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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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  • July 27, 2005 at 3:00 pm #16013
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    Feb. 1

    1909: The City Council votes to increase the saleries of alderman from $1500 to $3000 a year.

    July 27, 2005 at 3:01 pm #16014
    hpdog259962
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    Feb. 2

    1896: John Philip Sousa’s band presents an evening concert at Holley’s Theathre, 149 Randolph St.

    July 27, 2005 at 4:37 pm #16015
    hpdog259962
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    Feb. 3

    1899: Thomas A. Edison addresses the annual Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni dinner at the University Club by long distance telephone from Manlo Park, NJ

    July 27, 2005 at 4:38 pm #16016
    hpdog259962
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    Feb. 4

    1916: THe Yale Club of Chicago celebrates its 50th anniversary with a banquet at the Blackstone Hotel

    July 27, 2005 at 4:38 pm #16017
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    Feb. 5

    1921: State St. stores announce a $15,000,000 loss on the new year’s inventory

    July 27, 2005 at 4:39 pm #16018
    hpdog259962
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    Feb. 6

    1918: Three High Schools – Senn, Lake View, & Schurz-close because of the wartime coal shortage.

    July 27, 2005 at 4:40 pm #16019
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    Feb. 7

    1919: THe Nina, one of the replicas of Columbus’s caravels created for the World’s Columbuan Exposition, burns to the waterline and sinks in the Jackson Park Lagoon

    July 27, 2005 at 4:41 pm #16020
    hpdog259962
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    Feb. 8

    1921: The Medill School of Journalism of Northwest University holds its first classes with an enrollment of more than 100 students.

    July 27, 2005 at 4:42 pm #16021
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    Feb. 9

    1902: 200 people are made homeless when fire wrecks the University Flats at 6106 S. Ellis Av. All tenants escape unharmed.

    July 27, 2005 at 4:43 pm #16022
    hpdog259962
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    Feb. 10

    1902: The City Health Comissioner urges smallpox vaccinations for all Chicagoans to combat the current epidemic of the disease.

    July 27, 2005 at 4:44 pm #16023
    hpdog259962
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    Feb. 11

    1899: John V. Farwell, owner of the Superior Street land being used as a garbage dump argues with the City Health Commissioner over respoinsibilty of continued dumping.

    July 27, 2005 at 4:45 pm #16024
    hpdog259962
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    Feb. 12

    1909: Woodrow Wilson president of Princeton University (& later US), is one of the speakers at the six public meetings climaxing Lincoln centennial celebrations.

    July 27, 2005 at 4:45 pm #16025
    hpdog259962
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    Feb. 13

    1863: City boundaries are extended yo 39th St. thereby including all of Bridgeport within the city limits.

    July 27, 2005 at 4:46 pm #16026
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    Feb. 14

    1939: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, a gangland slaying at 2122 N. Clark St. stuns Chicagoans

    July 27, 2005 at 4:47 pm #16027
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    Feb. 15

    1933: Mayor Anton J. Cermak is shot by an assassin in Miami, Florida where he was conferring eith President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    (See http://www.wiscollectorcar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8897#8897 )

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