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Jan. 1
1919: The Great Lakes Football Team Defeats The Mare Island Marines in Pasadena. Sailor’s star George Halas “was everywhere at the right time”
Jan. 2
1891: Henry M. Stanley, leader of the expedition to find Dr. Livingstone in 1871 lectures at the Audtiorium Theatre on his adventures on the “Dark Continent”
Jan. 3
1901: Warrants are issued for the arrest of 35 saloonkeepers who have failed to observe the city’s midnight closing order.
Jan. 4
1897: Indoor Baseball Practice Begins At The University Of Chicago under the direction of Amos Alonzo Stagg.
Jan. 5
1911: Dr. John A. Hemsteger, dies of Carbon Monoxide poisioning while cleaning the mufflers of his car, first recorded death of CO from Automobile.
Jan. 6
1905: The Chicago Orchestra plays a memorial tribute to its beloved conductor Theodore Thomas who died in 1903 at the age of 69
Jan. 7
1911: Cook County Hospital is recordrd as housing 1,900 patients, 600 ablove it’s capacity anf the largest number in history.
Jan. 9
1915: Midwestern writers from the Society of Midland Authors. The founders include Hamlin Garland, Vachel Lindsay, James Whitcomb Riley, & Booth Tarkington
Jan. 10
1896: North Side Milkmen support an ordinance prohibithing the delivery of milk on Sundays during Winter Months.
Jan. 11
1917: Sub-Zero weather intensifies the crippling record snowfall of 18 inches. A coal shortage threatend industrial shutdowns.
Jan. 12
1922: Federal prohibition agents raid the Wind Blew Inn, a well known Bohemian “tea Room” On E. Ohio St. 40 patrins are arrested
Jan. 13
1896:
Celebrated Polish virtuoso Paderewski gives his first piano recital of the winter at the Auditorium Theatre
Jan. 14
1926: Police confiscate 6 Nude Paintings from the No-Jury Art Show at Marshall Field & Co. following a complaint form the Illinois Vigilance Society.
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