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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]
The World gradually grew in circulation, reaching 40,000 people each week at its height. The World‘s staff of ten ran a printing plant with $35,000 worth of equipment one block away from The Chicago Defender, at 3611 South Indiana. [1]
The city of Chicago designated the structure a landmark on July 26, 2006. [1] On May 22, 2007, the building was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Central Chicago. [7] [8] Randolph Tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 2007. [5]
The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2000, [4] and it was added to the federal National Register of Historic Places in 2003. In 2001, the building was sold to developer Draper and Kramer who, with Booth Hansen Architects, converted it to residential use, with the first two floors dedicated to upscale office and retail space.
CHICAGO — After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the ...
Protesters angry over the Gaza war took to Paris' Sorbonne University on Monday, chanting 'Free Palestine' at the university's gates while some students set up tents in the courtyard. Days after ...
Sorbonne may refer to: Sorbonne (building) , historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities. Sorbonne Chapel
For more than a century, Chicago was the premier destination for national political conventions. From 1860 to 1968, the city hosted 24 Democratic and Republican party conventions, far more than ...