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The Romanesque style station is architecturally significant as an example of pre-1945 police stations in Chicago. It was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke and Franklin Pierce Burnham. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The Chicago Police Department vacated the station in 1998.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Peter von Frantzius (sometimes Frantizius) (* 1896; died April 6, 1968) was a Chicago businessman and arms dealer to the Chicago underworld during Prohibition, later dubbed by the press as "The Armorer of Gangland". He was the son of German immigrants. His father Fritz von Frantzius was a stock market dealer and died 1917.
Pages in category "Firearm sights" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1P63; 1P78 Kashtan; A.
The Protector Palm Pistol was first patented and built in France in 1882 by Jacques Turbiaux and sold as the "Turbiaux Le Protector" or the "Turbiaux Disc Pistol". Later in 1883 it was built in the USA as The Protector by Minneapolis Firearms Co. Peter H. Finnegan of Austin, Illinois bought the patent in 1892 and founded the Chicago Fire Arms ...
After Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 5471 into law Tuesday night, Illinois gun owners may be wondering how it will affect them and what equipment is now banned.
A Royal Canadian Sea Cadet looks through a machine gun sight.. A sight or sighting device is any device used to assist in precise visual alignment (i.e. aiming) of weapons, surveying instruments, aircraft equipment, [1] [2] optical illumination equipment or larger optical instruments with the intended target.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...