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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
In 2005, the city of Chicago filed a negligence lawsuit against two of the survivors, William Fenton-Hathaway and John Koranda. The city alleged that the balcony collapse occurred after defendants Fenton-Hathaway and Koranda "intentionally and negligently" began jumping up and down on the porch.
Over 800 properties in Chicago’s West and South Side neighborhoods are up for grabs as part of a bankruptcy sale. According to the Illinois Answers Project and Block Club Chicago, the lots are ...
The Chicago Park District oversees more than 600 parks with over 8,800 acres (3,600 ha) of municipal parkland including their field houses, as well as 27 beaches, 78 pools, 11 museums, two world-class botanical conservatories, 16 historic lagoons and 10 bird and wildlife gardens that are found within the city limits. [3]
In an extraordinary departure from usual practices at City Hall, the city’s $100,000 settlement agreement with whistleblowers who were fired by Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin prohibits them ...
In a high-profile rebuke of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city’s Law Department, aldermen narrowly rejected a $2 million police settlement Wednesday from a controversial case of alleged ...
The publication of this work was preceded by an article published by Park in 1915; [4] a modified version of this work appears as Chapter 1 [5] in The City, edited by Park and Burgess (1925). [5] The article - considered to be the primer for the Chicago School of Sociology - is one of the most important urban models in the 20th century. [6]
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.