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The south end of the channel flows into the North Branch at approximately 5100 north and 3000 west in the Chicago street-address numbering system. A concrete low head dam , 82 feet (25 m) in width and 8 feet (2.4 m) in height, was constructed at the confluence of the channel and river in 1910, creating Chicago's only waterfall within the city ...
The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad (reporting mark CNSM), also known as the North Shore Line, was an interurban railroad that operated passenger and freight service over an 88.9-mile (143.1 km) route between the Chicago Loop and downtown Milwaukee, as well as an 8.6-mile (13.8 km) branch line between the villages of Lake Bluff and Mundelein, Illinois.
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [1] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...
The Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS) is a complex of natural and artificial waterways extending through much of the Chicago metropolitan area, covering approximately 87 miles altogether. It straddles the Chicago Portage and is the sole navigable inland link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River and makes up the northern end of ...
The Chicago and North Western Railway Power House is the historic power house which served the 1911 Chicago and North Western Terminal in Chicago, Illinois. The building was designed by Frost & Granger in 1909; it was mainly designed in the Beaux Arts style but also exhibits elements of the Italian Renaissance Revival style. Construction on the ...
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee 749 Interurban Coach Pullman Car Company: 1928 Operational Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee: Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee 757 Note: This is a close up on the 757. Interurban Coach Standard Steel Car Company: 1930 Operational Wisconsin Electric Railway Historical Society, Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee: Chicago ...
Live + Direct, 2002 (edited 1970 live recording plus demos and miscellany, by Renaissance and related artists, from 1968 to 1976) Innocents and Illusions, 2004 (compilation double CD of Renaissance and Illusion from the original incarnation) Dreams & Omens, 2008 (live performance recorded 1978) Live in Chicago, 2010 (live performance recorded 1983)
Chicago Renaissance may refer to: Chicago Black Renaissance , 1930–1940s creative movement from the Chicago Black Belt Chicago Renaissance, multiple periods of innovation in Chicago literature in the early 20th century