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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 5:01 pm #16043
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    March 2

    1908: Police Chief Shippey shoots and kills a would-be assassin who had invaded his home.

    July 27, 2005 at 5:01 pm #16044
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    March 3

    1851: The Sauganash Hotel burns in the early morning hours. Arson is suspecetd

    July 27, 2005 at 5:02 pm #16045
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    March 4

    1897: Melville W. Fuller of Chicago, chief justice of the UNited States supreme Court, adminsters the oath of office at President William McKinley’s inauguration.

    July 27, 2005 at 5:03 pm #16046
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    March 5

    1881: President James A. Garfield nominates Robert Todd Lincoln of Chicaog for the post of secretary of war.

    July 27, 2005 at 5:05 pm #16047
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    March 6

    1933: Mayor Anton J. Cermak dies in Miami Florida, victim of the Feburary 15th assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    July 27, 2005 at 5:05 pm #16048
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    March 7

    1902: Dr. Chrstiam Fenger, well-known surgeon, dies at his LaSalle Street residence. He was 61 yrs. old.

    July 27, 2005 at 5:08 pm #16049
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    March 8

    1899: The South Park Comissioner (No Not em41.gif) formally oppose the use of parks and boulebards for commerical purposes by “horseless carriage companies.”

    July 27, 2005 at 5:09 pm #16050
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    March 9

    1905: NOvelist Henry James arrive in Chicago to address the Twentieth Century Club

    July 27, 2005 at 5:09 pm #16051
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    March 10

    1902: Anna Held appears at the Illinois Theatre in Little Duchess

    July 27, 2005 at 5:10 pm #16052
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    March 11

    1897: The Democratic city convention chooses Carter H. Harrison II, as the party’s canidate for mayor.

    July 27, 2005 at 5:10 pm #16053
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    March 12

    1921: The state unemployment office reports that there are 318 men for 100 jobd in Chicago.

    July 27, 2005 at 5:11 pm #16054
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    March 13

    1902: Jan Kueblik, Czexh concert violinist, explais his earnings to the Chicago Tribune: for four appearances in Chicago he reieved $11,000 and all expenses paid.

    July 27, 2005 at 5:12 pm #16055
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    March 14

    1917: John M. Wing Dies, leaving the Newberry Libray a bequest of $200,000 for the purchase of books on the history of printing.

    July 27, 2005 at 5:13 pm #16056
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    March 15

    1902: 25,000 people view the body of former governor John Peter Altgeld lying in state at the Chicago Public Library.

    July 27, 2005 at 5:14 pm #16057
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    March 16

    1902: William Jennings Bryan eulogizes the late late John Peter Altgeld before the former governor’s internment in Graceland Cemetrery.

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