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The Museum & Library has also hosted exhibitions by artists such as Steve Mumford, James Dietz, Don Stivers, and members of the Midwest Air Force Association. [31] Other exhibitions have included Don't Be a Dope!: Training Comics from World War II and Korea [32] and She's a Wow!: Women's Service Organizations in World War II. [33]
Victory spelled by sailors on the parade grounds at Great Lakes during World War I. At the start of 1917, just prior to the United States entry to World War I, Great Lakes was under the command of Captain William A. Moffett and had 39 permanent brick buildings, over 165 acres (67 ha), and about 1,500 Sailors. At the close of the war, there were ...
Led by the Alton, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, a consortium of nine railroad companies (hence the "Union" name) acquired the 320-acre (1.3 km 2) marshland area in southwest Chicago for US$100,000 in 1864. [20] The stockyards were connected to the city's main rail lines by 15 miles (24 km) of ...
Book review: "Tinkertown: A Wheatfield, an Airbase, and Us: The Story of Midwest City & Tinker AFB" by Jim Willis (ArtStrings, LLC, in stores)
Module:Location map/data/United States Chicago metropolitan area is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Chicago metropolitan area. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Some entities in the Midwest have "Northwest" in their names for historical reasons, such as Northwestern University in Illinois. [9] One of the earliest late-19th-century uses of Midwest was in reference to Kansas and Nebraska to indicate that they were the civilized areas of the west. [10] Another term applied to the same region is Heartland ...
The Chicago Cubs win their first World Series; 1908 The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the second year in a row; Binga Bank in business. [36] 1909: Burnham's Plan of Chicago presented. [20] 1910: Population: 2,185,283. [1] [37] July 1: Comiskey Park opened (originally called White Sox Park). December 22: Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1910)
At its first appearance in records by explorers, the Chicago area was inhabited by a number of Algonquian peoples, including the Mascouten and Miami. The name "Chicago" is generally believed to derive from a French rendering of the Miami–Illinois language word šikaakwa, referring to the plant Allium tricoccum, as well as the animal skunk. [3]