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The earliest is the Schoonover Building, a 19th-century building. It is a rare example of early frame ‘commercial’ building. These usually are replaced during the business’ life with a brick buildings. [3] A second example is the old Argos Opera House-Huff Building which is ‘railroad town’ Italianate architecture of the late
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
Fort Dearborn depicted as in 1831, sketched 1850s although the accuracy of the sketch was debated soon after it appeared.. The first non-native settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Frenchman of European and African descent, [11] who built a farm at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1788 to 1790 [a].
Royal League (fraternal order) – Founded in Chicago in 1883 as a splinter group of the Royal Arcanum. Membership was open to acceptable men aged 18–46 years old who were not employed in a hazardous occupation. Had 14,000 members in 1896. [430]
School of the Art Institute of Chicago founded. Chicago City Cemetery in Lincoln Park was permanently closed, and most of the bodies were moved to other cemeteries in the city. [9] [10] 1867 Construction began on the Water Tower designed by architect W. W. Boyington. Chicago Academy of Music founded. [6] 1868 Rand McNally is formed as a railway ...
BHF Bank, full name Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank was a German bank formed in 1970 by merger between the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and Frankfurter Bank, both founded in the 1850s. It was initially named Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft – Frankfurter Bank ( lit.
National Historic Landmarks in Indiana represent Indiana's history from the Native American era to its early European settlers and motor racing. There are 44 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in the state, [1] which are located in 23 of its 92 counties. They illustrate the state's industrial and architectural heritage, as well as battles ...
The Illinois-Wabash Company was an early claimant to much of Illinois. An early western outpost of the United States, Fort Dearborn, was established in 1803 (at the site of present-day Chicago), and the creation of the Illinois Territory followed on February 3, 1809.