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Additionally, a section aimed at Chicago's large Góral community appears, titled "The Highlander Chronicle" or Kronika podhalańska in Polish is published every Wednesday in the Dziennik Związkowy. The newspaper is a subsidiary of the Polish National Alliance, a Polish-American fraternal organization. The current president of the PNA is Frank ...
Cobbs was a member of the executive committee of the NAACP's Chicago chapter. [9] During racial tensions around fair housing protests, he invited civil rights leader Archibald Carey to speak on his radio program to counsel against violence and promote acceptance. [10] Clarence H. Cobbs died at his home in Chicago on June 28, 1979. [11]
Andrew M. Greeley (February 5, 1928 – May 29, 2013) was an American Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist.He was a professor of sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and a research associate with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC).
Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ← March April May → The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2024.
John Joseph [1] Coughlin was born August 15, [2] 1860 in Chicago to Johanna (née Hanley) [2] and Michael Coughlin. [1] Michael, a native of County Roscommon, had come to the 1st ward in 1857, [1] and owned a moderately-successful grocery at Polk and Wells before it burned down in the Great Chicago Fire. [2]
(The Center Square) – President-elect Donald Trump, who is set to take office Monday, has made a series of promises of major executive actions on “day one” in office. One of the simplest and ...
Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st mayor of Chicago. [1] In April 1983, Washington became the first African American to be elected as the city’s mayor at the age of 60.
Tim enjoyed a side career of playing semi-pro Football for the Chicago Lions in the late '70s into the early '80s. He was a running back who was known as White Shoes Weigel. In 1999, he was inducted into the American Football Association's Semi-Pro Football Hall of Fame.