ACADEMIA AND THE SCIENCES

ACADEMIA

Abraham Lincoln's 1st & 2nd ABC School Teachers, Zachariah Riney & Caleb Hazel Sr.

Abraham Lincoln's Plank on Education.

Alta May Hulett, age 19, became the first woman admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1873.

Cudahy Memorial Library, Loyola University of Chicago, Illinois.

Hamburger University, from the World Renowned McDonald's Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.

Hobo College at 17 East Congress Street in Chicago was founded in 1908. 

Illinois Training School for Nurses' History at Cook County Hospital, Chicago.Impact of World

International Museum of Surgical Science at 1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago.

January 1, 2019, State law mandates black history courses at public colleges in Illinois.

Jewish Industrial and Manual Training School of Chicago.

Lane, Albert G. Manual Training High School, Chicago, Illinois. (1908)

Lincoln College and the City of Lincoln, Illinois.

Lincoln's Logic - How Lincoln Learned to Tell When a Thing Is Proved.

"Old" University of Chicago (1857-1886).

Rosell M. Hough, Colonel (1819-1892), the Biography of Overachiever.

Rush Medical College, Anatomy Dissection Lab, Chicago, Illinois. (1900)

University of Chicago, the original (1857-1886), then known as Chicago University.

Was Abraham Lincoln a Genius? 

THE SCIENCES

Lincoln is the Only U.S. President to Hold a Patent.

Ancient Lake Chicago became Lake Michigan as glaciers retreated over 14,000 years ago.

How Glacial Melt & Earthquakes Realigned Ancient Rivers and Changed Illinois Borders.

Illinois' Driftless Region Explained.

Illinois' Greatest Fossil Mystery... solved!

International Museum of Surgical Science at 1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago.

National Great Rivers Museum & Melvin Price Locks and Dam, Alton, Illinois.

Prehistoric Shark Nursery Fossils Found in Illinois.

Radium Poisoning Killed Hundreds of "Ghost Girls" in Ottawa and other towns in Illinois.

The Brief & Trial of Abraham Lincoln's Famous "Armstrong Almanac" Case.

INNOVATION

1893 World's Fair Electrical Subway.

Al Capone and his brother Ralph are Responsible for 'Milk Expiration Dating' in Illinois.

Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby (1812–1873); a frontier doctor and scientist in southern Illinois.

Chicago's Founding Hot Dog Companies.

Chicago Tribune's Doomed Efforts to Fix Spelling.

Daniel Hudson Burnham, Architect; An In-depth Biography. (1846-1912) 

Glass Blocks; a Chicago Invention for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

James Semple is a Classic Example of a Prairie Entrepreneur.

Josephine Garis Cochrane, the inventor of the Dishwasher.

Lustron Prefabricated Homes. (1947-1950)

Mold-A-Rama Inc. History in Brookfield, Illinois.

Nikola Tesla's "Egg of Columbus" at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.

Paper Pail was an Invention by Chicagoan Frederick Weeks Wilcox in 1890.

Raising Chicago Streets Out of the Mud in 1858.

Vault Lights of the 19th & 20th Centuries (prism glass) were used in Cities and Towns.