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Third son of Robert Jr. and Polly. William died at an early age and his children were raised by their uncles. Leander James McCormick (1819–1900), [5] an inventor and co-founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, he owned substantial real estate in downtown Chicago and Lake Forest, Illinois. In the 1880s, he donated the McCormick ...
Polly King Ruhtenberg (May 18, 1907 – January 23, 1983) was an American children’s book author and libertarian. Ruhtenberg grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, and went to the Shipley School in Pennsylvania and Barnard College in New York City. She married her second husband, Alexander Gustav Jan Ruhtenberg on August 4, 1935.
Tomcats is a 1977 American film directed by Harry E. Kerwin and starring Chris Mulkey, Polly King, Wayne Crawford, and William Kerwin.It was also known as Deadbeat, Getting Even and Avenged.
From the 1970s through the 1980s, the Biograph was the center in Chicago for midnight showings, with raucous costumed cult following, of Rocky Horror Picture Show. [ 5 ] In July 2004, after 90 years as a movie theater under various owners, Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater announced it had purchased the Biograph for use as a live venue.
The Kinetic Playground was a short-lived nightclub located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The club was opened on April 3, 1968, as the Electric Theater [1] by Aaron Russo and was located at 4812 N. Clark Street (NW corner of Clark and Lawrence).
Ginevra King (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980), daughter of Chicago financier Charles King, is best known for her romantic relationship with, and being a muse for, F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was the inspiration for the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. King married twice, to William Mitchell and John T. Pirie Jr.
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John McCandish King (February 15, 1927 – January 13, 2016) was an American petroleum entrepreneur and Republican politician. He is notable for being one of the youngest members elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in its history and for his role in a fraudulent scam involving Investors Overseas Service .