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A landmark lost to history and is considered the world's first skyscraper. Chicago Water Tower and Chicago Avenue Pumping Station, circa 1886. 1886 May 4, the Haymarket riot. [20] Chicago Evening Post published (until 1932). [1] 1887: Newberry Library established. 1888: Dearborn Observatory rebuilt. 1889 Hull House founded. [1] [21] Auditorium ...
Universal began in a multi-story Chicago Ave. where they made mostly plaster/chalkware products. In the 1950s they moved to a new second single story building located on Ogden Ave., where they began working with experimental composites.
Additionally, it includes 442 maps, more than 400 vintage photographs, [25] over 250 sketches of "historically significant business enterprises", [6] a dictionary of Chicago-area businesses, a biographical dictionary and a 21-page timeline that traces the history of Chicago from 1630 to 2000. [3] [10]
Alice "Zani" Jacobsen (1928–1993), was an American postwar and contemporary sculptor who resided on the North Side of Chicago. [1] She is known for her plaster sculptural reliefs of buildings, structures, and famous landmarks that she felt "'represent an important Chicago style' or demonstrate an innovative solution to technical construction problems."
Chalkware is an American term for popular figurines either made of moulded plaster of Paris (usually) or sculpted gypsum, and painted, typically with oils or watercolors.
1979 - A lawsuit made California change its boxing regulations, which had limited women boxers to no more than four rounds. [188] [119] 1979 - Norwegian Grete Waitz became the first woman in history to run a marathon in under two and a half hours, which she did at the New York City Marathon. [189] [190] [191]
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Fort Dearborn depicted as in 1831, sketched 1850s although the accuracy of the sketch was debated soon after it appeared.. The first settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Frenchman of European and African descent, [11] who built a farm at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1788 to 1790 [a].