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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Nov. 9:

1897: Alderman Nathan Plotke announces that he will introduce a city ordinance prohibiting football playing within the city limits.

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Nov. 10:

1916: The General Education Board and the Rockefeller Foundation each announces grants of $1,000,000 to the University Of Chicago for medical education.

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Nov. 11:

1920: The cornerstone of the Wrigley Building is laid; the architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White is respoinsible for the project.

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Nov. 12:

1913: THe CHicago Woman’s Club goes on record as condemning “present day overemphasis on sex in fiction.”

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Nov. 13:

1879: The Army Of Tennessee sponsors a reunion banquet at the Palmer House with Ulysses S. Grant as the guest of honor. mark Twain is one of the many speakers.

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Nov. 14:

1896: Dwight Moody recieves a bequest of $100,000 from a benefactor in Connecticut for his educational work in Chicago and Northfield, Massachusettes.

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Nov. 15:

1914: Chicago clubwomen prepare to fight an ordinance permitting afternoon tea dancing in Loop restaurants and hotels.

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Nov. 16

1914; The Federal Reserve Bank in Chicagoopens for business, one of twelve in the country.

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Nov. 17

1926: The Chicago Black Hawks, the city’s first professional ice hockey team, defeat the Tornoto St. Patricks beofe an audience of more than 7,000 at the Coliseum.

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Nov. 18

1915; Mayor William Hale Thompson refuses Jane Addams’s request the he intervene in a garment worker’s strike.

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Nov. 19

1909; The Gatlin Instute (for alcoholics) purchases the residnce of Marshall Field Jr. at 1919 Prairie Av. Nearby redients a greatley disurbed by the transaction.

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Nov. 20

1848: The locomotive know as the Pioneer makes its first local run from Chicago to Des Plaines over the Galena & Chicago Union route.

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Nov. 21

1913: The jury decides that the dice game “26” is gambling and finds a saloonkeeper guilty of running the game.

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Nov. 22

1965: Prince Bertil of Sweden is welcomed to the city of Chicago.

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Nov. 23

1896; Lillian Russell opens a two-week engagement in An American Beauty at the Great Northern Theatre.

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