad running from west to east beneath the Merchandise Mart just after the Mart was completed.</span></div></span></div></div></div></div><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_9liZNCFVelEbRhBUPTaMXwNiasA7KfccqjwqzA6pzmLhS4u21oqTqfP6hzfk9y3v6yuVpd85uFIJaBVyN-fCfvWlLVemKOEj5dlI1cN_oyh3KsZyxXiU0GE9LO1Kl1nkyHTBmD4Cj1o9/s1600/October+5%252C+2018+Blog+Photo+A.jpg" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1083" data-original-width="1600" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_9liZNCFVelEbRhBUPTaMXwNiasA7KfccqjwqzA6pzmLhS4u21oqTqfP6hzfk9y3v6yuVpd85uFIJaBVyN-fCfvWlLVemKOEj5dlI1cN_oyh3KsZyxXiU0GE9LO1Kl1nkyHTBmD4Cj1o9/s640/October+5%252C+2018+Blog+Photo+A.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2pu44AdGneR8_9qkvOnzE8BZfN72m5adKpzKLEgv5HcIjITDEKGBX52bTL6oCTWc9v-UtHhyphenhyphen3gJXQHfrVtZD2Ek5GnU-QCWHKd1YtOwEqmBl38InbNvpfzV3xhaLyocpdIXa6PR-Zkjad/s1600/October+5%252C+2018+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1541" data-original-width="1600" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2pu44AdGneR8_9qkvOnzE8BZfN72m5adKpzKLEgv5HcIjITDEKGBX52bTL6oCTWc9v-UtHhyphenhyphen3gJXQHfrVtZD2Ek5GnU-QCWHKd1YtOwEqmBl38InbNvpfzV3xhaLyocpdIXa6PR-Zkjad/s640/October+5%252C+2018+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span><span style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 5, 1964 – </b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The tunnel at Oak Street, costing $5 million and designed to move northbound traffic on Michigan Avenue onto a ramp providing access to Lake Shore Drive, opens for its first rush hour. The tunnel eliminates a bottleneck that has plagued Lake Shore Drive at Oak Street for years. The top photo shows the junction of Michigan Avenue, Oak Street and Lake Shore Drive before the tunnel was constructed. The lower photo shows the area today with the tunnel peeking out in the lower left corner of the photo.</span></span><div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52);"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo9pNZr2ny3RHPRX6VYBffREIvT5UsQ09-Lq6QdqNYVs8ZFrMKRL7p2GNDFRdaBHWFW0dO71sBDZnedKlGC3VDGhZ7ee4tnuTAZQ1pNcxRSbafyr8Z7Ov36MWCogldFpyG3qtQCy57ObhZ/s1600/October+5%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo9pNZr2ny3RHPRX6VYBffREIvT5UsQ09-Lq6QdqNYVs8ZFrMKRL7p2GNDFRdaBHWFW0dO71sBDZnedKlGC3VDGhZ7ee4tnuTAZQ1pNcxRSbafyr8Z7Ov36MWCogldFpyG3qtQCy57ObhZ/s400/October+5%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="400" /></a></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span><span style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 5, 1938 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Red Ruffing, pitching for the New York Yankees, goes up against the Chicago Cubs 22-game winner, Bill Lee, in the first game of the 1938 World Series, played in Chicago. The Yankees go up, 2-0, in the second inning after Lou Gehrig walks and moves to third on a single by Bill Dickey. An error by Cubs second baseman Billy Herman allows Gehrig to score, and Joe Gordon brings Dickey home with another single. The Cubs get a run back in the third inning, but the Yankees add another run in the sixth inning to end the scoring in a game in which Ruffing gives up nine hits and beats the home team, 3-1, before 43,642 spectators in a game that takes less than two hours to complete. The men from the Bronx go on to defeat the Cubs in a four-game sweep.</span></span></div><div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYKX4Sp2z-TiwiQAq6OL6CZtByepX34H1ftkKDw24cIPmTcB9gIvPZutBf-n58YJbBbkrSPesiWSHGXKVS780UsioUKRmN3N1ih9ktSRoYkQYxG9v9tg5RVJnGTXr8owaGuU_WejcfxWSF/s1600/October+5%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="977" data-original-width="1279" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYKX4Sp2z-TiwiQAq6OL6CZtByepX34H1ftkKDw24cIPmTcB9gIvPZutBf-n58YJbBbkrSPesiWSHGXKVS780UsioUKRmN3N1ih9ktSRoYkQYxG9v9tg5RVJnGTXr8owaGuU_WejcfxWSF/s640/October+5%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9.6px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Chicago Tribune photo</span><br /><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">October 5, 1937 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> A new day dawns in the city as the long awaited link between the north and south sections of the city, the bridge over the Chicago River at Lake Shore Drive, is dedicated in front of nearly 10,000 spectators. The highlight of the ceremony is the appearance of the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, who speaks very few words concerning the bridge. Instead he uses the opportunity to make a major address concerning the responsibility of the United States in joining like-minded nations in opposing countries that would wage war to achieve domination. “And mark this well,” Roosevelt says, “When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease. War is contagion whether it is declared or undeclared. It can engulf states and people remote from the original scene of hostilities. Yes, we are determined to keep out of war, yet we cannot insure ourselves against the disastrous effects of war and the dangers of involvement.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> [Chicago Tribune, October 6, 1937] </i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The dedication of the bridge is shown in the photo above.</span></span></span></i></b></div></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="post-footer" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-89752808584712418672020-10-04T00:30:00.001-07:002020-10-04T00:30:06.781-07:00October 4, 1982 -- Sears Recommended for Landmark Status<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3WF2NJuUfJW-VM_bfsZideaRaBRaC2WimK_LwkF1aHTCf_HxLWn3hCOQQTQo3WRg501NIoA-hRnMK7wHONCOdep8WA3HtsTOiZOdewOKJDhlPK1rnlGwp2TfycpyYbx4YUgcBLCwmw3y/s1600/October+4%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3WF2NJuUfJW-VM_bfsZideaRaBRaC2WimK_LwkF1aHTCf_HxLWn3hCOQQTQo3WRg501NIoA-hRnMK7wHONCOdep8WA3HtsTOiZOdewOKJDhlPK1rnlGwp2TfycpyYbx4YUgcBLCwmw3y/s400/October+4%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="300" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 4, 1982 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> For the second time in four years, city planners recommend landmark status for the original Sears State Street store, finding that the structure, “adds to the State Street mall’s inviting pedestrian circulation.” </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, October 5, 1982]</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The store, originally built for Levi Z. Leiter, an early Chicago merchant, was originally recommended for landmark status in 1979, but attorneys for Sears opposed the landmark designation for the building. It is unknown how Sears will greet the new recommendation for the 1891 building. William McClenahan, the director of the city’s Landmarks Commission, says that the building is “an important landmark in the city and an effort to have it so designated is worth another try.” On January 14,1997 the store finally received landmark status and rightfully so. As the city’s website on landmarks states, “Renowned as one of the nation’s most important early examples of skeletal-frame commercial architecture, this building is discussed in every major history of American architecture.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLI9lk54Db0Qj1HdJ8LcTpEu86QsqgER8WimrX4R7OmMUiIqmV8iv313HG_Pw_rtLg-vrVoxAgpydHSi2qsfgvOloYgEVDAN8aqnx_Tc5D9gJP47EvkAxSfk0SQ264TgQMWhwaROEILf5p/s1600/October+4%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="222" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLI9lk54Db0Qj1HdJ8LcTpEu86QsqgER8WimrX4R7OmMUiIqmV8iv313HG_Pw_rtLg-vrVoxAgpydHSi2qsfgvOloYgEVDAN8aqnx_Tc5D9gJP47EvkAxSfk0SQ264TgQMWhwaROEILf5p/s400/October+4%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="296" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 4, 1969 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> At the conclusion of a march sponsored by the Students for a Democratic Society from Grant Park to the Federal Building and back in which 350 protestors demand the immediate withdrawal of all troops in Vietnam, two protestors, armed with guns, knives, and swords, are arrested in Old Town. The cache is discovered in a camper from which the two men from California apparently are selling weapons to be used between October 8 and 11 at protests planned by the Weatherman faction of the S.D.S. The occupants of the truck, Dennis Sleeth and Daniel Brucher, both from California, are arrested after police find a 20-gauge shotgun, 25 rounds of ammunition, a 22-caliber pistol with 58 rounds, five Samurai swords and 13 knives in sheaths. At the same time the subversive unit of the police department raids the S.D.S. national headquarters at 1608 Madison Street and arrests Caroline Tanner of Pennsylvania for her involvement in the beating of four policemen in front of the Federal Building on September 24.</span> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-bK-m9aPNIbRcUlAO7nGx6e-5nQp7QK0T4MkE1sk69ttn4AHrMvnZjoat8ydhdViGmfCY-NWZ_efQtNSpzSaBmwZ5nmLD4NVcxTpPdwkyzp1TUbdoJi3xUcrkadY1DnqXwss8LXnTxy5n/s1600/October+4%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="850" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-bK-m9aPNIbRcUlAO7nGx6e-5nQp7QK0T4MkE1sk69ttn4AHrMvnZjoat8ydhdViGmfCY-NWZ_efQtNSpzSaBmwZ5nmLD4NVcxTpPdwkyzp1TUbdoJi3xUcrkadY1DnqXwss8LXnTxy5n/s400/October+4%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="282" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">circulatingnow.nim.nih.gov</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 4, 1918 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The Chicago Health Commissioner announces that any church building that is found to be poorly ventilated during Sunday services on the following day will be closed. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The action is taken “to put all Chicago on active guard against the epidemic of influenza and pneumonia.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 5, 1918] </i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Similar prohibitions have been issued to schools, theaters, restaurants, streetcar and elevated lines.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Police officials have been issued an order to “instruct all members of their command to visit all public places … where people congregate and request the proprietors to urge their patrons to aid in the work of mutual protection … also instruct your officers that when they see a person on the street or any other place sneezing or coughing without placing a handkerchief to his mouth, to ask him in a courteous manner to do so, explaining why the use of the handkerchief for that purpose is imperative.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Although the epidemic has not yet impacted the city as much as it has downstate, there are still 916 cases reported in the preceding 24 hours with 81 deaths.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The entire Chicagoland area is on alert.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In Highland Park, for example, 56 women make a house-to-house search in automobiles to locate cases that have not received attention, finding 667 cases during their rounds.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wilmette orders all schools, churches and theaters to be closed as town officials suggest that it may be necessary to call out the Illinois National Guard to patrol streets for a day or two “to aid in keeping the children on their own premises and prevent</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the running about of those with colds and coughs.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In the world-wide influenza outbreak of 1918 and 1919 more than one fifth of the world’s population contracted what was known as the “Spanish flu.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">More than 21,000,000 people died, including 600,000 in the United States with 8,500 Chicago residents losing their lives to the illness.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Between the start of Chicago’s epidemic on September 21 and the removal of restrictions on November 16, the city experienced 38,000 cases of influenza and 13,000 cases of pneumonia.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; 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An investigation by the paper finds “engines puffing, wheezing, snorting, exhausting, and making every other kind of noise that a locomotive is capable of” just across Michigan Avenue. “Whistles were tooting, bells were ringing, and cars were bumping together with a crash that would awaken the soundest sleeper.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 4, 1909] </i>A reporter, who is keeping an eye on the railroad action along the lakefront from the Art Institute at Monroe Street to a point near where Congress Street runs today, encounters a clerk at one of the Michigan Avenue hotels, who says, “Many a night has some guest of the house who couldn’t sleep come down to the office and kept me company. Guests who come here for the first time make a loud kick against the engines, and I don’t blame them … It is almost impossible for a nervous person to get any sleep between 2 and 7 o’clock. Between those hours the engines are constantly pushing back and forth, and there isn’t one person in twenty who can sleep through the noises that come from the yard.” The above photo shows the railroad tracks east of Michigan Avenue at Monroe Street. </span> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><o:p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-38576305631095902442020-10-03T00:30:00.001-07:002020-10-03T00:30:05.236-07:00October 3, 1949 -- David Adler ... 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font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 3, 1949 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune </i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">praises the life and work of David Adler, who died on September 27. Adler was born in Milwaukee in 1882, studied at Princeton University, and, after a time in Europe, joined the office of architect Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1911. He failed the architect’s exam in 1918, and it wasn’t until 1928 that he was awarded an honorary license. At that point he had over 30 commissions to his name, all of them authenticated by architects who had a background in structural engineering. During the 1920’s, though, Adler designed some stunning residential homes, many of them on the North</span></span></i></b></span></i></b></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shore. The </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tribune </i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">observes, “Somebody once said that Adler’s houses had the quality of Mozart’s music and, indeed, they have Mozartean spontaneity, grace, and elegance in line and decoration. They are always fresh but never eccentric or startling.” </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 3, 1949]</i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The paper points out a set of row houses near the Elks’ memorial in Lincoln Park as a particular achievement, pointing out that they “display his genius for dealing freshly with established styles and conventional forms.” The row houses are landmarked and have a fascinating history as can be seen in Chicago’s historic preservation report that can be found </span><a href="https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/zlup/Historic_Preservation/Publications/Lakeview_Ave_Row_House_Dist.pdf." style="color: #999999; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">at the city site here</a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. Adler designed them with a partner, Henry Corwith Dangler. In the past couple of years they have seen an impressive renovation effort, resulting in two city homes at </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Adler on the Park</i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. According to the @properties website one unit, at 2700 North Lakeview, is listed at $6,600,000. The three photos above show the row houses as they looked in 1922 when they were completed, a few years back when they were serving as what appeared to be a halfway house, and as <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Adler on the Park</i>.</span></span></i></b></span></i></b></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; 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margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Chicago Tribune photo</span><br /><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /><div><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="color: #383434; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">October 3, 1933 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> The Illinois Commission to A Century of Progress and the Dante Alighieri Society host a luncheon to honor the Marchese and Marchessa Guglielmo Marconi. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">After the luncheon and a visit to the Hall of Science, today’s Museum of Science and Industry, the Marconis are given a reception in the Italian pavilion at the World’s Fair site, which is closed to the public where </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Marconi, Italian Consul Castruccio and David Sarnoff, all make speeches that are broadcast to Italy.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">In the evening the president of the Century of Progress, Rufus C. Dawes, and his wife entertain 125 people at a dinner held in honor of the Marconi’s at the Federal building.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University presents the Italian inventor with an honorary Doctor of Science degree.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Although everyone in the entourage is exhausted, Marconi insists on traveling back to the fair grounds to visit the amateur radio station, W9USA.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">In the darkened Travel and Transport Building of the closed fair, he finds two operators on duty who do not seem to know their visitor, complimenting the men on their transmitting equipment.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">One responds, “But it was only built by an amateur,” to which the inventor replies, “Ah, but I am only an amateur myself.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #383434; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[rfcafe,com], </span></i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">quite a modest reply, considering he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 and is credited today as being the inventor of radio. In the above </span><i style="font-size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tribune</i><span style="font-size: small;"> photo Marconi and his wife meet with Cardinal George William Mundelein after attending services at Holy Name Cathedral during their stay in Chicago.</span></span></i></b></div></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></i></b></span></i></b></span></i></b></div></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmPq3Yp4HEBjxRtM0dMyrIVzr3_1ZTIRlSm0qFhu-4ivbgmHBvFM86BeEqLnmzhQ_KG6GKrkpkj0XxktwXvzF4RahyphenhyphenZUg15yM1YpEBiK-YokSfFUhElmLcdxwR8B90YFgPwGvtSdmPaMj/s1600/October+3%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="1028" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmPq3Yp4HEBjxRtM0dMyrIVzr3_1ZTIRlSm0qFhu-4ivbgmHBvFM86BeEqLnmzhQ_KG6GKrkpkj0XxktwXvzF4RahyphenhyphenZUg15yM1YpEBiK-YokSfFUhElmLcdxwR8B90YFgPwGvtSdmPaMj/s640/October+3%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">O</span><span style="font-size: small;">ctober 3, 1906 –</span></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Chicago Daily Tribune</i> decrees in its lead on this date, “Chicago is the baseball center of the earth.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 4, 1906]</i> “Since last night a combination pennant pole, marking the site of Chicago has served as the earth’s axis, and around it something less than 2,000,000 maddened baseball fans are dancing a carmagnole of victory, while in every other city in the American and National leagues there is woe.” After the New York Yankees lose to the Philadelphia Athletics, the city realizes that the magic number has been reached, and the White Sox have clinched the American League pennant. In one week the team will meet its crosstown rival, the Chicago Cubs, in the World Series. At the end of July the White Sox were mired in sixth place. The paper observes that, despite the hopelessness of the situation, “People who cannot understand how the White Sox can win pennants should have visited the American league park and seen Comiskey and Jones working with their bunch of mediocre material, trying to make them into a pennant winning team. Now Comiskey has a theory that team play will beat individual ability. He was teaching his team the points.” After finishing the season with a team batting average of .230, the worst in the American League, the White Sox defeat the Cubs in the World Series in six games.