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Chicago Pride Parade in Lincoln Park in 1985 on Clark Street. Lincoln Park was home to a number of important historic figures including: J. J. Bittenbinder (1942–2023), police officer, television host, and author. He was a childhood resident of the DePaul neighborhood in Lincoln Park. [42]
Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre (489-hectare) park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.Named after US president Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, [1] [2] to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the DuSable Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue. [3]
The Post Office Act of 1872 (17 Stat. 283) elevated the Post Office Department to Cabinet status. [ 2 ] During the American Civil War (1861–1865), postal services in the Confederate States of America were provided by the Confederate States of America Post-office Department , headed by Postmaster General John Henninger Reagan .
The Old Chicago Main Post Office is a nine-story-tall office building in downtown Chicago.The building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and built in 1921. The structure of the building was expanded greatly in 1932 in order to serve Chicago's great volume of postal business, increased significantly by the mail-order businesses of Montgomery Ward (the largest retailer in the ...
Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District: December 18, 2018 Douglass ... Lincoln Park. August 26, 1994 : 2045 N. Lincoln Park West Lincoln Park ...
The Lincoln Park Post Office was dedicated on August 5, 1939, serving as a branch of the Detroit Post Office. [3] Lincoln Park Post Office began operating as an independent post office in 1954. [2] However, the Postal Service's Lincoln Park operations eventually outgrew the size of the building. The Post Office left the building in 1991.
Fullerton Station opened in 1900 as an express/local stop on the Northwestern Elevated Railroad. [2] In the 1920s, the station's platforms were lengthened to serve eight-car trains, but due to surrounding buildings the platforms were lengthened in different directions; the northbound platform was extended northward, and the southbound platform was extended to the south.
The Elks National Veterans Memorial (officially the Elks National Memorial and Headquarters Building) is a Beaux Arts-style domed building at 2750 North Lakeview Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. [1] It is across from Lincoln Park and close to the park's Goethe Monument and statue of Alexander Hamilton .