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YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary.
19 South LaSalle Street was constructed as the Central YMCA Association Building in 1893, [1] [2] and completed shortly before the Panic of 1893. [1] The structure, designed by William LeBaron Jenney and William Bryce Mundie as Jenney & Mundie , was eventually renamed for its address, 19 South LaSalle Street. [ 3 ]
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Louisville (/ ˈ l uː ɪ s v ɪ l / LOO-iss-vil) [2] is a village in and the county seat of Clay County, Illinois, United States, [3] along the Little Wabash River. The population was 1,136 at the 2020 census .
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In the 1920s, Illinois YMCA again wanted to place a building in Joliet. The plan for a new building came at a time of great prosperity for Joliet in the Roaring Twenties . A fund-raising campaign raised the $450,000 required to cover the building expenses, with $200,000 from the United States Steel Corporation .