</span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO7xy4DaKWmAqbRYssjZQHLBOsPXfkJy5swvYcmg4pAtP9DVGqobNY2klUa59_LdCOZvc1-MIUoZ4nvhYPPq3_Nfz-VGpGvlwR7jkfUKQZ3321RNhfIFCOUc4pusInJwsin-d4g6mnRxIS/s1600/October+3%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="320" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO7xy4DaKWmAqbRYssjZQHLBOsPXfkJy5swvYcmg4pAtP9DVGqobNY2klUa59_LdCOZvc1-MIUoZ4nvhYPPq3_Nfz-VGpGvlwR7jkfUKQZ3321RNhfIFCOUc4pusInJwsin-d4g6mnRxIS/s400/October+3%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="color: black; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 3, 1885 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> On this date the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune</i> reports on a letter that the Chief Librarian of the city has sent to the Chairman of the Council Committee on Buildings. The letter provides detail about the location of the city’s first library, housed in a converted water tank on Dearborn Street, just east of today's Rookery Building. Mr. Poole, the librarian, urges the temporary removal of the library to the new City Hall, just up the street on Washington Boulevard, citing the grave risk of the city’s entire collection of books being destroyed by fire. The present location of the library is "overcrowded already, many valuable books being in consequence stored in out-of-the-way corners for want of a place to put them.” The library has four floors and no elevator. On the fourth floor is a newspaper reading room of 3,292 square feet, a periodical reading room with 2,307 square feet, and a room for patent books and documents continuing 2,503 square feet. The floor below contains the main collection in 16,324 square feet of space. Since the collection of the library is increasing by 10,000 volumes a year and the threat of fire can not be ignored in a city that burned to the ground just 14 years earlier, Librarian Poole is a bit distressed that he has not received an answer from Alderman Mahony, to whom he had directed the letter. The book room of the "water tank library" can be seen in the engraving above.</span></span></span></i></b></div></b></span></span></i></b></div></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-18143095235816202372020-10-02T00:30:00.003-07:002020-10-02T00:30:02.677-07:00October 2, 2009 -- Olympics Turn-Down Shocks Chicago<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyOHJUQEf3yf5qPODbTJyIiRpueLZBiPICrFp87vQxvHP_oFPAnxzrhGfcRF87tUDIANkkMYhwIKgU7PYaADy15W7KP-mSvQFfPK3RewJvLPHrAGFkFVygzOO6B9CAnEpSsv6nWy8Z4xNR/s1600/October+2%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="660" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyOHJUQEf3yf5qPODbTJyIiRpueLZBiPICrFp87vQxvHP_oFPAnxzrhGfcRF87tUDIANkkMYhwIKgU7PYaADy15W7KP-mSvQFfPK3RewJvLPHrAGFkFVygzOO6B9CAnEpSsv6nWy8Z4xNR/s640/October+2%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 2, 2009 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Expecting to revel in the news that the city had been awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics, thousands of Chicagoans pack the Daley Center plaza. It is not to be. After a three-year effort in which thousands of volunteers participated and into which 72 million dollars in donations had been poured, the news that Chicago is out of the running is delivered by 10:15 a.m. Chicago does not even make it to the second round of voting despite a last-minute plea from President Barack Obama and lobbying of the members of the International Olympic Committee by Oprah Winfrey. Mayor Richard M. Daley, who had worked as hard as anyone to make Chicago the Olympic city, said, “We’ve come on a long journey, but the city is better for it . . . Sure, you have tears, you get disappointed – you’re human like anyone else.” So . . . it was on to Rio in 2016. Rio without tears.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrgVfAa0RG-JSoCtynyh-TNBKmgJghPotlRH6iif1cA4IWw7qnHvsz3Y2FO_SYXrut8oD-i78OX2IX1fkEdIM-ttr5M2WqxHb3od5LKW203JR2TaYcdKPZarNqQwqSsm7WLfpivTNnDvO9/s1600/October+2%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1600" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrgVfAa0RG-JSoCtynyh-TNBKmgJghPotlRH6iif1cA4IWw7qnHvsz3Y2FO_SYXrut8oD-i78OX2IX1fkEdIM-ttr5M2WqxHb3od5LKW203JR2TaYcdKPZarNqQwqSsm7WLfpivTNnDvO9/s640/October+2%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">britannica.com</i></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 2, 1939 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> At the Arts Club of Chicago “Guernica,” the large mural by Pablo Picasso, is placed on public view. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Eleanor Jewett, in a review for the </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune</i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, writes of the large piece, “The ‘Guernica’ came to us as a distinct disappointment.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It is like a huge, unfinished cartoon, the product of a juvenile brain sick from an overdose of fairy stories in which ogres and dragons have played too conspicuous a part.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 3, 1939] </i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The oil painting, measuring over 11 feet high and 25 feet wide, depicts the bombing of Guernica, a town in northern Spain by Nazi Germany on April 26, 1937.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Because the majority of the Basque town’s male population was away fighting in the resistance movement, most of the victims of the two-hour bombing were women and children.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Estimates placed the number of dead between 200 and 1,700 with 900 more injured.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jewett observes that “Out of that overwhelming disaster he [Picasso] has salvaged in his fantasy nothing that suggests sheer horror, nothing that conveys terror, death, or anguish.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">His picture has as much relation to tragedy as would the action of a man, who, stepping out to lead a throng of weeping survivors of an earthquake in prayer, suddenly squatted and spun a penny.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This penny spinning of Picasso’s may have dignity in your eyes; if it has I do not know whether to envy you or sympathize with you.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The painting first went on display at the Paris International Exposition of 1937, for which Picasso received the commission from the Spanish Republic.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Following the close of the Paris Expo, the painting was taken on a tour of Europe in an effort to raise funds for Spanish refugees who had fled the country after the Republic collapsed and Francisco Franco took power.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Then, between 1939 and 1952 the painting traveled to art institutions in the United States, Chicago being one of those stops.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It ended up in New York in 1958 and remained there until 1981, when it was returned to Spain, where it can be found today at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Over the years its stature has increased as it has come to symbolize the horror of all wars, a reputation far from Jewett’s assessment back in 1939.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #383434; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 2, 1938 – </b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A squad of police rescues Cubs manager Gabby Hartnett as he tries to find his family at the Illinois Central station as the team returns from St. Louis where it wrapped up the National League championship. The police take Hartnett to a fire department car and spirit him away from the crowd. In the meantime, Cubs pitcher Dizzy Dean finds himself surrounded in a parking lot as he looks for friends who had promised to pick him up. The fire department again comes to the rescue, rushing Diz and his wife away in car. The </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">reports, “Other Cubs got similar treatment. But the scene was fresh out of rescuing fire marshals, so they had to fight their way to cabs which had been pushed back far from the loading pavement.” </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 3, 1938]</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Railroad platforms are crowded all the way home from St. Louis, but the players are unprepared for the huge reception near midnight when they return to the city. The </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tribune </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">reports, “Most of the Cubs are small town boys and know that small town folks like to go down to the station on any pretext. They never dreamed that Chicagoans would go down to a station to look at ball players they can see any one of seventy-seven days in the regular home season. They really were surprised when they faced that mob last night.” Perhaps there was a bit too much celebrating … the New York Yankees swept the Cubs in the World Series that followed.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ6WtfjYnioP-d21c0f3O3skeBUteZlZopnenNBUwG2DWfE-T00tsZXPBmbM1UkyXBCaUc-7egRABLK0FRsSpQLFXr8T8M3Bq_MEc3afppkGbYX6ExRAIPr32IILy70exBzENzDZJ86OgQ/s1600/October+2%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="805" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ6WtfjYnioP-d21c0f3O3skeBUteZlZopnenNBUwG2DWfE-T00tsZXPBmbM1UkyXBCaUc-7egRABLK0FRsSpQLFXr8T8M3Bq_MEc3afppkGbYX6ExRAIPr32IILy70exBzENzDZJ86OgQ/s400/October+2%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="303" /></a></b></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">October 2, 1906 –</b><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> As a result of city council action regarding the regulation of cold storage companies adopted shortly before, 20,000 pounds of canned chicken at the North American Cold Storage company are condemned because they were “utterly bad.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 2, 1906]</i> The company claims there is nothing wrong with the frozen birds, but city officials from the health department disagree, so “seven big policemen are now on guard to see to it that nothing goes in or out of the warehouse.” As part of the tussle the warehouse’s manager, A. F. Denham, is taken to the Des Plaines Avenue police station in a patrol wagon. The conflict begins a week earlier when the health department labels 50,000 pounds of canned chicken at the North American company and the A. Booth and Co. as suspicious. The health commissioner does not take long to arrive at a conclusion, noting that when samples were thawed out the smell “was so nauseating it was necessary to drench them with formalin before they could be handled.” A rendering company was called, and the Booth plant handed over 30,000 pounds of poultry without protest. Things proved different at the North American warehouse on Canal Street. From 10:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Denham confers with health department officials and his lawyer, finally notifying the city that the lawyer has advised him to stand his ground. Police are summoned and warehouse employees tell them to take the elevator to the top floor where the questionable poultry is stored. Someone apparently tampers with the elevator and it stops on the sixth floor, leaving the officers in the dark of the freezing warehouse. They are forced to climb down six floors of ladders in order to make their way outside where “their feelings were ruffled.” They find Manager Denham in his office beside a menacing bulldog. Denham is arrested and booked on charges of resisting arrest. All afternoon wagons arrive with goods to be stored in the warehouse, but the officers are resolute, “a trifle overzealous in the matter on account of the experience … on the sixth floor.” The addition to the North American Cold Storage Warehouse, completed in 1908, is shown above in the 1910 photo.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><div style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-10344056098025787962020-10-01T00:30:00.001-07:002020-10-01T00:30:02.181-07:00October 1, 1919 -- World Series of 1919 Begins<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuR_MBEzgyHRcVORJxYwmxcUhsKM732z_Yez0zJAhHVDHdYT93SmbG5KyTeNe4qmLCU54OrAtf4LoZzuox3pZXZG53ypkSzzl7tk6HsVEveMiFpk-YypRWzg51eTSaQjUlbdMyqD4cmlU7/s800/October+1%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuR_MBEzgyHRcVORJxYwmxcUhsKM732z_Yez0zJAhHVDHdYT93SmbG5KyTeNe4qmLCU54OrAtf4LoZzuox3pZXZG53ypkSzzl7tk6HsVEveMiFpk-YypRWzg51eTSaQjUlbdMyqD4cmlU7/w625-h416/October+1%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">chicagotribune.com</span></i></b></div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></p>October 1, 1919 –</b> The first game of the 1919 “Black Sox” World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds takes place in Cincinnati’s Redland Field with 30,511 fans in the stands. In the bottom of the first inning White Sox pitcher Eddie Cicotte hits the Reds’ leadoff hitter, Morrie Rath, in the back with his second pitch in what we know now as a prearranged signal to mobster Arnold Rothstein that the fix is on. <i>[en.wikipedia.org].</i> Until the fourth inning the game remained close, but in the bottom of that inning Cicotte allows five runs, giving up a triple to the opposing pitcher, Walter Ruether. Cincinnati ends up winning the game, 9-1. </span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In the series, which was played in a best-of-nine format, the Reds went on to win in eight games. In August 1921 eight White Sox players were banned from organized baseball for life although they were acquitted of criminal charges. An interesting feature of the series in Chicago was an effort by the<i> Chicago Daily Tribune</i> to “broadcast,” in the days before radio or television, the play-by-play of the game through electric scoreboards and a large group of women answering phones. 1,968 people paid 55 cents apiece to watch the scoreboard at Orchestra Hall while another 3,000 watched an open-air scoreboard on the roof of the Colonnade building at 724 South Michigan Avenue. Seven operators at the offices of the <i>Tribune</i> handled 20,000 calls for updates on the first game. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></p></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #383434; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv_OHP_XzCCP5XZiy7pzzVHbxCucLc7An1SfsMGOhx3mS380Nz2Bjku-ZT33iKawO9MvGPcOZzeXqPbgxIOQnj1CJZ59cqkw9xEsYl2E-poLTLBbnh45JEB38vGFbsCEshCNunCsHHrrpc/s1600/October+1%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="600" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv_OHP_XzCCP5XZiy7pzzVHbxCucLc7An1SfsMGOhx3mS380Nz2Bjku-ZT33iKawO9MvGPcOZzeXqPbgxIOQnj1CJZ59cqkw9xEsYl2E-poLTLBbnh45JEB38vGFbsCEshCNunCsHHrrpc/s640/October+1%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">skyandtelescope.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">October 1, 2018 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> The Yerkes Observatory closes after 121 years of operation. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">The observatory, operated by the University of Chicago and located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, was named for Charles Tyson Yerkes, a storied Chicago traction magnate who subsidized the 20-ton telescope and</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">the observatory which houses it.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Frederick Law Olmsted, the great landscape architect, designed the grounds on which the observatory is located.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">The question of what will eventually happen to the site is complicated by a stipulation that Yerkes included in his original agreement with the university, a clause stating that the university would receive the gift “To have and to hold unto the said Trustees and their successors so long as they use the same for the purpose of astronomical investigation, but upon their failure to do so, the property hereby conveyed shall revert to the said Charles T. Yerkes or his heirs at law, the same as if the conveyance had never been made.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">[chicagomaroon.com] </i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">The story of how a observatory affiliated with the University of Chicago ended up in Williams Bay, Wisconsin is a fascinating one.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </span><a href="http://www.connectingthewindycity.com/2014/10/yerkes-observatory-dedication-october.html" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">It can be found here in Connecting the Windy City.</a> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtT5jE6kfW5b9CiEH4zPuVw3U_7EftnWzenwX6dSrZn3ZIsaSknlUikxne81UBSvX_iSLhxRQ7a79FEZXcFt1nSdExlsAS77ZM2uC4xrwV-uEX0-5W6oEdkZVsYMlxvt4NPWmT3xu35h1V/s1600/October+1%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1100" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtT5jE6kfW5b9CiEH4zPuVw3U_7EftnWzenwX6dSrZn3ZIsaSknlUikxne81UBSvX_iSLhxRQ7a79FEZXcFt1nSdExlsAS77ZM2uC4xrwV-uEX0-5W6oEdkZVsYMlxvt4NPWmT3xu35h1V/s640/October+1%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">October 1, 1994 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> Several days after United States District Court Judge Stanley Harris issues a ruling against the city in its effort to curtail the raising of bridges to permit pleasure boaters to pass freely up and down the river, the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune</i> responds with an editorial. “Shed no tears for the pleasure-seekers,” the piece argues. “It is the city’s convenience that matters and that of the thousands of pedestrians, cars, buses and emergency vehicles </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">that daily move through the downtown and suffer frustrating, costly delay when the bridges are up . . . If eventually the city must work out new rules with the boaters and marina owners, they should remember that they are part of the city too, and bringing it to a halt for their convenience is no small privilege.”</span> </span></span></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvMlkx7sbUFYz-uRNAZptQ9Vj7ypfGrjc2D4plzHyoVE9LtSE_kkGVJ2vI1AEZOnZ-Nm7MJd4Mf4bQviPZeuKNGa8iZ2YlCE8M-geJsFAoofHtx6SKTpilk39qemHanQMCbDlWn_tY9uOm/s1600/October+1%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvMlkx7sbUFYz-uRNAZptQ9Vj7ypfGrjc2D4plzHyoVE9LtSE_kkGVJ2vI1AEZOnZ-Nm7MJd4Mf4bQviPZeuKNGa8iZ2YlCE8M-geJsFAoofHtx6SKTpilk39qemHanQMCbDlWn_tY9uOm/s640/October+1%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">October 1, 1968 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">The Chicago City College Board approves a proposal to buy property west of its Loop campus at 64 East Lake Street in order to build a new high-rise campus. The school’s chancellor, Oscar Shabat, says that the school envisions a campus that will rise 25 to 30 stories. The property between 62 and 54 East Lake Street will provide 10,000 square feet of land with a frontage on Lake Street. A key to getting the project started is still to come as the Illinois Junior College Board must approve the new building, and that body is waiting on $170 million that the Illinois Board of Education has recommended. Nothing happens for years, and by the summer of 1974 a report prepared by the office of Mies van der Rohe states that the plan does not appear to be feasible for all kinds of reasons, the most of important of which is the “… deficiency of current plans to integrate the Loop College into the life of the Loop. The site does not offer any special potential to either act as a catalyst for area redevelopment and improvement or to become integrated into the city.” </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">[Chicago Tribune, August 21, 1974</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">] In 1975 a new site is selected for the college in a two-block area between Jackson Boulevard and Congress Street on the west side of State Street, the site on which the Harold Washington Library stands today. The Chicago City Colleges board began buying land at that location, spending $494,750 for four parcels in the 400 block of South State Street. Two months later Governor James Thompson vetoes a $7.5 million appropriation to buy any additional land for the college. Things drag along until March, 1979 when the trustees of Chicago City Colleges approve a plan to buy an existing 25-story office building across the alley from the original location of the college at 64 East Lake Street. In July of that year Chicago City Colleges begins to move forward with the conversion of the office building at 65 East South Water Street. In that same month the Public Building Commission approves a $14 million renovation of the South Water Street building. The </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Chicago Tribune </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">editorializes, “After years of frustration and of nursing plans too ambitious and too expensive to be realized, Loop College can at last expect to have soon a suitable physical plant.”