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Shedd Aquarium. Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago. Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium. [2]
Biography. Born on a New Hampshire farm on July 20, 1850, [1] Shedd arrived in Chicago, Illinois in 1871 and began working as a stock clerk for Marshall Field. [2] By 1901, he had worked his way up to a vice-presidency and took over as president upon Field's death in 1906. [1] Field himself described Shedd as "the greatest merchant in the ...
The Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum of Natural History (as renamed in 1905 for its first major benefactor), [26] the Museum of Science and Industry, the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the University of Chicago have all been aided by the philanthropy of Marshall Field's. [27]
It’s bright and early at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium and the penguin population’s newest member is ready for a wellness check. A fuzzy brown southern rockhopper chick is gently plopped onto a ...
Added to NRHP. September 5, 1975. The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. [4] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, [5][6] and its extensive scientific ...
December 30, 1974. The Shedd Park Fieldhouse is the historic fieldhouse in Shedd Park, a public park in the South Lawndale community area of Chicago, Illinois. John G. Shedd, for whom the park and fieldhouse are named, gave the city the land for the park. The Prairie School building was designed by William Drummond and built in 1917.
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John Shedd Reed. John Shedd Reed (1917 in Chicago, Illinois – March 16, 2008 in Lake Forest, Illinois) [1] [2] was president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and then its parent Santa Fe Industries from 1967 until 1986. The rail transport industry journal Modern Railways named Reed its Man of the Year for 1970.