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HISTORICAL EVENTS 
 
 of 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 By 
 
 Charles S. Winslow 
 
SODERLUND PRINTING SERVICE 
 216 INSTITUTE PLACE 
 CHICAGO. ILL 
 
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 INTRODUCTION 
 
 Historical Events of Chicago is a chronology, not a 
 narrative. A chronology cannot be complete, but it should 
 be accurate. It should also be useful for ready reference. 
 
 The appendix contains lists of governors of Illinois, 
 mayors of Chicago, presidents of the Board of Education 
 and superintendents, assistant superintendents and district 
 superintendents of the public schools. 
 
 The figures in the index refer to the years, not the 
 pages, of the chronology in which the subjects are men- 
 tioned. In the index some of the subjects are also grouped 
 to make them more readily available and useful. 
 
 In the chronology may be found much of the raw 
 material from which it is possible to extract and to 
 develop studies of value and of interest. 
 
 Chief Chicagou looks out from the front cover upon 
 the region over which he roved some two hundred years 
 ago, for he really was a chief of the Metchigami tribe of 
 the Illinois. 
 
 Fort Dearborn catches the eye of the reader much as 
 the real fort, whitewashed, caught the eye of the early 
 visitor to the pioneer settlement. 
 
 The sun above is rising, not setting, and portends a 
 future as yet undreamed. 
 
 Charles S. Winsloiv. 
 
HISTORICAL EVENTS 
 
 If history begins with events recorded by man, then 
 the history of Chicago begins with 1673. If Mother 
 Nature's work is included, the history of Chicago goes 
 back several million years. 
 
 In the shallow sea that covered North America from 
 the Appalachians to the Rockies, Nature caused the 
 layers of limestone, of sandstone and of shale to form. 
 In alternating periods she encouraged the formation of 
 coal measures. After ages had passed, the great glacial 
 advance from the north modified the appearance of the 
 surface, leaving the Great Lakes and the surrounding 
 ridges of glacial till. As Lake Chicago receded to its 
 present dimensions to become Lake Michigan, the waters 
 left behind a level, sandy plain. Streams flowed both to 
 the lake and to the Illinois river. Only a narrow, low 
 divide separated these two systems of streams. Having 
 performed her great tasks, Mother Nature apparently 
 rested, waiting for man to continue the work begun by 
 her. 
 
 1673-1675 
 
 Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette passed 
 through this region on their way back to Green 
 Bay after exploring the Mississippi. Father 
 Marquette returned December 4, 1674, on his 
 way to the Indian village of Kaskaskia, near 
 the present Starved Rock. On his homeward 
 trip the following spring, he died near Luding- 
 ton, Michigan, on the eighteenth of May. 
 
 1677 Father Claude Allouez arrived April 10 to take 
 charge of the Illinois Mission. 
 5 
 
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 1679-1685 
 
 La Salle, in October, 1679, passed the mouth of 
 the Chicago river on his way to the St. Joseph 
 river and thence to the Illinois. He and his 
 party started from here in January, 1682, on 
 their trip to the Gulf of Mexico. On several 
 later occasions he and Tonty passed through 
 here or stopped for short periods. 
 
 1683 Andre Eno and Jean Filatreau spent several 
 months here. 
 
 1687 Joutel and his party arrived in Chicago Septem- 
 
 ber 25 on their way back to Canada from Texas 
 after La Salle's death. Because of contrary 
 winds they remained in camp at the mouth of 
 the river for eight days. Later they returned 
 to Fort St. Louis at the Rock. 
 
 1688 Joutel and his party again reached Chicago on 
 
 March 29. Delayed ten days, they left on 
 April 8. 
 
 1696 The Mission of the Guardian Angel was built on 
 
 the bank of the Chicago by Father Francois 
 Pinet. 
 
 1697 Father Pinet was ordered to leave Chicago by 
 
 Governor Frontenac. 
 
 1698 Father Pinet returned to the Chicago mission. 
 
 Three Seminary priests, conducted by Tonty, 
 
 passed through here in the autumn on a trip 
 
 from Mackinac to the lower Mississippi. Father 
 
 Julian Bineteau was with Father Pinet at the 
 time. 
 1778 A Frenchman, Guarie by name, established a 
 trading post on the North Branch. 
 
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 1784-1800 (1779-96 according to Andreas) 
 
 Jean Baptiste Pointe de Saible built a log cabin 
 near the mouth of the Chicago river and lived 
 here until he sold out in May, 1800, to another 
 trader, Le Mai, or Jean la Lime. 
 
 1790 Antoine Ouilmette located here. 
 
 1795 In accordance with the terms of the Treaty of 
 
 Greenville, August 10, a portion of land six 
 miles square at the mouth of the Chicago river 
 was ceded to the United States by the Indians. 
 
 1796 Eulalie, daughter of Jean Baptiste Pelletier and 
 
 Susanne Point Sable, was born October 8. 
 
 1803 Soldiers reached the Chicago river August 17 
 
 under Captain John Whistler to build Fort 
 Dearborn. 
 
 1804 John Kinzie, wife and infant son, John H., ar- 
 
 rived in May to live in the Le Mai (la Lime) 
 cabin and to become prominent in the fur trade 
 of the region. 
 John Kinzie, justice of the peace, married James 
 Abbott and Sarah Whistler in early November. 
 
 1805 A "factory" building was put up just west of 
 
 Fort Dearborn by the soldiers, to be used by a 
 government "factor" in trading with the Indians. 
 
 Charles Jouett was sent here as Indian agent. 
 
 Ellen Marion Kinzie was born in December, first 
 white child to be born in Chicago. 
 
 1809 William Irwin arrived as Indian agent during the 
 
 summer. 
 
 1810 Captain Nathan Heald succeeded Captain Whistler 
 
 in command at Fort Dearborn during the 
 summer. 
 John Cooper, first doctor, arrived at the fort 
 November 30. 
 
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 1811 Lieutenant Linai Helm was transferred to Fort 
 
 Dearborn from Detroit. 
 Dr. Isaac Van Voorhis was appointed surgeon to 
 fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of 
 Dr. Cooper. 
 
 1812 Two men were murdered by Indians April 6 on 
 
 the Lee farm, four miles southwest of the fort. 
 Jean B. la Lime was killed by John Kinzie in a 
 
 quarrel just outside the fort. 
 The Fort Dearborn Massacre occurred August 15. 
 
 Half the garrison and many civilians were 
 
 slain. The fort was burned next day. 
 
 1815 Mr. Dean built a house on the lake shore at the 
 
 mouth of the river. 
 
 1816 Captain Hezekiah Bradley on July 4 started to 
 
 rebuild Fort Dearborn. 
 The Kinzie family returned from Detroit in the 
 
 autumn. 
 Jacob Varnum, with bride, arrived in fall as 
 
 Indian agent. 
 
 1816 Indians ceded to the government a strip twenty 
 
 miles wide from Lake Michigan to the Fox 
 river. 
 William Cox opened a school in the fall in one 
 of the Kinzie buildings, a bakery. 
 
 1817 Judge Samuel A. Storrow reached here October 
 
 2 on a trip from Green Bay. 
 Jean B. Beaubien bought the Dean house for a 
 home. 
 
 1818 Gurdon S. Hubbard first visited Chicago Novem- 
 
 ber first as a clerk of the American Fur 
 Company. 
 Illinois was admitted as a state December 3. 
 
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 1819 Dr. Alexander Wolcott arrived as Indian agent, 
 
 the first resident physician. 
 The importance of the Illinois and Michigan Canal 
 was urged in Congress by John C. Calhoun, 
 Secretary of War, in January. 
 
 1820 Henry R. Schoolcraft, who visited here, found 
 
 four or five families. 
 A sergeant of the fort taught a small school. 
 
 1821 An Indian treaty gave the government about five 
 
 million acres of land on the eastern side of 
 Lake Michigan. Governor Cass and Solomon 
 Sibley of Detroit conducted the treaty. 
 Lieutenant Colonel John Mc Neil took command 
 of Fort Dearborn in September. 
 
 1823 Major Long, in a visit June 5, speaks of the 
 
 village as consisting of a few huts. 
 Dr. Alexander Wolcott and Ellen M. Kinzie were 
 
 married July 20. 
 Archibald Clybourn reached Chicago August 5. 
 Fort Dearborn was evacuated in the autumn. 
 
 1824 Joseph Bailly built a home and trading post on 
 
 the bank of the Calumet river, near the present 
 Baillytown, Indiana. 
 James Clybourn and family arrived August 23. 
 
 1825 Rev. Isaac Mc Coy on October 9 preached the 
 
 first Protestant sermon. 
 
 1826 Father Jesse Walker, Methodist preacher, reached 
 
 here in the spring. 
 Mark Beaubien arrived and opened a hotel near 
 
 the Forks. 
 Elizabeth Kinzie became the bride of Samuel 
 
 Miller in July. 
 
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 Gubernatorial and congressional election was held 
 in Chicago, Peoria County, August 7, in the 
 Agency House, the home of Dr. Wolcott. 
 
 1827 Mc Kee carried the mail monthly to Fort Wayne, 
 
 Indiana, by means of an Indian pony. 
 
 Archibald Clybourn built the first slaughter 
 house for the killing of the cattle needed by 
 the garrison. 
 
 The Winnebago Indians went on the warpath. 
 Settlers about Fort Dearborn were worried. A 
 company of militia, thirty to fifty men, was 
 organized in July under the command of John 
 B. Beaubien, as a protection against the Indians 
 in this Winnebago War. 
 
 1828 John Kinzie died January 6. 
 
 A garrison under Major John Fowle was stationed 
 in Fort Dearborn October 3 as a result of the 
 Indian scare. 
 
 1829 The first ferry was provided at Lake street in 
 
 June. It was first in charge of Archibald 
 Clybourn and Samuel Miller, later in charge 
 of Mark Beaubien. 
 
 By treaty Indians gave land from Rogers avenue 
 (Indian Boundary Road) to Kenilworth. 
 
 Wolf Tavern was built near Lake street, at the 
 Forks, by James Kinzie and Archibald Cald- 
 well. 
 
 Lieutenant Jefferson Davis visited Fort Dearborn 
 in search of deserters. 
 
 Charles H. Beaubien taught a family school. 
 
 1830 Chicago was surveyed and platted by the Illinois 
 
 and Michigan Canal commissioners August 4. 
 The town as then laid out was bounded on the 
 
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 south by Madison street, on the west by Des- 
 plaines, on the north by Kinzie and on the east 
 by State. East of State street was the govern- 
 ment reservation. 
 
 Father Jesse Walker was placed in charge of the 
 Chicago Mission district in the fall. 
 
 Stephen R. Forbes taught school near Randolph 
 and Michigan. 
 
 1831 Cook County was organized in accordance with an 
 
 act of the General Assembly of January 15. 
 
 Fort Dearborn was again evacuated in May. 
 
 The Chicago postoffice was established at the 
 Forks of the river in the spring, J. N. Bailey 
 postmaster. 
 
 The Sauganash Hotel, a frame building, was 
 erected by Mark Beaubien. It was named in 
 honor of the Indian chief, Sauganash, or Billy 
 Caldwell. 
 
 The first season of Chicago opera opened. 
 
 Richard J. Hamilton in October was appointed 
 commissioner of school lands for Cook County. 
 
 A light house was built west of the fort, com- 
 pleted October 30. It fell, but a second was 
 built the next year. 
 
 1832 Operation was performed by Dr. Harmon, remov- 
 
 ing the frozen foot of a French mail carrier. 
 
 An estray pen, first public building, was erected 
 in March on the present site of the City Hall 
 at a cost of $12. 
 
 The Black Hawk War started in April. On June 
 12 a body of militia from Detroit encamped 
 beside Fort Dearborn. June 17 two companies 
 of regulars arrived from Niagara. 
 
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 The first Sunday School opened August 19 in a 
 
 small frame building on the Reservation. 
 John Watkins was hired to teach a school on the 
 
 North Side. 
 Deacon Philo Carpenter arrived and opened the 
 
 first drug store. 
 Cattle were first slaughtered here, back of Dole's 
 
 warehouse. 
 John S. C. Hogan was appointed postmaster by 
 
 President Jackson. 
 Samuel Miller built the first bridge over the 
 
 North Branch at the present Kinzie street. 
 A floating bridge of logs replaced the ferry at 
 
 Lake street. This was a favorite diving plat- 
 form for the Indians. 
 1833 The Council purchased ten acres near Chicago 
 
 and Clark, northern half for Protestant ceme- 
 tery, southern for Catholic. 
 Father St. Cyr celebrated his first mass here in 
 
 the home of Mark Beaubien May 5. He 
 
 organized St. Mary's Church in May. 
 John H. Kinzie returned from Fort Winnebago, 
 
 Wisconsin, where he had been sub-Indian agent. 
 The first Presbyterian Church was organized June 
 
 26 by Rev. Jeremiah Porter. 
 The government started dredging the Chicago river 
 
 July 1. Congress in March had voted $25,000 
 
 for a harbor. 
 Lawyer John D. Caton prosecuted the first case 
 
 of larceny in July. 
 Green Tree Tavern was built by James Kinzie at 
 
 the Forks, northeast corner of Canal and Lake. 
 Chicago voted August 5 to incorporate as a town. 
 
 Thomas J. V. Owen was elected trustee August 
 
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 10 and chosen president August 12. 
 Eliza Chappel opened a school on South Water 
 
 street in September. 
 A final treaty was negotiated with the Indians 
 
 September 26, by the terms of which the 
 
 Indians ceded their claims to all the land east 
 
 of the Mississippi. 
 Asahel Pierce built a blacksmith shop October 8. 
 The first Tremont House was built at the north- 
 west corner of Lake and Dearborn. 
 Most of the school section was sold at auction 
 
 in October at the rate of $60.72 per acre, a 
 
 total of $38,865. 
 The first Baptist Church was organized October 
 
 19 by Rev. Allen B. Freeman. 
 The first fire ordinance was passed November 6, 
 
 forbidding stovepipes through roofs unless 
 
 guarded. 
 The Chicago Democrat, first newspaper, was pub- 
 lished by John Calhoun November 26. 
 Grenville T. Sproat of Boston opened the "English 
 
 and Classical School for Boys" December 17 in 
 
 the First Baptist Church. 
 1834 Mr. Bowers gave the first professional public 
 
 entertainment of legerdemain and ventriloquism 
 
 in the Mansion House February 24. 
 Asahel [Pierce began the manufacture of the 
 
 "Bull" plow, with wooden mould board, in the 
 
 spring. 
 Briggs and Humphrey in the spring started a shop 
 
 on Randolph street for the manufacture of 
 
 carriages and wagons. 
 John B. Beaubien brought to town the first piano. 
 Gurdon S. Hubbard moved to town. 
 
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 The Board of Trustees paid $95.50 to have a 
 
 well dug on the North Side. 
 A contract was signed June 30 for the first 
 
 Methodist Church. 
 The "Illinois" entered the river under full sail 
 
 July 12. 
 South Water street was ordered graded in July 
 
 so that water from cross streets would flow into 
 
 the river. 
 John H. Kinzie was elected president of the Board 
 
 of Trustees August 11. 
 The first murder trial occurred in the fall. The 
 
 defendant was acquitted because the jury 
 
 thought he was guilty of manslaughter instead 
 
 of murder. 
 A temporary Board of Health was established in 
 
 the fall because of fear of cholera. 
 The city borrowed $60 to drain and improve 
 
 State street. 
 G. T. Sproat and Henry Van der Bogart taught 
 
 schools. 
 The first drawbridge built across the river at 
 
 Dearborn street was completed in August. 
 Real estate boomed. 
 Aaron Russell and Benjamin H. Clift opened the 
 
 Chicago Book and Stationery Store August 26. 
 The first Sunday closing law was passed September 
 
 1, providing a fine of $5 for keeping a tippling 
 
 house or grocery open on Sunday. 
 The first Episcopal services were held October 12 
 
 by Rev. Palmer Dyer. St. James Episcopal 
 . Church was organized during the year. 
 Chicago Cemetery Association was organized 
 
 October 18. 
 
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 The Chicago Lyceum for social and intellectual 
 
 pursuits was instituted December 2. 
 The Chicago American was first issued as a weekly 
 
 Whig newspaper January 8, T. 0. Davis editor. 
 The "Clarissa" was the first ship built in Chicago, 
 
 begun in the spring and launched May 18, 
 
 1836. 
 John B. Beaubien in May purchased seventy-five 
 
 acres of the Fort Dearborn reservation. 
 A government land office was opened May 28 for 
 
 the sale of land obtained through the treaty 
 
 with the Indians in 1833. 
 Abraham Lincoln was thought to have passed 
 
 through here on his way to Port Washington. 
 The first building especially for school purposes 
 
 was erected by John S. Wright. Ruth Leaven- 
 worth was teacher. 
 The Potawatomi staged their last war dance here 
 
 during the summer. They had come to receive 
 
 their last annuity and to prepare for their 
 
 migration. 
 Two cemeteries were established August 26, one 
 
 on the North Side, on Chicago avenue and the 
 
 lake shore, the other on the South Side near 
 
 Twenty-third and Wabash. 
 0. Morrison was elected constable to enforce the 
 
 laws on August 5. 
 The Board of Town Trustees in August prohibited 
 
 gambling, the Sunday sale of liquor and the 
 
 firing of guns and pistols in the streets. 
 Chicago Bible Society was organized August 18. 
 A brick courthouse of one story and basement 
 
 was erected in the fall at Clark and Randolph. 
 The first volunteer fire department was formed 
 
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 November 4 and the first fire engine was bought. 
 The town was organized into four school districts 
 
 September 29. 
 Augustus Garrett sold $1,800,000 worth of 
 
 property in ten months. 
 The Chicago Harmonic Society gave its first con- 
 cert at the Presbyterian Church December 11. 
 A branch of the State Bank was opened about the 
 
 middle of December, John H. Kinzie president. 
 1836 Ira and James Couch opened a tailor shop. 
 
 The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad was 
 
 chartered January 16. 
 Ira Couch opened the Tremont House January 16. 
 The Illinois Central Railroad was incorporated 
 
 January 18. 
 The Chicago Hydraulic Company was incorporated 
 
 January 18 to provide water works. 
 John Brown taught in the North Division but was 
 
 succeeded by Edward Murphy in March, 1837. 
 Dr. David Sheppard Smith, Father of Western 
 
 Homeopathy, arrived in May. 
 Archer's Road was built from Chicago to Lockport 
 
 to aid in the construction of the canal. 
 The City Hotel was built on the site of the later 
 
 Sherman House. 
 First Universalist Church was organized June 11 
 
 by Rev. William Queal. 
 First Unitarian Church was organized June 29. 
 Ogden, Sheldon and Co. opened a real estate 
 
 office. 
 Stage coaches were introduced by John Frink. 
 Digging of the Illinois and Michigan Canal began 
 
 July 4. 
 Lake House was completed in the fall, at the 
 
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 corners of Rush, Kinzie and Michigan streets. 
 A circus, "The Grand Equestrian Arena," gave 
 
 its first performance in a tent September 14. 
 The Cook County Medical Society held its first 
 
 meeting October 3. Dr. Levi D. Boone was 
 
 secretary. 
 Chicago Commercial Advertiser was issued Oc- 
 tober 11 by Hooper Warren as a "liberty" 
 
 paper. 
 John Wentworth arrived in town barefoot October 
 
 25, and bought the Chicago Democrat, a weekly 
 
 newspaper, November 23. 
 "Saloon Building' was erected during the year, 
 
 the finest hall in Chicago and used for public 
 
 entertainments. 
 Troops were permanently withdrawn from Fort 
 
 Dearborn December 29. 
 1837 Mechanics' Institute was organized January 3. 
 