</span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">[Chicago Tribune, July 16, 1979] </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Not so fast. Unable to agree on a price for the building on South Water Street, Chicago City Colleges turns to a condemnation proceeding which pegs the cost of the property at $4,454,818, a figure Shabat, still the head of the college, calls a little too rich for the college’s blood. Finally, on June 13, 1980 ground is broken for an 11-story, $19.3 million college building at the original site that was purchased in 1968 with completion scheduled in 1982. Shabat says, “I’ve waited 19 years for this day. Now we can go forward.” </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">[Chicago Tribune, June 14, 1980] </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Mayor Jane Byrne dedicates the new campus on November 13, 1982. On December 1, 1987 the college, with 8,217 students, is renamed Harold Washington College in honor of the Chicago mayor who died in office a month earlier.<span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzumLwjl4-NLjkWpOpc96IFnLI6foPul_68zCGsEFOaZR4jfNgv3iTXHbdDv3BeN6RG6_cLiOqljQ-aPZTtx3gEvnnS6rPtf82u0zy533_KB6WlMJg5IclP6fn9r6wn02tIMArzScwALox/s1600/October+1%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="1024" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzumLwjl4-NLjkWpOpc96IFnLI6foPul_68zCGsEFOaZR4jfNgv3iTXHbdDv3BeN6RG6_cLiOqljQ-aPZTtx3gEvnnS6rPtf82u0zy533_KB6WlMJg5IclP6fn9r6wn02tIMArzScwALox/s640/October+1%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">October 1, 1930</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> – A thousand people listen to Frank Lloyd Wright discuss architectural trends in Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago. According to </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">the Chicago Daily Tribune</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">, “Mr. Wright discussed the use of new materials, including glass and steel in the building of skyscraper homes,” emphasizing “that a home is not made up solely of roof and walls, but is toned and dominated by its interior.” </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 1, 1930</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">] Wright brings an exhibit with him, “a model of a skyscraper built of glass and steel and dwellings of the same materials.” As part of his remarks Wright says, “There must be no conflict between architecture and nature. A building should conform to the contour of its surrounding.” The Johnson Wax Company's headquarters tower in Racine, Wisconsin, shown above, was completed nine years after Wright gave his lecture on glass and steel skyscrapers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-72502048088790471512020-09-30T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-30T00:30:10.808-07:00September 30, 1947 -- Chicago Transit Authority Begins Operations<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0in;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkM6xGaq-FtFtGNaVHnPw8GDdNqmGzqJ3kaI1SLURX6hkshIEn9_9Tlz5u9Qxss7TXVkq0ggFsJerm-60kJjb-BNmmdHy1O8Y_GucOuhm6mP2rO85aC8vpwrdyLlrOYuc6oPw1JgoYt0E5/s904/September+30%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="904" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkM6xGaq-FtFtGNaVHnPw8GDdNqmGzqJ3kaI1SLURX6hkshIEn9_9Tlz5u9Qxss7TXVkq0ggFsJerm-60kJjb-BNmmdHy1O8Y_GucOuhm6mP2rO85aC8vpwrdyLlrOYuc6oPw1JgoYt0E5/w625-h314/September+30%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="625" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">bing.com</span></i></b></span></div><span><b style="font-family: arial;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p>September 30, 1947 –</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> Chicago’s surface and elevated lines are absorbed into the Chicago Metropolitan Transit Authority, a corporation created by the Illinois legislature with the intention of allowing the city to purchase the lines and operate them as a publicly owned transportation system. Hoping for a smooth transition, the new system’s management has directed that all senior staff members of the old system should continue in their current positions until the change-over is completed. The biggest difference for riders will be an increase in fares – from 9 to 10 cents on surface lines. Rides on elevated trains will continue at 13 cents. The last hurdle in the process was cleared in August when $105 million in revenue bonds was sold to finance the new corporation. Of that sum $75 million will go to the present owners of the surface lines, and $12 million will be paid out to the owners of the elevated lines. The necessity for the move came just before the end of World War II when a federal district court judge ordered the two transit companies into bankruptcy, making it clear that providing public transportation in Chicago could only occur through public ownership of the system. Philip Harrington, the chairman of the new transportation authority and an engineer, says, “For decades our local transportation has been partly frozen. It is not to be wondered at that there is a tremendous job in taking over. We are going to move as rapidly as we can, but not until we are sure where we are going.” <i>[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 30, 1947].</i> In 1952 the new authority would purchase the assets of the Chicago Motor Coach Company, the bus line under the control of Yellow Cab Company founder John D. Hertz. At that time surface transportation was handled primarily by electric trolley coaches – in the 1950’s the city’s fleet of 700 trolley buses was the largest such fleet in the United States. <i> [en.wikipedia.org] </i> That era ended with a natural disaster … the blizzard of January 26-27, 1967 demonstrated that the trolleys were unable to maneuver around abandoned vehicles without disconnecting from trolley wires, and the whole city shut down. The last trolley coach ran on March 25, 1973.</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyC-EUGxJuX3PCcnXWekhPVBM3G8lr4rVxlWwRhDG52fQVCIAI3fREvyt8r45uUAZEMWyDwjKxB-rGNr-WqsHMFQgeLdXEEc7OoQhG7yzk0bYfKCsY21mQX4Cd5ZyNPPBwrgkG9XM4ol8v/s1600/September+30%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="980" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyC-EUGxJuX3PCcnXWekhPVBM3G8lr4rVxlWwRhDG52fQVCIAI3fREvyt8r45uUAZEMWyDwjKxB-rGNr-WqsHMFQgeLdXEEc7OoQhG7yzk0bYfKCsY21mQX4Cd5ZyNPPBwrgkG9XM4ol8v/s640/September+30%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 30, 2016 –</b> The Chicago Department of Transportation announces that construction on Phase 1 of the Wells-Wentworth Connector improvement project has begun. The three-phase project is designed to create a new roadway between the Loop and Chinatown, a plan that was originally proposed in the Chicago Plan of 1909. CDOT commissioner Rebekah Scheinfeld says, “This project exemplifies Chicago’s strong commitment to the economic growth of the Chinatown community. By creating direct road transit and bicycle access to Chinatown’s thriving commercial center, we hope to strengthen the community’s identity and economy.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> [www.chicago.gov] </i> The first phase of the project will widen the existing right-of-way on Wentworth Avenue between West Seventeenth and West Nineteenth Streets, laying new sidewalks on both sides of the street and providing a buffered bike lane, additions that will improve pedestrian and bicycle access to Ping Tom Park and its field house. This three-phase project is the first of several major infrastructure improvements planned for<i> The 78</i>, a 62-acre tract that is bordered by Clark Street, Roosevelt Road, Sixteenth Street and the Chicago River. This, the newest of Chicago’s neighborhoods, according to the developer, Related Midwest, will be “showcased in a half-mile riverfront experience connecting to the existing Chicago Riverwalk and on par with the greatest urban waterfronts of the world – all while featuring undeniable ‘Chicago Soul.’” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[78chicago.com]</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><o:p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEickZwNca2E8f151ZqYIxbDC0UClVufFbD0xPxu-jP27iMRfm8hNIbvlMnYeFoRLAfZ40k7xXNgylWe9b3cdZLnvsRs7_g8ziG0xSklsT2nkOxaQGNNZNe9hvgVdOx6xfQwJ13_vI4Xa0in/s1600/September+30%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="500" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEickZwNca2E8f151ZqYIxbDC0UClVufFbD0xPxu-jP27iMRfm8hNIbvlMnYeFoRLAfZ40k7xXNgylWe9b3cdZLnvsRs7_g8ziG0xSklsT2nkOxaQGNNZNe9hvgVdOx6xfQwJ13_vI4Xa0in/s400/September+30%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 30, 1990 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The Chicago White Sox defeat the Seattle Mariners, 2-1, in the last game the team will play in Comiskey Park, the oldest baseball park in the major leagues. The last pitch is thrown by Bobby Thigpen who gets Seattle’s Harold Reynolds to hit a grounder to Sox second baseman Scott Fletcher who throws to Steve Lyons at first for the out. Tickets for the final game sell out in two hours when they go on sale on June 9, and a crowd of 42,849 is on hand to bid farewell to the old ball yard. These are the last of the 72,801,381 fans who have watched the Sox compile a record of 3,024 wins and 2,926 losses in Comiskey since it opened on July 1, 1910. Said Sox pitcher Wilbur Wood, “It’s a shame they’re closing it down . . . It’s like with all of the older parks, not for the players but for the fans. The new parks are so symmetrical that you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all. And the fans are so far away. I hope the fans are close at the new park like they were at Comiskey.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, October 1, 1990]</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times;"> </span></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Huj9AHAzAfn7SpKO-vwbaXr1DMlEFPROnSK4AkLg8dPDHMqtOxi62bhW41ptr7CES39e_mhzIkg16dxCqVPgq7X82mIJFVsk4UL2hy_0wUd1JAw7w4JWZ3W-HS5qDS7AVVfeeYglx5K6/s1600/September+30%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1520" data-original-width="1600" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Huj9AHAzAfn7SpKO-vwbaXr1DMlEFPROnSK4AkLg8dPDHMqtOxi62bhW41ptr7CES39e_mhzIkg16dxCqVPgq7X82mIJFVsk4UL2hy_0wUd1JAw7w4JWZ3W-HS5qDS7AVVfeeYglx5K6/s400/September+30%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 30, 1983 –</span></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The Wild West comes to Wacker Drive as three men waylay the 121 Wacker Express bus and hold up the 27 passengers aboard, relieving them of “about $500 in cash, miscellaneous jewelry and wallets and purses.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, October 1, 1983</i>]. The bandits board the bus at State Street and announce a hold-up after stuffing a few dollar bills in the fare box. Police say that the bills will be dusted for fingerprints. This is the third bus robbery of the year. On October 28 a 23-year-old South Side man is indicted on charges of armed robbery in the commission of the crimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWgHx2DyIfowLakoWYYNyL-j0LlOgCmGwQ2V7MeiTOvoz3l09EfSiLc35q4Es8jBUx8qFJz8w_RuRu7-g_z8IVUK-MGUlhMcNYCB3k0Bt_ILfo320OAUNw6x4lGcFAZ0ezlHYhLJw6X0E/s1600/September+30%252C+2018+Blog+Photo+B_edited-1.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="1471" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWgHx2DyIfowLakoWYYNyL-j0LlOgCmGwQ2V7MeiTOvoz3l09EfSiLc35q4Es8jBUx8qFJz8w_RuRu7-g_z8IVUK-MGUlhMcNYCB3k0Bt_ILfo320OAUNw6x4lGcFAZ0ezlHYhLJw6X0E/s640/September+30%252C+2018+Blog+Photo+B_edited-1.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 30, 1982 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The United States Naval Reserve ends its 89-year presence on Chicago’s lakefront as it leaves its three-story Art Deco building at the foot of Randolph Street. The 50-year-old building will be torn down to make way for the widening of Lake Shore Drive and the straightening of the “S” curve where the drive crosses the Chicago River. Reserve units have been transferred to Park Forest, the Great Lakes Naval Station, Glenview and Gary. The Navy Reserve in the city began operation on September 30, 1893 at the World’s Columbian Exposition</span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. [Chicago Tribune, September 30, 1982] </i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The reserve eventually moved to a building at 20 North Michigan Avenue before it moved into an old converted freighter on the Chicago River. Illinois approved funds for construction of the armory in 1927 and the armory, which cost $465,000, opened in 1932.</span></span></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-12790281393106442342020-09-29T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-29T00:30:15.036-07:00September 29, 2004 -- Cubs Fade in the Stretch<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_rZlrUJmHfZdzZVYn7VWnxZDp0CZwptlAyTDIFao9G6tfx3DNaAR_R17Wvv48pxuF43y2o4ePTS0TNgrHJrhG1i0FoHjtScmWbSqbXVwzJIQUZvF6DKaRHmKwdL8ldIKOdSebiAJQpaLi/s928/September+29%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="736" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_rZlrUJmHfZdzZVYn7VWnxZDp0CZwptlAyTDIFao9G6tfx3DNaAR_R17Wvv48pxuF43y2o4ePTS0TNgrHJrhG1i0FoHjtScmWbSqbXVwzJIQUZvF6DKaRHmKwdL8ldIKOdSebiAJQpaLi/w498-h625/September+29%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">i.pinimg.com</span></i></b></div><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b>September 29, 2004 –</b> Still in the hunt in the National League wild-card race, the Chicago Cubs are drooping like end-of-summer marigolds. There is still hope despite the team’s losing four out of five games to the New York Mets and the Cincinnati Reds, teams with losing records that, when combined, place them 55 games out of first place. The team has scored only 11 runs in 44 innings, but still is only a half-game out of the lead for the wild-card position. Manager Dusty Baker says, “We have no choice. We either keep fighting or roll over and die.” <i>[Chicago Tribune, September 30, 2004].</i> On this day, riding on a strong effort by starting pitcher Glendon Rusch, who leaves the game in the seventh inning with a 1-1 tie, the Cubs take the lead in the bottom of that frame when Moise Alou’s sacrifice fly gives them a 2-1 edge. LaTroy Hawkins is impressive in the ninth as he gets Cincinnati’s first two batters, and goes 0-2 on D’Angelo Jiminez, before surrendering a triple, followed by a game-tying double by Austin Kearns. The score is still tied as the Reds come to bat in the twelfth when relief pitcher Jon Leicester walks Jiminez and Kearns hits a home run. Catcher Michael Barrett says, after the Cubs are unable to score in the bottom of the inning, “I can’t imagine a more frustrating loss than this one.” With only four games left in the season, things look bleak for the team, which has played 26 games in 24 days. On September 25 the Cubs had led San Francisco by 1.5 games in the Wild Card race with only nine games left in the season, but the weary warriors lost six of the final eight games, and the Houston Astros won the Wild Card. In the last game of the season slugger Sammy Sosa requested that Baker allow him to sit the game out, and when Baker refused, Sosa left the locker room in the early stages of the game. It was the last time he would wear a Cubs uniform.</div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></p></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdZc3cV8waz566H0EAzMvlH4FE160ycBtwJAm9UKARSeAM1hu4aQu8ebwhqj1-n2oIunXa6-uEv704JMzWWVmOlAW6LV9hOPkGn-YRL5g9JCTZ70zibY97nkNDKpAXtyRCM2-Oi15wnt5/s1600/September+29%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdZc3cV8waz566H0EAzMvlH4FE160ycBtwJAm9UKARSeAM1hu4aQu8ebwhqj1-n2oIunXa6-uEv704JMzWWVmOlAW6LV9hOPkGn-YRL5g9JCTZ70zibY97nkNDKpAXtyRCM2-Oi15wnt5/s640/September+29%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434;"></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 29, 2003 – </b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The new Soldier Field opens to a national audience as the Chicago Bears take on the Green Bay Packers.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The renovated stadium is the product of years of wrangling about what an appropriate venue would be for the Monsters of the Midway and exactly how much taxpayers should be expected to pay for it.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As the stadium welcomes its first fans, reviews are mixed.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Joe Antunovich, the chairman of the Landmarks Preservation Council, says, “We’re stuck with what we have, which I believe is much less than we could have had. It’s an eyesore of the Nth degree. It’s just awful.”</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Los Angeles Times, September 29, 2003]</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Herbert Muschamp, the architecture critic for the</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New York Times</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, disagrees, writing, “If your commitment is to classicism, you will find a more authentically classical urbanism in the recast stadium than was present when the concrete colonnades stood alone.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And if your commitment is to conflict, as a city lover’s ought always to be, the field’s controversial reception will not let you down.”</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[New York Times, September 30, 2003]</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The new Soldier Field will hold 61,500 fans, 3,500 fewer than the old stadium, and in the second largest market in the National Football League, it will be the second smallest stadium.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">However, 60 percent of the new venue’s seats will be on the sidelines; in the old stadium that number was just 40 percent.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A unique feature of the stadium is that all of the suites and club seats are on one side while all the general-admission seats are on the other.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As a result, the west grandstand is 20 feet higher than the east side, which will have four levels of $300,000-a-year luxury suites.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The renovated stadium will also have twice the number of concession stands as its predecessor and more than twice as many bathrooms.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> On this night a crowd of 60,257 watches as the Green Bay Packers, with Brett Favre at quarterback, score 17 unanswered points in the first quarter, ultimately defeating the Bears, 38-23.</span></span><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 29, 1915 --</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune </i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">reports that the Municipal Art Commission has accepted a design for a colonnade or peristyle that will be built on the southeast corner of Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street. In the middle of the colonnade will be a fountain, the entire design provided by architect Edward H. Bennett. The peristyle, finished in 1917, lasted until August 20, 1953 when the Speedway Wrecking Company quickly razed it with the debris used as fill in a northerly extension of Lake Shore Drive. For more on the original peristyle and its modern replacement, you can turn to </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Connecting the Windy City </i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and </span><a href="http://www.connectingthewindycity.com/2015/02/chicago-peristyle-turned-into-road-fill.html" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">check this entry out</a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="color: black; font-family: times;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx797-fUTduxTY2EVfMbnvuipmUAfwLr6Lq1_56vz1TXGeL3rmzF0W-pCCmWQLcNh02ZZXRfdUrVHpnRMya0uT9df5q_x2MWDSoYtTm3WRdrZW5Ic_f8fFRkj5yEUddNogeoQKkzsD4ZWg/s1600/September+29%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1000" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx797-fUTduxTY2EVfMbnvuipmUAfwLr6Lq1_56vz1TXGeL3rmzF0W-pCCmWQLcNh02ZZXRfdUrVHpnRMya0uT9df5q_x2MWDSoYtTm3WRdrZW5Ic_f8fFRkj5yEUddNogeoQKkzsD4ZWg/s640/September+29%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></p><p style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 29, 1906 – </b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On a “rainy, chilly, and generally disagreeable” day <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 30, 1906] </i>the South Shore Country Club opens its doors for the first time with 92 cases of champagne on hand to warm the 600 people in attendance. Everyone is on edge as there are intimations that Arthur Burrage Farwell and the Hyde Park Protective Association might try to storm the festivities in an effort to stop the serving of alcohol, but at 4:30 p.m. the club’s president, William Thorne, the president of Montgomery Ward and Company, opens the first bottle of champagne on the club’s wind-swept veranda and calls one of the 200 waiters on hand to serve his guests. “Here’s defiance to Farwell,” is the toast that follows. Mr. Farwell’s organization is dedicated to removing the perils of alcohol from the area. “Their arguments – the sanctity of the family, the selling of liquor to minors, the perceived threat to land values and suspicions of gambling and prostitution – were used to garner community support for closing of the taverns.