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Fire Queen: 1892: 1905: Built to fight fires on the site of the 1893 Chicago's World's Fair. Turned over to the city when the fair closed. Illinois: 1899: Chicago's first fireboat with a steel hull, instead of a wooden hull. Sank during the Burlington Grain elevator fire, but was quickly refloated and put back into service. Joseph Medill: 1908-06
SS. Eastland. Sold on 1 June 1914 to the St. Joseph-Chicago Steamship Company of St. Joseph, Michigan. Raised after accident in October 1915 and sold at auction on 20 December 1915 to Captain Edward A. Evers, sold on 21 November 1917 to the Illinois Naval Reserve. SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours.
December 8, 1983 [1] Designated NHL. April 11, 1989 [2] SS Milwaukee Clipper, also known as SS Clipper , and formerly as SS Juniata, is a retired passenger ship and automobile ferry that sailed under two configurations and traveled on all of the Great Lakes except Lake Ontario. The vessel is now docked in Muskegon, Michigan.
Ford River Rouge complex
SS Carl D. Bradley
During construction, 1915 (Chicago Daily News)Navy Pier opened to the public on July 15, 1916. [5] Originally known as the "Municipal Pier", the pier was built by Charles Sumner Frost, a nationally known architect, with a design based on the 1909 Plan of Chicago by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett [6] Its original purpose was to serve as a dock for freighters, passenger ships, and indoor ...
2014 Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center fire
Restaurant dock, fire wreckage, baseball dreams: Take our Tri-Cities news quiz. Tri-City Herald. September 6, 2024 at 8:00 AM. Tri-City Herald. Welcome back to the Tri-City Herald’s weekly news ...