 John C. Hugenin advertised January 3 for a run- 
 away black girl and offered a reward of one 
 
 cent. 
 The Northern Sunday School Union adopted a 
 
 constitution February 9, Rev. Isaac T. Hinton 
 
 president. 
 Rush Medical School was granted a charter 
 
 March 2. 
 Chicago became a city March 4 with six wards. 
 William B. Ogden, Democrat, was elected first 
 
 mayor, defeating John H. Kinzie, Whig. 
 The Council leased a hall in the "Saloon Building" 
 
 for city use, southeast corner of Lake and 
 
 Clark. 
 A permanent Board of Health was established 
 
 May 9, with Dr. D. Brainard as health officer. 
 
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 The Council appointed a Board of School Inspec- 
 tors May 12. 
 Voters in each of the seven school districts elected 
 
 three trustees. 
 S. D. Childs and Co., engravers and printers, 
 
 located here. 
 Daniel Webster visited Chicago in June. 
 C. D. Peacock had a jewelry store at 101 South 
 
 State. 
 St. James Episcopal Church, Cass and Illinois, 
 
 was dedicated June 25 by Bishop Philander 
 
 Chase. 
 First city census taken July 1 showed population 
 
 of 4,170. 
 Municipal seal was adopted in July. 
 First financial crash occurred. Council on June 1 
 
 issued $5,000 in city scrip. 
 Isherwood and Mc Kenzie opened the first theater 
 
 in the old Sauganash Hotel in October. 
 First Sherman House was erected at Randolph 
 
 and Clark. 
 Joseph Jefferson, later famous for Rip van Winkle, 
 
 played in theater with his father and mother. 
 1838 Cholera and malaria were epidemic. 
 
 "James Allen," first Chicago steamboat, was built 
 
 on Goose Island. 
 Chicago exported her first shipment of wheat in 
 
 bags to Buffalo. 
 S. B. Collins began the manufacture of boots and 
 
 shoes. 
 Many business firms failed, due to the financial 
 
 crash. 
 Stephen A. Douglas made his first political speech 
 
 in Chicago August 4. 
 
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 C. S. Bailey and Calvin De Wolf taught on the 
 West Side. 
 
 1839 The legislature placed the School Fund of Chi- 
 
 cago under the control of the Common Council 
 
 March 1. 
 The first law book published in Chicago, in April, 
 
 was "The Public and General Statute Laws of 
 
 Illinois" by Stephen F. Gale. 
 The Chicago Daily American was first published 
 
 April 9, replacing the weekly edition. 
 Dearborn Park was established on the site of the 
 
 present Public Library, formerly part of the 
 
 Fort Dearborn reservation. 
 A religious revival swept the city. 
 Oliver Newberry built the "Illinois," a magnificent 
 
 steamboat. 
 The first passenger to Chicago over the Under- 
 ground Railroad arrived and was smuggled by 
 
 Dr. Charles Dyer onto the steamer "Illinois." 
 The Council ordered the removal of the Dearborn 
 
 street drawbridge in July. 
 A regular line of steamboats was established in 
 
 July between Chicago and Buffalo. 
 The first Tremont House was burned October 27. 
 Thanksgiving Day was first observed November 28. 
 Captain David Hunter challenged John Wentworth 
 
 to a duel November 30. 
 
 1840 The Washington Temperance Society was organ- 
 
 ized January 1. 
 The Chicago Anti-Slavery Society held its first 
 
 public meeting January 16, in the Saloon 
 
 building. 
 The Chicago Daily Democrat was first issued 
 
 February 24. 
 
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 The Weekly Tribune first appeared April 4, Ed- 
 ward G. Ryan editor. 
 
 Clark street bridge, first floating bridge of the 
 West, was started April 18. 
 
 The Tremont House was rebuilt, second building. 
 
 John Stone, woodchopper, was first to be executed 
 for murder July 10. 
 
 Great excitement prevailed over the campaign and 
 election, November 3, of General William 
 Henry Harrison, Whig. 
 
 P. T. Barnum, with a musical company, gave 
 three concerts in the Saloon Building November 
 25, 26 and 27. 
 
 The first book printed in Chicago was J. Young 
 Scammon's "Reports," destroyed by fire in De- 
 cember while still in bindery. 
 
 1841 The Young Men's Association was organized 
 
 January 30, afterwards changed to Chicago 
 
 Library Association. 
 The Prairie Farmer was established. 
 The office of city marshal was created February 27. 
 A floating bridge was built at Wells street. 
 
 1842 Vocal music was introduced into the public schools 
 
 in January. 
 The Council occupied a building at the corner 
 
 of La Salle and Randolph for a city hall. 
 The first cattle were slaughtered for the eastern 
 
 market by Archibald Clybourn and Gurdon S. 
 
 Hubbard. 
 The first city waterworks were built, with engine 
 
 at the foot of Lake street and pipes of logs 
 
 bored lengthwise. 
 The Liberal Party (abolitionist) held its first state 
 
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 convention May 27 to nominate candidates for 
 state officers. 
 
 The Hydraulic Mills, operated by the water works 
 engine, were built by James Long. 
 
 Allan Pinkerton and bride reached the city. 
 
 Aetna Insurance Company was located here. 
 
 Washington Square (Bughouse Square) was estab- 
 lished on the North Side. 
 
 Joseph T. Ryerson and Son manufactured iron, 
 steel and machinery. 
 
 Ex-President Martin Van Buren visited the city. 
 
 Edwin Heathcock, a Negro, was sold at public 
 auction November 14 for twenty-five cents. 
 
 1843 A tri- weekly express between Chicago and the 
 
 East was started April 3. 
 The first Masonic Lodge, Lafayette Lodge, was 
 
 organized, meeting first on June 13. 
 A city hospital was built at a cost of $200 on the 
 
 lake shore just north of North avenue. 
 An ordinance was passed prohibiting the freedom 
 
 of the streets to hogs. 
 Many Jews persecuted in Germany migrated to 
 
 Cook County. 
 John Wentworth went to Congress. 
 Rush Medical College opened with 22 students. 
 The Society of the New Jerusalem (Sweden- 
 
 borgian) was organized with three members. 
 The new St. Mary's Church was opened December 
 
 25. 
 
 1844 The first Odd Fellows' lodge was established 
 
 February 28, Union Lodge No. 9. 
 Peter Van Schaack and Sons sold drugs in April. 
 The Chicago Journal was established April 21 
 
22 Historical Events 
 
 and was acquired by the Chicago Daily News 
 
 August 2, 1929. 
 The Gem of the Prairie, a weekly literary paper, 
 
 was first published May 20. 
 A homeopathic pharmacy was established by Dr. 
 
 David Sheppard Smith. 
 The College of St. Mary was established June 3 
 
 by Bishop Quarter, who arrived here May 5. 
 Abraham Lincoln called at the office of J. Young 
 
 Scammon. 
 A. C. Mc Clurg and Company opened a bookstore. 
 The first medical journal was published, the Illi- 
 nois Medical and Surgical Journal, Dr. J. Z. V. 
 
 Blaney editor. It was in the interest of the 
 
 faculty of Rush Medical College. 
 The first edition of "Massacre at Chicago" by 
 
 Mrs. Juliette Kinzie was published. 
 The City Hotel, built in 1936-37, was remodeled 
 
 and renamed Sherman House by Francis C. 
 
 Sherman. 
 
 1845 A Cook County court to be held in Chicago was 
 
 authorized by the legislature February 21. 
 
 School No. 1 on Madison near Dearborn was 
 
 completed in spring. It was known first as 
 
 "Miltimore's Folly," later as Dearborn School. 
 
 1845 John Phillips started a chair factory at Green 
 and Third. 
 
 The Jews organized a religious society and pur- 
 chased a cemetery in the present Lincoln Park. 
 
 Henry Wells and William F. Fargo, under the 
 name of Wells and Co., organized the first 
 express service in the city. 
 
 The first issue of Chicago Volksfreund, first 
 
 y 
 
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 foreign language newspaper, was printed No- 
 vember. 
 1846 A special tax was levied by the Common Council 
 March 20 for street improvements. 
 
 The Western Herald was issued April 1 as anti- 
 masonic, anti-slavery and temperance. 
 
 St. Patrick's Church was opened Easter Sunday, 
 April 12, on Desplaines street between Ran- 
 dolph and Washington. 
 
 St. Paul's German Lutheran Church was organ- 
 ized by Rev. Augustus Selle. 
 
 Scavenger service was started. 
 
 "Athens Marble" (Niagara limestone) was dis- 
 covered near Lemont. 
 
 Peter Schuttler Co. made wagons. 
 
 St. Xaviers Academy for young women was 
 opened by the Sisters of Mercy. 
 
 Two companies enlisted for the War with Mexico. 
 They were mustered into the United States 
 service at Alton June 10. 
 
 Church of the Holy Name was started under 
 priests of the College of St. Mary's of the Lake. 
 
 Chicago was made a port of entry July 16. 
 William B. Snowhook was appointed Collector 
 of the Port. 
 
 The Sisters of Mercy opened a convent September 
 23. 
 1847,- The city was divided into nine wards February 16. 
 
 Congress on March 1 appropriated $3,500 for a 
 light house. 
 
 Donations of money and food were made March 
 4 for people starving in Ireland. 
 
 The County Hospital was opened March 30 in 
 Tippecanoe Hall. 
 
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 The soap and candle factory of Charles Cleaver 
 
 was declared a nuisance by the Board of 
 
 Health. 
 The Chicago Retreat for the Insane, a private 
 
 hospital, was opened by Dr. Edward Mead on 
 
 Kinzie street, then later two miles farther 
 
 north. 
 The Council ordered a ferry at the foot of Rush 
 
 and Harbor streets. 
 John B. Rice opened the first permanent theater 
 
 June 28 with the play "The Four Sisters." 
 Cyrus Hall Mc Cormick built his reaper factory 
 
 on the north bank of the river, near its mouth. 
 
 The firm name was Mc Cormick and Gray. 
 The Chicago Title and Trust Company was 
 
 founded. 
 The Choral Union, formed in 1846, gave a benefit 
 
 program July 2. 
 The River and Harbor Convention was held July 
 
 5 to protest against the attitude of President 
 
 Polk with reference to improvement of inland 
 
 waterways. Abraham Lincoln, recently elected 
 
 Whig representative to Congress, was present 
 
 and addressed the Convention. 
 The Chicago Tribune was founded July 10 as a 
 
 Whig paper with free soil tendencies. 
 The first law school, or law institute, was opened 
 
 the first Monday in December by John J. Brown 
 
 under the auspices of the Bench and Bar of 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 1848 Market Hall on State street, the first municipal 
 building, was erected in January and first oc- 
 cupied November 13. 
 
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 The first message by telegraph was received from 
 
 Milwaukee January 15. 
 A contract was let March 1 for building the first 
 
 35 miles of the Galena and Chicago Union 
 
 Railroad. 
 Chicago Board of Trade was formed March 
 
 13. 
 The Illinois Staats Zeitung was established as a 
 
 weekly paper in April by Robert Hoeffgen with 
 
 capital of $200. 
 The Illinois and Michigan Canal was opened to 
 
 navigation April 16. 
 The Southwestern Plank Road (Ogden avenue) 
 
 was commenced in May. 
 William Bross opened a bookshop. Later he be- 
 came one of the editors of the Chicago Tribune. 
 Congress appropriated $10,000 for a Marine 
 
 Hospital to be built on the lake shore. 
 Scoville and Sons began building freight and 
 
 passenger cars for the Galena and Chicago 
 
 Union Railroad. 
 The first cattle yards were opened at Bull's Head, 
 
 Madison and Ogden. 
 The first United States Court was opened here in 
 
 July by Judge Nathaniel Pope. 
 The Northwestern Journal of Homeopathy was 
 
 first issued in October. 
 Martin Van Buren, on the Free Soil ticket, carried 
 
 Chicago in the presidential election. 
 The "Pioneer" locomotive made its first local run 
 
 from Chicago to Desplaines, ten miles, over 
 
 the Galena and Chicago Union November 20. 
 1849 Great ice floods occurred March 12, causing 
 
 damage of over $100,000. The Desplaines 
 
26 Historical Events 
 
 river, rising in the swell of spring, spilled over 
 the divide separating it from the South Branch, 
 filling that stream with a torrent. 
 
 A juvenile concert of sacred music conducted by 
 Professor Nathan Dye was given in the Baptist 
 Church April 3. 
 
 The principal streets were planked. 
 
 The Chicago Gas Light and Coke Co. was formed. 
 
 Telegraphic News Service was begun. 
 
 Jews erected a synagogue on Clark street between 
 Quincy and Adams. 
 
 Dr. Levi D. Boone was appointed city physician. 
 
 Chicago Protestant and St. Joseph's Orphan 
 asylums were chartered. 
 
 A. Meyers began his manufacture of tobacco. 
 
 Cholera claimed one in thirty-six of the entire 
 population. Thirty deaths were reported 
 August 1. 
 
 Chicago Orphan Asylum was organized Novem- 
 ber 5. 
 
 The Mozart Society was formed December 4 by 
 members of the late Choral Union, C. N. Hol- 
 den president. 
 
 A bank panic occurred during the early winter. 
 1850 The Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul was organ- 
 ized March 18 as the Church of the Atonement. 
 
 George Schneider became connected with the 
 Illinois Staats Zeitung and established a daily 
 edition. 
 
 The Chicago Medical Society was organized with 
 Dr. Levi D. Boone as president early in the 
 year. 
 
 The Tremont House, third building, was erected. 
 
 Mercy Hospital was established under the auspices 
 
Historical Events 27 
 
 of the Sisters of Mercy, incorporated in 1852 
 
 as Mercy Hospital and Mercy Orphan Asylum. 
 Streets were numbered in July. 
 The first opera was presented in Rice's Theater 
 
 July 30. The opera was Sonnambula. The 
 
 theater was burned that same evening. 
 The United States Marine Hospital was started 
 
 on Michigan avenue with an appropriation of 
 
 $50,000 by Congress. 
 Chicago was first lighted with gas September 4, 
 
 gas manufactured from coal brought into the 
 
 city over the Illinois and Michigan Canal. 
 Congress on September 20 gave alternate sections 
 
 of land six miles on each side for construction 
 
 of the Illinois Central Railroad. 
 In October the Illinois Central paid the United 
 
 States government $45,000 for possession of 
 
 the unoccupied portion of the Fort Dearborn 
 
 reservation. 
 The Philharmonic Society, just organized, gave 
 
 its first concert October 24 in the Tremont 
 
 Music Hall. 
 Stephen A. Douglas spoke October 24 in favor 
 
 of the Compromise Bill, including the Fugitive 
 
 Slave Law. 
 The Printers' Union was organized October 26, 
 
 succeeded in 1852 by Chicago Typographical 
 
 Union. 
 The Illinois General Hospital of the Lakes, a 
 
 private hospital, was opened at Rush and North 
 
 Water October 29. 
 A teachers' association was organized under the 
 
 direction of the school inspectors, by order of 
 
 the Council, in December. 
 
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 1851 John B. Rice completed his second theater in 
 January on Dearborn street at a cost of 
 $11,000. 
 
 The legislature gave a charter to Chicago February 
 10. 
 
 A Board of Health was created by the legislature 
 February 14. 
 
 The Chicago Hydraulic Company was incorporated 
 February 15 and a Board of Water Commis- 
 sioners was appointed. 
 
 The legislature granted a charter in March to the 
 Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad Company 
 with authority to build to the state line to meet 
 there the Green Bay, Milwaukee and Chicago 
 Road. 
 
 The Rock Island Railroad was reorganized in 
 April. 
 
 Grace Church Parish (Episcopal) was organized 
 May 19 by Rev. Cornelius Swope. 
 
 The First Congregational Church was organized 
 May 22. A building was erected on Washing- 
 ton between Halsted and Union. 
 
 Charles Cleaver moved his soap factory to Cleaver- 
 ville. 
 
 Morris Johnson was tried in court June 7 as a 
 runaway slave but was freed. 
 
 Northwestern University was organized June 14. 
 
 The combined courthouse and city hall was erected 
 at a cost of $110,000. The corner stone was 
 laid September 12, and first occupied February 
 7, 1853. 
 
 The bridewell prison was opened in December 
 at Polk and Fifth avenue. 
 
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 1852 The Marine Bank was organized January 13 with 
 capital of $50,000, J. Y. Scammon president. 
 
 The first train from the East arrived over the 
 Michigan Southern and Indiana Northern 
 February 20. 
 
 The Galena and Chicago Union was completed to 
 Elgin, 42 miles, with strap rails. 
 
 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, first rail- 
 road to reach the Mississippi from Lake Mich- 
 igan, was commenced April 10. 
 
 The Illinois Central laid its tracks on stilts east 
 of Michigan avenue. Passenger service was 
 started May 21 between 22d street, the city 
 limits, and Kensington. 
 
 New water works were started at the foot of Chi- 
 cago avenue. 
 
 The Chicago Typographical Union succeeded the 
 Printers' Union in June. 
 
 Mercy Hospital was incorporated June 21. 
 
 The Pinkerton Detective Agency was established. 
 
 The Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank was the first 
 building to be faced with "Athens" stone. 
 
 The Daily Democratic Press was started Septem- 
 ber 16 by John L. Scripps and William Bross. 
 
 Plymouth Congregational Church was organized 
 October 7. 
 
 The United States Marine Hospital was opened 
 on the Fort Dearborn tract with Dr. W. B. Her- 
 rick in charge. 
 
 Cholera caused 630 deaths. 
 
 Union Car Works on South Clark were completed 
 in November. 
 
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 David Kennison, of Boston Tea Party and of Fort 
 Dearborn, died and was buried in Lincoln 
 Park, then a cemetery. 
 
 1853 The Northwestern Christian Advocate was first 
 issued January 5. 
 
 Recorders Court was established by legislative 
 act February 12. 
 
 First Odd Fellows Hall was dedicated February 
 22. 
 
 Starting in March, boats plied daily between here 
 and Milwaukee. 
 
 The Parmelee Transfer Co. was formed. 
 
