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Nov. 1
1909: Mayor Fred A. Busse names Charles H. Wacker as chairman of a commission to styudy Burnham’s Plan Of Chicago sponsored by the Commerical Club.
Oct 30:
1915: George Wellington Streeter, who claims the lakeshore area known as “Streeterville” as his own, is arredted of selling liquor without a license.
Oct 29:
1850: The Illinois General Hospital Of The Lakes, a private institution, is opened at Rush & N. Water Streets.
Oct 28:
1893: Carter H. Harrison I, mayor of CHicago, is assassinated in his home at 231 S. Ashland Av, by Eugene Patrick Prendergast, a disappointed office seeker.
Oct 26:
1922: Officers of the Chicago Zoological Society break ground for their new zoo (now Brookfield Zoo)
Oct 25:
1929: Charles B. Pike, president of the Chicago Historical Society, calls a meeting to raise funds for a new museum building in Lincoln Park.
Oct 23:
1924: Prohibition Director Percy Oweb says that the makers of the patent medicine Cyco have “one of the sweetest booze permits in the city.” They buy 1,660 gallons of liquor a month for their product.
Oct 22:
1900: The Chicago Telephone Company reduces the pay station rate from $.10 to $.05 a call. By now there are 50,000 phones, public and private, in Chicago.
Oct 21:
1897: The Chicago schooner F.W. Gifford, heavily laden with iron ore, springs a leak and sinks in Lake Michigan north of Chicago. The crew of eight is saved.
Oct 20:
1900: A weather vane – a huge gided allegorical figure called “Spirit Of Progress” – is placed on the tower of the Montgomery Ward Building at Michigan Av. & Madison St.
Oct 19:
1833: The First Baptist Chirch is Organized by the Reverend Allen B. Freeman in the Temple Building.
