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At around 10:00 p.m., as he sat on his stoop outside his home, he was shotgunned. He died outside his former home at 5239 S. Michigan Ave. Roe was laid out in a $3,500-$5,000 casket and received the biggest funeral of any Chicago African American since Jack Johnson in 1946. Thousands lined the streets to catch a glimpse of Roe's 81-car funeral ...
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Wentbridge was unusual in that it had parts in three different civil parishes: the entire portion of the village to the north of the river, including the village church, was within the parish of Darrington, whilst south of the river, that part of the village on the west side of the B6474 road was within Thorpe Audlin parish, with buildings on the road's eastern side formerly in North Elmsall ...
In addition to funeral trains, the branch offered daily shuttles between Mount Carmel and Bellwood operating at 30-minute intervals during weekdays. On Sundays and holidays, direct service from the Wells Street Terminal in downtown Chicago was provided. [7] The Westchester branch opened on October 1, 1926, near where the Mount Carmel branch ran.
The first clear reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the alliterative poem Piers Plowman, thought to have been composed in the 1370s, followed shortly afterwards by a quotation of a later common proverb, [5] "many men speak of Robin Hood and never shot his bow", [6] in Friar Daw's Reply (c. 1402) [7] and a complaint in Dives and Pauper ...
Stone and inscription. The monument known as Robin Hood's Grave is located in a privately owned woodland, 650 metres from the gatehouse of the former Kirklees Priory. This gatehouse, which is still standing, is where Robin Hood is thought to have been staying at the time of his death. [4] The epitaph on the monument reads: [5]
The Waldheim Cemetery was established as a non-religion-specific cemetery, where Freemasons, Romani, and German-speaking immigrants to Chicago could be buried without regard for religious affiliation. The two adjacent cemeteries merged on February 28, 1969, with the combined cemetery being called Forest Home (Waldheim means "forest home" in ...
African-American organized crime figure known as "Robin Hood" shot after refusing to pay "street tax" to Chicago Outfit: Charles Gioe: Chicago: 1954-08-18: 1: Lieutenant in Chicago Outfit, shot by soldiers from a competing group: William Morris Bioff: 1955-11-04: 1: Chicago pimp killed in bombing: Roger Touhy: Chicago: 1959-12-16: 1