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Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
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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Saturday, November 4, 2023

Grant Park Stadium was renamed Soldier Field at the urging of Chicago’s Gold Star Mothers on November 11, 1925.

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Opened on October 9, 1924, Grant Park Stadium was designed by the architecture firm of Holabird & Roche. Neo-classical in style, the des...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Automobile Polo was played at Chicago's Comiskey Park on June 5, 6, 7, and 8, 1913.

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Chicago Tribune, Monday, July 28, 1902. The newest twentieth-century game is called automobile polo. The name, however, has already been fou...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

Kiddie Park, 4200 North Harlem Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. (1939-1953)

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Kiddy Park opened on April 29, 1939, at 4200 North Harlem Avenue, Chicago, by Charles “Charlie” F Reid.  sidebar In 1948, a local improvemen...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Bowlium, 4365 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois.

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December 21, 1941 - Bowlium Holds Formal Grand Opening for Four Days. The Bowlium, Chicago's newest half-million-dollar bowling enterpri...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Chicagoan Magazines from 1926 to 1935, 166 Full Issues.

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The Chicagoan, published from 1926 to 1935 in Chicago, was explicitly modeled on the New Yorker in both its graphic design and editorial con...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

Chicago's Greatest Summer Olympians.

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The revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, unlike the original Games, had a clear, concise history. Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937), a young ...