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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Feb. 16

1917: The Chicago Tribune announces that the cartoonist Carey Orr will join its staff later in the month.

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Feb. 17

1921: 12 Chicago foreign language newspapers are warned by federal agents that they will be prosecuted if they continue to advertise “illict stills.”

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Feb. 18

1919: THe City Council approves the extension of Ogden Av. fom Union Park to Lincoln park. The city will have to pay $4,649,000 in compensation for the land and building to make this project possible

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Feb. 19

1904; Employess of the Corn Echange National Bank who earn less than $1000 a year are required to get approval fro bank officals before getting married

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Feb. 20

1897: The Chicago Teachers’ Cluv and allied organizers meet in the Masonic Temple to protest the sale of “drugged, poison-laden, memory-destroying, corrupting” cigarettes in IL

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Feb. 21

1845: The state of IL autorizes a Cook County Cort to be established in Chicago.

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Feb. 22

1911: Johnny EVers, cornerstone of the Cubs infiled, signs a 2-yr. contratct at a reputed salary of $15,000/yr.

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Feb. 23

1907: Montgomery Woard asked for an injunction againt the construction of the Field Museum of Natural History on the lakefront.

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Feb. 24

1840: The first daily issue of the Chicago Morning Democrat appers

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Feb. 25

1904: The Central Teachers’ Council asks the school board to allow teachers the right ot aplly the rod to unruly pupils.

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Feb. 26

1918: In the aldermanic primaries, the Thompson-Ludin machine suffers a crushing defeat

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Feb. 27

1908: The White Soc Rooters’ Asscoation sponsors its first annual reception and ball at Brooke’s Casino, to the delight of the “Old Roman” Charles A. Comiskey

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Feb. 28

1912: Physical education instructors of the Chicaog and Illinois Athletic clubs agree that the typical Chicago businessman has flat feet, rouns shoulders, and a paunch, and that not five per cent are “symmetrically developed.”

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Feb. 29 (LEAP DAY) jumpy.gif

1896: More than 100 babis are born in Chicago and will not have abirthday for 8 years, since 1900 would be the next one.

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March 1

1912: Mordecai Brown, “three fingered slab wonder and mainstay of the west side pitching staff” signs a three-year contract witth the Cubs at an undisclosed salary

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