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Hyde Park Herald, February 20, 2014]</i> The association didn’t stop the festivities on this evening. As the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tribune </i>reported, “Outside the angry surf beat against the shore and the wind moaned above the strains of the orchestra, but in the dining room, where 600 were served, in the reception hall, and the spacious parlor, where the dark green furniture appeared in pleasing contrast against the white woodwork, the scene was of good cheer.” </span></span></p></span></span></span></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-55693399730738582442020-09-28T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-28T00:30:03.169-07:00September 28, 1943 -- Marshall Field III Gets Richer<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2chKYMhIE5b9-8mX4gm0u1PmGKd_Shv3gC5bOaRTBsxMN9jmWUOD0XgNqr_O8Px2m5b29ocd3o_7MfJsnoohKBUIciCUnCGiuddhh3AzYEzjyCkJj8q2vQ2DBYuWgeObQIEb8YhlS1g9A/s640/September+28%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="640" height="529" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2chKYMhIE5b9-8mX4gm0u1PmGKd_Shv3gC5bOaRTBsxMN9jmWUOD0XgNqr_O8Px2m5b29ocd3o_7MfJsnoohKBUIciCUnCGiuddhh3AzYEzjyCkJj8q2vQ2DBYuWgeObQIEb8YhlS1g9A/w625-h529/September+28%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>thesocietypages.org</i></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b>September 28, 1943 – </b>Marshall Field III grows a tad richer as on this day he comes into an inheritance of between 70 and 75 million dollars (in excess of one billion dollars in today’s dollars). Almost immediately, Representative John E. Rankin, a Republican from Mississippi, assails him as “the Chicago playboy” who “is using millions of dollars, inherited free of taxes, to smear members of congress and stir up race trouble throughout the country.” <i>[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 29, 1943]</i>. “I have tried for months,” says Rankin, “to reach that estate through a bill which I have prepared and introduced, but have failed to get results. It is not only escaping taxation entirely, but just think of the purpose for which it is being used. It is being used to finance the publication and distribution of <i>PM</i>, that uptown edition of the Communist Daily Worker … This money is being used to finance this publication that is continually attacking and attempting to smear the members of congress of the United States and stirring up race trouble throughout the land, and is today encouraging the Negroes of Washington to storm the house restaurant in this capital.” <i>PM</i> was a liberal newspaper published in New York City from June 1940 to June 1948. Theodor Geisel, Dr. Seuss, published more than 400 cartoons on the paper’s editorial page. At various times, writers included Erskine Caldwell, McGeorge Bundy, Heywood Hale Broun, James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Malcolm Cowley, Tip O’Neill and Ben Hecht. The paper’s run ended when Marshall Field III made the decision to support publication of the <i>Chicago Sun</i>, ending his silent partnership with PM.</div></span><p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR9AbstZz0s9_i3hOjblyuex1tmEJcmPRxdTF-0aoSAGxEEMK5BVXCrurflwBNj_OoBEa_PbA5vjGDSFMLQ_mfSMDgvOWYYY7LhTahRFF3jfgj8chyphenhyphenIUyD-zYGTB64V0qLPcdgMEjiZOOp/s1600/September+28%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR9AbstZz0s9_i3hOjblyuex1tmEJcmPRxdTF-0aoSAGxEEMK5BVXCrurflwBNj_OoBEa_PbA5vjGDSFMLQ_mfSMDgvOWYYY7LhTahRFF3jfgj8chyphenhyphenIUyD-zYGTB64V0qLPcdgMEjiZOOp/s400/September+28%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="300" /></a></div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 28, 1924 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> In a day that was “replete with fervent pulpit oratory, congratulations, stately music and solemn ritual” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 28, 1924] </i>the Chicago Temple at Clark and Washington Streets is dedicated. Even though there are three services at the new church, throngs outside are still so great that two outdoor services are held in the morning and afternoon. The president of the Temple’s board of trustees reads a letter from President Calvin Coolidge in which he writes, “I join heartily in the hope which moved its founders, that it may be the means of expanding and increasing the effectiveness of the great spiritual work to which it is devoted. Unique in many ways as an ecclesiastical type of architecture, it will bring together the spiritual and lay activities of the church, giving from each a helpful inspiration to the other.” The congregation is one of the oldest in Chicago, beginning in an 1834 building on the north side of the river. In 1838 that building was floated across the river and rolled on logs to a location on the southeast corner of Washington and Clark, the same plot on which the First United Methodist Church of Chicago stands today.</span></span></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadl5yUS7VWE2JHISWoKUunW7nXZmjbZV_ieYw9YzsLjBsTunGQ4I4GqrOXTw08uVgqtKt85fIuHd5tKaqWBL0r9tW5bAmA-jRlNrMBgsF2f7E3mY4T2qiSgQrN669ef8IrCvbF9fxoczN/s1600/September+28%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1600" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadl5yUS7VWE2JHISWoKUunW7nXZmjbZV_ieYw9YzsLjBsTunGQ4I4GqrOXTw08uVgqtKt85fIuHd5tKaqWBL0r9tW5bAmA-jRlNrMBgsF2f7E3mY4T2qiSgQrN669ef8IrCvbF9fxoczN/s640/September+28%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434;"></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 28, 1920 –</span></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here is a sad day in Chicago history … 180 barrels of "High Life" beer are poured into the Chicago River. It is the last part of a cargo from the ship <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mineral City</i> which was seized by government officials as it entered the city from Kenosha over a year earlier. The seized ship is shown above. </span></span><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd5hMxKKVntndI6TiocYgRKSJmFNy_kNB5PielCvd96Fa52RzK7_PBfyuWB5zSdH8RtEo96HI0tl9gidJvVtY2SmUVW8zhgphC6R_wAADEDKvU3uEPa7i46PUsfO9tcZtMVajy93c5Hz7_/s1600/September+28%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd5hMxKKVntndI6TiocYgRKSJmFNy_kNB5PielCvd96Fa52RzK7_PBfyuWB5zSdH8RtEo96HI0tl9gidJvVtY2SmUVW8zhgphC6R_wAADEDKvU3uEPa7i46PUsfO9tcZtMVajy93c5Hz7_/s400/September+28%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 28, 1911 –</span></b><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">After Mayor Carter Harrison ventures forth with his brother, William Preston Harrison, and walks from the north side of the city as far south as Harrison Street “under the cover of darkness … to learn how his people conducted themselves,” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 29, 1911] </i>he informs his police chief, James McWeeny, that he has found State Street “rotten … a cheap imitation of a Midway show”. In the letter to McWeeny he directs the chief to clean up the street, saying, “One of the last acts of my administration before leaving office in 1905 was to give orders looking to the cleaning up of the old time levee. Today State street, south of Van Buren, while not so vile as it used to be, is a cheap imitation of a Midway show. At 408 State street they advertise the ‘grizzly bear’ dance. They have also suggestive pictures of women in costume. They have a barker in front and regular Midway music. This character of show has no place in a city.”</span></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-68698116028811460702020-09-27T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-27T00:30:00.202-07:00September 27, 1991 -- Fourth United States Army Place On Inactive Status<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzb6ABWtccdSyx8f9Q8w4peeDABJqD8X4kAk7NNEco4H8MzkJA9a9zYJtvIcFWnyaeAebTmz5gV8YC8CywH4PGDMVLHfUzT9XE6IBPojSruPvbW8AtTVZ3JhZ7RweWCr_9DRbEoqcTo5P/s1600/September+27%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpeg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="450" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzb6ABWtccdSyx8f9Q8w4peeDABJqD8X4kAk7NNEco4H8MzkJA9a9zYJtvIcFWnyaeAebTmz5gV8YC8CywH4PGDMVLHfUzT9XE6IBPojSruPvbW8AtTVZ3JhZ7RweWCr_9DRbEoqcTo5P/s320/September+27%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpeg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">walmart.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 27, 1991 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> In a ceremony at Fort Sheridan the Fourth United States Army is placed on inactive status. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Deactivating the Fourth Army is part of a five-year plan, conceived under the direction of U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, that will provide for “a gradual transition to a smaller, more capable military force.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 27, 1991] </i> Only 119 active Army positions and 216 civilian positions are affected by the deactivation, and many of these individuals will be transferred to other positions.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Fourth Army was responsible for Army Reserve units in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That command will now fall to the First U.S. Army, based in Fort Meade, Maryland.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> This move has no effect on the decision to close Fort Sheridan, scheduled to shut down in 1994; it will ultimately close as a military installation on May 28, 1993.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; 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The contract is signed just two days after Illinois Governor Jim Edgar signs into law a $987 million expansion program that the General Assembly had approved in July. Edgar says, “This expansion will allow shows to stay in Chicago and allow millions of dollars to come into our economy. This legislation is a plus for all the people of Illinois.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 28, 1991]</i> Work on the new complex is expected to begin in February of 1993 with completion by August of 1996. Stein’s group, known as Mc3D, is the only one of the three proposals submitted that puts all the exhibition space in the new building on one floor. The group also will be responsible for constructing an 80-foot galleria that will connect the new south building with the north building and the original east building. The whole package of nearly a billion dollars of work also includes a modest $60 million-dollar plan that will dramatically enhance the lakefront – the rerouting of the northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive to the west of Soldier Field, creating a beautiful swath of green space and a campus for the three great cultural attractions on the lakefront, the Shedd Aquarium, the Field Museum of Natural History and the Adler Planetarium.</span></span></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz28zBmHEI_bvBszFPhnf5Qx9Kn8WdhSRcq5M5FBCZptad4ka8eVVkIdEkLaPlqSa0B8QQgR5GbOFhWFulZK4ak-W7cuEBceyTQWr7_NV1De0UHwwc898cc5xeDDJbwB2DCOf-mJaTYEcd/s1600/September+27%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="341" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz28zBmHEI_bvBszFPhnf5Qx9Kn8WdhSRcq5M5FBCZptad4ka8eVVkIdEkLaPlqSa0B8QQgR5GbOFhWFulZK4ak-W7cuEBceyTQWr7_NV1De0UHwwc898cc5xeDDJbwB2DCOf-mJaTYEcd/s400/September+27%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="315" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 27, 1911 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">reports that Chicagoan George J. Lawton has bought the Auditorium office building, hotel and theater for $48,680 at a county tax sale. Lawton says, “I am going to make a test case and see if I can get possession of this property. I can get a deed, and as soon as I get that I’m going to try to get a title. If I can get that, I will begin legal proceedings to oust the present owners. It will take two years to fight it out, but I think it’s worth trying.” </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 27, 1911] </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The owners of the property in question failed to pay taxes on May 1, and six weeks later the County Treasurer advertises the property for sale. The property is sold at public auction on September 22, and Lawton wrests the valuable property away from a consortium made up of the Studebakers of South Bend, Ind.; Ambrose Cramer of Lake Forest; and the Peck estate of Chicago. It is estimated that the property and the building together are worth close to $4,000,000. Seven years earlier the Chicago Symphony Orchestra had left the building for new digs on Michigan Avenue. The hotel had lost prestige as more modern buildings opened up, and the offices in the structure were left to compete with the new skyscrapers springing up in the Loop, most of them not looking out at the noisy elevated tracks. It is probable that the building would have been torn down, had it not been for the fact that the razing of the structure would have cost more than the land on which it stood was worth.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8V-q4Nei77-wsL4jQKrOPPWphLaFOskydlDEMwC3XwxSqYfjoDcsb5XaY872ZtIxTkQeYZpNgW8V2G2rUiYdaaQ0kiX213mk8cKbpUCx-Lb_wg2Zl-1RMxc_vVfxK0-JUvxsTZDXsCif/s1600/September+27%252C+2106+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="381" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8V-q4Nei77-wsL4jQKrOPPWphLaFOskydlDEMwC3XwxSqYfjoDcsb5XaY872ZtIxTkQeYZpNgW8V2G2rUiYdaaQ0kiX213mk8cKbpUCx-Lb_wg2Zl-1RMxc_vVfxK0-JUvxsTZDXsCif/s400/September+27%252C+2106+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="256" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 27, 1910 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> As 200,000 people look on, Walter L. Brookins circles his Wright biplane 2,500 feet above the city for a sustained flight of 20 minutes. Taking off from Grant Park, which was “black with humanity,” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 28, 1910]</i> the aviator thrills the crowd as he soars south to Twelfth Street, over the Loop to the Federal Building on Dearborn Street, and back over the lake. “Chicago looks for all the world like the picture on a postal card when you are 2,000 feet above it,” Brookins says at the end of the flight. “I could look down between my legs and see everything, but of course could recognize only a few of the buildings. I knew the federal building as soon as I saw it and I stopped my westward flight as I looked directly beneath me.” The next day Brookins would attempt a sustained trip from Chicago to Springfield in an attempt to outrun an Illinois Central passenger train.</span></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-8740296866320178262020-09-26T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-26T00:30:00.542-07:00September 26, 1979 -- Rock Island Reaches the End of the Line<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_aEYoUm8mPfGP1dVOwn5eayPVwUOW1GWYSBlvgtvLuwl_lr6bAYEAaRfMMTvvBF7BokIR5O2Szbg47VHvmf_se63XqrvcnHE0MeznVfDsrT4gasLM5cM7m5FVVDf3v7fA0gNF04NxJHhX/s1600/September+26%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="908" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_aEYoUm8mPfGP1dVOwn5eayPVwUOW1GWYSBlvgtvLuwl_lr6bAYEAaRfMMTvvBF7BokIR5O2Szbg47VHvmf_se63XqrvcnHE0MeznVfDsrT4gasLM5cM7m5FVVDf3v7fA0gNF04NxJHhX/s640/September+26%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 26, 1979 – </b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Interstate Commerce Commission rules that the bankrupt Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad will be taken over and operated by a management group selected from 14 other railroads.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Following the decision, a federal judge denies a request by the railroad to delay action on the commission’s decision.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vice-President Walter Mondale announces the ICC decision, saying that restoration of service on the strike-bound Rock Island is critical to Midwest farmers who are in the middle of bringing in the annual soybean and corn crops.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The members of the striking United Transportation Union agree to go back to work after the ICC announces that they will be paid “prevailing industry wage rates”.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 27, 1979] </i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The ruling of the ICC marks the first time in U. S. history that the federal government has ordered a major railroad taken over because it is failing.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It is estimated that the federal government will be paying $80 to $90 million to operate the Rock Island for the ensuing eight months.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The railroad traces its history back all the way to 1847 when a charter was granted to its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">At the height of its operation the railroad extended as far west as New Mexico, as far north as Minnesota and as far south as Louisiana and Texas.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago was its eastern point of origin.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The railroad was ultimately liquidated in 1980 although most of The Rock’s principal routes still exist today under the control of other lines<span style="font-size: 12px;">.</span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE52zv3qDUwwhb3Ab9YHoBzqcEeKbeGrYIr2ZZRCMPMbKa_m3-k_oJzJtdtFF-RPJRDqbH9_boEih-7tY_GZr0pBhw4tTqX42OQG0OOouYM4worQYpbEucTKOtw0i4v0dKVz166n40SVxz/s1600/September+26%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++b.jpg" style="color: #999999; 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padding: 0px;"> The </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune</i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> reports that work has begun on the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fountain at Brookfield Zoo. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It will be located at the intersection of the zoo’s east-west and north-south pedestrian malls and is expected to be completed by May of 1954.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The fountain will shoot water over 60 feet into the air, and it will fall into a pool that is 215 feet in diameter.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mrs. Clay Judson of Highland Park, the wife of the president of the Zoological society which operates the zoo, will sculpt four animals’ heads that will sit atop six-foot columns around the fountain, donating her services free of charge.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The sculptures will celebrate Roosevelt’s achievements as a statesman, naturalist, hunter, and soldier.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The architectural firm of Olsen and Urbain and Russell Read design the fountain’s layout and mechanical systems.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The same firm will also design the Seven Seas Panorama at the zoo, which will open seven years later.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The cost of the fountain will come from a memorial fund in the name of the late president that is administered by the Ferguson Fund at the Art Institute of Chicago.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The fountain was dedicated on May 14, 1954.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; 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The church, St. Peter’s, will replace one that has stood at 816 South Clark Street since just four years after the Great Fire in 1871. The Franciscan Fathers made some darned good deals in the process of arranging for their new place of worship. In 1942 the order bought the ten-story Woods Theater building from the Marshall Field estate for $600,000, property that it sold in June of 1949 for $1,200,000. At the same time the order bought the site for the new church from the Marshall Field estate for $515,000. The plans for the new building include a 1,600-seat auditorium, a chapel above the main auditorium that will seat 300, with the two upper floors serving as the friary. Some heavy hitters participated in the competition, including Edo J. Belli, Nairne W. Fischer, Hermann J. Gaul, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, Rapp and Rapp, and Shaw, Metz and Dolio. Due to the scarcity of building materials in the post-war years it took awhile to finish the new St. Peter’s, but the church finally opened in 1955.