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The women's section of the former Cook County jail near Hubbard Street is the setting used for the musical Chicago, as well as its 2002 film adaptation. The present jail is used in segments of TV series including Chicago Fire and Better Call Saul.
Denis Diderot (/ ˈ d iː d ə r oʊ /; [2] French: [dəni did(ə)ʁo]; 5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
Marie's father, Jean Jodin, married a former prostitute much older than himself. Due to the nature of his marriage his artisan family was wary of his new wife's ability to be a fit mother and suitable wife, [3] Through letters that Jean Jodin wrote to his sister it is known that Marie Jodin was a troublesome child; her own father called her a “monster clothed in a human face”. [4]
Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893. The Woman's Building was designed and built in June 1892, for the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893; under the auspices of the Board of Lady Managers. [1] Out of the twelve main buildings for the Exhibition, the Woman's Building was the first to be completed. [2]
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].
I don't know why Uncle Sam says I did it. I tried to explain at the police station but they didn't understand me. I tried to explain at the police station but they didn't understand me. Other than Velma, she is the only member of the sextet to reappear later in the musical; she eventually is convicted and hanged, setting up Roxie Hart 's ...
Between 1818 and 1821, a small prison for women was built in Lancaster. It has been observed that the architect Joseph Gandy modelled it very closely on Bentham's panopticon prison plans. The K-wing near Lancaster Castle prison is a semi-rotunda with a central tower for the supervisor and five storeys with nine cells on each floor.
Dwight Correctional Center (DCC), also known as Oakdale Reformatory for Women, and Illinois Penitentiary for Women at Dwight, was a women's prison in Livingston County, Illinois, United States, outside the village of Dwight, Illinois. It operated from 1930 to 2013. It was established in 1930 as the Oakdale Reformatory for Women. [1]