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Showing posts with label Museums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Museums. Show all posts
Thursday, March 30, 2023

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

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Dr. Max Thorek founded the International College of Surgeons (ICS) in 1935 to promote the exchange of surgical knowledge and foster understa...
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Monday, March 27, 2023

Illinois' Fourth (4th) Statehouse, Vandalia, Illinois.

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The fourth Illinois statehouse in Vandalia served as the State capitol from 1836 until 1839 and is the oldest surviving capitol building in ...
Friday, November 4, 2022

Standard Oil Gas Station, Odell, Illinois on Route 66.

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In 1868, John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  This was the beginning of the Standard Oil Trust ...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Noble Seymour Crippen House, Chicago's (claimed) Oldest House - 1833

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Mark Noble Sr., an English immigrant, was a noted early Chicago pioneer. He was a founder of Chicago's first Methodist Church, helped av...
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Monday, September 27, 2021

Barack Obama announces the groundbreaking ceremony for his presidential library in Chicago’s covenanted Jackson Park.

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In historical writing and analysis, PRESENTISM introduces present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the pas...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

The Bes-Ben Shops. Chicago's Avant-Garde Milliner.

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Benjamin 'Ben' Benedict Green-Field (1897-1988) was born in Chicago.  At six, his father died, so his mother, Ida, became a milliner...
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