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The two story brick Italianate house was completed in 1862, built by James S. Thompson, a successful local businessman. The property includes several outbuildings constructed at the same time as the house, including a wash house, wood storage house, and a privy, all made of brick. A wooden barn and wooden children's playhouse were also built by ...
He was also an assistant state's attorney for Cook County, Illinois from 1925 to 1926. [2] In 1929, he became the first African American to serve as assistant attorney general for the State of Illinois. He served in that capacity until 1933. [1] [2] He died at his home in Chicago on May 7, 1946. McGill was buried in Jacksonville, Florida. [2 ...
Thompson House may refer to: . in Canada. Thompson House (Montreal), a residence in the historic Îlot-Trafalgar-Gleneagles block in Montreal Thomson House, a former mansion in Montreal, now the graduate students building at McGill University
Thompson was born in Washington, D.C., on July 25, 1948. [1] [better source needed] She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Secondary Education [2] from the University of Maryland in 1970. She then earned a Master of Fine Arts in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in 2012. [3] Thompson lived with her husband near Chicago.
In 1939, Gus and Emma Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple, agreed to rent and eventually sell the house they owned to the Dongs, a Chinese American family.
The Four Houses by Architect Frederick Schock is a historic district in Chicago's west-side Austin neighborhood, honoring four homes built by by architect Frederick R. Schock between 1886 and 1892. The Queen Anne and Shingle styles houses are located at 5749 and 5804 West Race Avenue, and 5804 and 5810 West Midway Park.
Thomson at one point was president of the Chicago Bar Association. [2] He was a trustee of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad from 1933 to 1939, when he was appointed trustee of the Chicago & North Western Railway. He served as trustee until his death on December 30, 1943. Thomson was interred in Chicago's Rosehill Cemetery.
Robin McElroy, a Morgan Park resident, has cherished her Chicago home since purchasing it in 2012. But now, she’s facing panic and frustration over a mix-up involving unpaid property taxes.