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzou6am8dVTj0X3onpHwqUT72YlRsYMEz4LS4GvdMaYAezfseRepijv0LP3ZQpdMJCzayQK1nRjK7g6-9hKPlOVHr8IzAHEhWBxSB9ZD-VV08xCyaKk3SAP5Ph9R5qAs48sH1ELcba4b9/s1600/September+26%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1550" data-original-width="880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzou6am8dVTj0X3onpHwqUT72YlRsYMEz4LS4GvdMaYAezfseRepijv0LP3ZQpdMJCzayQK1nRjK7g6-9hKPlOVHr8IzAHEhWBxSB9ZD-VV08xCyaKk3SAP5Ph9R5qAs48sH1ELcba4b9/s400/September+26%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="226" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 26, 1925 –</span></b><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Three construction workers die and two others are seriously injured as a steel concrete scoop breaks away from the fourteenth floor of the Metropolitan Building at Randolph and La Salle Streets. The three men who die are all working on scaffolds below the scoop. Two of three workers on the highest of the two scaffolds manage to hang on and survive as the scoop kills the third man on the platform, suspended 25 feet below it. The crash occurs when hundreds of workers are flooding the Loop on their way to work. The intersections are jammed with people, and police reserves are summoned to clear enough room to permit the dead and the injured to be removed from the area. The Metropolitan Building as it appears today is shown above.</span></span></div></span></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-11207284344950791822020-09-25T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-25T00:30:05.512-07:00September 25, 1961 -- Michigan Avenue's Water Tower Inn Opens<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3vOSJaX5z5rJbBwLBQ4I3-F1eA46iU95ihvn3n2hyphenhyphen1gcfgvecmzisl6lY-CF2ce_5GuCuJ5Dt4Hi7ipPgBwsR7aIjf92_kbVzFkLU15xKRjknDdxBd7r0QwQJocuDLQ9rwIN5ZPMTjIlz/s1600/September+25%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+A.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="1600" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3vOSJaX5z5rJbBwLBQ4I3-F1eA46iU95ihvn3n2hyphenhyphen1gcfgvecmzisl6lY-CF2ce_5GuCuJ5Dt4Hi7ipPgBwsR7aIjf92_kbVzFkLU15xKRjknDdxBd7r0QwQJocuDLQ9rwIN5ZPMTjIlz/s640/September+25%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+A.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">flickr.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyqAX5kZXYlSdterAfpN9Fj-L4BkP1ic1tErsaJnBlI774psglwOAdo6GZXoUvvK79YK9mghogy7AFrOAF1n7KuwWbpsavmqxyH_UCz0tfkgLLigG5bRmS2Wcr0HlJUZWKx32Idpywhfr_/s1600/September+25%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+C.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1600" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyqAX5kZXYlSdterAfpN9Fj-L4BkP1ic1tErsaJnBlI774psglwOAdo6GZXoUvvK79YK9mghogy7AFrOAF1n7KuwWbpsavmqxyH_UCz0tfkgLLigG5bRmS2Wcr0HlJUZWKx32Idpywhfr_/s640/September+25%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+C.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">google.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 25, 1961 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Mayor Richard J. Daley receives a symbolic golden key as the $6 million Water Tower Inn is opened at 800 North Michigan Avenue. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Standing next to the historic Water Tower, the 15-story hotel will have 300 rooms and indoor parking for 150 cars.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">At a luncheon after the ceremony Hugh Michaels, the president of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association, says, “The opening of the Water Tower Inn provides north Michigan avenue with a new luxury that is not only exciting in its architectural design, but also is outstanding in its facilities.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 26, 1961]</i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The hotel brings a greener look to Michigan Avenue with the planting of more than 100 trees, 700 bushes, and 2,000 flowering plants on the Michigan Avenue and Chicago Avenue sides of the building.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The hotel will never make it to middle age.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> It is demolished in 1997 to make way for the Park Hyatt. The Water Tower Inn is shown in the top photo. Its replacement, the Park Hyatt tower, is shown in the second photo.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoTwgoFq3GGfsfjT85jMY_Jc1uhQWdioVxFRWg-FqqFV-D4pxiajkb3v9pK2KmYL1G29NhQORVT7WcA2Qzo9t-ztoiVRt2PMcF74MYYkZUyfdyaCEFz3QnO5O6njo51sFCWbAhKQnam4le/s1600/September+25%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoTwgoFq3GGfsfjT85jMY_Jc1uhQWdioVxFRWg-FqqFV-D4pxiajkb3v9pK2KmYL1G29NhQORVT7WcA2Qzo9t-ztoiVRt2PMcF74MYYkZUyfdyaCEFz3QnO5O6njo51sFCWbAhKQnam4le/s640/September+25%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wright, caught while helping to set up the exhibit the day before its opening, says, “I obtained my motif from an intimate study of nature rather than as a product of studies of architectural styles.”</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 24, 1930] </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> He explains that there “must be no conflict between architecture and nature,” illustrating that concept with a development he has proposed for Hollywood Hills, California, in which houses of concrete blocks conform with the contours of the hills in which they are built.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The exhibit also includes models of a tall apartment building of glass and steel and a gasoline filling station in which gas and oil tanks are hung from a cantilevered roof so that there are no obstructions in the way of motorists.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ggi140kA0y1qFNG5UiRvOvEOpRrFMr8UVitZP65vlA02i1RhJk78JppL6Ic_MJ515OdBeySnd5TxE_3l4HHKYyMlS-NOfYwg9MQUYGmcaCo4UwytJTTRCTFw8Kx7-F183x4rKYJIf4l6/s1600/September+25%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; 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padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune</i> reports that construction will soon begin on “one of the city’s most notable cooperative apartment buildings . .. . thoroughly American in its exterior design and in its interior treatment.” The Powhatan, to be located at Fiftieth Street and Chicago Beach Drive, a design of Robert S. De Golyer and Charles Morgan, combines the modern qualities of Art Deco’s fascination with historical references. The building will hold 45 apartments, ranging in size form six to ten rooms, that “will be the last word in luxury, with wood burning fireplaces, galleries with plaster beam ceilings, libraries, enough bathrooms to keep an entire family happy and so on.” The twentieth floor will hold a ballroom, and owners will enjoy a community swimming pool on the first floor. Today the Powhatan is an Art Deco jewel that has to be seen to be appreciated fully. According to <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Emporis</i> it is the most expensive residential high-rise on Chicago’s south side. For the full story on this amazing building you can <a href="http://www.connectingthewindycity.com/2012/09/the-powhatan-happy-birthday.html" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">turn to this link</span></a>.</span> </span></p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhMnuFgKgeBMTk5TgCNPSPog3c-xT3Em-ltp2k7-l2JAMOJAAPukjY2jhTUV4Y0W5vJfXfHZCH1AfxJv6TUNJkrVg5CpVqohjxhuQjHl4ykivMxmh7oM3dw0RQ5ZqbKwTT3JojVYTvOc5N/s1600/September+25%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhMnuFgKgeBMTk5TgCNPSPog3c-xT3Em-ltp2k7-l2JAMOJAAPukjY2jhTUV4Y0W5vJfXfHZCH1AfxJv6TUNJkrVg5CpVqohjxhuQjHl4ykivMxmh7oM3dw0RQ5ZqbKwTT3JojVYTvOc5N/s640/September+25%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 25, 1907 –</span></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The city’s Commissioner of Public Works, John Hanberg, following a conference with officials of Marshall Field and Company, rescinds his decree against public clocks on State Street, issued two days earlier. The commissioner had earlier also notified Spaulding and Co., Lewy Bros., and J. Florsheim to remove clocks from the street even though the city council had passed permits for them, noting that they violated the city’s prohibition against projecting advertising signs. Marshall Field officials agree to omit any advertising features from the clock, so the timepiece, one of the main features of State Street today, is allowed.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-74618533243231065212020-09-24T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-24T00:30:03.561-07:00September 24, 1992 -- Michigan Avenue Bridge Yields Toppled Crane<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmj6yZ4IhQl1nAW5VL4wmCN3CBhs9G8UgJqMNDLBExPabc5PG_TKdnAbMKPThDe98N7CalfOAYvydTaIdWqIND45id83PiSoZdw6-bqT0q5VxJJrl5bj6tYuREZAX6e_YhaBFunNQgszba/s1600/September+24%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmj6yZ4IhQl1nAW5VL4wmCN3CBhs9G8UgJqMNDLBExPabc5PG_TKdnAbMKPThDe98N7CalfOAYvydTaIdWqIND45id83PiSoZdw6-bqT0q5VxJJrl5bj6tYuREZAX6e_YhaBFunNQgszba/w625-h469/September+24%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">JBartholomew Photo</span></i></b></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p><b style="font-weight: bold;">September 24, 1992 –</b> Construction crews remove the last section of a 40-ton crane that had wedged itself into the mechanism operating the Michigan Avenue bridge, immobilizing the main north-south route between the Loop and North Michigan Avenue. The base of the crane had plunged into the trunnion pit five days earlier when the southeast leaf of the bridge unexpectedly acted as a catapult, springing up with such force that the crane's boom was thrown onto Wacker Drive. Officials still do not know how much damage has been done to the bridge. On September 23 city officials acknowledge that no city inspector had ever checked whether proper balance was being maintained on the bridge as construction workers overhauled it. A spokesman for the city’s Transportation Department, Chuck Wolf, says, “This department really doesn’t have the manpower to do that.” <i>[Chicago Tribune, September 25, 1992].</i> The city has previously said that inspectors made daily inspections at the site. Because of the compromised bridge Chicago Park District officials have warned that it will not be open for sailboats returning to winter storage from Lake Michigan. Eight hundred boats usually make their way up the river to storage as the cold weather season approaches. Coast Guard Captain Larry Balock says, “To have it in the down position for any period of time is going to put a lot of people in a difficult position.” For more information about the accident itself you can turn <a href="http://www.connectingthewindycity.com/2017/09/september-20-1992-michigan-avenue.html" target="_blank">to this entry in Connecting the Windy City.</a></p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDancSHkqZGIda_29nKL_vdLYF7JnwKJrvpna7Xurf7BjTA_gG3IbWu5_v5F8IhFfp1jzISYc4w-8K02HsLRalzdeAKanvrYpljPNN0MSRPLKs9MVtsLoIbQ9e34if0OaR8FXg6dyn06F/s1600/September+24%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.png" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1045" data-original-width="1600" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDancSHkqZGIda_29nKL_vdLYF7JnwKJrvpna7Xurf7BjTA_gG3IbWu5_v5F8IhFfp1jzISYc4w-8K02HsLRalzdeAKanvrYpljPNN0MSRPLKs9MVtsLoIbQ9e34if0OaR8FXg6dyn06F/s640/September+24%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.png" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">twitter.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpqWRSpkWuKHG__6PIsGck3BKRb00jZrjqW8KPi6PqjSmJoDwtP2S_kthvPssYg952c1n_mkUYUK5k-befVJwc-wrtUM-IL0LEAXIP0is1Hh9ey9krIeaavChdv018xtn9MaZtBLHBBv1M/s1600/September+24%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1220" data-original-width="1600" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpqWRSpkWuKHG__6PIsGck3BKRb00jZrjqW8KPi6PqjSmJoDwtP2S_kthvPssYg952c1n_mkUYUK5k-befVJwc-wrtUM-IL0LEAXIP0is1Hh9ey9krIeaavChdv018xtn9MaZtBLHBBv1M/s640/September+24%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">google.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 24, 1966 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> A top city planner, Louis Wetmore, says that the drafting of a master plan for the 16 blocks of air rights over the Illinois Central railroad property between Randolph Street and the Chicago River will be “the first major step before construction can be started.” </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> [Chicago Tribune, September 25, 1986] </i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Wetmore observes that much of the preliminary planning has been done as the result of the adjudication over the preceding eight years of the legality of the railroad’s claim to air rights ownership. The legal challenge ended on the preceding day when the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in favor of the railroad. Wetmore says that a master plan for the I. C. air rights between Randolph and the river would be part of a larger plan that includes 77 acres owned by the Chicago Dock and Canal Company, an area bounded by St. Clair Street, Grand Avenue, and Streeter Drive, just to the east of Lake Shore Drive. Preliminary plans for the 16 blocks south of the river specify “decking” the area with three levels. The lower deck, which will rise at least 18 feet above the Illinois Central tracks will be for trucks. The second deck will be for automobiles and underground pedestrian walkways, and the upper deck will be for plazas and pedestrian use. The three development companies with options on the property look at a total expenditure of nearly $1 billion before the project is brought to completion in 20 years. Bernard Weissbourd, the president of Metropolitan Structures, one of the developers, says, “We intend to give the city and the other developers our fullest cooperation, for we believe that this area promises to become one of the most magnificent places in the world.” The top photo shows the area when planning for development first began before the Second World War. The second photo shows the area as it appears today. Times have changed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTh97MLlEgGt59RI_ItasC0f7Vsv1x2R65uoJ2L-5qQ4oz7kxubunrpQmi5OqGXKfCuIQKQAG5JYFzJbJFeNylnQyZQDgfbeqCn4rdKzejLAGkJJiAc4UexhJJdlA2eMlpDypMApwKlL-j/s1600/September+24%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1056" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTh97MLlEgGt59RI_ItasC0f7Vsv1x2R65uoJ2L-5qQ4oz7kxubunrpQmi5OqGXKfCuIQKQAG5JYFzJbJFeNylnQyZQDgfbeqCn4rdKzejLAGkJJiAc4UexhJJdlA2eMlpDypMApwKlL-j/s640/September+24%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 24, 1966</span></b><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> – </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shortly after the Illinois Supreme Court finds that the Illinois Central Railroad holds full rights of ownership to 186 acres east of Michigan Avenue from Randolph Street to the river, the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune</i> runs an editorial, entitled “A Whole New City on Our Doorstep,” proclaiming that the opportunity with which Chicago has been presented, “comes rarely to a big city, and it should not be missed.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 24, 1966] </i>The editorial notes that the development “will require major street improvements. Lake Shore drive must be rebuilt to eliminate the two sharp turns. Wacker drive must be extended east from Michigan avenue in two levels. A new bridge across the Chicago river will be needed. “Wise planning for the area should include connections with the projected downtown subways for rapid transit trains.” Despite the work needed, the piece is forceful in the warning contained in its conclusion, “City officials should not delay their part of this program until the private developers become discouraged.” The photo above captures the area of Illinois Center where the Hyatt Hotel stands today. </span> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><o:p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVfqU40H4xRiHYjqhj9OwAASdR8HnLbezoV-8_veHgsEufoG7AY9fog0X9zkvdokgecCimYdgeS6unwvDwGT-MgfwNzTQtCc2v8OsAu5O5oxjGQU9EH4nqgRofhNPvgs6dpyo0mywIgAg1/s1600/September+24%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="946" height="505" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVfqU40H4xRiHYjqhj9OwAASdR8HnLbezoV-8_veHgsEufoG7AY9fog0X9zkvdokgecCimYdgeS6unwvDwGT-MgfwNzTQtCc2v8OsAu5O5oxjGQU9EH4nqgRofhNPvgs6dpyo0mywIgAg1/s640/September+24%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 24, 1954 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> With the decision to move to the suburbs, the Butler Brothers Catalog Company announces the appointment of Hogan and Farwell, Inc., a Chicago realty firm, as the leasing agent to develop its headquarters building on the northeast corner of Canal and Randolph Streets. The building has close to one million square feet of floor space with the Prudential Insurance Company of America leasing the tenth and eleventh floors and the United States government holding short-term leases for the Social Security board and the Air Force. George and Edward Butler founded their mail-order company in Boston in 1877, opening a Chicago warehouse two years later. By 1910 over a thousand people worked in its Chicago operation. The 1922 warehouse, originally designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, is today Randolph Place Condos with 340 loft apartments. The </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">photo above shows the complex in 1950.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfg0lpTykQXXmYNa52mo9r93aX_hX_b1UEnjMkyhOLRCjXgbZeVSk4ogptV7dnBfJZbZqwMl3fD-hKbloBsoupSp2GiIpuGUE9PYrUeKcfPBAXTiwqnGOx3n_um4gahu37Syox6sBT6f6r/s1600/September+24%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="577" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfg0lpTykQXXmYNa52mo9r93aX_hX_b1UEnjMkyhOLRCjXgbZeVSk4ogptV7dnBfJZbZqwMl3fD-hKbloBsoupSp2GiIpuGUE9PYrUeKcfPBAXTiwqnGOx3n_um4gahu37Syox6sBT6f6r/s640/September+24%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">explore.chicagocollecitons.org</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 24, 1907 – </b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Title is filed for property on Wentworth Avenue between Thirty-Fourth and Thirty-Fifth Street, land that will be used to build an armory for the Seventh Regiment of the Illinois National Guard.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Architect W. Carbys Zimmerman will draw up the plans for the structure. The basement will contain a rifle range, bowling alleys and a swimming pool.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There will be two large areas for assemblages, one that will hold 2,000 people and another on the lower level that will accommodate 1,000.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When completed the armory will surpass these projections.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For $500,000 the city got a building capable of holding 15,000 people.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In 1908 it hosted the Republican National Convention and later that year Eugene V. Debs, the socialist candidate for President, also spoke to large crowds there.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You won’t find the armory there today.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The site is the north parking lot complex for Guaranteed Rate Field. The above photo is an interesting one … it shows spectators watching the White Sox play the New York Giants in the 1917 World Series from the rooftop of the armory just to the north.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Note the “7” on the tower from which viewers take in the game.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-55376951726686920292020-09-23T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-23T00:30:04.449-07:00September 23, 1931 -- Post Office Celebrates 20 Years of Air Mail Service<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfcx-bkG9o6UaxBIFyY6WenBEh3v-TY2FlqmFcEO8BcfpLIAvTZS6qQeljjlVzc9OLk6dmiMd7o-jXiQ2rnzmVrMcXRZrL0yPAwypzjm28aEdAa9HEsssHsk9iFkPr7w2wWanOU_YWdZv/s436/September+23%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="436" height="455" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfcx-bkG9o6UaxBIFyY6WenBEh3v-TY2FlqmFcEO8BcfpLIAvTZS6qQeljjlVzc9OLk6dmiMd7o-jXiQ2rnzmVrMcXRZrL0yPAwypzjm28aEdAa9HEsssHsk9iFkPr7w2wWanOU_YWdZv/w625-h455/September+23%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">images.chicagohistory.org</span></i></b></div><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p><span style="font-family: arial;">September 23, 1931 –</span></b><span style="font-family: arial;"> The city celebrates twenty years of air mail service, a period in which Chicago has taken a lead in moving the mail by airplane. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">A quarter of the 9,000,000 pounds of air mail carried each year either originates or passes through Chicago.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Eighty planes depart from the city each day, carrying mail, passengers and freight, and a</span><span style="font-family: arial;">ir mail service is available to 140 cities in 44 states.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Twenty-six of the Chicago-based planes are operated by United Air Lines, one of the largest carriers in the country.