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Chicago's address system has been standardized as beginning at the intersection of State and Madison Streets since September 1, 1909. [75] Prior to that time, Chicago's street system was a hodgepodge of various systems which had resulted from the different municipalities that Chicago annexed in the late 19th century. [75]
A sloop of only 45 ton capacity which they called Restaurationen, built in Hardanger, was purchased and loaded with a cargo of iron and made ready for the journey. Larson himself had married in December 1824, Georgiana Person, who was born October 19, 1803, on Fogn , a small island near Stavanger.
151 foot tugboat built in Chicago in 1881 that first towed rafts of logs across Lake Michigan. In November 1909, after helping free a grounded steamship, she mysteriously caught fire in the night, burned and sank. [35] 26: Pretoria (schooner-barge) Shipwreck Site: Pretoria (schooner-barge) Shipwreck Site: August 17, 1994
USS Growler (1812 sloop) USS Hamilton (1812), foundered 8 August 1813, 42 killed; USS Hornet (1775), captured 27 April 1777; USS Hornet (1805 sloop) USS Hornet (1805 brig), foundered with the loss of all hands 10 September 1829; USS Independence (1776 sloop), wrecked 24 April 1778; USS Jamestown (1844) USS Julia (1863)
The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when repair work on a bridge spanning the Chicago River damaged the wall of an abandoned and disused utility tunnel beneath the river. The resulting breach flooded basements, facilities and the underground Chicago Pedway throughout the Chicago Loop with an estimated 250 million US gallons (1,000,000 ...
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago (MCC Chicago) is a United States federal prison in Chicago, Illinois, which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to and during court proceedings in the Northern District of Illinois, as well as inmates serving brief sentences.
A Bermuda sloop, the most common version of the sloop in modern sailing vessels [1]: 52 Gaff rigged sloop, 1899. In modern usage, a sloop is a sailboat with a single mast [2] generally having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail abaft (behind) the mast. It is a type of fore-and-aft rig.
Hastings-class sloop For Royal Navy [2] 17 March United Kingdom: Harland & Wolff: Belfast: Baron Erskine: Cargo ship: For H. Hogarth & Sons. [10] 18 March United Kingdom: John I. Thornycroft & Company: Woolston, Hampshire: Acheron: A-class destroyer For Royal Navy [11] 19 March United States: Bath Iron Works: Bath, Maine: Aras: Yacht: March ...