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In May 2013, Illinois' state (public) universities, colleges, and community colleges agreed, pending formation and passage of the legislation before the end of the state's legislative session, at Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and other members' repeated urging, to gradually assume more of the burden- half of a percent of the retirement ...
1916: Bumping into a white girl at a train station: Pictures of his lynching were sold to white citizens for five cents each. [358] Lang, Ed: African American: Rice: Navarro: Texas: 1916 "Attacking a young woman." Taken from a sheriff's posse and hanged. [359] Richards, John: African American: Goldsboro: Wayne: North Carolina: January 12, 1916 ...
The old and smaller Joliet Correctional Center, which had opened in 1858 on a site in Joliet 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the south-southeast, was being considered for closure. . Construction commenced on the new Stateville facility in 1917, in what was then an unincorporated area of Lockport Township, [a] opening in 1925 with capacity to accommodate 1,506 inmat
Illinois Rebels - A Civil War Unit History of G Company, 15th Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Infantry (1996, Guild Press of Indiana: Carmel, Indiana) Grossman, James R.. Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff, eds. The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005) online version; Hicken, Victor, Illinois in the Civil War, University of Illinois Press. 1991.
12-year-old girl beaten to death by Jehovah's Witness father who claimed he was administering Biblical discipline: Murder of Mary Stachowicz: 2002-11-13: Polish-American woman murdered after questioning killer's sexuality, drew attention as alleged hate crime against Christian heterosexual: Brice Hunter: Chicago: 2004-04-19
A government audit revealed that the Social Security Administration had incorrectly listed 23,000 people as dead in a two-year period. These people sometimes faced difficulties in convincing government agencies that they were actually alive; a 2008 story in the Nashville area focused on a woman who was incorrectly flagged as dead in the Social Security computers in 2000 and had difficulties ...
1916 Illinois elections (8 P) S. 1916 in sports in Illinois (11 P) Pages in category "1916 in Illinois" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The Bucket of Blood, a saloon on the southwest corner of 19th Street and Federal. This bar was mentioned in a newspaper in 1916 for serving still liquor after the curfew. The name most likely comes from the fact that in the morning, after numerous brawls and stabbings, blood had to be cleaned from the floor. [8]