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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
Kroch's and Brentano's was the largest bookstore in Chicago, and at one time it was the largest privately owned bookstore chain in the United States.The store and the chain were formed in 1954 through the merger of the separate Kroch's bookstore with the former Chicago branch of the New York-based Brentano's bookstore. [1]
With various matching funds programs, Illinois FIRST provided $2.2 billion for schools, $4.1 billion for public transportation, another $4.1 billion for roads, and $1.6 billion for other projects. In 1993 Illinois became the first Midwestern state to elect a black person to the US senate before the term of Carol Moseley Braun.
Kramers (bookstore) District of Columbia: MahoganyBooks District of Columbia: Politics and Prose District of Columbia (3 locations) For Keeps (bookstore) Georgia: Atlanta: Charis Books & More: Georgia: Decatur: Feminist: Quimby's Bookstore Illinois: Chicago: Seminary Co-op Illinois: Chicago: Unabridged Bookstore Illinois: Chicago: LGBT: Women ...
A travel bookstore was established in 1985 on Pioneer Courthouse Square, and other stores followed, one a year for the next few years. [1] By the early 1990s, Powell's bookstores were part of the resurgence of the independent bookstore , which collectively made 32 percent of book sales in the U.S. [ 6 ] The travel store closed in 2005.
Arrival of first settlers in Michigan's first inland settlement; recognized by the state legislature in 1837, and incorporated as a city in 1861. 1818: Medina: Ohio: United States: 1818: Columbia: Missouri: United States 1818 Jim Thorpe: Pennsylvania United States Formerly known as Mauch Chunk and burial place of Native American athlete Jim ...
But, did you know, Illinois was the first state to recognize it as a holiday 50 years ago? Schools here began commemorating the occasion in 1969. They wouldn’t, however, close for the day until ...
The first documented African American bookstore was owned and operated by the abolitionist David Ruggles in the 1830s in New York City. In the years of the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1950s and 1960s, Lewis Michaux's National Memorial African Bookstore became arguably the most prominent Black-owned bookstore in the United States. In ...