CHICAGO BIOS
(sorry .. the UIUC subscription to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online has been cancelled, but here is the Capone biography)
- On his death in 1906 Field bequeathed generous funds and a
sum to erect in Chicago a new museum building ..
- An early concern for the living conditions of 19th-century factory workers led Jane Addams to assume a role in the field of social work
- Hull House fed the hungry, nursed the sick, and guided the
immigrant and the wayward child.
- Addams became one of the and famous Americans of her
time.
- Addams' writings are "Democracy ...."
- Facing a life of jobs, he joined the street gang led by
Johnny Torrio and Lucky Luciano.
- The event, however, changed the public mind about pursuing
crime.
- By then, the IRS had been gathering tax evasion information on Capone for some time through a agent, Eddie O'Hare.
CHICAGO HISTORY
(sorry .. the UIUC subscription to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online has been cancelled.)
- The first non-Indian settler was Jean Baptiste Point Sable (or
Pointe du Sable), son of a wealthy French merchant who had moved to Haiti and married a black woman there
- A belt line connected the trunk lines by 1856, and commuter
service to neighborhoods and suburbs began.
- Chicago became the nation's major center by the
1880s.
- The Union Stock Yards .... opened on Christmas Day 1865.
- The central business district ... held the major department stores, the larger banks, the Board of Trade, the regional headquarters of
national corporations, and the centers of commerce, law, and
government
- Commuter railroads, horse, cable, and electric street railways, and rapid-transit lines served the Loop.
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- Until 1900 Lake Michigan both supplied fresh water to Chicago and received its sewage, a condition probably responsible for the city's frequent epidemics.
- Many of the families arrived in the second great wave of European immigration:
- The 1890 and 1900 censuses showed that more than three-fourths of Chicago's population was made up of the and their children
- The Classicism of the exposition was in marked contrast, however, to the modern Chicago School of architecture, and the two trends
proceeded concurrently during the decades.
- The Burnham Plan, as it came to be called, proposed many features
- Possibly contributing to this growth were the worldwide notoriety
of Chicago (only in part deserved) as the playground of underworld figures during the Prohibition era, the failure of several Chicago banks
during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the allegedly powerful grip of criminal syndicates on many aspects of economic and political life.
HISTORY of the FOURTH
- Independence Day, observed on July 4, commemorates the birthday of the States.
- British troops were sent in to quell any signs of rebellion, and
attempts by the colonists to resolve the crisis without war proved fruitless.
- The day, copies of the Declaration of Independence were
distributed.
- The Declaration of Independence has since become our nation's most symbol of liberty.
- That form, which we have substituted, restores the free right to the exercise of reason and freedom of opinion
- For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an devotion to them.
- Today, communities across the nation mark this major midsummer holiday with parades, fireworks, picnics and the playing of the "Star
Banner" and marches by John Philip Sousa.
- And, on the morning of July 4, the community of Tecumseh, Nebraska, raises more than 200 flags around the courthouse as a way of
remembering those who have served in our country's forces.
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