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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Oct 25:

1929: Charles B. Pike, president of the Chicago Historical Society, calls a meeting to raise funds for a new museum building in Lincoln Park.

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Oct 26:

1922: Officers of the Chicago Zoological Society break ground for their new zoo (now Brookfield Zoo)

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Oct 27:

1839: The first Tremont House burns.

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Oct 28:

1893: Carter H. Harrison I, mayor of CHicago, is assassinated in his home at 231 S. Ashland Av, by Eugene Patrick Prendergast, a disappointed office seeker.

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Oct 29:

1850: The Illinois General Hospital Of The Lakes, a private institution, is opened at Rush & N. Water Streets.

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Oct 30:

1915: George Wellington Streeter, who claims the lakeshore area known as “Streeterville” as his own, is arredted of selling liquor without a license.

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Oct 31:

1895: A mild earthquake awakens many Chicagoans in the early morning.

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Nov. 1

1909: Mayor Fred A. Busse names Charles H. Wacker as chairman of a commission to styudy Burnham’s Plan Of Chicago sponsored by the Commerical Club.

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Nov. 2

1873: One attraction in the newley opened Palmer House is a barber shop floor studded with silver dollars.

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Nov 3:

1834: The city adopts an ordinance making it unlawful to carry firebrands or firecoals for one building to another except ina covered, fireproof vessel.

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Nov 4:

1911: The School Board provides a porable school building for use at the Burke School.

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Nov 5:

1901: Alderman Hunter proposes that a permanent resting place be set aside for “neglected and dilapidated statues which in past years have crept into Chicago’s parks and other public places.

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Nov. 6:

1907: The Cliff Dwe;;ers Club is formally organized at a meeting in artist Ralph Clarkson’s studio in the Fine Arts Building.

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Nov. 7

1871: Joseph Medill is elected mayor of Chicago.

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Nov 8:

1897: Police Cheif Joseph Kipley, under orders from Mayor Carter Harrison II, prohibits all prize fights and boxing contests.

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