 Adeline Patti sang and Ole Bull played his violin 
 April 21 in the Tremont Music Hall. 
 
 Thomas Hoyne and Grant Goodrich prosecuted 
 James Campbell for counterfeiting in the 
 United States Court May 1. 
 
 First regular omnibus line was started May 9 by 
 Frank Parmelee. 
 
 Union Park was planned by the city as a park, 
 "with lake and rustic bridge and gliding 
 swans." 
 
 New England Church (Congregational) was insti- 
 tuted June 15. 
 
 Chicago Turngemeinde, oldest German society, 
 organized. 
 
 Clark Titus Hinman was elected first president 
 of Northwestern University June 23. He per- 
 suaded the trustees to build the university in 
 the country rather than in the city. Proposed 
 site had been near Clark and Jackson. 
 
 An attempt was made to assassinate Allan Pin- 
 kerton September 5 on Clark street. 
 
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 Chicago Printing Company was established No- 
 vember 11. 
 
 The office of Superintendent of Schools was 
 created November 28 by the City Council on 
 the recommendation of the School Inspectors. 
 
 Dearborn Seminary was organized in January. 
 
 Water was first furnished from the new city 
 water works on Chicago avenue February 12. 
 
 John C. Dore was elected first superintendent of 
 schools March 6. 
 
 St. James Hospital was opened in the spring on 
 Illinois street. 
 
 A homeopathic hospital was established on Kinzie 
 street. 
 
 A pivot bridge was built across the river at Clark 
 street at a cost of $12,000. 
 
 Seven vessels were wrecked April 27 by a terrible 
 storm. 
 
 Isaac L. Milliken was elected mayor on the 
 Democratic ticket. This was the same man 
 who was ridiculed in 1845 by Augustus Garrett, 
 then mayor, for the erection of the new brick 
 school, later known as the Dearborn. 
 
 The first music printed in Chicago from movable 
 music type was set in the composing rooms of 
 the Literary Budget. 
 
 A riot occurred when Stephen A. Douglas attempt- 
 ed to speak at the North Market Hall on Sep- 
 tember 1. 
 
 Cholera claimed 1,424 victims. Quarantine was 
 established. 
 
 The Chicago Times was established as a Demo- 
 cratic paper to serve Senator Douglas. 
 
 Albert Dickinson Co. began the sale of seeds as 
 
32 Historical Events 
 
 a South Water general commission and seed 
 house. 
 
 R. G. Green started the manufacture of melodeons. 
 
 C. H. Jordan and Co. were established as under- 
 takers. 
 1855 Hahnemann College, homeopathic, was chartered 
 in January. 
 
 Chicago Theological Seminary was granted a 
 special charter February 15. 
 
 A branch of the type foundry of John T. White 
 and Company of New York was established. 
 
 Mandel Bros, opened a dry goods store. 
 
 Tuttle Hibbard started a hardware store. 
 
 First Stop Inn was erected in old colonial style 
 on West Randolph near Halsted. 
 
 George P. A. Healy painted many portraits of 
 eminent citizens. 
 
 The Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of 
 Good Templars was instituted April 18. 
 
 Beer riots were started in March by the Germans 
 on the North Side who objected to an increase 
 of their saloon licenses from $50 to $300 per 
 annum and to the closing of the saloons on 
 Sunday. Dr. Levi D. Boone had just been 
 elected mayor on the American, or "Know- 
 Nothing," ticket. The trial of the rioters on 
 June 15 resulted in the acquittal of all but two, 
 who were given sentences of a year in prison. 
 
 The police department was created in June, and 
 three precincts were established. Cyrus B. 
 Bradley was chief of police. 
 
 R. T. Crane and Co. poured first metal in foundry 
 July 4. 
 
 Northwestern University opened its doors to stu- 
 
Historical Events 33 
 
 dents November 5, with two professors and 
 ten students. 
 
 The Chicago Phrenological Society was organized 
 in November. 
 
 E. S. Chesbrough's plan of draining sewage into 
 the river was adopted in December. 
 
 The main line of the Illinois Central was com- 
 pleted December 28. 
 
 1856 Chicago Historical Society was organized April 
 24, Rev. W. H. Barry being the first secretary 
 and librarian. 
 
 Steam tugs in May first towed vessels into the 
 harbor. 
 
 Cooley, Wadsworth and Company started a dry 
 goods store. 
 
 Marshall Field arrived in town. 
 
 William H. Wells became second superintendent 
 of schools June 1. 
 
 First suburban trains were run on the Illinois 
 Central between Chicago and Hyde Park June 1, 
 four round trips daily. The entire line from 
 Chicago to Cairo was opened September 26. 
 
 The Masonic Temple was dedicated June 24. 
 
 First sewers were constructed, and bonds for 
 $100,000 were issued. 
 
 William H. Rand started business, later Rand 
 Mc Nally and Company. 
 
 The steamer, Dean Richmond, cleared for Liver- 
 pool with a cargo of wheat in July. 
 
 Bryant and Stratton opened a business college. 
 
 Dwighl L. Moody came to the city. 
 
 Garrett Biblical Institute was opened in Sep- 
 tember. 
 
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 Historical Events 
 
 The Lake House ferry capsized, causing the death 
 
 of ten persons September 19. 
 The Chicago High School opened October 8 with 
 
 Charles A. Dupee as principal. 
 Fremont carried Chicago on the first Republican 
 
 ticket. 
 The first wooden paving was laid on Wells street 
 
 November 28. 
 
 1857 Evening schools were opened in January in West 
 
 Market Hall. 
 /The city charter was revised February 16 by act 
 
 of the legislature. 
 The Board of School Inspectors became the Board 
 
 of Education in accordance with this revised 
 
 charter. 
 Chicago Relief and Aid Society was organized in 
 
 February to aid poor with temporary assistance. 
 Mobs destroyed many dens of vice in a raid 
 
 April 20 on "The Sands" on the North Side. 
 
 Mayor Wentworth and the police led the raid. 
 Father Arnold Damen, Jesuit, became a perma- 
 nent resident May 4. 
 The sloop, "Madeira Pet," arrived direct from 
 
 Liverpool with cargo. 
 A. H. Andrews opened a store for office furniture. 
 The Society of St. Vincent de Paul was organized 
 
 under Roman Catholic auspices. 
 Webster and Gage started a millinery store. 
 A destructive fire occurred, causing property loss 
 
 of $500,000 and death of 23 persons. 
 The grade level of the streets was raised in spite 
 
 of the protests of many business men. 
 A permanent city hospital was completed in June. 
 
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 William Jackson on June 19 was executed on 
 Reuben street (Ashland avenue) for murder. 
 
 Leonard Volk made a life-size bust of Stephen 
 A. Douglas. 
 
 The first Nicholson pavement, of wooden blocks, 
 was laid in July in Wells street. 
 
 The old Chicago University, sometimes called 
 Douglas University, was opened as a Baptist 
 school. Dr. John C. Burroughs was president. 
 The corner stone was laid July 4. 
 
 The Church of the Holy Family, built by Father 
 Arnold Damen, was dedicated July 12. 
 
 Merchants' Loan and Trust Company was estab- 
 lished. 
 
 Frank Lumbard was a campaign singer for "Long 
 John" Wentworth. 
 
 The first blast furnace was built on the North 
 Branch in July. 
 
 The Academy of Science was founded to en- 
 courage widespread interest in science. The 
 first collection was from the Arctic regions, 
 given by Robert Kennicott. 
 
 William W. Kimball founded the piano business 
 in a rented corner on a second floor. 
 
 James H. McVicker built his theater with capac- 
 ity of 2500. 
 
 A wide-spread business panic occurred near the 
 close of the year, in which 117 business houses 
 failed. 
 
 Unity Church, Unitarian, was organized Decem- 
 ber 23. The first sermon in the church was 
 preached by Rev. Robert Colyer in May, 1859. 
 1858 The "Long John" steam fire engine was bought 
 February 5. 
 
36 Historical Events 
 
 Home for the Friendless was opened for the 
 
 temporary care of dependent women and child- 
 ren, organized in March. 
 Chicago Theological Seminary was founded by 
 
 Congregational churches of the Northwest. 
 Carter H. Harrison moved to Chicago. 
 Douglas and Lincoln both spoke on the question 
 
 of slavery from the balcony of the Tremont 
 
 House in July. 
 The Musical Union for vocal and instrumental 
 
 music was organized to give an annual series 
 
 of concerts. 
 The Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary 
 
 was founded. 
 The Mendelssohn Society organized under A. W. 
 
 Dahn and gave annual concerts until 1866. 
 The Academy of the Holy Name was opened by 
 
 the Sisters of Charity in a small building on 
 
 Huron street. 
 The Y. M. C. A. was organized with 151 
 
 members. 
 1859 Horse-drawn street cars first appeared April 25 
 
 on State street between Randolph and Twelfth. 
 House of the Good Shepherd was established in 
 
 May under charge of Sisters of the Good 
 
 Shepherd. 
 The first Art Exposition was opened May 9. 
 
 There were about 70 contributors and 369 
 
 works of art. 
 The Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company 
 
 was organized June 7 by the creditors of the 
 
 Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad. 
 The Chicago Medical College was started as the 
 
 medical department of Lind University. 
 
Historical Events 37 
 
 College School of Pharmacy was founded and 
 
 gave two courses of lectures. 
 United Hebrew Relief Association was established 
 
 to assist needy Jews. 
 Clark street was paved with wooden blocks. 
 The North Chicago Railway Company commenced 
 
 running cars in August on Clark street from 
 
 Chicago avenue. 
 Calvary Cemetery, Catholic, was laid out in 
 
 November. 
 
 1860 Carter H. Harrison, Jr., was born in Chicago 
 April 23. 
 
 L. W. Volk made a bust of Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 The Wigwam was erected for the Republican 
 Convention. 
 
 Lincoln was nominated as Republican candidate 
 for the presidency May 17, on the third ballot. 
 Hannibal Hamlin was nominated as vice-presi- 
 dent. They were elected. 
 
 During the presidential campaign Frank Lumbard 
 sang nearly every day and night for "Old 
 Abe." 
 
 The Chicago Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum 
 was established for the care of children of 
 poor women who were employed. 
 
 Sinai Congregation was formed, a reform out- 
 growth of the older Jewish congregations. 
 
 Marshall Field became a partner in the firm of 
 Cooley, Wadsworth and Co. 
 
 George F. Root became a partner of the musical 
 publishing house of Root and Cady. 
 
 Edward, Prince of Wales, visited the city. 
 
 The Chicago Zouaves made a tour of eastern 
 
38 Historical Events 
 
 cities under the direction of their colonel, 
 Elmer E. Ellsworth. 
 
 George Howland succeeded Charles A. Dupee as 
 principal of the high school. 
 
 Hahnemann Medical College (homeopathic) was 
 opened. 
 
 The "Lady Elgin," lake steamer belonging to 
 Gurdon S. Hubbard, sank September 8 in a 
 storm off Highland Park with the loss of 203 
 lives. 
 
 Lincoln and Hamlin held a reception in Tremont 
 Hotel November 23. 
 1861 The Chicago Board of Fire Underwriters was 
 chartered February 22. 
 
 Two days after President Lincoln's call for troops 
 General H. K. Swift, Chicago banker, was on 
 his way to Cairo with 872 men, four brass six- 
 pounder guns and forty-six horses. 
 
 The Western News Company was founded. 
 
 Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth was the first officer 
 to die in the war, at Alexandria, Virginia. 
 
 Old Ladies' Home, later called Old Peoples' 
 home, was organized. 
 
 George F. Root wrote "The Battle Cry of Free- 
 dom," which was sung the same day to a large 
 crowd by the Lumbard brothers. 
 
 The Chicago Times was started by W. F. Storey. 
 
 Allan Pinkerton (Major Allen) had charge of 
 secret service of the government. 
 
 The Chicago West Division Railway was char- 
 tered. 
 
 Camp Douglas was located here by order of 
 Governor Richard Yates as a rendezvous for 
 volunteers. 
 
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 Hyde Park was incorporated as a town. 
 
 The Irish Brigade was the first Illinois regiment 
 
 to be mustered in, June 15. Colonel Mulligan 
 
 surrendered to the Confederates at Lexington, 
 
 Missouri. 
 A new Sherman House replaced the first one at 
 
 a cost of $200,000. 
 
 1862 John Wilkes Booth made his first appearance be- 
 
 fore a Chicago audience January 20. Again in 
 
 June of the same year he appeared at Mc 
 
 Vicker's. 
 Pumps at Bridgeport pumped sewage from the 
 
 South Branch into the Canal. 
 W. D. Kerfoot and Co. opened a real estate 
 
 office. 
 George Schneider, editor of Staats Zeitung, was 
 
 appointed by President Lincoln as collector of 
 
 United States revenue for the Chicago district. 
 
 1863 Wood's Museum became a popular feature of the 
 
 city. 
 
 The mayor's term was fixed at two years. 
 
 Dwight L. Moody raised $20,000 for a new 
 church. Since his people were poor and un- 
 educated, this church became independent of 
 all other churches. 
 
 St. Paul's Church (Reformed Episcopal) was or- 
 ganized with Dr. Samuel Fallows as rector. 
 
 The First National Bank was opened July 1. Its 
 total resources September were $481,849. 
 
 The first great Sanitary Fair was held. 
 
 Washingtonian Home was opened for the treat- 
 ment of alcoholics and narcotics. 
 
 The Chicago Times was suspended by military 
 order. 
 
40 Historical Events 
 
 Erring Woman's Refuge was organized. 
 
 The Chicago Astronomical Society was organized 
 in November by men who had procured a tele- 
 scope for the Dearborn Observatory. 
 
 It was in November that the "Confederate go- 
 phers" were most active in Camp Douglas, 
 which was then used as a prison for Con- 
 federate prisoners. 
 
 1864 A lake tunnel was begun March 17 to secure pure 
 water two miles from shore, completed Decem- 
 ber 6, 1866. 
 
 The citizens were aroused by rumors of an at- 
 tempt at release of Confederate prisoners in 
 Camp Douglas through efforts of the "Sons of 
 Liberty." 
 
 Colonel James A. Mulligan, when fatally wounded 
 July 24, said, "Lay me down and save the 
 flag." 
 
 Lincoln Park was begun on the site of an old 
 cemetery. 
 
 St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum was founded to care 
 for and educate destitute children. 
 
 The Galena and Chicago Union became a part 
 of the Chicago and Northwestern. 
 
 Church, Goodman and Donnelley were established 
 as printers. 
 
 The first Pullman car was built. 
 
 St. Luke's Hospital was opened under the auspices 
 of the Protestant Church, through the efforts 
 of the rector of Grace Church. 
 
 The Chicago Dental Society was organized to ad- 
 vance the dental profession and to enlighten 
 the public on oral hygiene. 
 
Historical Events 41 
 
 First interments were made in Oakwoods Ceme- 
 tery. 
 
 The Union Stock Yard and Transit Company was 
 organized. 
 
 Erysipelas was prevalent. 
 
 Smallpox resulted in 283 deaths. 
 
 George W. Lyon and Patrick J. Healy established 
 their music house October 16. 
 
 The Board of Education appropriated $5000 for 
 evening schools. 
 
 The Democratic National Convention met in the 
 Amphitheater on August 29 to nominate Gen- 
 eral George B. Mc Clellan as president and 
 George Hunt Pendleton as vice-president. They 
 were defeated. 
 1865 The Chicago Sharpshooters' Association was in- 
 corporated February 16, devoted to rifle target 
 practice. 
 
 The Chicago Hospital for Women and Children 
 was founded in February through the efforts 
 of Dr. Mary Harris Thompson. 
 
 Crosby's Opera House was completed at a cost 
 of $600,000. The opening was postponed from 
 April 17 to April 20 because of the assassina- 
 tion of Lincoln. 
 
 Cook County Hospital was founded as an inde- 
 pendent hospital at Arnold and 18th. 
 
 The Chamber of Commerce building at Washing- 
 ton and LaSalle was erected and occupied. 
 
 Peabody, Houghteling and Co. sold bonds. 
 
 Rights of Chicago over its streets were given to 
 traction companies in the 99-year act. 
 
 Superintendent Pickard asked for three or four 
 truant officers for the schools. 
 
42 Historical Events 
 
 The crib, 98^ feet in circumference, was sunk at 
 the end of the lake tunnel in July. 
 
 The first Clearing House was established. 
 
 The Germania Maennerchor was organized as a 
 men's chorus. 
 
 Ten thousand vessels arrived during the year. 
 
 The Union Stockyards were opened at the present 
 location December 25. 
 
 The Transit House was opened as a hotel De- 
 cember 25 by John B. Sherman owner. 
 
 1866 Dr. John Rauch urged for health reasons that no 
 
 burials be permitted within the city limits. 
 John A. Colby and Sons sold carpets and 
 
 draperies. 
 Carson, Pirie and Co. started a dry goods store. 
 St. Mary's Hospital, with a capacity of eight 
 
 beds, was established in September. In 1899 
 
 it became the Alexian Brothers' Hospital. 
 Michael Reese Hospital was planned by the 
 
 Hebrew Relief Society. Funds were raised at 
 
 a mass meeting of Jews October 22. 
 The Academy of Design was organized late in the 
 
 year to promote taste for fine arts. 
 The first lake tunnel was completed December 6. 
 
 1867 The corner stone of the new water tower, Chicago 
 
 and Michigan, was laid in March. 
 
 The Pullman Palace Car Company was organized. 
 
 Memorial Day was first observed. 
 
 Philip D. Armour established Armour and Co. as 
 a meat packing industry. 
 
 Dr. J. H. Rauch was appointed sanitary super- 
 intendent. 
 
 Central Free Dispensary was established to re- 
 lieve the sick poor. 
 
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 The United States Marine Hospital was built on 
 a ten-acre tract in Lake View. 
 
 Cook County Normal School was opened in Sep- 
 tember with D. S. Wentworth as principal. 
 
 1868 A system of meat inspection was inaugurated at 
 
 the Stockyards. 
 
 The Chicago Microscopical Society was organized. 
 In the following March it adopted the name of 
 State Microscopical Society. 
 
 The Field and Leiter retail store moved to State 
 and Washington. 
 
 The Newsboys' and Bootblacks' Association was 
 founded for indigent boys. 
 
 U. S. Grant was nominated as Republican candi- 
 date for president and Schuyler Colfax for 
 vice-president in Crosby's Opera House. They 
 were elected. 
 
 1869 The Western Society of Engineers was organized 
 
 May 1. 
 Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery 
 
 was chartered and opened on Kinzie between 
 
 LaSalle and Fifth. 
 The legislature authorized Washington, Lincoln 
 
 and West Side parks. 
 The Standard Club was organized April 5 for 
 
 social purposes. 
 Washington street tunnel was opened July 1, 
 
 rebuilt 1909-11, length 1605 feet. 
 New pumping station and water tower at Chicago 
 
 avenue were completed. 
 Theodore Thomas with his orchestra set a higher 
 
 standard of excellence than local orchestras 
 
 could reach. 
 
