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Boyington died on October 16, 1898, in Highland Park, where he had moved in 1874 after having lost two residences in Chicago to fire in quick succession (the first one as a result of the Great Chicago Fire). [7] While in Highland Park he served two successive terms as mayor. [8] He is buried at Rosehill Cemetery on Chicago's north side.
He was a resident musician at the now defunct Chicago clubs, "Somebody Else's Troubles" and "The Earl of Old Town". Holstein first played at the Earl in 1966. [ 2 ] Fred had an easy-going stage presence, routinely tailoring set lists to friends birthdays or requests, but would not tolerate a disruptive audience and tell them to "shut up". [ 3 ]
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]
John Richard Drury (January 4, 1927 – November 25, 2007) was an American television news anchor from Chicago, Illinois.Drury is most known for serving as anchor on Chicago news broadcasts which included: WGN-TV from 1967 to 1970 and again from 1979 until 1984; WLS-TV from 1970 to 1979 and 1984 until his retirement in 2002.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Richard Nickel was born in the Chicago neighborhood of Humboldt Park in a two-flat located at 4327 W. Haddon. [2] He was raised by first-generation Polish Americans with his grandfather John Nikiel, born in Posen, Germany in 1880. [3]