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Showing posts with label Entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Entertainment. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Working at Chicago's Thillens Stadium, for Peanuts at 8 years old, in 1968.

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The History of Thillens Stadium, Little League Baseball Park in the West Rogers Park Neighborhood of the West Ridge Community in Chicago. PU...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Chicago's Love Affair with Oysters Began in 1835.

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Chicago's Love Affair with Oysters Began in 1835. First served in Chicago's Finest Restaurants, the "Lake House Hotel" has...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Chicago's Original Tuscan Steakhouse, the Legendary Gene & Georgetti: A Steakhouse of the Stars.

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"Gene & Georgetti, 500 North Franklin Street, Chicago, IL, in Chicago's River North neighborhood, was founded in 1941 by Gene M...
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Saturday, May 18, 2024

Nightlife and Entertainment Clubs in Mid-20th Century Chicago.

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Chicago nightlife proliferated in the wake of the 1871 Chicago Fire and again in conjunction with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

The Museum of Science and Industry has been renamed the Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.

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The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago In a move that will forever etch the name of a visionary philanthropist into the annals ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The Fortnightly Club of Chicago, for Women, was founded in 1873.

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The Fortnightly Club of Chicago is a venerable and esteemed private women's club, founded in the year 1873 by Kate Newell Doggett  (1828...
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Monday, April 1, 2024

All time top-10 articles, since 12/2016, of the Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal™ [#reads]

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Which articles have you read or did you read? Five out of ten are amusement parks.  01)  T he History of Kiddieland in Melrose Park, Illinoi...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Slot Car Racing Was a Popular Craze in Chicagoland in the 1960s and 70s.

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The explosive wave of slot car racing's popularity began in the late 1950s to early 1960s. By the mid-1960s, there were more than 3,000 ...
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Thursday, January 4, 2024

The "Beep Line" from WLS (890 AM) radio, Chicago, explained.

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The "Beep Line" on Chicago's WLS AM radio wasn't explicitly started by any one disc jockey. It was a phenomenon that emerg...
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Friday, December 29, 2023

Ford's Theatre vs. Ford’s Opera House, Washington, DC

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Ford's Athenaeum was a theatre located at 511 10th Street NW, Washington, D.C., which opened in 1861. After a fire destroyed it in 1862,...
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