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June 12
1936: Chiacgo Daily News publisher Frank Knox in nominated fot he vice-presidency of the United States at the Republican National Connvention in Cleveland.
June 13
1914: 20,000 gather in Lincoln Park for the unveiling of a monument to the great German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
June 15
1907: Designer of The Hume INsurance Building-the world’s first skyscraper-William LeBaron Jenney dies in Los Angeles at the age of 74
June 16
1896: The city’s woodworkers go out on dtrike, demanding $2.00 for a 9-hr. day instead of $1.50 for a 10hr. day
June 17
1902: Women students at Northwestern University in Evanson demand a gymansium and a commons of their own, comaplining that the facilities for women are inferior to those for men.
June 18
1900: THe NOrth Sie Business Men’s Association protests the Union Tracion Co.’s plan to replace cablecars w/overhead trolleys.
June 19
1829: Archibald Clyburn & Samuel Miller supervise the first ferry to operate on the Chicago River
June 21
1893: THe Ferris Wheel On THe Midway Plaisance is formally opened. Workers had begun its construction on Feb. 25
June 22
1908: The City Council adopts a new street-numbering system with State & Madison Sts. as the base lines.
June 23
1913: Dr. J.C. Ping attributes increaing insanity among women to “dress, social affairs, danicing, and card playing.”
June 24
1907: Mayor Fred. A Busse files 6 suits againt William Randolph Hurst, charging that the Hearst newspapers had libeled him in cartoons. He asks damages of $425,000
June 25
1916: The Munincipal Pier (now Navy Pier) is opened to the public though it is not entirely finished.
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