See You Down The Road

After many years serving the classic car community, Wisconsin Collector Car will be shutting down at the end of 2024. Thank you for all of the car show memories!

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  • December 9, 2005 at 5:46 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16317
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    Nov. 28

    1923: The Chicago Yacht Club dedicated new quarters in Lincoln Park.

    December 9, 2005 at 5:46 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16316
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    Nov. 27

    1926: Soldier Field is packed with the largest football crowd in American history- 111,000 fans – for Chicago’s first Army-Navy Game. It ends in a tie: 21-21.

    December 9, 2005 at 5:45 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16315
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    Nov. 26

    1913: Vernon and Irene Castle give an exhibition of their dance, the Castle Walk, in the Crystal Ballroom of the Balckstone Hotel.

    December 9, 2005 at 5:44 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16314
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    Nov. 25

    1900; Polce chief Joseph Kipley orders a crackdown on slot machines. he claims that they are to be found “everwhere.”

    December 9, 2005 at 5:43 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16313
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    Nov. 24

    1841; This Thanksgiving Day is probably the first offical Chicago observance of the holiday.

    December 9, 2005 at 5:43 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16312
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    Nov. 23

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

    December 9, 2005 at 5:42 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16311
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    Nov. 22

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

    December 9, 2005 at 5:42 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16310
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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.

    December 9, 2005 at 5:41 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16309
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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.

    December 9, 2005 at 5:40 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16308
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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.

    December 9, 2005 at 5:39 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16307
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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.

    December 9, 2005 at 5:38 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16306
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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.

    December 9, 2005 at 5:37 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16305
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    Nov. 16

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

    December 9, 2005 at 5:35 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16304
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    Nov. 15:

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

    December 9, 2005 at 5:34 pm in reply to: A Day In Chicago #16303
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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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