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Image Birth Death Known for Association Reference Dankmar Adler: Jul 3, 1844: Apr 16, 1900: Architect: designed the Guaranty Building, Chicago Stock Exchange Building, and Wainwright Building which is considered to be the world's first skyscraper Lived and died in Chicago Mortimer Adler: Dec 28, 1902: Jun 28, 2001: Philosopher, educator, and ...
Josie Brown Childs (October 13, 1926 – February 13, 2023) was an American civic leader and community activist. Childs worked closely with several politicians, including Harold Washington (in office, 1983–1987), Chicago's first mayor of African American descent.
On October 10, 1944, a classified advertisement appeared in the Chicago Times: "$5,000 REWARD FOR KILLERS OF OFFICER LUNDY ON DEC. 9, 1932.CALL GRO 1758, 12-7 P.M." The ad was brought to the attention of the city editor Karin Walsh, who assigned seasoned police reporter James McGuire to dig into the story further.
Chicago police described Jackson as "a man with the body of a giant and the brain of a child", who was known in syndicate circles as a mob "juice" collector who specialized in pain for delinquent customers. In 1941 he was arrested in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for assault and robbery. In 1947, he was arrested and charged with rape, but was not ...
On September 10, 2017, Kenneka Jenkins (May 27, 1998 – September 9, 2017), a 19-year-old from Chicago, Illinois, was found dead inside a latched freezer of the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare hotel in Rosemont, Illinois, after attending a party there the prior day. [1] The medical examiner's report found Jenkins' death to be accidental.
Fictional characters from Chicago (4 C, 105 P) Pages in category "People from Chicago" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 758 total.
Clark as a child (furthest right), with her family. Clark was born in Gary, Indiana on June 2, 1943. [1] Her parents were Harvey Clark, Jr. and Johnetta Clark. [4] They met while attending Fisk University, and her father served in World War II and worked as a bus driver and the manager of an appliance store.
Blues musician killed in a robbery on Chicago's South Side: Sol Butler: Chicago: 1954-12-01: African-American NFL player and Olympic long jumper shot at a bar where he worked: Malcolm Lee Beggs: Chicago: 1956-12-10: Actor beaten to death with beer and whisky bottles in hotel room: Murder of Maria Ridulph: Sycamore: 1957-12-03