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  2. Hoxie Farm site - Wikipedia

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    The Hoxie Farm site (11Ck-4) is located on Thorn Creek in Thornton, Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve in Cook County, Illinois, near the city of Chicago. It is classified as a late prehistoric to Protohistoric /Early Historic site with Upper Mississippian Huber affiliation.

  3. Alfred Caldwell - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool is a National Historic Landmark listing rehabilitated and maintained by the Chicago Park District and Lincoln Park Conservancy. Eagle Point Park, Dubuque, Iowa. Promontory Point in Burnham Park, Chicago, Illinois. Riis Park, Chicago. Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool at Lincoln Park, Chicago.

  4. Lambs Farm - Wikipedia

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    Lambs Farm is a non-profit organization near Libertyville, Illinois, that provides vocational and residential services for over 250 adults with developmental disabilities. Located on a 72-acre (290,000 m 2 ) campus, [ 1 ] Lambs Farm includes several family attractions, such as a petting zoo, a pet shop, a miniature golf course, several small ...

  5. La Salle Hotel - Wikipedia

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    At the time of the fire, guests occupied 886 rooms of the hotel, with 103 employees at work. [2] [11] The dead included a battalion chief of the Chicago Fire Department. [12] The fire began in the Silver Grill Cocktail Lounge on the lower floor on the La Salle Street side adjacent to the lobby before ascending stairwells and shafts.

  6. Iroquois Theatre fire - Wikipedia

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    Despite being billed as "absolutely fireproof" in advertisements and playbills, [12] numerous deficiencies in fire readiness were apparent in the theater building. An editor of Fireproof Magazine toured the Iroquois during construction and noted "the absence of an intake, or stage draft shaft; the exposed reinforcement of the arch; [13] the presence of wood trim on everything and the ...

  7. Space heater catches fire at Cannon House Office ... - AOL

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    WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Firefighters in Washington, D.C., were called to the Cannon House Office Building on Thursday after a space heater caught fire. In a post on X, DC Fire and EMS said ...

  8. ‘I didn’t want to be… homeless’: Retired Chicago teacher, 74 ...

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    ‘I didn’t want to be… homeless’: Retired Chicago teacher, 74, forced to return to work to keep a roof over her head — how you can keep inflation from draining your nest egg Moneywise ...

  9. Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1934) - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire of 1934 was the second-most destructive fire in the city's history, after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, in terms of property damage and buildings lost. [1] The Union Stock Yards of Chicago , Illinois in the United States were, at the time, the commercial butchering and meatpacking center of the Midwest .