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In addition to being a home for several different owners, the house has also served as a funeral home and as the headquarters of the Chicago Urban League. [2] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1978. [1] On December 3, 2023, the building was severely damaged in a fire. [3] [4]
George Washington Sears (December 2, 1821 – May 1, 1890) was an American writer for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist. His stories, appearing under the pen name "Nessmuk", popularized self-guided canoe camping tours of the Adirondack lakes in open, lightweight solo canoes and what is today called ultralight camping or ultralight backpacking.
The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...
A player for English second-division team Burnley says he received “disgusting” racial abuse from an opponent during a league game on Saturday. Tunisia international Hannibal Mejbri was ...
Jerry Springer Shutterstock Remembering a TV icon. Jerry Springer was laid to rest during a private funeral service in Chicago on Sunday, April 30. Attended by the late host’s family and friends ...
Ky J. Boyd fell in love with movies and movie theaters after seeing his first film, the 1970s The Aristocats, at the Liberty Falls Theater in Great Falls, Mont., where he grew up. “I actually ...
Andrew J McGann (August 3, 1925 – February 5, 2008) was an American politician, businessman, and funeral director who served as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993.
Over the years, various notorious groups of murderers have gained national attention for their shocking crimes, including figures like Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. Businessman Herbert ...