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The Germania Club Building, located at 108 W. Germania Place in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, is the historic headquarters of the Germania Club, the oldest German-American organization in the city. The Germania Club was founded in 1865 as the Germania Männerchor, which formed to sing at Abraham Lincoln's funeral
Currently there are 124 properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Central Chicago, out of more than 350 listings in the City of Chicago.Central Chicago includes 3 of the 77 well-defined community areas of Chicago: the historic business and cultural center of Chicago known as the Loop, as well as the Near North Side and the Near South Side.
The Germania Männerchor, later the Lincoln Club and the Germania Club, was a male choral cooperative society formed by German immigrants in Chicago. [1] The group performed vocal music, music accompanied by an orchestra, and music for social dancing, [2] later transforming to a private social club. [3]
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Defining itself as "Chicago's Brigade" the 108th Sustainment Brigade has developed into a highly diverse and capable force to execute both state directed and federal missions. The brigade headquarters deployed to Iraq after mobilizing in mid-July 2019 and provided logistics training to the Iraqi Army at Camp Taji . [ 1 ]
The one hundredth anniversary of Germania Club, 1865–1965. A century of German-American traditions, civic responsibility and ideals, Chicago 1965. Christiane Harzig: Germans. In: Encyclopedia of Chicago, Chicago 2005, online only . Rudolf A. Hofmeister: The Germans of Chicago, Champaign, IL 1976.
Founded in Chicago in 1959, it seeks to preserve and promote German and German American culture. [2] The center contains the DANK museum, Scharpenberg art gallery, a library (Koegel Bibliothek), facilities for social gatherings, and offers German language classes. [3] It is a member organization of the Chicago Cultural Alliance.
Hinrich Hey was 55.00 metres (180 ft 5 in) long, with a beam of 8.17 metres (26 ft 10 in). She had a depth of 4.62 metres (15 ft 2 in) and a draught of 3.74 metres (12 ft 3 in). [1]