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1916 Illinois elections (8 P) S. 1916 in sports in Illinois (11 P) Pages in category "1916 in Illinois" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
1914 – Great Salem Fire of 1914, Massachusetts; 1916 – Bergen, Norway. About 300 buildings razed. 1916 – Matheson Fire, Matheson, Ontario. Destroyed approximately 490,000 acres of land. 1916 – Paris, Texas Fire of 1916. Largest of 3 historical fires that destroyed most of the central business district and a large residential section.
Sanborn held a monopoly over fire insurance maps for the majority of the 20th century, but the business declined as US insurance companies stopped using maps for underwriting in the 1960s. The last Sanborn fire maps were published on microfilm in 1977, but old Sanborn maps remain useful for historical research into urban geography. The license ...
The Fifth Congress established the new county on December 17, 1840, and named it after Mirabeau B. Lamar, [5] who was the first Vice President and the second President of the Republic of Texas. Map of the city in 1885. Lamar County was one of the 18 Texas counties that voted against secession on February 23, 1861. [6]
In the spring of 1978, fire fighters in Normal struck for 56 days to win a first contract. Illinois had no public employee collective bargaining law until the 1980s. Seeking union recognition, Normal Fire Fighters Local 2442 struck in March 1978. The fire fighters maintained fire service from the picket line, refusing to enter the fire station.
The death ignited simmering tensions between Black migrants from the American south and predominately Irish immigrants on Chicago's South Side. The rioting lasted a week and resulted in the deaths of 23 blacks and 15 whites and left over 1,000 people, mostly black, homeless. 38 537 1916–21 Political, organized crime
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Prisoners who died in Illinois detention (1 C, 12 P) S. ... Pages in category "Death in Illinois" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.