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Andrew J McGann (August 3, 1925 – February 5, 2008) was an American politician, businessman, and funeral director who served as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993.
A one-day visitation was held at Rayner Funeral Home on Friday, September 2, 1955. It is said that 5,000 people attended, though accounts vary. [2] The open-casket funeral was held on September 3 at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. Roughly 2,000 attendees witnessed the service inside the church with thousands more attending outside. Rev.
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument is a funeral monument and sculpture located at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.Dedicated in 1893, it commemorates the defendants involved in labor unrest who were blamed, convicted, and executed for the still unsolved bombing during the Haymarket Affair (1886).
This year, Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker declared April 24, 2023, “Richard Hunt Day” to celebrate his achievements. But, his obituary said, Hunt saw artistic freedom as the most important ...
Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery located at 863 S. DesPlaines Ave, Forest Park, Illinois, adjacent to the Eisenhower Expressway, straddling the Des Plaines River in Cook County, just west of Chicago. [1] The cemetery traces its history to two adjacent cemeteries, German Waldheim (1873) and Forest Home (1876), which merged in 1969.
Buckner Stith Morris, Chicago Mayor (1838–39) Richard B. Ogilvie, Governor of Illinois (1969–73) Martha O'Driscoll, actress: Li’l Abner, Ghost Catchers, House of Dracula, The Daltons Ride Again, Under Western Skies; George Arthur Paddock, U.S. Congressman Illinois 10th District (1941–43) Legrand Winfield Perce, U.S. Congressman (1870–73)
He founded and owned Casey Laskowski and Sons Funeral Home [2] [6] in the Kelvyn Park neighborhood. [1] He and his family lived above the funeral home. [1] He and his wife, Virginia, had three children. [1] He served as the president of the Polish American Businessmen's Club. He also served on the John Barry School Board.
Richard J. Daley was born in Bridgeport, a working-class neighborhood of Chicago. [3] He was the only child of Michael and Lillian (Dunne) Daley, whose families had both arrived from the Old Parish area, near Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland, during the Great Famine. [4] Richard's father was a sheet metal worker with a reserved demeanor.