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Air mail flights in the United States began in September of 1911 when eight pilots made daily flights from Garden City Estates in New York to Mineola, dropping mailbags from their planes to the ground.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Five years later the United States Congress approved $50,000 for air mail experimentation, and on May 15, 1918 regular air mail service between New York City and Washington, D. C. began.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">On February 22, 1921 the first night flight from San Francisco to New York was staged, and in 1923 the Post Office Department began building a national network of beacons to guide flyers making their way across the country at night.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The first section of the route, from Cheyenne, Wyoming to Chicago, was built with emergency landing fields every 25 miles and five regular landing fields, each of which was marked by 50-foot towers with rotating beacons.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Between landing fields 289 beacons, visible for up to nine miles, were installed every three miles.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">By 1925 this network had made it all the way to New York City. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">As a separate class of service, domestic air mail ended in October 1975 when the Postal Service announced that First-Class postage, three cents cheaper than the air mail rate, would buy the same level of service.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>[about.usps.com]</i></span><p></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF93RnweRAairmfY69Hu97cfwSo3TpvbXmiNsdAdYIq7UhUEcLSn6ZFg-dUEQODm5p0vyNlxOzq1g4_9a-eyvIqokLvPplInHXmdVjDF04RDeEJQrVHUjMJsjGfV2habd7aH6kSqGxd1iV/s1600/September+23%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="940" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF93RnweRAairmfY69Hu97cfwSo3TpvbXmiNsdAdYIq7UhUEcLSn6ZFg-dUEQODm5p0vyNlxOzq1g4_9a-eyvIqokLvPplInHXmdVjDF04RDeEJQrVHUjMJsjGfV2habd7aH6kSqGxd1iV/s400/September+23%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="312" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">nverpleadguilty.blogspot.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 23, 1933 –</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Sally Rand is found guilty of “willfully performing an obscene and indecent dance in a public place” </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 24, 1933]</i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> by a jury of twelve men. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is the second time she has been tried on a charge that began with warrants sworn out on August 4 after Rand’s performances at the Chicago Theater.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Before the jury adjourns the Assistant State’s Attorney proclaims, “Are you gentlemen, whether married or single, to permit the stamp of approval to be put on such a nude and indecent performance?</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I warn you that if you do you will revive the animalism of Greece, approve the lust of Rome, set the stamp of approval on the free love of the middle ages and condone the loves of the Borgias.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You will return us to paganism.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Previously, the jurors watched the dancer, dressed in a skirt and a high-necked satin blouse go through her moves in the courtroom before they adjourned to the jury room, where they needed just one hour and fifteen minutes to render a verdict.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The judge waits until Rand returns from a performance at the theater before he pronounces the maximum sentence under the law – one year in jail and a fine of $200.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The judge denies a request from Rand’s attorney for a new trial although he does agree to a stay of 60 days to allow the attorney to file a motion and releases Rand on a bond of $2,000.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rand says, “If the jury is right, and the dance I do actually is indecent, and the court is right in sentencing me to a year in jail, all I can say is that every one who is engaged in sculpture, painting, music or dancing ought to quit.”</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rand’s attorney reacts as well, saying, “It’s asinine for the law to permit us to view the life-size statue of a nude man in the Art Institute – and experts agree that a man is more ugly in the nude than a woman – and yet bring a criminal charge against a woman for dancing with her body covered with thick white cream.” </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8zaf68B4Q7Akv4ASKo8aTcJG4EoifAgJuwns4g9W9c9_LD5FYiwC_HoSW5AGzkAFnrBYZrwUlZTyjn76Kcm36P_pNpzn6hd0U7kv9vsJnyviozQ7EKoZgBoGpfKanF2gvqhN3gfULqnc7/s1600/September+23%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; 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The road will only be open during the day as streetlights still need to be installed. This will be the first major thoroughfare to be opened as a result of $20,840,000 in gasoline and license taxes that the Illinois legislature had approved earlier. It is expected that 35,000 cars a day will be using the new road each day although there are still obstacles to be overcome. The junction with Sheridan Road at Foster Avenue will be a significant bottleneck. George Barton, an engineer for the Chicago Motor Club, says, “Unless every assistance is given to traffic at Sheridan road and Foster avenue the utility of the new mile of outer drive is seriously curtailed. This intersection will be the new bottleneck in the north side boulevard system, replacing the present bottlenecks at Montrose and Clarendon avenues and at Lawrence avenue and Sheridan road.” The junction of Sheridan and Foster is shown above several years after the Lake Shore Drive extension is opened. The second photo shows the same area today.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymN_IUo18F9dixAWzPAt7Di_ZvSyW9ZM0rJif5U1qPOeInfhyb089eqQPqXzpkIwSlyWDIobzV7NYC7YqJmbH-ZXjA5Jp4bNNqT_FjkPNZOC1wOrt84vvSARgzG3UWpFTKBxliVM8wXr9/s1600/September+23%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="270" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymN_IUo18F9dixAWzPAt7Di_ZvSyW9ZM0rJif5U1qPOeInfhyb089eqQPqXzpkIwSlyWDIobzV7NYC7YqJmbH-ZXjA5Jp4bNNqT_FjkPNZOC1wOrt84vvSARgzG3UWpFTKBxliVM8wXr9/s400/September+23%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); 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padding: 0px;"> </span>Three of the four corner units of the Art Deco tower, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, are complete with placement of steel for each section taking between 35 and 57 days.<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; 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padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 23, 1929 – </b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Construction of the Wabash Avenue bridge begins, an event that, it is hoped, will usher in “the beginning of a new era of prosperity and business activity in the community …” </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 23, 1929] </i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Projected completion date for the new span is anticipated to be December 1, 1930 as the contractor in charge of the construction of the bridge’s sub-structure has been given 11 months to complete the work. The bridge will connect the north end of Wabash Avenue at Wacker Drive with the south end of Cass Avenue on the north side of the river. A viaduct will also be constructed across the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railroad at </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kinzie Street with a gradual grade bringing the road down to grade level at Illinois Street. The $3,700,000 span will be a two-leaf, single deck bascule bridge, 232 feet long and 60 feet wide with sidewalks on each side of the bridge spanning 13 feet. Completing the project entailed coming to terms with the C and NW concerning the placing of piers, columns and easements. Before construction even begins, businessmen on Cass Street are planning improvements that they hope will bring shoppers, new businesses and residents to the area.</span></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-66170351841561247112020-09-22T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-22T00:30:01.428-07:00September 22, 1959 -- Chicago River Properties Given Warning ... Clean It Up<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNQ9ILIOT61c37Eu1SwaPR0Ba8dfwPqWzPsQrjMZQep-t3KqSepscyYGrNUwsmCqwe-C9RvVKKQ0Rv-Puf3_ZXC6IbOo1Cj3d0lrKGc4wIh3eO1IjJNjYeHh4do7HJo6kxIQ0Auj6_3im7/s1125/September+22%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="1125" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNQ9ILIOT61c37Eu1SwaPR0Ba8dfwPqWzPsQrjMZQep-t3KqSepscyYGrNUwsmCqwe-C9RvVKKQ0Rv-Puf3_ZXC6IbOo1Cj3d0lrKGc4wIh3eO1IjJNjYeHh4do7HJo6kxIQ0Auj6_3im7/w625-h466/September+22%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Chicago Tribune Photo</i></b></span></div><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b></p>September 22, 1959 –</b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Chicago port officials and Mayor Richard J. Daley announce that they are sending letters of warning to 67 property owners, including the Illinois Central Railroad, in an effort to clean up and repair property along the Chicago River. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If owners ignore the letters, Daley says, the city will take them to court.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The mayor huffs, “I must add that the property owned by the Illinois Central that extends 1,900 feet east of Michigan Avenue, on the south side of the river bank, certainly cannot be called an encouraging sight.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I notice this area every time I walk across the Michigan Avenue bridge, and it is definitely not pleasing.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 23, 1959]</i>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Illinois Central officials maintain that they have no responsibility to maintain the area in question since the company granted the city an easement for connecting Michigan Avenue to the Outer Drive, today’s Lake Shore Drive, in 1919. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Illinois Central president Wayne A. Johnson says, “The railroad’s position on this matter has not changed.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Our attorneys tell us that when we offered the easement the obligation became that of the city of Chicago, with reference to the shore upkeep.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The above photo shows the area in question seven years later when 19 honey locust trees are finally planted east of the Michigan Avenue bridge on July 26, 1966.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><p></p></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbU8ioltQG2iO82ZXDgvWQ8sFbCf5wq3awupvLjGz04j6A734-W-GzyUbr0957Uy2a9V2fQohqS-lGd-HEWNehDboHqp56lD4h_Q9YR1Zc2YPxqMg1i8JqUqpyQM4np-MwgF4CJr6YEDrT/s1600/September+22%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1300" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbU8ioltQG2iO82ZXDgvWQ8sFbCf5wq3awupvLjGz04j6A734-W-GzyUbr0957Uy2a9V2fQohqS-lGd-HEWNehDboHqp56lD4h_Q9YR1Zc2YPxqMg1i8JqUqpyQM4np-MwgF4CJr6YEDrT/s400/September+22%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="400" /></a></div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383434;"></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 22, 1981 –</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Two firefighters die and six others are injured while fighting an extra-alarm fire in the Willoughby Tower office building at 8 South Michigan Avenue. Fire Commissioner William Blair says, “There was no chance … there was no way out for them.” The two firefighters, Joseph Hitz, a snorkel truck driver with Hook and Ladder 1 and Craig McShane, a rookie with Engine 42, fall to their deaths down an open elevator shaft from the twenty-fifth floor to the roof of an elevator stopped at the ninth floor. The fire on the floor from which they fell started in materials a cleaning crew had left in the elevator, and as a result the car fell until its brakes activated and stopped it on the ninth floor. Six firefighters exit an elevator on the twenty-fifth floor to find the hallway filled with smoke. Breathing through air masks, they find an open office through which they are able to reach a fire escape at which point they discover that one of their number, Hitz, is missing. McShane, the only firefighter who still has air in his self-contained breathing apparatus, crawls back to check, and he falls through the same open elevator shaft into which Hitz had fallen earlier. Mayor Jane Byrne, standing at the scene as the search for the two men is being conducted, says, “I am deeply sorrowed by the loss of the lives of these two brave firemen …I have conferred with Commissioner Blair and directed him to immediately procure, by the end of the week at the latest, two-way hand radios for every Chicago firemen in hopes that this would prevent a recurrence of such tragic accidents.” Hitz and McShane are the first Chicago firemen killed on duty since 1978 and the first multiple deaths of Chicago firefighters since 1973. The plaque, pictured above, memorializing the two firefighters, can be seen at the firehouse at 419 South Wells Street, about a mile away from the tragic fire of 1981.</span></span></span><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtyeu5eRWpifIpaVYDGpSWwDkYrCe1tvjEQqP5b0LeXiBMv78ZINltg08FbuTvVZe-ZeRVoRE0FQuh-cU1bEkPqmWk3P1ZLr7gIhN-UQjHZf0TMcodLQKccKCWhluquWzTwY7kPXK5Zzy9/s1600/September+22%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtyeu5eRWpifIpaVYDGpSWwDkYrCe1tvjEQqP5b0LeXiBMv78ZINltg08FbuTvVZe-ZeRVoRE0FQuh-cU1bEkPqmWk3P1ZLr7gIhN-UQjHZf0TMcodLQKccKCWhluquWzTwY7kPXK5Zzy9/s640/September+22%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span><span style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 22, 1974</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> – The </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune </i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">reports that Harry Weese and Associates has won the highest award of the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for an apartment building at the southwest corner of South Lake Park Avenue at East Forty-Seventh Street. A.I.A jurors call the design a “good design at the highest level within the narrow constraints of publicly financed housing.” The 26-story tower, Lake Shore East, features 38 angled, vertical planes of glass and brick which “give the building’s shape and its interplay of elements many different appearances as they are viewed from various perspectives.” </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 22, 1974]</i></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="color: black; font-family: times; font-style: normal;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQIiPuTJp7nObFd7h6VR0Shyphenhyphenli32jSk9GFxHwbViD_tuwZNopAzEyJHdobJfL3Z9Br4cPn79t6uyAoM8t7B6HKTNkElqXZQXa6rJwWqRFkGKh14H9I3Dk9lyG_QW0megRICtGHIbv0K0aG/s1600/September+22%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="721" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQIiPuTJp7nObFd7h6VR0Shyphenhyphenli32jSk9GFxHwbViD_tuwZNopAzEyJHdobJfL3Z9Br4cPn79t6uyAoM8t7B6HKTNkElqXZQXa6rJwWqRFkGKh14H9I3Dk9lyG_QW0megRICtGHIbv0K0aG/s640/September+22%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 22, 1935 –</b><span style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> In the six hours that the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune</i> opens the doors of the new home of its radio station, 4,368 people tour the facilities. Over 500 visitors fill out forms for a chance to gain admission to the auditorium when performances begin. The paper describes the new digs in this way, “The lighting effects, the sharp slant of the auditorium for purposes of better vision, the richly covered, deep cushioned seats and the sound proofed walls attracted appreciative comments.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 23, 1935]</i> The building just to the north of Tribune Tower is laid out or “squared off” with Polaris, the north star, as a sighting point, an innovative approach that allows a variance of about an eighth-inch along the building’s frontage on Michigan Avenue. On October 5 the auditorium opens with two orchestras entertaining all of the workers who had labored on the building, along with their families. Colonel Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the paper, tells them, “This victory of peace has a sadness for me, for it means I must part from the men I have watched at this building for the last year and a half . . . You have piled stone on stone, color on color, and joined wire to wire. You have built here, forever, something that your children will thank you for. You leave me with emotion. God bless you and be with you always.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, October 2, 1935]. </i></span></span></i></span></span></span></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Well, not quite forever ... the facility is undergoing significant alteration as it transitions into a new life as part of the Tribune Tower conversion from a commercial skyscraper to a residential tower.</span></span></span></i></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-68250513999841106922020-09-21T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-21T00:30:03.437-07:00September 21, 1950 -- Columbus Hospital Dedicates New Wing<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_XqPQNIyULOX3JciSKbbpZUZRuhemAGH7_Gv2oD93YyP2F1WAztZf0A4OqtQe-KBKZAJWj96MQWoIv4NWbMc_ueUHqzVfVaN94pOaJwdcTWyy9vWA4BqcRudYJrY-x0PVd_MrvCFlZQw5/s2048/September+21%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_XqPQNIyULOX3JciSKbbpZUZRuhemAGH7_Gv2oD93YyP2F1WAztZf0A4OqtQe-KBKZAJWj96MQWoIv4NWbMc_ueUHqzVfVaN94pOaJwdcTWyy9vWA4BqcRudYJrY-x0PVd_MrvCFlZQw5/w625-h469/September+21%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">bing.com</span></i></b></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>September 21, 1950 –</b> The Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal Samuel Stretch, blesses and formally opens the new addition to Columbus Hospital at 2540 Lake View Avenue. Columbus Hospital was founded in the early 1900’s when Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, who arrived in Chicago in 1903, followed a directive from the city’s archbishop, James Edward Quigley, leading an effort to purchase a Lincoln Park Hotel which was turned into the hospital. With the 1950 addition the hospital’s capacity rises from 500 to 750 beds. Also part of the new addition is the narthex of a chapel that will be built to accommodate visiting pilgrims. The chapel is completed in 1955 and, despite the fact that the hospital was shuttered in 2001 and a swanky Lincoln Park high rise residential tower, 2550 North Lake View, was completed on the site in 2012, the chapel still exists. The chapel and shrine were a separate property belonging to the order of nuns founded by Mother Cabrini, and, through donations from the faithful, they were preserved and refurbished under the direction of architect Mark Sullivan. The above photo shows the careful preservation of the chapel as Columbus Hospital was being demolished. A look at the chapel and the history of Columbus Hospital can be found in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J3wTzbugyM" target="_blank">this YouTube video</a> … and a look at the work of Mother Cabrini can be found in this entry in Connecting the Windy City. <b> </b></span></p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHFO8dKOGvBdJRiKKkixCCuwghtCHJP-tPsxEqGAuGxVlbipFJERxqaZ54caie_uoDAntyUCKyEiYJvLuaFnnlCGxmCjRkd3iCkPhpyMHqU36w6wXR4jEtI2fUQj-DVJuZLsr1pXy56WHj/s1600/September+20%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #cc6600; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="1024" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHFO8dKOGvBdJRiKKkixCCuwghtCHJP-tPsxEqGAuGxVlbipFJERxqaZ54caie_uoDAntyUCKyEiYJvLuaFnnlCGxmCjRkd3iCkPhpyMHqU36w6wXR4jEtI2fUQj-DVJuZLsr1pXy56WHj/s640/September+20%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">smithsonianmag.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 21, 1979 –</b><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Governor James Thompson signs a bill that allows banks to install electronic teller machines away from their main premises. </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The bill had previously passed the Illinois General Assembly with more than a three-fifths majority, despite the fact that critics labelled the measure as a form of branch banking that would give larger banks an unfair advantage over smaller banks.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The bill allows banks or savings and loan associations “to install automatic teller machines in up to 10 locations that could receive deposits and loan payments, issue withdrawals, and transfer funds between accounts.”