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2 days ago · The original site for Chicago was unremarkable: a small settlement at the mouth of the Chicago River near the southern tip of Lake Michigan. Indeed, a common notion for the origin of the city’s name is an Algonquian word for a wild leek (or onion) plant that grew locally. However, Chicago’s location at the southwestern end of the vast Great ...
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3 days ago · By Nancy Bishop. 34th and State: It's the corner where one grand Chicago era ended and a new one began. It's the place where modernism took root in Chicago. The block on 34th Street between State and Dearborn streets was the site of the Mecca Flats, a square-block-size apartment building constructed in 1892 and demolished 60 years later.
2 days ago · On Memorial Day, Sunday, May 30, 1937, several hundred individuals—white, Black, and Latino men, women, and children—were peacefully protesting at Republic Steel on Chicago’s far Southeast Side. The demonstrators presented the steel company with demands that included recognizing their union, ratifying a labor agreement, raising wages ...
3 days ago · Twitter (X) A screenshot from the PBS documentary “Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried.”. On May 30, 1937, the temperature in Chicago reached a balmy 88 degrees: a “perfect day ...
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5 days ago · Winston Churchill (born November 30, 1874, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England—died January 24, 1965, London) was a British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (1940–45, 1951–55) rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory. After a sensational rise to prominence ...
- As prime minister (1940–45) during most of World War II, Winston Churchill rallied the British people and led the country from the brink of defeat...
- Through his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, a Tory politician, Winston was directly descended from John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, the he...
- At Harrow School, Winston Churchill’s conspicuously poor academic record provoked his father’s decision to enter him into an army career. On his th...
5 days ago · What happened on that fateful day? On May 25, 1979, an American Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 was due to depart Chicago O’Hare Airport for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in California. However, the flight ended in disaster 31 seconds after the triple engine DC-10 took off with 258 passengers and 13 crew members on board.
4 days ago · Rutherford B. Hayes. Republican. via Electoral Commission. The 1876 United States presidential election was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876. Incumbent Republican president Ulysses S. Grant declined to run for a third term, so the party chose Rutherford B. Hayes, the governor of Ohio, as its nominee.
