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Charles "Chuck" Panici (December 26, 1930 - December 20, 2017 ) was mayor of Chicago Heights, Illinois from 1975 to 1991. He was also head of the Bloom Township Republican Party from 1978 to 1992. He was born in 1930 in the "Hungry Hill" section of Chicago Heights, a south suburb, which was the home to mainly Italian immigrants in a heavily ...
Wag's was a chain of casual dining (or "family") restaurants owned and operated by Walgreens in the 1970s and 1980s. They were modeled after restaurants like Denny's, Shoney's, and Big Boy in that they were mostly 24-hour establishments specializing in inexpensive fare such as hamburgers and breakfast. The chain was based on smaller restaurants ...
The earliest barbecue restaurants in Chicago were established by African Americans who moved to Chicago from the Southern United States during both phases of the Great Migration from the south. [1] [2] Between 1910 and 1970, the number of African-Americans in Chicago increased from 50,000 to 1,000,000. [3]
There was little indication the Peoria restaurant would become the source of the nation's third-worst botulism outbreak of the century. The illness would ultimately strike 28 people. Some would be ...
1970s video albums (2 C) M. 1970s music videos (1 P) This page was last edited on 15 November 2023, at 23:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Atari video computer system, known as the Atari 2600 after 1977, was a trailblazer in gaming entertainment. Here are some examples of what just basic vintage games could make you if you sell them.
Roth used his experience as a theatrical booker to increase the restaurant's reputation in and outside Chicago. When the Blackhawk stopped featuring orchestras in 1952 and removed the bandstand and the dance floor, Don Roth declared the restaurant's theme was "The Food's the Show" and focused on the house specialty of prime rib served from ...
[1] [2] The chain had as many as 27 restaurants, seven company owned and the rest franchised, in the Chicago area by 1976. [1] Yankee Doodle had restaurants on 125th and Burleigh streets in Brookfield, Wis. and at 1119 N. La Grange Road in La Grange Park, Illinois during the 1970s. The La Grange Park site is now a dry cleaner.