44 Historical Events 
 
 The Chicago Club was founded as a social or- 
 ganization, initiation fee $300. 
 
 St. Joseph's Hospital was established by the Sis- 
 ters of Charity. 
 
 St. Ignatius College was organized by Fathers of 
 the Society of Jesus. 
 
 1870 The Cook County Insane Asylum was located on 
 
 the county poor farm. 
 The first milk ordinance was passed, making it 
 
 unlawful to sell skim milk without stating its 
 
 character. 
 The Illinois Humane Society was organized to 
 
 prevent cruelty to children and animals. 
 The Chicago Baseball Club was organized, of 
 
 which A. G. Spaulding was later president. 
 The Women's Hospital Medical College was 
 
 founded August 2 with Dr. William H. Byford 
 
 as president. 
 St. Ignatius College opened September 5 with 37 
 
 students. 
 The United States Weather Bureau observation 
 
 station was established October 15 under the 
 
 jurisdiction of the Signal Service of the army. 
 
 1871 The Chicago Foundlings' Home was opened Jan- 
 
 uary 31 at 54 South Green. 
 
 Henry C. Lytton and Sons opened a store for 
 men's furnishings. 
 
 The La Salle street tunnel was opened, built at 
 a cost of $566,000. 
 
 Field, Leiter and Co. succeeded Cooley, Wads- 
 worth and Co. 
 
 The city introduced its own detective service. 
 
 The Great Fire occurred October 8-9, with a loss 
 of $200,000,000 and many lives. 
 
Historical Events 45 
 
 Joseph Medill, editor of the Tribune, was elected 
 mayor on a platform of making Chicago fire- 
 proof. 
 
 The Academy of Music was built by William B. 
 Clapp on Halsted near Madison. It was origin- 
 ally a variety theater but later had a higher 
 standing. 
 1872 The Chicago Public Library was started at a 
 public meeting January 8 with a collection of 
 books donated by people of England. 
 
 The Inter-Ocean was started March 25 by J. Y. 
 Scammon as a Republican newspaper. 
 
 The Dearborn street swing bridge was first oper- 
 ated by steam. 
 
 The city dug a second tunnel out to the crib 
 parallel to the first. 
 
 The Drovers' Journal was established. 
 
 Montgomery Ward and Co. started a mail order 
 house. 
 
 Captain Eber Ward built a Bessemer plant on 
 the North Side. 
 
 The Clifton House was built at Wabash and 
 Monroe. 
 
 The Apollo Musical Club was organized during 
 the summer to consist entirely of male voices, 
 A. W. Dohn conductor. 
 
 The Boston Store was opened for dry goods. 
 
 The Ogden-Wentworth ditch was completed to 
 drain Mud Lake. 
 
 Hooley's Theater on Randolph was opened to the 
 public October 9. 
 
 The coldest day of record in Chicago was De- 
 cember 24, when the temperature dropped to 
 23 degrees below zero. 
 
46 Historical Events 
 
 Carl Wolfson organized the Beethoven Society for 
 both male and female voices. 
 
 1873 The Grand Pacific Hotel opened June 3 on the 
 
 site of the Pacific Hotel which had been just 
 
 completed at the time of the Great Fire. 
 The fortnightly Club was founded June 4 for 
 
 social and intellectual culture, composed of 
 
 women. 
 The Criminal Court and County Jail buildings 
 y were erected at Michigan, Illinois and Dear- 
 born at a cost of $375,000. 
 The Exposition Building was erected on the lake 
 
 front on the present site of the Art Institute. 
 The Bar Association was organized, incorporated 
 
 in 1874. 
 The Philosophical Society was organized October 
 
 2 by Rev. H. W. Thomas. 
 A financial panic occurred, a period of inflation. 
 The Palmer House was opened November 1, the 
 
 first wholly fireproof hotel in the United States. 
 
 The barber shop floor was studded with silver 
 
 dollars. 
 
 1874 The Chicago Literary Club was organized April 
 
 21 for the purpose of discussing topics of 
 interest. 
 
 Aida was first given in Chicago. 
 
 The Citizens' Association was organized to pro- 
 mote municipal reforms. 
 
 The first interment in Waldheim Cemetery was 
 on July 16. 
 
 A new smallpox hospital was located on the 
 grounds of the House of Correction, 26th and 
 California. 
 
Historical Events 47 
 
 The Washingtonian Association erected a build- 
 ing in January. 
 
 The United States Life Saving Station was estab- 
 lished as a volunteer crew with a life boat 
 station. 
 
 The Chicago Yacht Club was organized. 
 
 The city was incorporated under general laws. 
 
 The Chicago Electrical Society became indepen- 
 dent of the Academy of Science. 
 
 Cook County Hospital was moved to its present 
 location. 
 
 The Chicago Women's Club was founded by Mrs. 
 Caroline M. Brown in an effort toward a higher 
 civilization. 
 
 The Fair sold dry goods. 
 
 Clan-Na-Gael Guards were organized, later dis- 
 banded, and reorganized in 1882. 
 
 Classes for the deaf were started in the public 
 schools. 
 
 William L. Tomlins in November conducted his 
 first concert as leader of the Apollo Club. 
 
 The Chicago Daily News was first issued Decem- 
 ber 23 as a trial number. 
 
 The first issue of the Chicago Daily News was 
 sold on the streets January 3 for one cent, 
 Melville E. Stone editor. 
 
 The Department of Health was created to super- 
 sede the Board of Health. Dr. B. L. Mc Vickar 
 was appointed the first Health Commissioner. 
 
 Bunte Bros, and Spohr began the making of 
 candy. 
 
 Moody and Sankey Tabernacle was erected on 
 Monroe between Franklin and Market to seat 
 8000 people. 
 
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 The Home for the Aged was founded by the Little 
 
 Sisters of the Poor. A building was erected 
 
 in 1880 at Throop and Harrison. 
 The Central Free Dispensary was a combination 
 
 of the Brainard and the Herrick dispensaries. 
 Sinai Temple was erected, the congregation having 
 
 been organized in 1861. 
 Victor Lawson obtained the Chicago Daily News 
 
 July 27 by assuming its debts and furnishing 
 
 a small capital. 
 Francis Hanford, principal of North Division 
 
 High School, was slain August 7. 
 
 1877 The Chicago Society of Decorative Art was or- 
 ganized May 24 to create a desire for artistic 
 decoration. 
 
 The Servite Sisters' Industrial Home for Girls 
 was established in May to care for homeless 
 and destitute children. 
 
 Augustus F. Swift became a packer. 
 
 Central Church, in Central Music Hall, was estab- 
 lished as an independent church under Rev. 
 David Swing. 
 
 Theodore Thomas started classical orchestral 
 music. 
 
 Rioting occurred July 26, due to newspaper re- 
 ports of riots in other cities, caused by rail- 
 road strikes. 
 
 Y. W. C. A. was incorporated, established in 1876. 
 
 The Pacific Garden Mission was opened to aid 
 destitute men. 
 
 The Exposition Building was opened in the fall 
 on the lake front at the foot of Adams. 
 
 The American Humane Association was organized 
 
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 in October to secure humane treatment of live- 
 stock in transit. 
 
 The Illinois Social Science Association was organ- 
 ized in October to discuss questions pertaining 
 to social sciences. 
 
 The Commercial Club was organized December 
 27 to promote commercial interests. 
 
 1878 The Union Club was organized in February for 
 
 North Side aristocrats. 
 The Calumet Club was organized April 4 as a 
 
 social club. 
 Charles Henrotin established a business as dealer 
 
 in bonds, stocks and commercial papers. 
 The Bell and Edison telephone systems began 
 
 operations. 
 St. Joseph's Home for the Friendless was founded 
 
 for girls temporarily out of employment. 
 
 1879 The Chicago Art League was organized in March 
 
 for the benefit of artists. 
 
 The Art Institute was incorporated May 24 as the 
 Academy of Fine Arts. It was located in a 
 brick building at the corner of Michigan ave- 
 nue and Van Buren. 
 
 The Union League Club was organized to en- 
 courage loyalty to the federal government. 
 
 The Chicago and Western Railroad was organized 
 June 6 for the purpose of leasing road and 
 terminals to other companies. 
 
 The Union College of Law was founded. It be- 
 came a branch of Northwestern University. 
 
 A reception to General Grant was held in the 
 Palmer House November 13. Mark Twain was 
 the hit of the evening with his response to the 
 toast, "The Babies, as they comfort us in our 
 
50 Historical Events 
 
 sorrows, let us not forget them in our fest- 
 ivities." 
 
 The Chicago Numismatic and Archaeological So- 
 ciety was formed. 
 
 The Chicago Bicycle Club, organized in Septem- 
 ber, provided for monthly five-mile contests. 
 
 Central Music Hall was opened December 4. 
 
 1880 The Press Club was organized in January to se- 
 cure closer intimacy among members of the 
 journalistic profession. 
 
 General U. S. Grant was tendered a reception in 
 the Palmer House early in the year to further 
 his candidacy for a third term. 
 
 Sarah Bernhardt came to town and found the 
 stockyards "a dreadful and magnificent sight." 
 
 The United States Government Building (Post- 
 office and Custom House) was completed at 
 Dearborn and Adams. 
 
 The Chicago Democratic Club was instituted by 
 leading Democrats during the Hancock cam- 
 paign, taking the name of Iroquois Club in 
 1881. 
 
 The first electric lighting was installed. 
 
 The first interment in Graceland was April 28. 
 
 The first horse-drawn police patrol wagon was 
 used. 
 
 Dr. Emit G. Hirsch became rabbi of Sinai Temple. 
 
 The Illinois Training School for Nurses was 
 established. 
 
 Garfield was nominated for the presidency on the 
 Republican ticket after the failure of Grant to 
 secure the nomination for a third term. Chester 
 A. Arthur was nominated for the vice-presi- 
 
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 dency. The convention was in the Exposition 
 Building. They were elected. 
 
 The police telephone system on street corners was 
 devised in the fall. 
 
 The roller skating craze struck Chicago. 
 
 Battery D Armory was erected on the lake front 
 at Monroe. 
 
 George M. Pullman built his car shops and the 
 town of Pullman. Duane Doty, former super- 
 intendent of schools, superintended the laying 
 out of the town. 
 
 The Bohemian Art Club was organized for women 
 artists, located in the Art Institute. 
 1881 Home for Incurables was opened in January at 
 Racine and Fullerton. 
 
 Chicago Morning News was started March 21. 
 
 Illinois Training School for Nurses occupied two 
 wards in the County Hospital. 
 
 Telephone and telegraph wires were ordered un- 
 derground. 
 
 The Chicago Herald was established in May as a 
 two-cent morning paper by Frank W. Palmer 
 postmaster. 
 
 The Peoples' Church was formed as an inde- 
 pendent church in Hooley's Theater by Rev. 
 H. W. Thomas. 
 
 The Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons 
 was organized at Harrison and Honore. 
 
 David A. Gage on July 2 conveyed to the City 
 of Chicago the property known as "The Gage 
 Farm/' later the site of the Chicago and Cook 
 County School for Boys. 
 
 The name Iroquois Club was adopted in October, 
 started as Chicago Democratic Club. 
 
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 1882 The first cable car was introduced into Chicago. 
 Seven cars with two grip cars, on January 28, 
 made the run from State and Madison to 20th 
 street in twenty-one minutes. 
 
 The Prisoners 9 Aid Association was incorporated 
 as a Chicago association in March, but in 
 March 1884, it was changed to a state or- 
 ganization. 
 
 The first May Musical Festival was given May 
 23-26 in the Exposition Building. The chorus 
 of 900 was led by William L. Tomlins. 
 
 The Chicago Branch of the American Association 
 of the Red Cross was organized in Central 
 Music Hall. 
 
 The building of the Art Institute was erected at 
 Michigan and Van Buren. 
 
 The Deaconess Institute and Hospital of the 
 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church was or- 
 ganized as a charitable institution. 
 
 Charles L. Hutchinson became president of the 
 Art Institute and continued in office until his 
 death in 1924. 
 
 The Cathedral of the Holy Name, commenced 
 in 1874, was completed at State and Superior. 
 
 Martha Washington Home was opened in July for 
 inebriate women. 
 
 The Chicago Eye and Ear Infirmary was in- 
 corporated. 
 
 Saint Vincent's Infant Asylum was established 
 in July. 
 
 Chicago Morning News became Chicago Daily 
 News, morning issue, July 21. 
 
 The Chicago Dental Infirmary was founded to 
 teach dentistry to medically educated students. 
 
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 The Illinois Art Association was incorporated 
 September 15 to collect, exhibit and distribute 
 works of art. 
 
 The Belt Railway Company was chartered Nov- 
 ember 22 to do a transfer or switching business. 
 
 1883 Colonel Francis W. Parker took charge of the 
 
 Cook County Normal School the first of 
 
 January. 
 The Chicago Pottery Club was organized February 
 
 27. Two kilns were erected and a potter em- 
 ployed. 
 The Society for Ethical Culture was incorporated 
 
 April 1. 
 The Calumet Club building was opened April 21. 
 W. A. Wieboldt started a store. 
 Patti came to town. 
 
 A Compulsory Education law was passed. 
 The Washington Park Club opened its race course 
 
 June 28. 
 The Chicago Veterinary College was established. 
 The Society for Home Teaching of the Blind was 
 
 organized by a number of young married 
 
 couples. 
 The Presbyterian Hospital was incorporated July 
 
 21 and opened to patients in August, 1884. 
 The Charity Organization Society was organized 
 
 in November to help able-bodied poor become 
 
 self-sustaining. 
 The heaviest annual rainfall occurred, 45.86 
 
 inches. 
 
 1884 The Chicago Merchants' Club was started January 
 
 29 as a social club. 
 The Chicago Manual Training School was opened 
 
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 February 4 to give high school instruction and 
 shop work. 
 
 The Children's Memorial Hospital was founded 
 for medical care of children under thirteen. 
 It was originally the Maurice Porter Memorial 
 Hospital for Children. The name was changed 
 in 1903. 
 
 A smoke inspector was appointed in the Depart- 
 ment of Health. 
 
 James G. Blaine, Republican, and Grover Cleve- 
 land, Democrat, were chosen as presidential 
 nominees in the Exposition Building. Cleve- 
 land was elected. 
 
 Allan Pinkerton died July 1. 
 
 Rush street bridge was opened August 7, double 
 roadway, operated by steam, lighted by elec- 
 tricity. 
 
 The Presbyterian Hospital was opened August 20 
 adjoining Rush Medical College. 
 
 The statue, "The Alarm," was unveiled in Lin- 
 coln Park. 
 1885 "The Salvation Army began operation in Chicago 
 on this spot February, 1885." Thus reads a 
 bronze marker in the cement sidewalk on Chi- 
 cago avenue just west of Clark. 
 
 A heavy flood on the Desplaines carried pollution 
 into the lake. 
 
 The first opera festival was held April 13-26. 
 
 The City Hall building and the Board of Trade 
 headquarters were completed. 
 
 Street car riots occurred in June. 
 
 Potter Palmer built a mansion on the North Side. 
 
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 Henry Irving and Ellen Terry played in the 
 
 Columbia Theater. 
 Attention was called to flies as carriers of disease. 
 
 1886 The Calumet Club gave an elaborate dinner for 
 
 General Schofield April 10. 
 The Haymarket Riot, May 4, was caused by the 
 
 incitement of laborers by anarchists after a 
 
 strike for the eight-hour day. 
 The first Chicago University was closed. 
 The Public Library was moved from Lake and 
 
 Dearborn streets to an upper floor of the City 
 
 Hall and County building, 
 The Union League was opened June 10. 
 Yerkes acquired the North Chicago Railway. 
 Captain George Wellington Streeter was stranded 
 
 in his little fishing schooner on the beach at 
 
 the foot of Superior street in July. 
 Richard W. Sears started a mail order business. 
 A manual training high school was opened. 
 Aimer Coe started as optician. 
 The death of Gurdon S. Hubbard occurred in 
 
 September. 
 Dwight L. Moody founded the Bible Institute. 
 
 1887 Newberry Library was established as a reference 
 
 library in the humanities, through a bequest by 
 Walter L. Newberry. 
 
 Yerkes acquired the West Chicago Railway. 
 
 The Glenwood Manual Training School was estab- 
 lished for under-privileged boys. 
 
 The Lincoln statue by St. Gaudens in Lincoln 
 Park was unveiled October 22. 
 
 Anarchists were hanged for the Haymarket Riot 
 deaths November 11 and were buried in Wald- 
 heim Cemetery. 
 
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 1888 Brewery workers struck April 14. 
 
 Oliver Institute was established under the auspices 
 of the Presbytery of Chicago. 
 
 Electric street lighting was inaugurated. 
 
 The Chicago Daily News Sanitarium was opened. 
 
 The Wesley Memorial Hospital was planned at a 
 meeting of Methodists in the Sherman House 
 September 8. It was first occupied as a hospi- 
 tal June 27, 1901. 
 
 Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton were 
 nominated in the Republican Convention in the 
 Exposition building. They were elected. 
 
 Wheat was cornered by B. P. Hutchinson, "Old 
 Hutch," with the price rising to $2.00 a bushel. 
 
 1889 Anarchist Hronek was sentenced January 3 to 
 
 twelve years for conspiring to assassinate public 
 
 officers. 
 Dr. Patrick H. Cronin was murdered May 4 by 
 
 members of the Clan-Na-Gael whom he accused 
 
 of misuse of Clan money. On December 16 
 
 four were sentenced to life imprisonment, one 
 
 for three years and one was acquitted. 
 The Visiting Nurse Association was formed to 
 
 assist those unable to secure skilled assistance 
 
 in time of illness. 
 Lake View, Hyde Park, Lake, Jefferson and 
 
 Cicero were annexed to the city on June 29. 
 The elevated railroad was begun. 
 A charter was granted to the University of 
 
 Chicago. 
 Hull House was founded by Jane Addams and 
 
 Ellen Gates Starr in September. 
 The Auditorium Theater was dedicated Decern- 
 
Historical Events 57 
 
 ber 9. President Benjamin Harrison was the 
 speaker. 
 
 The first meeting of the board of trustees of the 
 Sanitary District occurred January 18. Murry 
 Nelson was elected president. 
 
 Plumbers struck April 1. 
 
 Part of the village of Gano was annexed April 1. 
 
 The carpenters' strike ended. 
 
 South Englewood was annexed May 12. u 
 
 Henry Wade Rogers became president of North- 
 western University. 
 
 A building was erected as the home for the Inter- 
 Ocean at Dearborn and Madison. 
 
 Montgomery Ward secured a permanent injunc- 
 tion against building on the lake front. 
 
 Electric street cars began operation October 2 
 from 95th and Stony Island to South Chicago. 
 
