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July 10, Chicago's first legally executed criminal, John Stone was hanged for rape and murder. Population: 4,470. [4] 1843: Chicago's first cemetery, Chicago City Cemetery, was established in Lincoln Park. [5] 1844: Lake Park designated. [6] 1847: June 10, The first issue of the Chicago Tribune is published. 1848
Numbering plan areas and area codes of Texas (tan). This is a list of area codes in the U.S. state of Texas. The date of establishment of each area code is indicated in parentheses: [1] 210: San Antonio area; overlays with 726 (November 1, 1992) 214: Dallas area, overlays with 469, 972, and 945 (October 1947) 254: Waco, Killeen, Temple, Belton ...
Additionally, it includes 442 maps, more than 400 vintage photographs, [25] over 250 sketches of "historically significant business enterprises", [6] a dictionary of Chicago-area businesses, a biographical dictionary and a 21-page timeline that traces the history of Chicago from 1630 to 2000.
The red fields are the NPAs that hosted the Regional Centers for toll-switching established in the General Toll Switching Plan of 1929: [2] New York City (212), Los Angeles (213), Dallas (214), Chicago (312), St. Louis (314), and San Francisco (415) in the multi-NPA states, and in Denver (303) and Atlanta (404) in states with just a single area ...
The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. (1991). 318 pp. excerpt and text search; Rosen, Christine Meisner. "Businessmen against pollution in late nineteenth century Chicago." Business History Review (1995) 69#3 pp: 351-397.
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
1900 / 1931 [74] 10 [74] Yes 209 West Jackson Boulevard McKinlock Building 1893 / 1918 [75] 12 [75] Yes 200 West Jackson Boulevard 1970 [76] 28 [76] No [76] 175 West Jackson Boulevard Insurance Exchange Building 1912 / 1928 [77] 21 [77] Yes 141 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago Board of Trade Building. 1930 / 1997 [78] 44 [78] Yes 111 West Jackson ...
It is one of the oldest standing stations on the El, built in 1900. [citation needed] In 1924, the first gay rights organization in American history, the Society for Human Rights, was established by Henry Gerber at his home, the Henry Gerber House, on North Crilly Court. The Henry Gerber House was designated a Chicago Landmark on June 6, 2001. [18]