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Feb 2, 2020 · The city’s other barons of commerce and industry soon followed and, in its heyday of the 1880’s, the six-block stretch from 16th to 22nd Streets was the center of fashionable Chicago. Marshall Field’s house is in the foreground.
Apr 29, 2013 · Now a fixture on the campus of Emory University, the house remains boarded up, neglected, and reportedly haunted. Speaking of haunted mansions, the Schweppe estate, in the Chicago suburb of...
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From the death of Lord Jellicoe in 2007, he was the longest-serving member of the House of Lords, having taken his seat in 1945, and also the oldest member. As of 2018, the baronies are held by his son Rupert Carington, 7th Baron Carrington, who is the current Lord Great Chamberlain since September 2022.
Jun 28, 2018 · The home of Chicago's last Republican mayor, in a stretch of Wicker Park once home to the city's wealthiest brewers, gets a refresh for its artist owner.
British journalist Walter Lionel George’s description of Chicago’s Union Stockyards, written in 1920, captures the essence of the city’s meatpacking industry—it was highly organized and brutally efficient, and it was synonymous with Chicago’s identity.
Mar 14, 2005 · Graf pays homage in his introduction to the “Kinzie Mansion,” built in the 1770s by Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and later owned by Chicago’s first permanent white settler, John Kinzie, as the city’s first mansion of sorts, though few today would characterize the log structure that way.
Beginning with Father Jacques Marquette and French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet in 1673, a steady stream of explorers and missionaries passed through or settled in the region, but it was not until 1779 that the first non-Native resident made it his permanent home: Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable maintained a thriving trading post near the mouth o...