 Archbishop Feehan celebrated the twenty-fifth an- 
 niversary of his elevation to the See of Chicago 
 October 29. 
 
 The Chicago Evening Post was established. It 
 was purchased by the Chicago Daily News 
 October 29, 1932. 
 
 Washington Heights and West Roseland were an- 
 nexed November 4. 
 
 The Orchestral Association was incorporated De- 
 cember 16 and invited Theodore Thomas from 
 New York and Boston. 
 
 The Athenaeum building was opened at 18 Van 
 Buren in March. The Chicago Athenaeum orig- 
 inated with the Y. M. C. A. to train young 
 people of both sexes. 
 
 A United States Meat Inspection law was passed 
 applying to interstate shipments. 
 
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 Fernwood was annexed April 7. 
 
 The Theodore Thomas orchestra was organized. 
 
 Control of the Weather Bureau was transferred 
 to the Department of Agriculture July 1. 
 
 The Grant monument in Lincoln Park was un- 
 veiled October 7. 
 
 Carter H. Harrison assumed control of the Chi- 
 cago Times November 7. 
 
 Thirteen men were arrested November 14 on the 
 charge of being members of an organized gang 
 of safe blowers and burglars. 
 
 1892 Temperance Temple was completed May 1, built 
 for the W. C. T. U. 
 
 Masonic Temple was completed about May 1. 
 
 Chicago Daily News, morning issue, became Chi- 
 cago News Record May 9. 
 
 The Democratic National Convention was held 
 June 21 in Convention Hall. Graver Cleveland 
 and Adlai Stevenson were nominated and 
 elected. 
 
 Nine aldermen were indicted for "boodle" in con- 
 nection with ordinances for the Northern Paci- 
 fic Railroad and the Economic Gas Company. 
 
 Elevated transit lines began operating with steam 
 motive power. 
 
 The Great Northern Hotel was erected at Dear- 
 born and Jackson, originally operated by 
 Colonel Southgate. 
 
 The Van Buren street tunnel was opened for 
 street cars, rebuilt in 1909-12. 
 
 The University of Chicago was opened. John D. 
 Rockefeller made a gift December 27 of 
 $1,000,000, a total of $3,600,000 by 1936. 
 
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 "Shovel Day/' September 3, saw work start on 
 
 the Sanitary and Ship Canal. 
 Orange Judd, editor of Orange Judd Farmer, 
 
 died December 28. 
 
 1893 Rogers Park and West Ridge were annexed 
 jT April 4. 
 
 The World's Columbian Exposition was opened 
 
 May 1. Infanta Eulalia visited Chicago June 
 
 6. Chicago Day was October 9. 
 The Catholic Woman V League was formed for 
 
 the general good of humanity. 
 The Chicago Public Library corner stone was laid. 
 A granite monument was erected in Waldheim 
 
 Cemetery June 25 for the five anarchists hanged 
 
 in 1887. 
 Governor Altgeld pardoned the other imprisoned 
 
 anarchists June 26. 
 The "free lunch" saved many from starvation. 
 The four-mile crib was opened. 
 Isham Randolph was appointed chief engineer of 
 
 of the Sanitary District. 
 The first public bath house, Carter H. Harrison, 
 
 was established at 759 Mather Street. 
 The Chicago "provision corner" collapsed August 
 
 1, breaking John Cudahy and others. 
 A training class for cadets was started in the 
 
 Hoyne School.^ 
 The Art Institute was built on the lake front. 
 Pneumatic postal tubes were installed under the 
 
 city streets August 24. 
 The Field Museum was established in Jackson 
 
 Park. Marshall Field subscribed $1,000,000 
 
 October 27. 
 
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 Mayor Harrison was assassinated October 29. 
 Assassin Prendergast was given a death sen- 
 tence December 29. 
 
 Norwood Park was annexed November 7. 
 
 Armour Institute of Technology was opened, en- 
 dowed with $1,400,000 by Philip D. Armour, 
 and with Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus as president. 
 1894 Field Museum opened in the old Fine Arts build- 
 ing in Jackson Park. 
 
 The highest wind velocity of record was 84 miles 
 per hour in the storm of February 12. 
 
 The Public School Art Society was formed to 
 place suitable works of art in the public 
 schools. 
 
 Painters struck April 30. 
 
 Randall's contingent of Coxey's army started for 
 Washington May 1. 
 
 Pullman car plant strike began May 11, boycott 
 began June 26. General railroad strike fol- 
 lowed, with damage of $1,000,000. Martial 
 law was declared. Governor Altgeld defied 
 President Cleveland. Boycott of American Rail- 
 way Union against railroads went into effect 
 June 26. 
 
 A financial panic occurred. 
 
 Graham Taylor made his home in Chicago Com- 
 mons, in a swarming foreign quarter. 
 
 Chicago Times and Chicago Herald merged to 
 become the Times-Herald. 
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement was opened 
 to improve neighborhood and municipal con- 
 ditions. 
 
 John Crerar Library was incorporated as a free 
 library for natural, physical, medical, social 
 
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 and applied sciences, due to a bequest by John 
 Crerar. The bequest worth $2,500,000 origin- 
 ally increased in value to $3,500,000. 
 
 Jens Jensen was made superintendent of Hum- 
 boldt Park. 
 
 Patrick Eugene Prendergast was hanged for the 
 murder of Mayor Harrison. 
 
 Halsted street lift bridge was opened. 
 
 Miss Mary Mc Dowell went to live near "The 
 Yards." 
 
 Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to six months in 
 jail for contempt of court. 
 
 Mayor Hopkins issued an order to close gambling 
 houses September 20. 
 
 The Ogden Gas ordinance was passed Febru- 
 ary 25. 
 
 Part of Calumet was annexed February 25. 
 
 H. H. Kohlsaat purchased a controlling interest 
 in the Times-Herald and in the Evening Post 
 April 20. 
 
 Leases were arranged by the Board of Education 
 in May with the Tribune and with the News 
 that were later severely criticized. 
 
 A monument to the Confederate dead was de- 
 dicated May 10 in Oakwoods Cemetery. 
 
 Mary Harris Thompson, head physician and surg- 
 eon to the Chicago Hospital for Women and 
 Children, died May 22, and in her honor the 
 name of the hospital was changed to Mary 
 Thompson Hospital. 
 
 Electric motors were installed to operate Rush, 
 Lake and Van Buren street bridges. 
 
 Civil Service was inaugurated. All employes of 
 
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 the Health Department were placed under Civil 
 
 Service. 
 The first movie studio was opened, a sickly enter- 
 prise, but later to film Charlie Chaplin, Gloria 
 
 Swanson and Wallace Beery. 
 The pension law for teachers became a fact in 
 
 July. 
 Horr and Harvey debated the silver question 
 
 July 16-29. 
 Captain Anson and all players of the Chicago 
 
 Baseball Club on July 20 were fined $3 apiece 
 
 for playing on Sunday. 
 Eleven thousand pupils were turned away from 
 
 the public schools September 5 because of lack 
 
 of room. 
 Eight of the ten medical inspectors of the Health 
 
 Department were assigned to school inspection. 
 The first automobile appeared on the streets. 
 The first diphtheria antitoxin was issued October 5. 
 The Chicago Evening Journal and the Evening 
 
 Press were consolidated November 17. 
 A motorcycle contest on Thanksgiving Day was 
 
 sponsored by the Times-Herald. 
 An attempt was made to kill George M. Pullman 
 
 and P. D. Armour by infernal machines sent 
 
 through the mail December 16. 
 1896 The Board of Education accepted the Cook 
 
 County Normal School in January. 
 George E. Cole was chosen to head the Municipal 
 
 Voters' League for improvement of the person- 
 nel of the city council. 
 The grand jury indicted 582 persons for conduct- 
 ing "bucket shops" March 1. Indictments were 
 
 quashed by the judge. 
 
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 The new Isolation Hospital at 34th and Lawndale 
 
 was completed. 
 The Chicago Federation of Labor was organized. 
 Charles S. Deneen was elected state's attorney. 
 A tornado passed through Norwood Park May 25. 
 The first class for the blind was opened by John 
 
 B. Curtis, who had been teacher of the blind in 
 
 the State school at Jacksonville, Illinois. 
 Volunteers of America were organized in Chicago 
 
 as a religious, charitable and undenominational 
 
 institution. 
 William Jennings Bryan, with "Cross of Gold" 
 
 speech, won the Democratic nomination for 
 
 president. He was defeated. 
 The first vacation school was held in the Joseph 
 
 Medill School under the auspices of the Civic 
 
 Federation. 
 Robert M. Smith was appointed first principal of 
 
 the John Worthy School October 7. 
 1897 The Chicago Association of Day Nurseries was 
 
 organized. 
 Vessels of Philip D. Armour with two million 
 
 bushels of wheat broke through the ice and 
 
 broke the wheat corner of Joseph Leiter. 
 The Chicago Teachers' Federation was organized 
 
 in March. 
 Metropolitan Elevated trains ran around the loop. 
 
 The Lake street Elevated opened. 
 Northwestern University Settlement was estab- 
 lished, incorporated in 1898. 
 The new telescope of the University of Chicago, 
 
 largest in the world, was put into use at 
 
 Williams Bay May 23. 
 Dr. Octave Chanute, retired railroad engineer, 
 
64 Historical Events 
 
 experimented with gliders of various designs 
 near Miller, Indiana. 
 
 The Humphrey bill giving a 50-year franchise to 
 traction lines was defeated. 
 
 The Allen bill giving a 50-year franchise to trac- 
 tion lines was passed in the legislature but was 
 buried in the council. 
 
 The Anti-Saloon League was formed to abolish 
 liquor traffic. 
 
 The School Children's Aid Society was organized. 
 
 Mayor Harrison appointed an Educational Com- 
 mission to investigate the public school system 
 of Chicago. 
 
 The monument of General John A. Logan in 
 Grant Park was unveiled July 22. 
 
 The Chicago Public Library building was opened 
 in October. 
 
 The trial of Adolph L. Luetgert for the murder 
 of his wife closed October 21. 
 
 The Inter-Ocean became the property of a syndi- 
 cate headed by Charles T. Yerkes November 20. 
 
 1898 The height of buildings was limited by ordinance 
 
 March 24 to ten stories, or 130 feet. 
 Frances E. Willard, head of the W. C. T. U., 
 
 died. The body was cremated April 9. 
 An epidemic of cerebro-spinal meningitis occurred. 
 Main sewers in 12th and 22d streets were changed 
 
 so as to discharge into the river instead of into 
 
 the lake. 
 Joseph Leiter lost heavily in an attempt to corner 
 
 wheat June 13. 
 Stereotypers struck July 3, causing the temporary 
 
 suspension of all daily papers. 
 
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 Henry J. Cox was given charge of the Weather 
 Bureau. 
 
 1899 Lord Beresford was the guest of honor at a din- 
 
 ner given by the Commercial Club February 18. 
 
 A franchise for freight tunnels was voted Febru- 
 ary 20 to the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph 
 Company. 
 
 An army beef court of inquiry met March 9-22. 
 
 Austin was annexed April 4. 
 
 The Juvenile Court was established by legislative 
 act July 1. The first session was held in the 
 old county building. 
 
 Richard S. Tuthill was assigned to the Juvenile 
 Court as the first Juvenile Court judge in July. 
 
 The Parental School law was passed July 1, 
 amended July 1, 1907. 
 
 W. Lester Bodine was elected superintendent of 
 compulsory education. 
 
 Mrs. Ella F. Young, district superintendent, re- 
 signed from the schools in June. 
 
 Colonel Francis W. Parker resigned from the 
 Chicago Normal School in June. 
 
 Charles T. Yerkes left for London. 
 
 President McKinley was present at the laying of 
 the corner stone of the new Federal building 
 (postoffice) October 9. 
 
 "Skinny" Madden demanded a fine of $5000 be- 
 cause the corner stone of the Federal building 
 had been cut by a "scab." 
 
 The Principals' Club was organized October 28 
 with Homer Bevans as first president. 
 
 1900 The Sanitary and Ship Canal was opened January 
 
 17. The total cost was $45,220,588. 
 A child study department was authorized April 
 
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 4 by the Board of Education as the result of a 
 survey by Dr. W. S. Christopher. 
 
 Admiral George Dewey was present at the Dewey 
 Day celebration May 1. 
 
 The Associated Jewish Charities was incorporated, 
 founded in 1891 to carry on philanthropic and 
 educational work. 
 
 W. R. Hearst launched the American as an even- 
 ing and Sunday paper. 
 
 William Hale Thompson was elected alderman, 
 sponsored by the Municipal Voters' League. 
 
 The Northwestern Elevated was ready for use. 
 
 The Municipal Reference Library was opened as 
 a special library on municipal government. 
 
 Arnold Tompkins was selected as principal of the 
 Chicago Normal School. 
 
 The first subnormal room was opened in the 
 Schiller School in the fall. 
 
 The oral method of teaching the deaf was intro- 
 duced into the schools by Mary Mc Cowan. 
 
 A class for crippled children was established in 
 the Tilden School at Lake and Elizabeth. 
 1901 Spitting in public places was prohibited. 
 
 A state law was passed providing for registration 
 of births and deaths. 
 
 The Chicago Record was sold March 28 by Victor 
 Lawson to Herman H. Kohlsaat, and merged 
 with the Times-Herald to become the Record- 
 Herald. 
 
 Free bathing beaches were opened, the expense 
 being borne by citizens. 
 
 Chicago Boys' Clubs were organized to promote 
 the well-being of boys, especially the under- 
 privileged. 
 
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 The Central Howard Association was formed to 
 aid prisoners before and after release. 
 
 The Gainsborough portrait was recovered in 
 Chicago. 
 
 The first train over the electric to Joliet ran 
 September 12. 
 
 1902 The Parental School was opened in January. 
 John Alexander Dowie (Elijah) was threatened 
 
 with bankruptcy. 
 The Chicago Teachers' Federation affiliated with 
 
 the Chicago Federation of Labor. 
 The street car bandits, Marx, Van Dine, Niede- 
 
 meyer and Roeski, were captured in the sand 
 
 dunes. 
 The Central Trust Company opened July 8. 
 The first train over the Chicago, Aurora and 
 
 Elgin was run August 25. 
 The Legislative Voters' League was organized to 
 
 promote good government through state legis- 
 lation. 
 
 1903 The Jewish Peoples' Institute was incorporated 
 
 for social advancement of the Jewish people. 
 
 The City Club was organized to improve political, 
 social and economic conditions by non-partisan 
 methods. 
 
 The Infant Welfare Society of Chicago was 
 founded, incorporated in 1911, to reduce in- 
 fant deaths and to improve the health of the 
 coming generation. 
 
 The Crane Technical High School was opened in 
 the fall. 
 
 The Centennial of Fort Dearborn was celebrated 
 September 26-30. 
 
 The Iroquois Theater fire occurred December 30, 
 
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 in which 575 perished in the flames and the 
 panic. 
 
 1904 The Municipal Lodging House was opened at the 
 
 present location. 
 
 The Chicago Law and Order League was formed 
 to bring together all law enforcement or- 
 ganizations. 
 
 The Juvenile Protective League was incorporated, 
 changed in name in 1909 to Juvenile Pro- 
 tective Association. Originally it was organized 
 in 1899 as the Juvenile Court Committee. 
 
 Theodore Roosevelt was nominated with Charles 
 W. Fairbanks on the Republican ticket. In the 
 election he carried every ward of the city. 
 
 W. R. Hearst started the Examiner as a morning 
 paper. 
 
 Judge Julian Mack was assigned to the Juvenile 
 Court. 
 
 A strike occurred in the Stockyards. It lasted 
 from July 12 to September 8, involving 50,000 
 men and a loss of $10,000,000. The question 
 was one of wages and hours. 
 
 Orchestra Hall was dedicated in December. In 
 less than a month thereafter Theodore Thomas 
 died. 
 
 1905 The Little Wanderer Day Nursery was established. 
 The Rotary Club was formed. 
 
 1906 President William R. Harper of the University 
 
 of Chicago died in January. 
 
 Johann Hoch was hanged February 23 for poison- 
 ing his wife January 12, 1904. 
 
 The Chicago Tuberculosis Institute was organized. 
 
 The Chicago Society of Social Hygiene was 
 formed. 
 
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 The Municipal Court was established. 
 
 Indictments were returned July 1 against the 
 packers for restraining commerce and for con- 
 spiring to secure rebates. 
 
 The first electric surface cars ran on Clark street. 
 
 Upton Sinclair published "The Jungle," an ex- 
 pose of unsanitary conditions in the stockyards. 
 
 The freight tunnel system was opened in part 
 August 6. 
 
 The White Sox were the world champions. 
 
 1907 The Church Federation of nineteen denominations 
 
 was formed 
 
 The Juvenile Court and the Detention Home were 
 opened in new quarters on Ewing street. 
 
 The mayor's term of office was increased to four 
 years. 
 
 The Inter-Ocean building at Madison and Dear- 
 born was converted into Grant Hotel, a stopping 
 place for theatrical celebrities. 
 
 The Chicago Sunday Evening Club was started to 
 maintain religious services in the business 
 center. 
 
 Judge K. M. Landis on August 3 imposed a fine 
 of $29,240,000 upon the Standard Oil com- 
 panies for transporting at less than tariff rates. 
 
 A. A. Michelson of the University of Chicago 
 was awarded the Nobel prize in physics. 
 
 The freight tunnel was wholly in use in September. 
 
 1908 The Prairie Club was organized to promote out- 
 
 door recreation. 
 
 The heaviest snowfall on record occurred Febru- 
 ary 18-19, a depth of 12.8 inches. 
 
 The first auto police patrol wagon was made in 
 the city shops. 
 
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 The city council ordered a city numbering system 
 
 outside the business district. 
 William Howard Taft was nominated for the 
 
 presidency on the Republican ticket in the 
 
 Coliseum. He was elected. 
 Judge Merritt W. Pinckney was assigned to the 
 
 Juvenile Court. 
 The Chicago Cubs were the world champions. 
 
 1909 Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago 
 
 was elected alderman. 
 
 United Charities was organized by the consolida- 
 tion of the Relief and Aid Society and the 
 Bureau of Charities. 
 
 Wheat was "cornered" by James A. Patten in the 
 middle of April at a price of $1.50 per bushel, 
 50c higher than a year previous. 
 
 "Billy" Lorimer was elected senator by the legis- 
 lature. 
 
 The Sherman House was rebuilt. 
 
 The first open air school was begun in a tent on 
 the grounds of the Harvard School August 3, 
 under the management of the Chicago Tuber- 
 culosis Institute. 
 
 Loyola University was established October 23 as 
 a development of St. Ignatius College, which 
 was founded on the West Side in 1869. 
 
 The Chicago Plan Commission was created by the 
 city council November 1. "The Plan of Chi- 
 cago" was published. 
 
