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"Try to find a hill in Chicago, it's a little hard," Collor told the Chicago Tribune in 2009. "My friend and I saw that hill with that sign on top of it for The Flame restaurant, and I said, 'There's a hill!'" [1] Collor signed an agreement with the Robinette family to build two water slides and a few small buildings on the property.
The 5-bedroom, 6-bathroom house located in Winnetka, Illinois was put up for sale at $5.25 million late May, according to the Zillow listing. The home's exterior was used as the McCallister's ...
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.
The Chicago Harbor Lock, also known as the Chicago River & Harbor Controlling Works, is a stop lock and dam located within the Chicago Harbor in Chicago, Illinois at the mouth of the Chicago River. It is a component of the Chicago Area Waterway System , and is used to control water diversion from Lake Michigan into the river and for navigation.
The Wonderboom (Afrikaans: 'wonder tree') is a dense grove of parent and daughter trees of the species Ficus salicifolia, that descended from a central bole of about a thousand years old. [1] [2] It is situated in the Wonderboom Nature Reserve, Pretoria, and two circular walkways currently protect it from pedestrian traffic around its trunk and ...
Richard Louis Duchossois (/ ˈ d ʌ tʃ ə s w ɑː /; [2] October 7, 1921 – January 28, 2022) was an American businessman and racehorse owner. He was the founder and chairman of The Duchossois Group, Inc., a family-owned company headquartered in Elmhurst, Illinois that had ownership stakes in Arlington Park and Churchill Downs race tracks, and did rail car and defense manufacturing.
A bronze medal from the 2024 Paris Olympics is up for sale. The hardware was put up on RR Auction's website in the first week of the new year as part of the auction house's Olympic memorabilia.
Chicago Parking Meters LLC also known as ParkChicago [1] is an American company [2] with several investors [3] that owns the parking meters in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The company has gained notoriety for its roots in the sale of the City of Chicago's parking meters to private investors, considered a financial disaster for the city.