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In September 2008, Chicago accepted a $2.52 billion bid on a 99-year lease of Midway International Airport to a group of private investors, but the deal fell through due to the collapse of credit markets during the 2008–2012 global recession [75] [76] In 2008, as Chicago struggled to close a growing budget deficit, the city agreed to a 75 ...
Most Plymouth models, especially those offered from the 1970s onward, such as the Valiant, Volaré, and the Acclaim, were badge-engineered versions of Dodge or Mitsubishi models. The Plymouth Reliant and Dodge Aries were introduced for the 1981 model year as the first "K-cars" manufactured and marketed by the Chrysler Corporation.
Plymouth Pier, 1884 – the last by noted pier builder Eugenius Birch – and the unique Art Deco Lido Tinside Pool of 1935 were constructed as seafront leisure facilities reflecting the growing importance of tourism to the new city's economy. Union Street before 1941 showing the trams that used to run through the city
Chrysler was founded by Walter Chrysler on June 6, 1925, [1] when the Maxwell Motor Company (est. 1904) was re-organized into the Chrysler Corporation. [2]Walter Chrysler had originally arrived at the ailing Maxwell-Chalmers company in the early 1920s, having been hired to take over and overhaul the company's troubled operations just after a similar rescue job at the Willys car company.
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.
Why outside investors are gobbling up properties in the area The Chicago community of South Shore looks different today than when Arlean Pleasant, an 83-year-old resident, was raising her children.
May 1, over 100,000 people attended the procession of the State funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the viewing at the Old Chicago Court House. On June 12, Chicago's Lake Park was re-named Lincoln Park in his honor. 867 Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas (Chicago) died, bringing the total death toll at the camp to 4,454.
Sandra Cisneros’ groundbreaking novel introduces readers to Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana growing up in a close-knit but poor Chicago neighborhood, as she becomes increasingly aware ...