 The First Ward Ball was closed, a device that 
 had been used to raise $50,000 for Christmas 
 from the underworld. 
 
 1910 Amalgamated Clothiers, 40,000, went on strike. 
 
 An arbitration committee was thereupon estab- 
 
Historical Events 71 
 
 lished by Hart, Shaffner, Marx and Co., which 
 prevented all strikes thereafter in their plants. 
 
 Theodore Roosevelt refused to dine at the Hamil- 
 ton Club with William Lorimer. 
 
 The Chicago Council of Boy Scouts of America 
 was organized. 
 
 Dean Walter T. Sumner was appointed chairman 
 of the Vice Commission. 
 
 Monte Tennes, owner of General News Bureau, 
 had a monopoly on gambling. 
 
 The Blackstone Hotel was built by Tracy and 
 John B. Drake. 
 
 School dental service was inaugurated by the 
 Chicago Dental Society. 
 
 The North Shore Drainage channel was opened. 
 
 The Woman's City Club was organized to offer to 
 women an opportunity for more intelligent 
 citizenship. 
 
 The Sarah Morris Hospital for Children was 
 established. 
 
 Speech correction work was introduced into the 
 schools early in the year. 
 
 Edison Park was annexed November 8. 
 
 The Chicago Grand Opera Company was incor- 
 porated. It leased the Auditorium. The first 
 performance was in November. The name was 
 changed to Civic Opera Association in 1915 
 and then to Chicago Civic Opera Company. 
 1911 The house numbering system went into effect 
 April 1 in the business district. 
 
 An ordinance prohibited common drinking cups. 
 
 An ordinance prohibited common roller towels. 
 
 The Municipal Employes' Pension Fund was 
 established. 
 
72 Historical Events 
 
 The Health Department started the Pasteur treat- 
 ment for rabies. 
 
 In the Lucy Flower Technical High School for 
 Girls provision was made for over-age girls not 
 eighth grade graduates, the beginning of pre- 
 vocational schools. 
 
 Postal Savings Bank was opened August 1. 
 
 The new Chicago and Northwestern passenger 
 station was opened at a cost of $25,000,000. 
 
 An airplane exhibition was staged on the lake 
 front in August. The speed record was 57.7 
 miles an hour. 
 
 The Iroquois Memorial Hospital was erected as a 
 memorial to victims of the Iroquois fire. 
 
 The Chicago Vice Commission reported that the 
 profits from prostitution were estimated at 
 $15,000,000, probably one-fifth of which should 
 be classed as police graft. 
 
 The Everleigh Club was closed by Mayor Harri- 
 son in October. 
 
 1912 A campaign was started for pure milk. 
 
 A tornado passed through Cook County April 6. 
 
 It did not enter the city limits. 
 William H. Taft and James S. Sherman were 
 
 nominated in the Republican Convention. They 
 
 were defeated. 
 Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram W. Johnson were 
 
 nominated in the Progressive Convention. They 
 
 were defeated. 
 Chlorination of the water supply began. 
 William Lorimer was unseated as senator. 
 Little Mothers' Clubs were established in the 
 
 public schools. 
 
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 1913 Educational councils of teachers were approved 
 
 March 5. 
 
 A Forest Preserve District of Cook County was 
 authorized June 27 by the legislature, approved 
 by referendum vote November 3, 1914. 
 
 Woman's suffrage was approved. 
 
 A Morals Court was established, as recommended 
 by the Vice Commission. 
 
 The Workmen's Compensation Act went into ef- 
 fect July 1. 
 
 Three special divisions were opened for epileptic 
 children, in the Jahn, Washington and Mark 
 Sheridan schools. 
 
 Surface car lines were merged by an ordinance 
 of November 4. 
 
 1914 Morgan Park was annexed April 7. 
 
 The Health Department started distribution of 
 silver nitrate solution to prevent blindness. 
 
 The Inter-Ocean and the Record Herald were 
 merged by James Keeley into the Herald. 
 
 The Travelers' Aid Society was organized to ren- 
 der aid to travelers. 
 
 The Rufus F. Dawes Hotel was established to 
 provide lodgings for unemployed men. 
 
 Gage Farm was transferred to the Board of Edu- 
 cation in June for the Chicago and Cook 
 County School for Boys. 
 
 The Lorimer banks crashed. Lorimer, indicted, 
 was acquitted. 
 
 The Boys' Brotherhood Republic was established, 
 a self-governing organization. 
 
 The Council of Social Agencies was organized, as 
 a federation of 206 public and private social 
 agencies. 
 
74 Historical Events 
 
 An outbreak of foot and mouth disease occurred 
 in Niles, Michigan. The stockyards were closed 
 by reason of this disease in November. 
 
 1915 A teacher was assigned for bedside work with 
 
 convalescent children at the Cook County Hos- 
 pital. 
 
 Part of Evanston was annexed February 8. 
 
 An ordinance required that food be covered. 
 
 Clearing was annexed April 6. 
 
 Mayor Thompson enforced the state law requiring 
 the closing of saloons on Sunday. 
 
 Part of Stickney was annexed June 7. 
 
 The Eastland capsized and sank in the Chicago 
 river July 24, with the loss of 812 lives. 
 
 The Loeb rule was adopted September 1, forbid- 
 ding teachers from affiliating with labor unions. 
 Injunction against its enforcement was secured 
 September 23. Amendment to the Loeb rule 
 was adopted in September, allowing the Board 
 to determine what organizations teachers might 
 not join. 
 
 The Chicago Urban League was formed to 
 promote improvement of conditions among 
 Negroes, incorporated in 1917. 
 
 The Chicago Chapter of the American Red Cross 
 was formed. 
 
 George William Mundelein was appointed arch- 
 bishop of Chicago December 9. 
 
 1916 Catharine Goggin, financial secretary of the Chi- 
 
 cago Teachers' Federation, died January 4, 
 struck by an auto truck as she was crossing 
 the street. 
 The Municipal Pier, now Navy Pier, was com- 
 pleted. 
 
Historical Events 75 
 
 "68" of the teaching force were dropped in June 
 in accordance with the second Loeb rule. 
 
 A strike occurred at the International Harvester 
 plant. 
 
 The Chicago League for the Hard of Hearing 
 was organized to ameliorate deafness. 
 
 Charles E. Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks 
 were nominated in the Republican Presidential 
 Convention in the Coliseum. They were de- 
 feated. 
 
 Judge Victor P. Arnold was assigned to the 
 Juvenile Court. 
 
 Negro migration began from southern states, about 
 half a million in three years. 
 
 Dedication of the new Chicago and Cook County 
 School for Boys occurred October 2. 
 
 Free lunches in saloons were prohibited. 
 
 Filling in of Bubbly Creek started. 
 
 Mary Dawes Hotel was established for women 
 at a minimum cost. 
 
 Joel D. Hunter became General Superintendent 
 of United Charities. 
 
 Motor coaches were first operated March 24. 
 
 The official Chicago flag was adopted April 14, 
 three broad horizontal white stripes, two narrow 
 light blue ones, and two red stars. 
 
 Carl B. Boden, on the death of Henry E. Legler, 
 was elected librarian of Chicago Public Library. 
 
 John L. Whitman, superintendent of the Bride- 
 well, resigned in July to become State Super- 
 intendent of Prisons. 
 
 The Otis law was enacted April 20, providing 
 tenure of office for teachers. 
 
76 Historical Events 
 
 Samuel Insull was state chairman of the State 
 
 Council of Defense. 
 Registration for the "draft" occurred June 5. 
 
 1918 A dentist was assigned in April to teach oral 
 
 hygiene in the public schools. 
 
 A Statue of the Republic in Jackson Park was 
 unveiled May 11, a bronze reproduction of the 
 statue that stood at the east end of the Court 
 of Honor in the World's Fair. 
 
 An order prohibited smoking on street cars. 
 
 The Associated Catholic Charities was established. 
 
 The Lawndale Hospital was opened June 1 for 
 the detention of women with venereal diseases. 
 
 Chicago observed heatless Mondays. 
 
 W. R. Hearst took over the Chicago Herald to 
 produce the Herald and Examiner. 
 
 Roosevelt Road was widened and made a through 
 street. 
 
 A war exhibition was held in Grant Park in 
 September. 
 
 The first air mail arrived September 16. 
 
 The Illinois Centennial was celebrated October 
 8-13 by a pageant in the Auditorium and by 
 the dedication of a monument in Logan Square. 
 
 An epidemic of influenza caused 381 deaths in 
 one day, October 17. 
 
 Chicago went wild on Armistice Day, Novem- 
 ber 11. 
 
 1919 Children's concerts were started by Frederick 
 
 Stock in Orchestra Hall. 
 The Chicago Crime Commission was organized 
 
 to promote efficiency of all officers dealing 
 
 with crime. 
 Race riots occurred July 27 to August 2 between 
 
Historical Events 77 
 
 Negroes and white people on the South Side. 
 Thirty-eight were killed, 537 were injured and 
 fires destroyed nearly two million dollars' 
 worth of property, leaving a thousand people 
 homeless and destitute. 
 
 The Union League Foundation for Boys' Clubs 
 was organized to make better citizens of under- 
 privileged boys. 
 
 Superintendent Chadsey's case against the Board 
 of Education was decided in November in his 
 favor. He then resigned. 
 
 Robert E. Crowe was elected state's attorney. 
 
 George Brennan became political boss on the 
 death of Roger Sullivan. 
 
 Walter Dill Scott became president of North- 
 western. 
 
 Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge were 
 nominated in the Republican Convention in the 
 Coliseum. They were elected. 
 
 Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc Cormick gave 105 
 acres west of Riverside for a zoological park. 
 
 The Michigan avenue two-level bridge was opened 
 May 14. 
 
 Al Capone came from New York to join Jim 
 Colosimo, ruler of vice on the South Side. 
 Colosimo was shot in May. His funeral was 
 imposing. 
 
 An ordinance was passed August 20 for daylight 
 saving, approved by referendum vote Novem- 
 ber 2. 
 
 1921 Big Tim Murphy was leader in the Polk street 
 mail robbery, and was later sent to Leaven- 
 worth. 
 
78 Historical Events 
 
 The Wrigley building was completed in April, 28 
 stories in height. 
 
 Field Museum was opened in Grant Park in May, 
 having been transferred from Jackson Park. 
 
 The Landis Award was made June 9 on the 
 question of a building wage. 
 
 The Wieboldt Foundation was established June 
 24 as a charitable corporation. 
 
 Construction was begun on the new Union Sta- 
 tion at a cost of $80,000,000. 
 
 Captain George W. Streeter died. 
 
 Teachers' Councils were made a part of the school 
 system August 31. 
 
 K. Y. W. started its first programs November 11 
 with a speech by Mary Garden. It broadcast 
 for the Herald and Examiner. It was removed 
 to Philadelphia December 8, 1934. 
 
 1922 Anton J. Cermak was elected president of the 
 Board of County Commissioners. 
 
 W. M. A. Q. began to broadcast March 21, at 
 that time as W. G. U., owned by the Daily 
 News. The broadcasting station is now in the 
 Merchandise Mart and is operated by the Na- 
 tional Broadcasting Company. The transmitter 
 is near Elmhurst. 
 
 A street car strike was called. 
 
 Ground was broken for the new Mc Cormick Zoo. 
 
 Part of Maine was annexed June 5. 
 
 W. G. N. was established by the Chicago Tribune. 
 Broadcasts now are given from the studio in 
 Tribune Square. The transmitter is at Elgin. 
 
 A proposed new State Constitution, with a new 
 charter for Chicago, was defeated because of 
 
Historical Events 79 
 
 the attempt to limit the representation of Chi- 
 cago in the General Assembly. 
 
 The corner stone of the Chicago Temple, home of 
 First Methodist Church, was laid November 5. 
 
 Part of Niles was annexed November 7. 
 
 The Juvenile Court and the Juvenile Detention 
 Home occupied a new building at Oakley and 
 Roosevelt. 
 
 W. B. B. M. was established in the Wrigley build- 
 ing, transmitter at Glenview. 
 
 The Cradle Society was organized to care for and 
 to find homes for babies whose parents were un- 
 able to keep them. 
 
 The Better Government Association of Chicago 
 and Cook County was formed. 
 
 Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake were sentenced 
 by Judge James Wilkerson in connection with 
 the booze traffic. 
 
 George William Mundelein was elevated to the 
 cardinalate March 24. 
 
 W. L. S. was operated by Prairie Farmer, studio 
 at 1230 Washington boulevard, transmitter at 
 Downers Grove. 
 
 Dion O'Banion was slain in his florist's shop. 
 
 The Dawes Reparation Plan was agreed upon at 
 the London Conference August 30. 
 
 Ernest D. Burton became president at the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago. 
 
 Angelo Genna was slain May 26 in gang warfare. 
 
 The Miller Act to provide annuities for teachers 
 passed both houses of the legislature but failed 
 to reach the governor . 
 
 Max Mason succeeded Ernest D. Burton as presi- 
 dent of the University of Chicago. 
 
80 Historical Events 
 
 W. E. N. R. was established in the Merchandise 
 Mart, transmitter at Downers Grove. It is 
 operated by N. B. C. 
 
 The Mary Crane Nursery was organized to de- 
 monstrate nursery school education. 
 
 The Tribune Tower was completed in July. 
 
 The Adult Education Council was formed. 
 
 Victor F. Lawson died August 19. 
 
 South Market was moved to Fourteenth and Ra- 
 cine August 22 at a cost of $17,000,000. 
 
 The Goodman Theater was opened October 20. 
 
 Soldier Field was dedicated November 11. Orig- 
 inally called Grant Park Stadium, the name 
 was changed August 20. 
 
 Emeritus Service was proposed by Superintendent 
 Mc Andrew on November 25 for teachers and 
 principals seventy years of age, adopted by 
 Board December 9. 
 1926 Many changes occurred in the schools because of 
 the adoption of the Emeritus Rule, retiring 
 teachers at seventy. 
 
 The Pension Board of the Chicago Public Schools 
 February 27 raised the annuity to $800 for 25 
 years of service and $1000 for 35 years. 
 
 The Board of Education March 17 amended the 
 Emeritus Rule so as to require but ten years 
 of consecutive service. 
 
 Assistant state's attorney William H. Mc Swiggin 
 was assassinated April 27. 
 
 The Miller Act providing a retiring fund for 
 teachers and principals was signed by the 
 governor May 19. 
 
 The daylight saving ordinance was passed by the 
 city council. 
 
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 Graft was charged in real estate deals of the 
 County Board. 
 
 W. C. F. L. was established by the Chicago Fed- 
 eration of Labor, broadcasts from the Amer- 
 ican Furniture Mart, transmitter at Downers 
 Grove. 
 
 The Eucharistic Congress was held at Mundelein 
 June 24. 
 
 W. M. B. I. was established by Moody Bible 
 Institute. 
 
 The "Seated Lincoln" was placed in Grant Park 
 and dedicated. 
 
 Samuel Insull headed the Commonwealth Edison 
 Company, with an investment of $200,000,000. 
 
 Joseph L. Moss became superintendent of Public 
 Welfare of Cook County in October. 
 
 Wacker Drive was dedicated October 20. Charles 
 H. Wacker was largely responsible for promo- 
 tion of the Chicago Plan. Daniel H. Burnham 
 designed Wacker Drive. 
 
 Soldier Field was again dedicated November 27. 
 1927 Mount Greenwood was annexed February 22. 
 
 William Hale Thompson was reelected for a third 
 term as mayor in the April election. 
 
 The Century of Progress was organized. 
 
 Construction of the Chicago Zoological Park was 
 started, John T. Mc Cutcheon president. 
 
 The Miller Act as amended June 24 provided for 
 voluntary retirement of teachers at the age of 
 sixty and after 25 years of service. 
 
 Hotel Stevens containing 3200 rooms with bath 
 was opened. 
 
 Buckingham Fountain was dedicated. 
 
 The Illinois Central electrified its suburban lines. 
 
82 Historical Events 
 
 The Mather building was completed, one of the 
 tallest and most beautiful office buildings. 
 
 Miss Mary M. Bartelme was assigned as Judge 
 of the Juvenile Court. 
 
 Anthony Lombardo was shot at midday Septem- 
 ber 7 at Dearborn and Madison. 
 
 The trial of Superintendent Mc Andrew for in- 
 subordination opened September 29. 
 
 The Municipal Airport was opened early in De- 
 cember to all carriers in air traffic. 
 1928 Bombs were exploded during the political cam- 
 paign at the homes of Judge Swanson and 
 Senator Deneen. 
 
 Part of Leyden was annexed February 29. 
 
 Octavius Granady, candidate for ward committee- 
 man, was shot to death. 
 
 333 North Michigan building was completed. 
 
 Medinah Athletic Club, with oriental minaret, was 
 erected. 
 
 The Thompson-Crowe-Small-Galpin political ma- 
 chine was smashed. 
 
 Big Tim Murphy, mail robber, was shot to death 
 June 27. 
 
 The corner stone of the Steuben Club was laid 
 September 17, on the site of the old Briggs 
 House, Randolph and Wells. 
 
 Work was begun on the Merchandise Mart August 
 16 to cost $30,000,000 and to be the world's 
 largest commercial building. 
 
 The Emeritus Rule was declared to be illegal 
 and sixteen teachers and principals were re- 
 turned to their former positions. 
 
 The Carbide and Carbon building, Michigan and 
 South Water, was under construction. 
 
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 The corner stone of the Chicago Stadium was 
 
 laid on Thanksgiving Day. 
 Mayor Thompson charged U. J. Hermann to clear 
 
 the shelves of the Public Library of "tainted" 
 
 histories. 
 The Chicago Evening Post building was erected 
 
 on Wacker Drive. 
 "Jim Patten is gone." Patten at various times 
 
 had cornered wheat, oats, corn and cotton. 
 The Palmolive building was erected on North 
 
 Shore Drive. 
 Judge Hugo M. Friend held William Hale Thomp- 
 son and his colleagues liable for the sum of 
 
 $1,732,279 in a suit brought by the Tribune 
 
 over fees of experts. 
 Work was begun in September on straightening 
 
 the South Branch between West Polk and West 
 
 Eighteenth. 
 
 1929 The "Valentine Day Massacre" occurred Febru- 
 ary 14. Seven were lined up in a garage and 
 killed with machine gun fire. 
 
 The Shedd Aquarium was opened for the exhibi- 
 tion of live fish. 
 
 The Chicago Daily News occupied its new build- 
 ing at 400 West Madison June 8. 
 
 The Daily Journal was acquired by the Daily 
 News August 2. 
 
 A scientific crime detection laboratory was opened 
 in the fall as a department of the Law School 
 of Northwestern University. This was due to 
 the interest of Burt A. Massee who had served 
 as foreman on the coroner's jury to investigate 
 the Valentine Day Massacre. 
 