</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i></span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 22, 1979]</i></span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The new law also allows expansion of “point of sale” terminals that can cash checks.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">According to <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">history.com</i>, the first automated banking machine in the United States was created by a former professional baseball player named Donald Wetzel, and in 1969 a Chemical Bank branch on Long Island installed the first of his machines.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Machines were installed in various locations after that, but the new technology really moved forward when Citibank spent more than $100 million in 1977 to install the machines across New York City.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shortly thereafter, a huge January blizzard blanketed the city, and banks closed down for days.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The use of automated teller machines increased by 20 percent during the storm.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A new era had begun.<span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; 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padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 21, 1941 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> A near tragedy is averted as the Midnight Special on its way out of Chicago and bound for St. Louis is halted just in time to avoid falling into the Chicago River when the railroad bridge at Twenty-First Street is opened to permit a lake freighter to pass. The engineer brings the train to a halt with “its small front wheels and first large drive wheels already over the water and beyond the rail ends.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 22, 1941]</i> No one is hurt in the mishap, the passenger cars are pulled back to Union Station, and the passengers continue the trip after the fouled tracks are cleared.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRXTlFLXjAlFOrnIZ6PJMVL1970fUP-5cJIcv5jwnvvQbDSVSl0azkrrzCTR0aqNgcSjZtloREVlbL5ZgFbcQRgrA55eEGbrFAUlhgArcyeaiZMTeb8kZbWMhXjlFFDu9UfsaTi88qFczu/s1600/September+21%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1302" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRXTlFLXjAlFOrnIZ6PJMVL1970fUP-5cJIcv5jwnvvQbDSVSl0azkrrzCTR0aqNgcSjZtloREVlbL5ZgFbcQRgrA55eEGbrFAUlhgArcyeaiZMTeb8kZbWMhXjlFFDu9UfsaTi88qFczu/s640/September+21%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 21, 1906 –</span></b><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The laying of the cornerstone for the new Cook County building is highlighted by the presence of United States Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks, who arrives to preside at the ceremony. A long and circuitous parade begins at 2:00 p.m. at the Auditorium Annex where Fairbanks is staying and moves north to Clark, where the principal speakers ascend the dais. Mayor Edward F. Dunne, Governor Charles S. Deneen, and Vice-President Fairbanks deliver the addresses at the Clark Street ceremony. In the cornerstone rest volumes of Cook County history, the proceedings of the Cook County board for the year, the membership rolls of the principal clubs of the city, various artifacts supplied by the Chicago Historical Society, and copies of the day’s newspapers. In the evening a banquet is held at the Auditorium Annex for 500 people. Pictured above, the county’s half of the building on Clark Street, designed by Holabird and Roche, will be completed by 1908. The city’s half on La Salle Street will follow two years later. </span></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQHPznlTp1XzfNSiPwSg1qZNN3DbYSFGHUIR-yjsQnbE4Dvzr4vhb4xQg2wqHF_qXZLeezNxOPeQpQt7_ugs18CETa0rt_bxwkyfZxfso_hdO0jaw6JFqLxf_f1s7w-UJTiKjS-3oHs88X/s1600/September+21%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="1600" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQHPznlTp1XzfNSiPwSg1qZNN3DbYSFGHUIR-yjsQnbE4Dvzr4vhb4xQg2wqHF_qXZLeezNxOPeQpQt7_ugs18CETa0rt_bxwkyfZxfso_hdO0jaw6JFqLxf_f1s7w-UJTiKjS-3oHs88X/s640/September+21%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 21, 1891 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Daily Tribune </i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">reports that because of the attractiveness of its quarters and because of the easy access it will have to the much-heralded World’s Columbian Exposition, due to open in 1893, there has been “much wire-pulling among officers and men of influence to secure the detail” at Fort Sheridan, under construction on the North Shore. As the spring of 1892 comes to an end it is anticipated that close to 1,000 soldiers will be stationed at the new garrison, including eight companies of the Sixth Cavalry, currently stationed in Nebraska, eight companies of the One-Hundredth Infantry, already at the fort, Light Battery E, an artillery unit, just ordered to the base, and, at the end of the spring, four troops of cavalry. Over a million dollars has already been expended on the construction at Fort Sheridan with at least another $200,000 worth of construction still to be completed. The base will be the most expensive military garrison in the country, and, when it is completed, it will also be the largest.</span></span></div></span></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-68806662260793412172020-09-20T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-20T00:30:05.513-07:00September 20, 2004 -- Spertus Institute Announces New Headquarters<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheRMVz5MPnKi_wmPDKzfojX7ohtovmN0zd1RzUErhHYTgZ_1eZabQfWz5yzegR8xCqUR7DTnRO-1w2k2MqM-ZlgCege5XMR5grAjuEbtZb69LrL1GS7SaueFQY6v_75m9zh2G-HqtV03oV/s1600/September+20%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="1600" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheRMVz5MPnKi_wmPDKzfojX7ohtovmN0zd1RzUErhHYTgZ_1eZabQfWz5yzegR8xCqUR7DTnRO-1w2k2MqM-ZlgCege5XMR5grAjuEbtZb69LrL1GS7SaueFQY6v_75m9zh2G-HqtV03oV/s640/September+20%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">innovation glass.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 20, 2004 –</b><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago architects Ron Krueck and Mark Sexton and the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies unveil a plan for the Institute’s new home on Michigan Avenue.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The plan will be the first test of whether a contemporary building will meet the design guidelines of the Michigan Avenue Historic District.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Frist reactions are favorable.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jim Peters, the Director of Planning for the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois, says, “It adheres to many of the more key design guidelines for the district, including height, proportions and mild projections.”</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 19, 2004] </i><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The proposed building, projected to cost $49 million, will contain a 400-seat lecture hall, a library, museum, and public facilities and will stand on what had previously been a vacant lot in the 600 block of South Michigan Avenue, just north of the Spertus Institute’s current home at 618 South Michigan Avenue.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Early in 2018 the Spertus Institute’s new building was named as one of Illinois’ 200 Great Places by the Illinois Council of the American Institute of Architects.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The structure’s window wall is built from 726 individual pieces of glass in 556 different shapes.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The multi-faceted planes of the window wall bring light into the building, an important factor on a couple of levels.</span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">According to the Spertus website, “This emphasis on light echoes the Spertus logo, a flame accompanied by the biblical phrase “yehi” or, Hebrew for ‘let there be light,’ symbolizing both physical light and the light of learning.” </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[https://www.spertus.edu/610at10]</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwhcVw9E4k40-ESrJNANNUTyPPEnnmgbA1t7NMXlEZsqhhD_1dsyPFwTZCpBCLbB9-1gmGsLg47bTjX4OCPkcMl-mNqDVMhD7RpJPPYQXxlA-phSwVqLiGxoaWqCgNtwj-7YeU8quNdzW1/s1600/September+20%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwhcVw9E4k40-ESrJNANNUTyPPEnnmgbA1t7NMXlEZsqhhD_1dsyPFwTZCpBCLbB9-1gmGsLg47bTjX4OCPkcMl-mNqDVMhD7RpJPPYQXxlA-phSwVqLiGxoaWqCgNtwj-7YeU8quNdzW1/s400/September+20%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="266" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 20, 1992 –</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Big commotion on Wacker Drive east of Michigan Avenue when the Michigan Avenue bridge turns into a slingshot, shooting a 70-foot crane into the gap between the span and Wacker Drive. The crane’s boom falls across Wacker Drive with the iron ball and hook at the top of the crane bouncing off Wacker Drive and through the rear window of Jesus Lopez’s Ford Escort. Says Lopez, “I guess I was just lucky. I’m glad I wasn’t sitting in the back seat.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 21, 1992] </i>Jeff Boyle, the city’s Commissioner of Transportation, says, “The southeast leaf of the Michigan Avenue bridge was the last of four leafs under construction. The bridge, which is out of balance during construction, started to rise and went up into a straight vertical position. What stopped the bridge from going any further or falling back down was the crane that got wedged in there.” Diana Morales, a police officer directing traffic at the time of the accident had just stopped a CTA bus in an effort to divert it to the Wabash Avenue bridge just to the west. “I was behind the bus directing traffic and trying to get the bus out of the way, but [the driver] said he couldn’t move so I told him to just stay there. [The Northwest leaf] was coming down and the Southeast side started coming up really fast and I just ran the other way.” Six passengers on the bus are injured as flying debris come through the open windows. The accident closes down the bridge indefinitely and ultimately leads to an acknowledgement on the part of the city that none of its inspectors had the experience or training to determine the proper balancing of weight on a bridge that is under construction.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1449" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgInlmhtTaUiEC5yqQsiRAWLTkmGY6jm8VJIbBGSEcb-SFiMTfSwTNO8fUinitEXTg4QwwLjq_1EIaEJlpeUmYhtvzyN3C4bhk6giVvrhvl2OBUOCXA8yje_qUgqSRVKPBliLhf1KLGrLYW/s640/September+20%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 20, 1915 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis orders the steamer <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Eastland</i> sold with bids to be opened and the sale to take place on December 20, 1915 in the United States marshal’s office in the Federal Building. The order is issued in order to cover the costs of the Great Lakes Towing Company, the firm that raised the hulk from the river bottom after the ship capsized on July 24 with a loss of life approaching one thousand souls. According to Jay R. Bonansinga’s <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Sinking of the Titanic:<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>America’s Forgotten Tragedy</i>, “. . . only two bidders showed up at the macabre auction held on a cold December morning." One of them was an attorney from Boston, who represented an East Coast steamship company. The other was Captain Edward A. Evers of the Illinois Naval Reserve. Evers won the auction with a bid of 46,000 dollars, taking possession of the hulk on December 28.</span></span></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img height="493" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin_Vefm6vBdcuUG8l1ORR7LzuntNanMgc7UN8xlmyR6_JT726TxKe9hv8IrkOQvVZ_-19FRRCyzLkhqwS3F_7DDaRlFjWvE01RL91gTzhCXatkr4GxKvXrYK5PjVVd_HpRzPE4PBVei1Pg/w655-h493/September+20%252C+2019+Blog+Photo_edited-1.jpg" width="655" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 20, 1889 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>Miscommunication between Captain James A Brown, in command of the steamship <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">E. P. Wilbur,</i> and his engineer lead to the big ship of the Lehigh Valley Line slamming her 5,000 tons of dead weight into the closed Rush Street bridge. At 8:00 a.m. the bridge was crowded with teamsters guiding their horse-drawn loads into and out of the Loop as well as men and women hustling to their jobs. When the ship struck the bridge, it “reeled under the blow, and then settled back upon the solid abutment,” <i>[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 21, 1889] </i>recoiling again into a partially open position. Horses were frightened, reacting violently and “could only with the utmost difficulty be prevented from plunging into the river from the ends of the bridge now hanging over the murky waters below.” The iron girders of the bridge are bent and twisted by the collision, and the bridge tender appears later in the day before a judge to swear out a warrant for the captain’s arrest. The error seems to have occurred when the captain sounded two bells to the engineer below who mistook the signal to go astern as a signal to move forward. Another day on the river. The photo shows the Rush Street bridge and the Chicago River as it would have appeared at about the time The <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">E. Wilbur</i> tried to get through the draw.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-64602977430182578092020-09-19T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-19T00:30:07.033-07:00September 19, 2006 -- Wallenda Crosses the River<p><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqhevT5hbUW1rcgz7qTKz1WGfJJi500YAtgWR-yWqOy4zy2HfhrDjXE_1kQDg6-lXRemtGo5-HbdL0ylQJX_s71dm1jbqBkt05uMgwKNcBBiyqoqCslkGsVi88msWobw0CGZm4DfQZv2e/s1600/September+19%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="620" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqhevT5hbUW1rcgz7qTKz1WGfJJi500YAtgWR-yWqOy4zy2HfhrDjXE_1kQDg6-lXRemtGo5-HbdL0ylQJX_s71dm1jbqBkt05uMgwKNcBBiyqoqCslkGsVi88msWobw0CGZm4DfQZv2e/s640/September+19%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 19, 2006 – </b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mario Wallenda, a 65-year-old paralyzed high wire artist, crosses the Chicago River 100 feet in the air near the Merchandise Mart. “I’m doing this because I need the money, and I’m tired of sitting around the house. I tried lapidary, woodcarving, even needlepoint,” Wallenda says. </span><i style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 20, 2006] </i><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The performer was paralyzed in 1962 when a seven-person high-wire pyramid collapsed, and two Wallenda family members were killed. Wallenda is paid between $50,000 and $100,000 for the stunt, according to the event sponsor, WLUP-FM. At 9:09 a.m. a crane drops Wallenda and his specially-designed electric bicycle above the river. Two minutes later he is on the other side of the river. He pauses for a few moments, and by 9:14 he re-crosses the river where the crane waits to lift him back to ground level. “Things are tough,” Wallenda says. “I have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of my life, as long as I don’t live past next week.”</span></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdtonc_0-tQ1vdpJSc0g1g5wT-oFt2HklU9OSbKASNj-B7HofLfyR7jMYYSa63QgPHPDQFybHTCstG4QzYNWy9H1TFVeKRSZo4QQ6-yYzm2OhOCuJW8TyLhHDYlemdzcxZSBbyAqiKiRW9/s1600/September+19%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="451" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdtonc_0-tQ1vdpJSc0g1g5wT-oFt2HklU9OSbKASNj-B7HofLfyR7jMYYSa63QgPHPDQFybHTCstG4QzYNWy9H1TFVeKRSZo4QQ6-yYzm2OhOCuJW8TyLhHDYlemdzcxZSBbyAqiKiRW9/s400/September+19%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">zellerrealty.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 19, 1961 –</b><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The Vice-President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, Laurence Reiner, confirms that the company has asked the New York State insurance department for its approval of a plan to build “a large, modern building in Chicago on the tract just south of the Tribune Tower.” </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 20, 1961]. </i><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reiner says, “We have discussed the purchase with the Chicago Tribune Building Corporation. We hope sometime soon to come in and make a fine neighbor for the Chicago Tribune.” According to Reiner the company has outgrown its location at 29 South La Salle Street. “We have always had a great interest in Chicago. We hope now to be able to do something nice for the city,” he says.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4vklY6bB6vKT-6yBYnmoY5s1ECWy7bTbrVDb8bcaS9xjWuV4MvyYW6XhHI3ds50Uxmt2ZFsjaTLAnwXU_MSqG9php1x4m6cSdHxt-vP6kEWcPLFATmTe161MpjaiUFT1EN-Z5V2o3btW6/s1600/September+19%252C+2017+a.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="640" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4vklY6bB6vKT-6yBYnmoY5s1ECWy7bTbrVDb8bcaS9xjWuV4MvyYW6XhHI3ds50Uxmt2ZFsjaTLAnwXU_MSqG9php1x4m6cSdHxt-vP6kEWcPLFATmTe161MpjaiUFT1EN-Z5V2o3btW6/s640/September+19%252C+2017+a.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIAOHbyhSF9zQphOKeODF4-CehWvuY1G6EHhp325ssVOEG0pv8NB1nBWCvc1PBI4OQQfbsHT5Oyxmq6F41uS_E8B0mSoIOflSGjK_o7VTleDvTuvqtgYhVxmUH3Vjx_v10ZkqRXGKg2I12/s1600/September+19%252C+2017+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="640" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIAOHbyhSF9zQphOKeODF4-CehWvuY1G6EHhp325ssVOEG0pv8NB1nBWCvc1PBI4OQQfbsHT5Oyxmq6F41uS_E8B0mSoIOflSGjK_o7VTleDvTuvqtgYhVxmUH3Vjx_v10ZkqRXGKg2I12/s640/September+19%252C+2017+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 19, 1927:</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Wreckers begin tearing down a four-story building at Randolph and La Salle Streets as bands play and city chieftains make speeches, and the long-awaited widening of La Salle Street from Washington Boulevard to Ohio Street begins. The project, which has its beginnings in the Chicago Plan of 1909, is expected to cost $7,455,000, an expenditure that will provide another through street to the near north side and relieve congestion on Michigan Avenue. The president of the Board of Local Improvement, Michael J. Flaherty, wields a pickax and chips away briefly at an old building south of the river on La Salle even as one tenant, the Hub Raincoat Company, refuses to vacate the structure, saying that the firm has a right to remain until September 23. The $3,500,000 bridge across the river at La Salle Street is projected to be completed sometime in late 1928. The widening of La Salle Street had the city acquiring 20 feet from each property facing the street, which resulted in the complete loss of many buildings and significant alterations to buildings such as the Reid-Murdoch building on the north side of the river, which lost one whole tier on its west side to make way for the expanded roadway. A picture of the building before and after the truncation can be seen above.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6n6pkWELSaK8HUOKtTL7Zwj1gJjYGvHloyaJnjokawMaTlK4IAaXmilMTfz0pJAq4oMbO6GSGYteMAdisKRZuZrYnTESL5k_jWfThbq3484_nNnrgY6RIYsfeVmbog4InfalX3IHl18CT/s1600/September+19%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="960" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6n6pkWELSaK8HUOKtTL7Zwj1gJjYGvHloyaJnjokawMaTlK4IAaXmilMTfz0pJAq4oMbO6GSGYteMAdisKRZuZrYnTESL5k_jWfThbq3484_nNnrgY6RIYsfeVmbog4InfalX3IHl18CT/s640/September+19%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 19, 1911 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> A wild night on the river as a newly-hired wheelman on the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Manistee</i> locks himself in the pilot house and “with whistles tooting and engine bell chiming . . . steamed his Dreadnought up and down the river, charging every craft in sight.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 20, 1911]</i> The seaman, Martin Daley, is hired that day and almost immediately “took on a cargo of rum.” He locks himself in the pilot house, signals the engine room for “full speed ahead,” and gets someone to cast off from the wharf at Michigan Avenue. He brings the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Manistee</i> so close to the Rush Street Bridge that “most of the fresh coat of paint on her side adhered to the bridge.” Steaming back toward the lake, Daley then “directed his energies toward running down smaller craft – launches, ‘party boats,’ and dingies [sic]” as members of the crew break the windows of the pilot house in order to stop the rampage. Finally, a Chicago policeman manages to clamber aboard at the life saving station at the river’s mouth and arrests the drunken sailor. Daley tells the officer that he is going back to the Atlantic Ocean “because they can’t take a joke on the lakes.” The above photo, taken in 1905, looks east from the Rush Street Bridge to just about the location where the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Manistee </i>was berthed. The Kirk Soap Works stands where 401 North Michigan and the Michigan Avenue Apple Store can be found today.