A Day In Chicago

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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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Aug 26

1927: Buckingham Fountain. Its total water capacity for all basins is one and one-half million gallons, continuosuly redistributed from the base pool.

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Aug 27

1912: Leading Women Of Chicago dispute the YWCA’s ruling over 25 no longer quality as young and must therefore leave the YWCA’s Michigan Av. Residence. They argue that women are young at 50 or even 75

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Aug 28

1908: International Harvester Company anoounces a pension fund for its 30,000 employees, said to be the most liberal estabished at any large corporation.

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Aug 29

1913: The City Passes an ordinance forbidding dancing at restaurants effective at midnight.

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Aug 30

1897: Chicago Surpasses its old record for weekly tonnage of eastbound lake shipments with the total of 199,138 tons.

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Aug 31

1901: Teddy Roosevely Visits Chicago as the guest of Governor Richard Yates

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Sept. 1

1898: Four Deaths and many cases of heat prostration are attributed to unsesonably high themperatures. Oak Park Postpones its school opening becuase of reading of 90 degrees.

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Sept. 2

1895: Chicago Celebrated Labor Day as a legal holiday for the first time.

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Sept. 3

1907: 600 guests flee the Palmer House in panuc when fire breakes out during the night in John T. Shayne’s fur shop in the building. There are no injuries.

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Sept. 4

1896: Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan and his wiffe arrive in Chicago and Register At The Auditorium Annex.

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Sept. 5

1900: Police break up an anarchist meeting and arrest Lucy Parsons, a well-known feminist and widow of an alleged Haymarket “rioter.”

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Sept. 6

1896: Swedish-Americam societies plan celebrations to observe the 50th anniversary of Swedish settlement in Chicago.

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Sept. 7

1897: Liluokalani desposed queen of the Hawaiian Islands, stops in Chicago during her visit to the United States

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Sept. 8

1925: Chicago Public Schools report their largest enrollment ever: 600,000 children. 90 Grammar Schools are running double shifts.

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Sept. 9

1905: Social reformers, including Graham Taylor, speak at the laying of the cornerstone of the Association Settlement House on W. North Av.

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