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George Pullman

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    Sep 4, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. When Labor Day was born

    On America's mental calendar, Labor Day marks summer's end with a reminder to close up beach cottages and get the kids to school. But the circumstances of its birth were bloodier. Legislation declaring the first Monday in September a national holiday...

    Tags: Holidays, Judges, Pullman, Grover Cleveland, Justice System

    2. Feb 6, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Head of Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives hopes Pullman Park development will pull in jobs, growth

    On a mild winter afternoon on Chicago's Far South Side, David Doig toured the soon-to-be home of aWal-MartSupercenter, now an empty lot stretching the length of 2 1/2 football fields.
    On a mild winter afternoon on Chicago's Far South Side, David Doig toured the soon-to-be home of aWal-MartSupercenter, now an empty lot stretching the length of 2 1/2 football fields. The lot is a small portion of a 180-acre site that has sat empty since...

    Tags: Students, Grant Park, Business, Humboldt Park, Sales

    3. Feb 23, 2012 | Chicago Tribune

  3. On tactics

    Change of Subject
    Curtis Black at the Community Media Workshop calls attention to this 2008 news item -- Hundreds of students, teachers and North Side residents gathered outside an alderman's home last night to protest plans to reorganize Senn High School. The crowd......
    4. Aug 25, 2011 |Story| Herald Mail

  4. Clarence Darrow - 'Attorney for the Damned'

    It is very probable that those who have any knowledge about the life of Clarence Darrow have only a most incomplete picture presented in the movie, "Inherit The Wind." In that fine film, they saw an aging, wise and able defense for John Scopes in the...

    Tags: Clarence Darrow, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Restraint of Trade, Mining

    5. Sep 20, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. "Jane Addams: Spirit in Action" by Louise W. Knight

    "Jane Addams: Spirit in Action"
    Special to the Tribune
    "Jane Addams: Spirit in Action" By Louise W. Knight W. W. Norton & Company, 352 pages, $28.95 After the Daughters of the American Revolution revoked Jane Addams’ membership because of her opposition to World War I, she joked, “I had supposed...

    Tags: Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Theodore Roosevelt, Unrest, Conflicts and War

    6. Sep 4, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  6. The true meaning of Labor Day

    Change of Subject
    Reprinted from early September, 1997 The correspondents are usually different but their general message is always the same:Zorn, you poor fool: Don't you know that the problem with this country is that we let too much get in the way......
    7. May 15, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Books for travelers

    "The Summer Cottage:
    "The Summer Cottage: Retreats of the 1000 Islands" Rizzoli, $45 The relatively unknown Thousand Islands is an archipelago of nearly 1,900 islands in the St. Lawrence River on the U.S.-Canadian border in northern New York and southern Ontario. Ever...

    Tags: Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Illnesses, Emergency Planning, Starbucks Corp.

    8. Dec 18, 2007 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Dankmar Adler and Louis H. Sullivan's Auditorium

    The commission to design the Auditorium building went on this date to two men, engineer Dankmar Adler and his partner, architect Louis H. Sullivan, who had shown an extraordinary originality in his use of ornamentation and artificial lighting. It was the plum assignment of the year. Ferdinand Peck, an enthusiastic promoter of the arts, had organized a group of wealthy Chicagoans, including Marshall Field and George Pullman, to back construction of a grand concert hall that would cost an astounding $3.2 million. Adler's mastery of acoustics made him a clear choice; the board had to overcome some doubts, though, about his 30-year-old partner, who had worked in the office of William Le Baron Jenney but was not well-known.
    Chicago Tribune
    The commission to design the Auditorium building went on this date to two men, engineer Dankmar Adler and his partner, architect Louis H. Sullivan, who had shown an extraordinary originality in his use of ornamentation and artificial lighting. It was...

    Tags: Stock Market, Death, Stock Broking, Architecture, Arts and Culture

    9. Dec 18, 2007 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Raising the Chicago streets out of the mud

    As Chicago boomed in the 1850s, growing into a major lake port and industrial center, mud became a major problem. The lakeshore marsh on which the city was being built seemed bottomless. A popular story of the time had it that a passerby came upon a man whose head and shoulders protruded from the muck in the middle of the street. "Can I help?" asked the passerby. "No, thank you," replied the man. "I have a fine horse under me."
    Chicago Tribune
    As Chicago boomed in the 1850s, growing into a major lake port and industrial center, mud became a major problem. The lakeshore marsh on which the city was being built seemed bottomless. A popular story of the time had it that a passerby came upon a man...

    Tags: Death, Chicago Tribune

    10. Dec 19, 2007 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. The Pullman Strike

    Workers at the Pullman factory on what became the Far Southeast Side of Chicago walked off the job on this date, and, in the protracted strike that followed, one man's dream of a better tomorrow fell apart even as another's was born.
    Chicago Tribune
    Workers at the Pullman factory on what became the Far Southeast Side of Chicago walked off the job on this date, and, in the protracted strike that followed, one man's dream of a better tomorrow fell apart even as another's was born. George Pullman, in...

    Tags: Politics, Death, Labor Disputes, Chicago Tribune, Illinois Supreme Court

    11. Jan 5, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Plot foiled

    Stealing Lincoln's Body By Thomas J. Craughwell Belknap/Harvard University Press, 250 pages, $24.95 Four men with shady backgrounds, under cover of darkness on Nov. 7, 1876, tried to remove the body of Abraham Lincoln from its marble sarcophagus in...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Arts and Culture, Prosecution, Illinois

    12. Jun 27, 2001 |Story| Hartford Courant

  12. Halls of Hildene

    Hartford Courant staff writer
    For armchair historians and students of Abraham Lincoln, clues to the life of the 16th president aren't found only in log cabins in Illinois, battlefields in southern Pennsylvania or restored theaters in Washington, D.C. One good collection of Lincoln...

    Tags: Vermont, Family, Crime, Law and Justice, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Illinois

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