</span></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-49769229424831278262020-09-18T00:30:00.003-07:002020-09-18T00:30:00.774-07:00September 18, 1982 -- Chicago Tribune Prints Last Paper at Michigan Avenue Plant<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp5c4TFyGW6-Qz1YzrJBG_kibtkuRuI2cSXTikiBCW39gfrDHhQv4ODDhxdEyFkd3w1eNltp_hIjlqNExSNpmydL-kd7JB-YUedS3-ViIHEbDKHqLvWhviIRF67U7R9LyseLAau1W16RI-/s1600/September+18%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1015" data-original-width="1600" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp5c4TFyGW6-Qz1YzrJBG_kibtkuRuI2cSXTikiBCW39gfrDHhQv4ODDhxdEyFkd3w1eNltp_hIjlqNExSNpmydL-kd7JB-YUedS3-ViIHEbDKHqLvWhviIRF67U7R9LyseLAau1W16RI-/s640/September+18%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">google.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2wkyXC13_85U-yaP8fF5J8kY7pWneYyLQsC7b15i6pVjP7k5VIm5pZMGUmhbcT_NCx15HSSpr8ifp28aynOcifngMvwBv-PCP-bIy80wK87by_rrvHGs0eThygrDNk6exemgkEYQofqS/s1600/September+18%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1600" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2wkyXC13_85U-yaP8fF5J8kY7pWneYyLQsC7b15i6pVjP7k5VIm5pZMGUmhbcT_NCx15HSSpr8ifp28aynOcifngMvwBv-PCP-bIy80wK87by_rrvHGs0eThygrDNk6exemgkEYQofqS/s640/September+18%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sub.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 18, 1982 – </b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune</i> prints its last letterpress newspaper at its plant off Michigan Avenue. After more than 60 years of newspaper production just to the west of Tribune Tower, the newspaper will be printed and distributed from Freedom Center, the new printing facility between Ohio Street and Chicago Avenue on the North Branch of the Chicago River. In the new 700,000-square-foot facility ten Goss Metroliner presses will “utilize a Muirhead Ltd. Laser film system in conjunction with Western platemaking equipment to insure quality plates for the offset presses.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 18, 1982] </i> Today it appears that the future of the state-of-the-art printing facility on the North Branch is also looking at the end of its life as Tribune Real Estate Holdings is looking to transform the area on the west shore of the river from Ohio Street to Chicago Avenue into the <i>River District</i>, where office towers for a projected 19,500 workers will rise in the coming years. The top photo shows the area as it appears today. The second photo is a rendering of what may be found there within the next decade ... if all the pieces fall into place.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyHPdAt2soiBL9-q-PwHYNPdGwp36NhV1VCW8STHoQKZbWPLS1L5E3qO5E2p_o0uFCryY5CNtRjem-LTtj-zvqUm1ugW9DgjkIJ1z-E7m2UBPBz4gZ2Sdki6_WP36b3ID2-Z3Qi0t-dAuY/s1600/September+18%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="640" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyHPdAt2soiBL9-q-PwHYNPdGwp36NhV1VCW8STHoQKZbWPLS1L5E3qO5E2p_o0uFCryY5CNtRjem-LTtj-zvqUm1ugW9DgjkIJ1z-E7m2UBPBz4gZ2Sdki6_WP36b3ID2-Z3Qi0t-dAuY/s640/September+18%252C+2018+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 18, 1934 – </span></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mayor Edward Kelly is on hand to dedicate the $2,500,000 Steinmetz High School. In his address he calls upon the state legislature to find a way to increase funding for the school system in the upcoming year. “The need of more school revenue has been repeatedly demonstrated,” he says. “At present real estate carries too much of the load, and it is impossible to suppose that additional burdens can be placed on such property. The schools need added revenues and the legislature should provide a plan to secure them<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.” [Chicago Daily Tribune, September 19, 1934] </i>Thousands of parents watch 2,800 Steinmetz students pass a reviewing stand to enter the building as the school opens. The new school is one of five new schools commissioned by the Board of Education that will open in 1934. Lane Technical High School opens on this day as well. An addition to Senn High School will open in the next week, and two other schools, Wells and Phillips, will be completed by December 15. The school is named for German-American mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj73QKrofxwFru7plv9F56HeojKf8jWm_vyk80IZNWOCqIOHKLvLKRloARGq86jcDxbKKbiY84Wi7_Ff8LQlDFcksaxEwVvNOSlPIyH_Qo1n0NtUgm-yuS83e01jA0pv8nRx89Jeeo9Eyxm/s1600/September+18%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1582" data-original-width="1186" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj73QKrofxwFru7plv9F56HeojKf8jWm_vyk80IZNWOCqIOHKLvLKRloARGq86jcDxbKKbiY84Wi7_Ff8LQlDFcksaxEwVvNOSlPIyH_Qo1n0NtUgm-yuS83e01jA0pv8nRx89Jeeo9Eyxm/s400/September+18%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="298" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 18, 1925 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Alonzo C. Mather pays $500,000 or $7,692 a square foot for 65 feet of frontage on Wacker Drive, adding this property, owned by the Chicago Title and Trust Company, to Michigan Avenue property he already owns east of the Wacker Drive lot. Born in Fairfield, New York in 1848, Mather came to Chicago in 1875, where he started a wholesale business. At some point he found a way to wealth – by developing a new kind of railroad stock car that reduced the loss of livestock while in transit through the provision of feed and water. The Herbert Hugh Riddle design for Mather Tower at 75 East Wacker Drive provided the headquarters for the Mather Stock Car Company when it opened in 1929. The existing piece of property that Mather owned on Michigan Avenue was meant for another similar tower that would connect its partner on Wacker Drive by a ground floor arcade. The economic catastrophe of the Great Depression ended the plan for the Michigan Avenue tower.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrmLX_0YcoJgj5gRBqfkrnrSVgXP4TOVRBMIiBgXfJk_dEP3AkdJr8Xp9KDAKZJRK5-QfY2B6RmG8S3j6EW5B3KNZZWSFmn0-x3eR-y-xJWiaOYvaUspExNX9atJXs2DCV3tPrBMfco_9W/s1600/September+18%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="1496" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrmLX_0YcoJgj5gRBqfkrnrSVgXP4TOVRBMIiBgXfJk_dEP3AkdJr8Xp9KDAKZJRK5-QfY2B6RmG8S3j6EW5B3KNZZWSFmn0-x3eR-y-xJWiaOYvaUspExNX9atJXs2DCV3tPrBMfco_9W/s640/September+18%252C+2017+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 18, 1924 –</b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The president of the Illinois Society of Architects, Charles E. Fox, proposes in the monthly bulletin of the society “a half-mile long, permanent stone bridge, 160 feet high, over the mouth of the Chicago river<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">”.<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 19, 1924] </i>The massive bridge would take the place of a lift bridge or tunnel, plans that are under consideration as ways to connect Grant Park and the south side of the city with the north side of the river and Lake Shore Drive. Says Fox, “It’s a reasonably safe bet that if the proposed tunnel is ever constructed, it’ll stand for a generation or two as a monument to bad judgment and then’ll be filled up … The war department already has shown its hand by refusing to have a lift bridge east of Michigan avenue … On the north a design of approach could be incorporated into the architectural treatment of the Municipal pier. The bridge itself would be the monumental hub of the city. A view from the crown of the arch would give to the passing stranger, as well as to the citizen of Chicago a magnificent birdseye view of Grant park and the lake shore both north and south.” Imagine today what a difference it would make to have a massive stone bridge straight out of New York City plunked down at the entrance to the river … things would look a lot different. </span></span></div></span></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059057651392115200.post-77181529134906487132020-09-17T00:30:00.001-07:002020-09-17T00:30:07.900-07:00September 17, 1974 -- Mercantile Exchange Approves Plans for New Headquarters<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0in;"><span face=""></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><span face=""><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi20BaHjRgsp-q-J5I0t01Z4GmsLMK3FUNHCBRHK4LN8ivnNrPCELtzKq3udzTvok4EpoA8ECICK0lwY4JZ2pRsDJIv3j9OpoCNa3VwfpeXgNGnY2SoM4OskoQ9LtbjdzRrWe8Ri9Crd5oi/s653/September+17%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="445" height="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi20BaHjRgsp-q-J5I0t01Z4GmsLMK3FUNHCBRHK4LN8ivnNrPCELtzKq3udzTvok4EpoA8ECICK0lwY4JZ2pRsDJIv3j9OpoCNa3VwfpeXgNGnY2SoM4OskoQ9LtbjdzRrWe8Ri9Crd5oi/w426-h625/September+17%252C+2020+Blog+Photo.png" width="426" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>cmecenter.com</i></b></span></span></div><span face=""><b style="font-family: arial;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0in;"><span face=""><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></span></p>September 17, 1974 –</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> The <i>Chicago Tribune</i> reports that members of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have approved plans for a twin-towered office building that the exchange will occupy at Wacker Drive and Madison Street. The vote is overwhelmingly positive, with 2,478 in favor of the plan and 567 standing in opposition. It is expected that construction will begin in spring of 1975 on a site where a city parking garage is located. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange will own the 40,000-square-foot trading floor that will be located at the base of the structure, joining the two towers together, along with ten percent of the first tower. Metropolitan Structures, Inc. and JMB Realty Corporation will own the rest of the space in the buildings. The new trading floor and office space will replace the exchange’s location at 444 West Jackson Boulevard, where a 25,000-square-foot trading floor is located along with adjacent office space. The twin-towered project would be finished in 1981 according to plans drawn by architect Joseph Fujikawa. For more on the architect you can turn to <a href="http://www.connectingthewindycity.com/2016/01/january-23-1949-joseph-fujikawa-named.html" target="_blank">this entry in Connecting the Windy City.</a> When it opened what is today CME Center was the city’s first all-concrete skyscraper. At the time it was the home of the largest open outcry futures exchange in the country. With floor plates of 29,000 feet the LEED Gold® building encloses 2.3 million square feet of space overlooking the Chicago River.</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span face="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD5aqgI-sOUQeLwEnK1GY87Uj3HSNYI6S6u1SDgxupEvF3OSza6Ca9HS0vw7ZnQ4q8Zi2TK-qZkR7Ytv54exDn0SVxtztGozmo-DrUsWejPz_sVCXF9L3-t60FvRnzfum6cpwVgmfUuWfa/s1600/September+17%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="792" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD5aqgI-sOUQeLwEnK1GY87Uj3HSNYI6S6u1SDgxupEvF3OSza6Ca9HS0vw7ZnQ4q8Zi2TK-qZkR7Ytv54exDn0SVxtztGozmo-DrUsWejPz_sVCXF9L3-t60FvRnzfum6cpwVgmfUuWfa/s400/September+17%252C+2016+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="308" /></a></div><span face="" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span><span face="" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 17, 1969 –</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The City Council, by a vote of 30 to 6, approves two ordinances that clear the way for the office and residential development that Chicago now calls Illinois Center. One ordinance establishes guidelines for the development of the area, and the other codifies the relationship between the city, the owner of the property, Illinois Central Industries, and three developers. The plan calls for buildings of up to 90 stories with 45,000 workers, and 17,500 apartments with 35,000 residents. In an editorial the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago Tribune</i> writes glowingly about the project, asserting, “Chicagoans must feel some exhilaration to see, at long last, this strategic area built on in a manner suitable to its location in the center of the city. And Chicagoans should take an eager, continuing, and responsible interest as Illinois Center plaza gradually develops . . . A brilliantly successful development here will be a civic asset the importance of which it would be almost impossible to exaggerate.” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Tribune, September 19, 1969] </i>The photo at the left shows the approximate area where the Hyatt Regency Hotel stands today.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglsJgQz4JS6ejO02hUI6HRRB0LQyQDjMm39Z81PlhjGA2O8WnzwHlb-fCGlcVYTbNmD7LJCd6LrAPAMRpe7LMWw6TQkTTu5tlIxM36627SDNQ_ewFuaEyyGqWI30iNlX3-jcVnUD9dgVGg/s1600/September+17%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="473" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglsJgQz4JS6ejO02hUI6HRRB0LQyQDjMm39Z81PlhjGA2O8WnzwHlb-fCGlcVYTbNmD7LJCd6LrAPAMRpe7LMWw6TQkTTu5tlIxM36627SDNQ_ewFuaEyyGqWI30iNlX3-jcVnUD9dgVGg/s400/September+17%252C+2019+Blog+Photo.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="315" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">luc.edu</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto 0.5em; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG8iOR1t0SdWhgV96y93Y8bV0O7o055pomdg76IrnzsOI7skf8fVJLkYjbLCWswI_LSY85PHsiGMDD6OReAEF0HpWf3ryzxHrWVrBmCQwqMH1vkBb5xNsGE0qCUrWUeLRZPcLBZPm4HLTS/s1600/September+17%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="975" data-original-width="1600" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG8iOR1t0SdWhgV96y93Y8bV0O7o055pomdg76IrnzsOI7skf8fVJLkYjbLCWswI_LSY85PHsiGMDD6OReAEF0HpWf3ryzxHrWVrBmCQwqMH1vkBb5xNsGE0qCUrWUeLRZPcLBZPm4HLTS/s400/September+17%252C+2019+Blog+Photo+B.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">google.com</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 17, 1962 –</b><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The $2.75 million Loyola University Center at the southwest corner of Rush and Pearson Streets opens to students. Loyola’s president, the Very Reverend James F. Maquire, says, “The center enables the university to accommodate meetings and gatherings of alumni and friends, to provide facilities for public lectures, luncheons, and conferences, and to serve other functions and activities for business and community groups.” </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Chicago Daily Tribune, September 16, 1962] </i><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The new building will include two cafeterias, 18 classrooms, a bookstore, conference rooms, student lounges, and a formal meeting room for administrative meetings. A two-story enclosed walkway will connect the University Center to Lewis Towers, the main classroom building, which sits to the east just off Michigan Avenue. As part of the dedication ceremony, at which His Eminence the Archbishop of Chicago Albert Cardinal Meyer officiates, a mural by Park Ridge artist Melville Steinfels is dedicated. It depicts 400 years of Jesuit education. The student center is the next step in a move downtown that began in 1946 with a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Lewis – an 18-story skyscraper located at 820 North Michigan Avenue, located just to the west of the city’s historic Water Tower. The site is considerably different today as Loyola’s eight-story School of Communication wraps around the north and west sides of The Clare, a senior independent living high-rise, at 55 East Pearson. A new student center is located just to the west on the northwest corner of Pearson and Wabash Streets. The photo shows Lewis Center as it appeared in the 1950's, shortly after its purchase.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The second photo shows the area as it appears today.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNQCH5ULhj_QDWbroV7ZmL5HYiTcIYBfZpGMTdH56VkXSgNzRdEYwpqG_Xo-Ai9y3ALxKYWG0JdY2BP5vZSWTpYi5Ng7UrMXDdCjhRx2pWbjdkjZo99xrNyNqF73Y4BVHCAOVkSdLGG0g/s1600/September+17%252C+2017+Blog+B.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1177" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNQCH5ULhj_QDWbroV7ZmL5HYiTcIYBfZpGMTdH56VkXSgNzRdEYwpqG_Xo-Ai9y3ALxKYWG0JdY2BP5vZSWTpYi5Ng7UrMXDdCjhRx2pWbjdkjZo99xrNyNqF73Y4BVHCAOVkSdLGG0g/s400/September+17%252C+2017+Blog+B.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="400" /></a></div><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinqdSx_xDiWiQCRV6ws95VEGKM3DKUPzSEA2UGIiY8nAxykYewVe6Ww5GcikWDEvdD2nl9DWKaZChByDrUP_kLyWv6aZ-ca8h0vCdQ-69pBI7f1HOrdIcKGNW6ga0fQA3oOZJQAG8MMgKO/s1600/September+17%252C+2017+Blog+D.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="794" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinqdSx_xDiWiQCRV6ws95VEGKM3DKUPzSEA2UGIiY8nAxykYewVe6Ww5GcikWDEvdD2nl9DWKaZChByDrUP_kLyWv6aZ-ca8h0vCdQ-69pBI7f1HOrdIcKGNW6ga0fQA3oOZJQAG8MMgKO/s400/September+17%252C+2017+Blog+D.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="263" /></a></div><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span><span face="" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 17, 1954 –</span></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The first new office building to be constructed in the Loop since 1933, the ten-story Sinclair Oil Corporation’s office building on the northeast corner of Wacker Drive and Randolph Street, is officially opened as more than 200 business leaders and officials from the state and city attend the ceremonies. The new building contains 225,000 square feet of office space and 14,000 square feet of basement parking space. The structure will consolidate various divisions of the corporation that were previously scattered in four separate locations. The building is gone today, replaced by the Goettsch Partners tower, finished in 2010, at 155 North Wacker Drive. The Sinclair building is outlined in the older photograph. The award-winning Goettsch replacement is shown to the left.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><span face=""><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #383434; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjlzDJx18Ch5ZsgIpvnoh315n-v0TUWaHKpvCmGWnTKoJAS3TIvFMjkuX4gqomTOKROzprnd-ua5DG86P2BQE8079D8LqZ-iez9NKQCQTxhywa7ctQBR7hMUOqZYQ3gNuIPfBD7zupIywg/s1600/September+17%252C+2018+Blog+Photo+A.jpg" style="color: #999999; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjlzDJx18Ch5ZsgIpvnoh315n-v0TUWaHKpvCmGWnTKoJAS3TIvFMjkuX4gqomTOKROzprnd-ua5DG86P2BQE8079D8LqZ-iez9NKQCQTxhywa7ctQBR7hMUOqZYQ3gNuIPfBD7zupIywg/s640/September+17%252C+2018+Blog+Photo+A.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 3px;" width="640" /></a></div><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></span><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 17, 1922 –</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The new $1,600,000 Madison Street bridge is lowered into position for the first time at 2:00 p.m., leaving the Clark Street bridge as the only center-pier bridge left in the central area of the city. It will be three weeks before pedestrians will be allowed across the new bridge, and it will be at least six weeks before traffic crosses the new span. The bridge’s sidewalks will be 13.5 feet, eight feet wider than the sidewalks on the old center pier bridge that is being replaced. Work on the new bridge began on December 1, 1919, but there <o:p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></o:p></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">is a long delay in the fabrication of the steel for the span. It isn’t until late September of 1921 before work resumes. In March of 1922 the bridge’s bond issue expires, and work is once again ordered to a halt. In June Chicago voters approve a new bond issue, and work resumes on August 1. According to </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">historicbridges.org </i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“This bridge stands out among the bridges of Chicago as one of the most historically and technologically significant since it is the first example of a design that Chicago would use in construction on many bridges during a period of over 40 years. It also retains ornate sidewalk railings that greatly contribute to the visual beauty of the bridge.” The above photo shows the bridge under construction in 1922. In the right foreground is the swing bridge which it will replace.</span></span></div><div><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><span face="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 52, 52); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>Chicago Old and Newhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842498555765754782noreply@blogger.com0