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Chuck-a-luck, also known as birdcage, or sweat rag, [1] is a game of chance played with three dice. It is derived from grand hazard and both can be considered a variant of sic bo , which is a popular casino game , although chuck-a-luck is more of a carnival game than a true casino game.
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.
By a stroke of luck, a deputy knows Altar as a saloon singer from his past, though not her current whereabouts. Vern learns that after Altar quit working for saloon owner Baldy Gunder, she bet her last $20 on his rigged game of chance, a wheel of fortune variant of chuck-a-luck. With the help of gunslinger Frenchy Fairmont, she won a great deal ...
Past owners and residents include Chuck Renslow and Dom Orejudos, the latter of whom housed his art studio on the third floor. [7] [8] [9] Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley invited Renslow to a 1974 ceremony to celebrate the building's landmark designation. [10] The mansion went for sale in 2011 with an asking price of $9.9 million. [11]
1906 Blanchard's map of Chicago. October 18, 1909 – Rodney "Gipsy" Smith leads a march of 200 Christians through the Levee District. January 9, 1910 – Nathaniel Ford Moore (born January 31, 1884), a well-known American golfer and son of the President of the Rock Island Railway Company, dies in the brothel of Vic Shaw of a narcotic overdose ...
Frank Howard Buck (March 17, 1884 – March 25, 1950) was an American hunter, animal collector, and author, as well as a film actor, director, and producer. Beginning in the 1910s he made many expeditions into Asia for the purpose of hunting and collecting exotic animals, bringing over 100,000 live specimens back to the United States and elsewhere for zoos and circuses and earning a reputation ...
Woolery hosted a short-lived talk show, The Chuck Woolery Show, in 1991. Love Connection ended in 1994. From 1997 to 1999, Woolery hosted a revival of The Dating Game. He later hosted Greed and Lingo.
Soo campaigned to get the Chicago Transit Authority to give the Argyle 'L' station a $250,000 face-lift, then in 1981 he started the "Taste of Argyle," an annual food festival. He also secured funds from Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne to fix the sidewalks, and later from Mayor Harold Washington to repair building facades. Because of his tireless work ...