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The Hirsch family operated WKRO until 1984, when the station was sold to a local funeral director, William T. "Bill" Crain. Crain operated WKRO for close to ten years. During the 1990s, WKRO was owned and operated by a succession of short lived owners, including Roger Price, Sr. and Dan Moeller.
It was originally constructed in 1856 as a roundhouse for the Chicago & Aurora Railroad (later Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad) and served in this capacity until 1974. It was abandoned until 1995, when a group of investors led by Walter Payton purchased it and converted the building to an entertainment complex.
The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition (1995); essays by scholars covering important mayors before 1980; Green, Paul M., and Melvin G. Holli. Chicago, World War II (2003) excerpt and text search; short and heavily illustrated; Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013) online
In 1947 László Moholy-Nagy invited Berko to come to the United States, to teach photography at the Chicago School of Design. [1] [2] [3] Two years later, he took a job as a corporate photographer in Aspen, Colorado, offered by Walter Paepcke, who was then the president of the Container Corporation of America. [1] [2] He would remain for 50 ...
Request for restitution to the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) Settlement reached in 2000 between the heirs and the Art Institute of Chicago, which had purchased the bust from London art dealer Anthony Roth in 1989. [210] Henri Matisse : Odalisque oil on canvas, 1928 Paul Rosenberg Collection Claim to the Seattle Art Museum
The List of painters in the Art Institute of Chicago is a list of the artists indexed ... Master of the Antwerp Adoration (1480–1520), 2 ... Walter Gay (1856 ...
Walter Fraser Martin (1857-1912) supplied the technical expertise, specializing in coloured glazes and became the firm's specialist on the wheel; Edwin Bruce Martin (1860-1915) was the thrower and decorator whose work included most of the fish and flower designs; and Charles Douglas Martin (1846 - 1910) managed the shop.
In 1969, Charles Walter, formerly the head of Piano Design and Developmental Engineering at C.G. Conn, [4] bought the Janssen piano name from Conn. He founded a company to make pianos under the Janssen name. [5] In 1975, Walter started his own line of console and studio upright pianos. In 1991, the company ceased to produce pianos under the ...