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This museum is located in the old Chicago & Alton Railroad Depot at 100 N. State Street in Chatham, Illinois. The permanent collection includes a library of railroad-related books, photographs, memorabilia, and examples of railroad equipment. The museum is open from 2-4 PM on the second and fourth Sundays of each month. Admission is free.
Northern Illinois: Local history: Homepage: Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design: Galena: Jo Daviess: Northern Illinois: Art: Art of design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial and product design, graphics and urban planning: Chicago Athenaeum's International Sculpture Park: Schaumburg: Cook: Chicago area: Art
Col. Wood's Museum, as depicted by Louis Kurz in 1866. Col. Wood's Museum (sometimes referred to simply as the Chicago Museum) was a museum and public theatre located in Chicago, Illinois. The museum was founded in 1864, but was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire. A second incarnation opened in 1875, but it was also destroyed by fire.
The Elks National Veterans Memorial (officially the Elks National Memorial and Headquarters Building) is a Beaux Arts-style domed building at 2750 North Lakeview Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. [1] It is across from Lincoln Park and close to the park's Goethe Monument and statue of Alexander Hamilton .
John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi. Jones was a locomotive engineer for the Illinois Central Railroad, based in Memphis, Tennessee, and Jackson, Mississippi. He was noted for his ...
Octavius Granady (1872–1928), committeeman in the "Bloody 20th Ward", killed by the mobster Morris Elder. [2] Emma Griffin (1877–1918), Vaudeville performer and entrepreneur [8] Vivian Harsh (1890–1960), first African American librarian in the Chicago Public Library, created a monumental research collection on black life. [2]
Both engineers survived but 31 people were killed, and more than 100 people injured. [2] February 26 – United States – A Lehigh Valley Railroad freight train is derailed at Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, destroying the railway station there. [3]
Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery located at 863 S. DesPlaines Ave, Forest Park, Illinois, adjacent to the Eisenhower Expressway, straddling the Des Plaines River in Cook County, just west of Chicago. [1] The cemetery traces its history to two adjacent cemeteries, German Waldheim (1873) and Forest Home (1876), which merged in 1969.