84 Historical Events 
 
 The Montefiore Special School for truant boys 
 
 was opened in September. 
 Harriet H. Mc Cormick Memorial Residence of 
 
 the Y. W. C. A. was opened. 
 Radio instruction was introduced into the schools 
 
 through the cooperation of W. M. A. Q. 
 The Chicago Civic Opera House was opened to 
 
 the public November 4, with "Aida" as the 
 
 first presentation. 
 Part of River Grove was annexed November 21. 
 
 1930 Adler Planetarium was dedicated May 10, funds 
 
 provided by Max Adler, director Professor 
 Philip Fox. 
 
 Board of Trade building, topped by Ceres, was 
 completed. 
 
 Shedd Aquarium was opened in June, established 
 by John G. Shedd. 
 
 Alfred G. Lingle, reporter for Chicago Tribune, 
 was killed in the Illinois Central subway June 9. 
 
 The Lindbergh Beacon, on the Palmolive build- 
 ing, was dedicated August 27, the gift of 
 Elmer A. Sperry. One steady ray points to- 
 ward the Municipal Airport. 
 
 Moseley Special School for boys was opened in 
 September. 
 
 Mundelein College was opened September 15. 
 
 Merchandise Mart was completed, the largest 
 building in the world. 
 
 The airport property was leased by the city from 
 the Board of Education in October. 
 
 Beverly was annexed November 4, later dis- 
 connected. 
 
 1931 Judge Jarecki on January 31 held the tax levies 
 
 of 1928 and 1929 were void because so much 
 
Historical Events 85 
 
 personal property had been unlawfully exemp- 
 ted from taxation. 
 
 Al Capone was indicted by the federal govern- 
 ment for income tax evasion. 
 
 The Chicago and Cook County School for Boys 
 was discontinued during the summer. 
 
 Colonel Frank Knox and Theodore Ellis bought 
 controlling interest in the Daily News. 
 
 The old Art Palace of the World's Fair was re- 
 stored as Rosenwald Museum. 
 
 The Lawson Y. M. C. A. was dedicated November 
 1. The cost of $2,750,000 was met in part by 
 a bequest of $1,000,000 from Victor F. Lawson. 
 
 The Oriental Institute of the University of Chi- 
 cago was dedicated in December, to show early 
 human development. 
 
 1932 A survey of the Chicago public schools was made 
 
 by the Strayer Commission at an expense of 
 $100,000. 
 
 Judge Henry Horner, democrat, was elected 
 governor. 
 
 The Chicago Historical Society moved to its new 
 building in Lincoln Park. 
 
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, nominated for presid- 
 ency in the Chicago Stadium July 2, flew in an 
 airplane to accept the democratic nomination. 
 
 The Chicago Tunnel Company in July secured a 
 new lease on tunnels for thirty years. 
 
 The Chicago Evening Post was purchased October 
 29 by the Chicago Daily News. 
 
 1933 Mayor Anton J. Cermak was shot in Miami, 
 
 Florida, February 15 by Guiseppe Zangara, 
 died March 6, funeral in Chicago March 10. 
 
86 Historical Events 
 
 The Century of Progress opened May 27, closed 
 November 12. 
 
 The Museum of Science and Industry, Rosenwald 
 Museum, was dedicated June 19. 
 
 The Illinois State N. R. A. commission for Chi- 
 cago was named, with Melvin A. Taylor as 
 chairman. 
 
 The Chicago Recovery Commission was appointed 
 by the mayor to work for revenue reform. 
 
 Judge Frank H. Bicek was assigned to the Ju- 
 venile Court. 
 
 On July 12 the Board of Education adopted its 
 Economy Program. 
 
 1934 The stockyards fire May 19 caused an estimated 
 
 loss of $8,000,000. 
 The Century of Progress reopened May 26, closed 
 
 October 31. 
 The Chicago Zoological Park opened in July. 
 Unused school lands were mortgaged for a gov- 
 ernment loan. 
 A loan of $22,300,000 was made to the schools 
 
 by R. F. C. 
 John Dillinger, gangster leader, was shot by "G" 
 
 men July 22. 
 The hottest day recorded in Chicago was July 24, 
 
 with the record of 104.8 degrees. 
 The new Lane Technical High School was opened 
 
 in September. 
 The new postoffice was occupied September 17. 
 The progressive signal system on Michigan avenue 
 
 was finally placed in operation October 12. 
 The lightest annual rainfall of record for Chicago 
 
 was 22.78 inches. 
 
Historical Events 87 
 
 1935 The Chicago Yellow Cab Company was reported 
 
 to have spent $100,000,000 in February for 
 
 new cabs. . 
 Transcontinental railroads in February clipped 
 
 eight hours from the running time between 
 
 Chicago and Los Angeles, reducing the run to 
 
 59 hours and 25 minutes. 
 The International Harvester Company in Febru- 
 ary reported profits of $3,949,000 for 1934, 
 
 the first profits in three years. 
 The March sales of Sears, Roebuck and Company 
 
 and of Montgomery Ward and Company were 
 
 the highest in their history. 
 In March wheat crossed the dollar mark as it 
 
 became certain that the winter crop would be 
 
 small. 
 The Federal Court in Chicago in August enjoined 
 
 the collection of A. A. A. processing taxes in 
 
 eighteen companies. 
 The Inland Steel Company and Joseph Ryerson 
 
 and Son merged in August. 
 The Chicago Utilities restored to Samuel Insull 
 
 in August his pension of $21,000. 
 Cyrus H. Mc Cormick withdrew in September as 
 
 chairman of the International Harvester Com- 
 pany. 
 Robert M. Sweitzer was acquitted November 12 
 
 of any criminal conduct in connection with his 
 
 alleged retention of public funds to the amount 
 
 of $733,817. 
 
 1936 Mary E. Mc Dowell died October 14, after many 
 
 years of social service "back of the Yards." 
 Lorado Taft died October 30, the effect of a stroke 
 of paralysis. Among his famous works are the 
 
88 Historical Events 
 
 Black Hawk monument, Fountain of the Great 
 Lakes and Fountain of Time. 
 
 Voters rejected the plan for Eastern Standard 
 Time November 3. 
 
 Ernest R. Graham, world famous architect, died 
 November 22. Among the buildings for which 
 he drew the plans are the Field Museum, 
 Shedd Aquarium, Merchandise Mart, Civic 
 Opera House, Chicago Postoffice and Union 
 Station. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Note: Years instead of pages are used in the index. 
 
 A. A. A. Processing Taxes 1935 
 
 Abbott, James 1677 
 
 Academy of Design 1866 
 
 Academy of Fine Arts 1879 
 
 Academy of the Holy Name 1858 
 
 Academy of Music 1871 
 
 Academy of Science 1857, 1875 
 
 Addams, Jane 1889 
 
 Adler, Max 1930 
 
 Adler Planetarium 1930 
 
 Adult Education Council 1925 
 
 Aetna Insurance Company 1842 
 
 Aida 1874, 1929 
 
 Air Mail 1918 
 
 Airplane Exhibition 1911 
 
 Alarm, The 1884 
 
 Alexian Brothers Hospital 1866 
 
 Allen, James 1838 
 
 Allen, Major 1861 
 
 Allen Bill 1897 
 
 Allouez, Father 1677 
 
 Altgeld, Governor 1893, 1894 
 
 Amalgamated Clothiers 1910 
 
 American, Chicago 1835, 1839, 1900 
 
 American Association of Red Cross . . 1882 
 
 American Furniture Mart 1926 
 
 American Humane Society 1877 
 
 American Railway Union 1894 
 
 American Red Cross 1915 
 
 89 
 
90 Index 
 
 Amphitheater 1864 
 
 Anarchists 1887, 1893 
 
 Andrews, A. H 1857 
 
 Annexation — 
 
 Austin 1899 
 
 Beverly 1930 
 
 Calumet, part of 1895 
 
 Cicero 1889 
 
 Clearing 1915 
 
 Edison Park 1910 
 
 Evanston, part of 1915 
 
 Pernwood 1891 
 
 Gano, part of 1890 
 
 Hyde Park 1889 
 
 Jefferson 1889 
 
 Lake 1889 
 
 Lake View 1889 
 
 Leyden, part of 1928 
 
 Maine, part of 1922 
 
 Morgan Park 1914 
 
 Mount Greenwood 1927 
 
 Niles, part of 1922 
 
 Norwood Park . 1893 
 
 River Grove, part of 1929 
 
 Rogers Park 1893 
 
 South Englewood 1890 
 
 Stickney, part of 1915 
 
 Washington Heights 1890 
 
 West Ridge 1893 
 
 West Roseland 1890 
 
 Anson, Captain 1895 
 
 Anti-Saloon League 1897 
 
 Anti-Slavery Society 1840 
 
 Antitoxin 1895 
 
Index 91 
 
 Apollo Club 1872, 1875 
 
 Aquarium, Shedd 1930, 1936 
 
 Archer's Road 1836 
 
 Armistice Day 1918 
 
 Armour, Philip D 1867, 1893, 1895 
 
 1897 
 
 Armour and Company 1867 
 
 Armour Institute of Technology .... 1893 
 
 Army Court of Inquiry 1899 
 
 Arnold, Judge Victor P 1916 
 
 Art Exposition 1859 
 
 Art Institute 1879, 1882, 1893 
 
 Art League, Chicago 1879 
 
 Art Palace 1931 
 
 Arthur, Chester A 1880 
 
 Associated Catholic Charities 1918 
 
 Associated Jewish Charities 1900 
 
 Association of Day Nurseries 1897 
 
 Astronomical Society, Chicago 1863 
 
 Asylums 1849 
 
 Athenaeum, Chicago 1891 
 
 Athens Marble 1846, 1852 
 
 Auditorium Theater 1889, 1910, 1918 
 
 Austin 1899 
 
 Automobiles 1895 
 
 Bailey, C. S 1838 
 
 Bailey, J. N 1831 
 
 Bailly, Joseph 1824 
 
 Bandits, street car 1902 
 
 Baptist Church 1833 
 
 Bar Association 1873 
 
 Barnum, P. T 1840 
 
 Barry, Rev. H 1855 
 
 Bartelme, Mary M 1927 
 
92 Index 
 
 Baseball Club, Chicago 1870, 1895 
 
 Bathhouse 1893 
 
 Bathing beaches 1901 
 
 Battery D Armory 1880 
 
 Battle Cry of Freedom 1861 
 
 Beaubien, Charles 1829 
 
 Beaubien, Jean B 1817, 1827, 1834, 
 
 1835 
 
 Beaubien, Mark 1826, 1829 
 
 Bedside teacher 1915 
 
 Beer riots 1855 
 
 Beery, Wallace 1895 
 
 Beethoven Society 1872 
 
 Bell Telephone 1878 
 
 Belt Railway Company 1882 
 
 Bench and Bar of Chicago 1847 
 
 Bennett College of Eclectic 
 
 Medicine and Surgery 1869 
 
 Beresf ord, Lord 1899 
 
 Bernhardt, Sarah 1880 
 
 Bessemer plant 1872 
 
 Better Government Association 1923 
 
 Bevans, Homer 1899 
 
 Beverly 1930 
 
 Bible Institute 1886 
 
 Bible Society, Chicago 1835 
 
 Bicek, Judge Frank H 1933 
 
 Bicycle Club, Chicago 1879 
 
 Binneteau, Father Julian 1698 
 
 Black Hawk monument 1936 
 
 Black Hawk War 1832 
 
 Blackstone Hotel 1910 
 
 Blaine, James G 1884 
 
 Blaney, Dr. J. Z. V 1844 
 
Index 93 
 
 Blast furnace 1857 
 
 Blind, class for 1896 
 
 Blindness, prevention of 1914 
 
 Board of Education 1857, 1864, 1895, 
 
 1896, 1900, 1914, 
 
 1919, 1930, 1933 
 
 Board of Fire Underwriters 1861 
 
 Board of Health 1834, 1837, 1847, 
 
 1851, 1876 
 
 Board of School Inspectors 1857 
 
 Board of Trade, Chicago 1848, 1885 
 
 Board of Trade building 1930 
 
 Board of Water Commissioners .... 1851 
 
 Boats 1853, 1855, 1856, 
 
 1857, 1860, 1915 
 
 Bodine, W. Lester 1899 
 
 Bohemian Art Club 1880 
 
 Boodle 1892 
 
 Book and Stationery Store 1834 
 
 Books 1840, 1848 
 
 Boone, Dr. Levi D. 1836, 1849, 1850, 
 
 1855 
 
 Booth, John Wilkes 1862 
 
 Booze 1924 
 
 Boston Store 1872 
 
 Boston Tea Party 1852 
 
 Bowers, Mr 1834 
 
 Boys' Clubs, Chicago 1901 
 
 Bradley, Captain Hezekiah 1816 
 
 Bradley, Cyrus B 1855 
 
 Brainard, Dr. D 1837, 1857 
 
 Brennan, George 1919 
 
 Brewery workers 1888 
 
 Bridewell 1851, 1917 
 
94 Index 
 
 Bridgeport 1862 
 
 Bridges 1832, 1834, 1839, 
 
 1840, 1841, 1854, 
 1872, 1884, 1894, 
 1895, 1920 
 
 Briggs and Humphrey 1834 
 
 Briggs House 1928 
 
 Bross, William 1848, 1852 
 
 Brown, John 1836 
 
 Brown, John J 1847 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Caroline M 1875 
 
 Bryan, William J 1896 
 
 Bryant and Stratton 1856 
 
 Bubbly Creek 1917 
 
 Bucket shops 1896 
 
 Buckingham Fountain 1927 
 
 Bughouse Square 1842 
 
 Bull, Ole 1853 
 
 Bull plow 1834 
 
 Bull's Head 1848 
 
 Bunte Bros, and Spohr 1876 
 
 Burglars 1891 
 
 Burroughs, Dr. John C 1857 
 
 Burton, Ernest C 1924 
 
 Business firms — 
 
 Aetna Life Insurance Co 1842 
 
 American Fur Co 1818 
 
 Andrews, A. H 1857 
 
 Beaubien, Mark 1826, 1831 
 
 Bell Telephone Co 1878 
 
 Board of Trade, Chicago 1848, 1885 
 
 Book and Stationery Store 1834 
 
 Boston Store 1872 
 
 Briggs and Humphrey 1834 
 
Index 95 
 
 Bross, William 1848 
 
 Bryant and Stratton 1856, 1872 
 
 Bunte Bros, and Spohr 1876 
 
 Carpenter, Philo 1832 
 
 Carson, Pirie, Scott and Co 1866 
 
 Central Trust Co 1902 
 
 Clearing House 1865 
 
 Clift, Benjamin H 1834 
 
 Coe, Aimer 1886 
 
 Colby, John A. and Sons 1866 
 
 Commonwealth Edison Co 1926 
 
 Cooley, Wadsworth and Co 1856, 1860, 1871 
 
 Couch, Ira and James 1836 
 
 Dickinson Co., Albert 1854 
 
 Dole, George W 1832 
 
 Edison Telephone 1878 
 
 Fair, The 1875 
 
 Fargo, William F 1848 
 
 Field, Marshall 1855, 1860 
 
 Field and Leiter 1868, 1871 
 
 First National Bank 1863 
 
 Frink, John 1836 
 
 Henrotin, Charles 1878 
 
 Hibbard, Tuttle 1855 
 
 Hubbard, Gurdon S 1818, 1834, 1842, 
 
 1860, 1886 
 Illinois Telephone and Telegraph 
 
 Co 1899 
 
 Isherwood and Mc Kenzie 1837 
 
 Jordan, C. H. and Co 1854 
 
 Kerfoot, W. D. and Co 1862 
 
 Kimball, William W 1857 
 
 Kinzie and Caldwell 1829 
 
 Lyon and Healy 1864 
 
96 Index 
 
 Lytton, Henry C. and Sons 1871 
 
 Mandel Bros 1855 
 
 Marine Bank 1852 
 
 Mc Clurg, A. C. and Co 1844 
 
 Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank.. 1852 
 Merchants' Loan and Trust Co. . . . 1857 
 
 Montgomery Ward and Co 1872, 1890, 1935 
 
 Ogden, Sheldon and Co 1836 
 
 Parmelee Transfer Co 1853 
 
 Peabody, Houghteling and Co. . . . 1865 
 
 Peacock, CD 1837 
 
 Pinkerton Detective Agency 1852 
 
 Rand, William H 1856 
 
 Rand, Mc Nally and Co ..1856 
 
 Root and Cady 1860 
 
 Russell, Aaron 1834 
 
 Russell and Clift 1834 
 
 Sears, Roebuck Co 1935 
 
 Title and Trust Co., Chicago .... 1847 
 
 Undertakers 1854 
 
 Van Schaack, Peter and Sons .... 1844 
 
 Webster and Gage 1857 
 
 Wells and Co 1845 
 
 Western News Co 1861 
 
 Yellow Cab Co., Chicago 1935 
 
 Byford, Dr. William H 1870 
 
 Cable car 1882 
 
 Caldwell, Archibald 1829 
 
 Calhoun, John 1833 
 
 Calhoun, John C 1819 
 
 Calumet 1895 
 
 Calumet Club 1878, 1883, 1886 
 
 Calvary Cemetery 1859 
 
 Campbell, James 1853 
 
Index 97 
 
 Capone, Al 1920, 1931 
 
 Carbide and Carbon building 1928 
 
 Carpenter, Philo 1832 
 
 Carpenters, strike of 1890 
 
 Carson, Pirie, Scott and Co 1866 
 
 Cass, Governor Lewis 1821 
 
 Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul 1850 
 
 Cathedral of the Holy Name 1882 
 
 Caton, John D 1833 
 
 Cattle yards 1848 
 
 Cemeteries — 
 
 Calvary 1859 
 
 Cemetery Association 1834 
 
 Graceland 1880 
 
 Oakwoods 1864, 1895 
 
 Protestant 1833 
 
 Two 1835 
 
 Waldheim 1874, 1887, 1893 
 
 Census 1837 
 
 Central Church 1877 
 
 Central Free Dispensary 1867 
 
 Central Howard Association 1901 
 
 Central Music Hall 1877, 1879 
 
 Central Trust Co 1902 
 
 Century of Progress 1927, 1933, 1934 
 
 Cerebro-spinal meningitis 1898 
 
 Ceres 1930 
 
 Cermak, Anton J 1922, 1933 
 
 Chadsey, Supt. Charles E 1919 
 
 Chair factory 1845 
 
 Chamber of Commerce 1865 
 
 Chanute, Dr. Octave 1897 
 
 Chaplin, Charlie 1895 
 
 Chappel, Eliza 1833 
 
98 Ind 
 
 e x 
 
 Charity Organization Society 1883 
 
 Charter 1851, 1857 
 
 Chase, Bishop Philander 1837 
 
 Chesbrough, E. S 1855 
 
 Chicago, Aurora and Elgin 1902 
 
 Chicago and Cook County School 
 
 for Boys 1881, 1914, 1916, 
 
 1931 
 Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad . . . 1851 
 
 Chicago and Northwestern R. R 1859, 1864, 1911 
 
 Chicago and Western Indiana R. R. . . 1879 
 
 Chicago Day 1893 
 
 Chicago Plan Commission 1909 
 
 Chicago Recovery Commission 1933 
 
 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. . . .1851, 1852 
 Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac 
 
