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  • July 27, 2005 at 2:34 pm #929
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    I recently found this little book that has an event that happend in Chicago for every day. I will post every day (try to) on this until New Years Eve, then this will end.

    Good Reading.

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  • August 1, 2005 at 2:44 pm #16193
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    July 28

    1905: The Chicago Daily News Fresh Air Fund, established to give health and recreation opportunities to underprivileged families, is in its 19th season.

    August 1, 2005 at 2:45 pm #16194
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    July 29

    1909: Ella Flagg Young is unanimously elected Chicago’s Superintendant of Schools.

    August 1, 2005 at 2:45 pm #16195
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    July 30

    1907: The Little Room, an informal organization of artists, musicians, and writers, proposes to expand into a club modeled on the Players’ Club of New York.

    August 1, 2005 at 2:46 pm #16196
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    July 31

    1914: About 2,000 Chicagoans are stranded abroad when sevral steamship lines canel their depatyures from Europe beciase of the outbreak of war.

    August 1, 2005 at 2:46 pm #16197
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    Aug 1 (I cought up :banana:)

    1913: The Mayor Appoints ten police women, the first to be admitted to the force.

    August 1, 2005 at 5:03 pm #16198
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    August 3, 2005 at 4:31 pm #16199
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    Aug 2

    1919: THe Traction Strike Ends. Workers recieve a $.17 increase, and fares go up. Henceforth rider on the surface lnes will pay $.07, the eletaved $.08

    August 3, 2005 at 4:32 pm #16200
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    Aug 3

    1795: The US Govt. & 12 Indian Tribes sign the Treaty of Greenville by which Indians cede land that icludes the site of the future city of Chicago.

    August 4, 2005 at 3:32 pm #16201
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    Aug 4

    1830: James Thompson, a surveyor from St. Louis, files his survey of Chicaho with the comissioners of Peoria County.

    August 5, 2005 at 3:11 pm #16202
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    Aug 5

    1823: Archibald Clybourn, Chicago’s Pioneer Meatpacker, arrives in Chicago. (And we have been meat eaters ever since.

    August 9, 2005 at 3:51 pm #16203
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    Aug 6

    1898: Becaus of His Alleged CIgarette License Deals, Mayor Carter H. Harrison II is dubbed “one of Chicago’s worst smoke nusciances” by the WCTU

    August 9, 2005 at 3:52 pm #16204
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    Aug 7

    1935: Joe Louis knocks out King Levinsky in the first round of a heavyweight match in Chicago.

    August 9, 2005 at 3:53 pm #16205
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    Aug 8

    1898: Leading Memebers of the Associaton of Commerce meet to disciss plans for a great peace jubille to celebrate the end of the Spanish-American War

    August 9, 2005 at 3:54 pm #16206
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    Aug 9

    1896: African-American Men & Women of the John Brown League hold memorial services for Harriet Beecher Stowe, author on Uncle Tom’s Cabin, who had died on July 1st.

    August 10, 2005 at 4:40 pm #16207
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    Aug 10

    1898: The South PArk Comissioners recieve a peition asking that the name of Lake Front Park should be changed to Grant Park.

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