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After three days under these conditions, Mason went to Gates to resign. Instead, Gates hired new pattern-makers to fill the places of the strikers and Hancock continued his role as foreman. In 1873, at the beginning of the Long Depression , Eagle Works went out of business and two superintendents at the company, Thomas Chalmers and David Ross ...
The 1916 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on April 11, 1916, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 1916 presidential election. The preference vote was a "beauty contest". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates. [4]
Gangster tortured to death by fellow gangsters on suspicion he was an FBI informant: Harry Aleman: Chicago: 1972-09-27: Mobster initially acquitted and, after first trial was ruled corrupt, convicted at second trial of murdering a Teamsters official: Sam DeStefano: Chicago: 1973-04-14: 1
Oscar Stanton De Priest (March 9, 1871 – May 12, 1951) was an American politician and civil rights advocate from Chicago. A member of the Illinois Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois's 1st congressional district from 1929 to 1935.
The death ignited simmering tensions between Black migrants from the American south and predominately Irish immigrants on Chicago's South Side. The rioting lasted a week and resulted in the deaths of 23 blacks and 15 whites and left over 1,000 people, mostly black, homeless. 38 537 1916–21 Political, organized crime
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 ...
In 1915, Lantz served in the Illinois House of Representatives and was a Republican. Lantz then served in the Illinois State Senate from 1917 until his death in 1952. Lantz died in a hospital in Peoria, Illinois after suffering a heart attack at his home in Congerville. [1] [2] [3]
Brubaker was born in Robinson, Illinois, on October 9, 1916, the son of George Brubaker. [1] His interest in acting developed when he was a student [2] at Robinson Township High School. He dropped out of Northwestern University after two years [1] and went to New York. [2]