 Railroad 1859 
 
 Chicago University 1857, 1886 
 
 Children's concerts 1919 
 
 Child Study Department 1899 
 
 Childs, S. D. and Co 1837 
 
 Children's Memorial Hospital 1884 
 
 Chlorination of water 1912 
 
 Cholera 1834, 1838, 1849, 
 
 1852, 1854 
 
 Choral Union 1847, 1849 
 
 Christopher, Dr. W. S 1900 
 
 Church Federation 1907 
 
 Church, Goodman and Donnelley . . . 1864 
 
 Church of the Atonement 1850 
 
 Churches — 
 
 Baptist 1833 
 
 Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul . . 1850 
 Cathedral of the Holy Name 1882 
 
Index 99 
 
 Central 1877 
 
 Church Federation 1907 
 
 Church of the Atonement 1850 
 
 Congregational 1851, 1858 
 
 Convent 1846 
 
 Eucharistic Congress 1926 
 
 First Methodist 1922 
 
 Garrett Biblical Institute 1856 
 
 Grace Church Episcopal 1851, 1864 
 
 Guardian Angel, Mission of 1696 
 
 Holy Family, Church of 1857 
 
 Holy Name, Cathedral of 1882 
 
 Holy Name, Church of 1846 
 
 Illinois Mission 1677 
 
 Methodist 1834 
 
 Moody and Sankey Tabernacle . . . 1876 
 
 Moody Bible Institute 1926 
 
 New England 1853 
 
 Olivet Institute 1887 
 
 Pacific Garden Mission 1877 
 
 People's 1881 
 
 Plymouth Congregational 1852 
 
 Presbyterian 1833, 1835 
 
 Protestant 1864 
 
 Reformed Episcopal 1863 
 
 Religious revival 1839 
 
 St. James Episcopal 1834, 1837 
 
 St. Mary's 1833 
 
 St. Patrick's 1846 
 
 St. Paul's German Lutheran 1846 
 
 St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal . . . 1863 
 
 Salvation Army 1885 
 
 Sinai Congregation 1860 
 
 Sinai Temple 1876, 1880 
 
100 Index 
 
 Society of Jesus 1869 
 
 Society of the New Jerusalem .... 1843 
 
 Sunday Evening Club 1907 
 
 Sunday School 1832, 1837 
 
 Synagogue 1849 
 
 Temple, Chicago 1922 
 
 Theological Seminary, Chicago . . . 1855 
 
 Unity 1857 
 
 Volunteers of America 1896 
 
 Unitarian 1836, 1857 
 
 Universalist 1836 
 
 Cicero 1889 
 
 Circus 1836 
 
 Citizens' Association 1874 
 
 City 1837, 1847, 1857, 
 
 1875 
 
 City Club 1903 
 
 City Hall 1832 
 
 City Hall building 1885, 1886 
 
 City hospital 1857 
 
 City Hotel 1836, 1844 
 
 City numbering system 1908 
 
 Civic Federation 1896 
 
 Civic Opera Association 1910 
 
 Civis Opera Company 1910 
 
 Civis Opera House, Chicago 1929, 1936 
 
 Civil Service 1895 
 
 Clan-Na-Gael 1875, 1889 
 
 Clapp, William B 1871 
 
 Clarissa 1835 
 
 Clearing 1915 
 
 Clearing house 1865 
 
 Cleaver, Charles 1847, 1851 
 
 Cleveland, Grover 1884, 1892, 1894 
 
Index 101 
 
 Clift, Benjamin H 1834 
 
 Clifton House 1872 
 
 Club, Chicago 1869 
 
 Clubs — 
 
 Apollo Club 1872, 1875 
 
 Art League 1879 
 
 Astronomical Society, Chicago . . . 1863 
 
 Bar Association 1873 
 
 Beethoven Society 1872 
 
 Bicycle Club 1879 
 
 Bohemian Art Club 1879 
 
 Calumet Club 1878, 1883, 1886 
 
 Chicago Club 1869 
 
 Choral Union 1847, 1849 
 
 City Club 1903 
 
 Civic Opera Association 1910 
 
 Civic Opera Company 1910 
 
 Clan-Na-Gael 1875, 1889 
 
 Commercial Club 1877, 1899 
 
 Democratic Club 1880 
 
 Dental Society, Chicago 1864, 1910 
 
 Electrical Society, Chicago 1875 
 
 Fortnightly 1873 
 
 Germania Maennerchor 1865 
 
 Grand Lodge of Independent 
 
 Order of Good Templars 1855 
 
 Grand Opera Company, Chicago . . 1910 
 
 Harmonic Society, Chicago 1835 
 
 Illinois Art Association 1882 
 
 Independent Order of Good 
 
 Templars 1855 
 
 Iroquois Club 1880, 1881 
 
 Lafayette Lodge 1843 
 
 Library Association, Chicago .... 1841 
 
102 Index 
 
 Literary Club 1874 
 
 Lyceum, Chicago 1834 
 
 Masonic Lodge 1843 
 
 Medical Society, Chicago 1850 
 
 Mendelssohn Society 1858 
 
 Merchants' Club, Chicago 1884 
 
 Microscopical Society, Chicago . . . 1868 
 
 Mozart Society 1849 
 
 Musical Union 1858 
 
 Numismatic and Archaeological 
 
 Society, Chicago 1879 
 
 Odd Fellows' Lodge 1844, 1853 
 
 Orchestral Association 1890 
 
 Philharmonic Society 1850 
 
 Philosophical Association 1873 
 
 Phrenological Society, Chicago . . . 1855 
 
 Pottery Club 1883 
 
 Prairie Club 1908 
 
 Press Club 1880 
 
 Rotary Club 1905 
 
 Sharpshooters' Association 1865 
 
 Society for Decorative Art 1877 
 
 Society for Ethical Culture 1883 
 
 Standard Club 1869 
 
 State Microscopical Society 1868 
 
 Steuben Club 1928 
 
 Turngemeinde, Chicago 1853 
 
 Union Club 1878 
 
 Union League Club 1879, 1886 
 
 Union Lodge 1844 
 
 Washington Park Club 1883 
 
 Woman's City Club 1910 
 
 Women's Club, Chicago 1875 
 
 Yacht Club, Chicago 1875 
 
Index 103 
 
 Young Men's Association 1841 
 
 Clybourn, Archibald 1823, 1827, 1829, 
 
 1842 
 
 Clybourn, James 1824 
 
 Coe, Aimer 1886 
 
 Colby, John A. and Sons 1866 
 
 Coldest day 1872 
 
 Cole, George E 1896 
 
 Colfax, Schuyler 1868 
 
 Coliseum 1908, 1916, 1920 
 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
 
 Chicago 1881 
 
 Collins, S. B 1838 
 
 Colosimo, Jim 1920 
 
 Columbia Theater 1885 
 
 Colyer, Rev. Robert 1857 
 
 Commercial Advertiser, Chicago .... 1836 
 
 Commercial Club 1877, 1899 
 
 Common drinking cups 1911 
 
 Common roller towels 1911 
 
 Commons, Chicago 1894 
 
 Commonwealth Edison Co 1926 
 
 Compromise Bill 1850 
 
 Compulsory education law 1883 
 
 Concert 1849, 1858 
 
 Confederates 1863, 1864, 1895 
 
 Congregational Church 1851, 1858 
 
 Constable 1835 
 
 Convent 1846 
 
 Convention Hall 1892 
 
 Conventions, political — 
 
 Blaine, James G 1884 
 
 Bryan, William J 1896 
 
 Cleveland, Grover 1884, 1892, 1894 
 
104 Index 
 
 Colfax, Schuyler 1868 
 
 Coolidge, Calvin 1920 
 
 Democratic National 1864, 1884, 1892, 
 
 1932 
 
 Fairbanks, Charles W 1904, 1916 
 
 Garfield, James A 1880 
 
 Hamlin, Hannibal 1860 
 
 Harding, Warren G 1920 
 
 Harrison, Benjamin 1888, 1889 
 
 Hughes, Charles E 1916 
 
 Johnson, Hiram 1912 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham 1835, 1844, 1847, 
 
 1858, 1860, 1861, 
 1862, 1865 
 
 Mc Clellan, Gen. George B 1868 
 
 Morton, Levi P 1888 
 
 Pendleton, George Hunt 1868 
 
 Progressive 1912 
 
 Republican 1856, 1860, 1868, 
 
 1872, 1880, 1884, 
 1888, 1904, 1908, 
 1912, 1916, 1920 
 
 Roosevelt, Franklin D 1932 
 
 Roosevelt Theodore 1904, 1910, 1912 
 
 Sherman, James S 1912 
 
 Stevenson, Adlai 1892 
 
 Taft, William H 1908, 1912 
 
 Cook County 1831, 1845, 1912, 
 
 1926 
 
 Cook County Hospital 1847, 1865, 1875, 
 
 1915 
 
 Cook County Insane Asylum 1870 
 
 Cook County Medical Society ..... .1836 
 
 Cook County Normal School 1867, 1883, 1896 
 
Index 105 
 
 Cooley, Wadsworth and Co 1856, 1860, 1871 
 
 Coolidge, Calvin 1920 
 
 Cooper, Dr. John 1810, 1911 
 
 Couch, Ira 1836 
 
 Couch, James 1836 
 
 Council 1833, 1837, 1839, 
 
 1842, 1846, 1847, 
 1850, 1853, 1926 
 Council of Boy Scouts, Chicago .... 1910 
 
 Council of Social Agencies 1914 
 
 Counterfeiting 1853 
 
 County jail 1873 
 
 County poor farm 1870 
 
 Court, United States 1848 
 
 Court of Honor 1918 
 
 Courthouse 1835, 1851 
 
 Cox, Henry J 1898 
 
 Cox, William 1816 
 
 Coxey's army 1894 
 
 Cradle Society 1923 
 
 Crane, R. T. and Co 1855 
 
 Crane (Mary) Nursery 1925 
 
 Crane Technical High School 1903 
 
 Crerar, John 1894 
 
 Crib 1865, 1872, 1893 
 
 Crime Commission, Chicago 1919 
 
 Crime detection laboratory 1929 
 
 Crimes and Criminals — 
 
 Bandits, street car 1902 
 
 Bombs 1928 
 
 Boodle 1892 
 
 Booze 1924 
 
 Bridewell 1851, 1917 
 
 Bucket shops 1896 
 
106 Index 
 
 Burglars 1881 
 
 Campbell, James 1853 
 
 Capone, Al 1920, 1931 
 
 Cermak, Anton J 1933 
 
 Colosimo, Jim 1920 
 
 Constable 1835 
 
 Counterfeiting 1853 
 
 County jail 1873 
 
 Court, United States 1848 
 
 Courthouse 1835, 1851 
 
 Crime Commission, Chicago 1919 
 
 Criminal Court 1873 
 
 Crime detection laboratory 1929 
 
 Cronin, Dr. Patrick H 1889 
 
 Detective service 1887 
 
 Dillinger, John 1934 
 
 Druggan, Terry 1924 
 
 Everleigh Club 1911 
 
 First Ward Ball 1909 
 
 Gambling 1835 
 
 Genna, Angelo 1925 
 
 Graft 1926 
 
 Granady, Octavius 1928 
 
 Hanf ord, Francis 1876 
 
 Hoch, Johann 1906 
 
 Hronek, Anarchist 1889 
 
 Jackson, William 1857 
 
 Lake, Frankie 1924 
 
 Lingle, Alfred G 1929 
 
 Lombardo, Anthony 1927 
 
 Luetgert, Adolph L 1897 
 
 Marshal 1841 
 
 Marx 1902 
 
 Masse, Burt A 1929 
 
Index 107 
 
 Mc Swiggin, William H 1926 
 
 Morrison, 1835 
 
 Murder 1834 
 
 Murphy, Big Tim 1921, 1928 
 
 Niedemeyer 1902 
 
 O'Banion, Dion 1924 
 
 Pinkerton, Allan 1842, 1853, 1861, 
 
 1884 
 
 Pinkerton Detective Agency 1852 
 
 Polk street mail robbery 1921 
 
 Prendergast, Patrick E 1894 
 
 Prostitution 1911 
 
 Roeski 1902 
 
 Safe blowers 1891 
 
 "Sands, The" 1857 
 
 State Superintendent of Prisons. . .1917 
 
 Stone, John 1840 
 
 Swanson, Judge 1928 
 
 Tax evasion 1931 
 
 Tennes, Monte 1910 
 
 Valentine Day Massacre 1929 
 
 Van Dine 1902 
 
 Vice 1857 
 
 Vice Commission, Chicago 1910, 1911, 1913 
 
 Zangara, Guiseppe 1932 
 
 Criminal Court 1873 
 
 Crippled children, class for 1900 
 
 Cronin, Dr. Patrick H 1889 
 
 Crosby's Opera House 1865, 1868 
 
 "Cross of Gold" speech 1896 
 
 Crowe, Robert E 1920 
 
 Cubs, Chicago 1908 
 
 Cudahy, John 1893 
 
 Curtis, John B 1891 
 
108 Index 
 
 Dahn, A. H 1858 
 
 Daily Democratic Press 1852 
 
 Daily News, Chicago 1875, 1876, 1882, 
 
 1890, 1892, 1922, 
 1929, 1931, 1932 
 Daily News Sanitarium, Chicago . . . 1888 
 
 Damen, Father Arnold 1857 
 
 Davis, Jefferson 1829 
 
 Dawes (Mary) Hotel 1917 
 
 Dawes (Rufus) Hotel 1914 
 
 Dawes Reparation Plan 1924 
 
 Daylight saving 1920, 1926 
 
 Deaconess Home, Chicago 1887 
 
 Deaconess Institute and Hospital of 
 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran 
 
 Church 1882 
 
 Deaf, classes for 1875 
 
 Deaf, oral method of teaching 1900 
 
 Dean, Mr 1815, 1817 
 
 Dearborn Observatory 1863 
 
 Dearborn Park 1839 
 
 Dearborn Seminary 1854 
 
 Dearborn School 1845, 1854 
 
 Dearborn street bridge 1872 
 
 Debs, Eugene V 1894 
 
 Democrat, Chicago 1833, 1836, 1840 
 
 Democratic Club, Chicago 1880 
 
 Democratic National Conventions . . . 1864, 1884, 1892, 
 
 1896, 1932 
 
 Deneen, Charles S 1896, 1928 
 
 Dental Infirmary, Chicago 1882 
 
 Dental Society, Chicago 1864, 1910 
 
 Department of Agriculture 1891 
 
 Department of Health 1876, 1884 
 
Index 109 
 
 Detective service 1871 
 
 Detention Home 1907, 1923 
 
 Dewey, Admiral George 1900 
 
 De Wolf, Calvin 1838 
 
 Dickinson, Co., Albert 1854 
 
 Dillinger, John 1934 
 
 Dohn, A. W 1872 
 
 Dole, George W 1832 
 
 Dore, John C 1854 
 
 Doty, Duane 1880 
 
 Douglas, Camp 1861, 1863, 1864 
 
 Douglas, Stephen A 1838, 1850, 1854, 
 
 1857, 1858 
 
 Douglas University 1857 
 
 Dowie, John Alexander 1902 
 
 "Draft," registration for 1917 
 
 Drake, Tracy and John B 1910 
 
 Drovers' Journal 1872 
 
 Druggan, Terry 1924 
 
 Dry goods 1855 
 
 Dupee, Charles A 1860 
 
 Dye, Professor Nathan 1849 
 
 Dyer, Dr. Charles 1839 
 
 Dyer, Rev. Palmer 1834 
 
 Eastern Standard Time 1936 
 
 Eastland 1915 
 
 Economic Gas Company 1892 
 
 Economy Program 1933 
 
 Edison Park 1910 
 
 Edison Telephone 1878 
 
 Educational Commission 1897 
 
 Educational councils of teachers .... 1913 
 
 Edward, Prince of Wales 1860 
 
 Electric lighting 1880, 1888 
 
110 Index 
 
 Electric street cars 1890, 1901, 1906 
 
 Electrical Society, Chicago 1875 
 
 Elevated railroad 1889, 1892 
 
 Ellis, Theodore 1931 
 
 Ellsworth, Elmer E 1860, 1861 
 
 Emeritus service for teachers 1925, 1926, 1928 
 
 English and Classical School 1833 
 
 Eno, Andre 1683 
 
 Epileptic children 1913 
 
 Erring Woman's Refuge 1863 
 
 Erysipelas 1864 
 
 Estray pen 1832 
 
 Eucharistic Congress 1926 
 
 Evanston 1915 
 
 Evening Journal, Chicago . . . . 1895 
 
 Evening Post, Chicago 1890, 1895, 1928, 
 
 1932 
 
 Evening Press 1895 
 
 Evening schools 1857, 1864 
 
 Everleigh Club 1911 
 
 Examiner, Chicago 1904 
 
 Exchange Building 1857 
 
 Exposition Building 1873, 1877, 1880, 
 
 1882, 1884, 1888 
 
 Express 1843 
 
 Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago .... 1882 
 
 Factory building 1805 
 
 Fair, The 1875 
 
 Fairbanks, Charles W 1904, 1916 
 
 Fallows, Dr. Samuel 1863 
 
 Fargo, William F 1845 
 
 Federal building 1899 
 
 Federal court 1935 
 
 Federation of Labor, Chicago 1896, 1902, 1926 
 
Index 111 
 
 Feehan, Archbishop 1890 
 
 Fernwood 1891 
 
 Ferry 1829, 1832, 1847 
 
 Field, Marshall 1855, 1860 
 
 Field and Leiter 1868, 1871 
 
 Field Museum 1893, 1894, 1921, 
 
 1936 
 
 Filatreau, Jean 1683 
 
 Financial crash 1837, 1838 
 
 Fire department 1835 
 
 Fire engine 1835, 1858 
 
 Fire, Great 1871, 1873 
 
 Fire ordinance 1833 
 
 Fires 1857, 1871, 1903, 
 
 1934 
 
 First Methodist Church 1922 
 
 First National Bank 1863 
 
 First Stop Inn 1855 
 
 First Ward Ball 1909 
 
 Flag, official Chicago 1917 
 
 Flies 1885 
 
 Floods 1849, 1885 
 
 Flower (Lucy) Technical High 
 
 School for Girls 1911 
 
 Food to be covered 1915 
 
 Foot and mouth disease 1914 
 
 Forbes, Stephen R 1830 
 
 Forest Preserve District 1913 
 
 Fort Dearborn 1803, 1805, 1810, 
 
 1811, 1812, 1816, 
 1820, 1821, 1823, 
 1828, 1831, 1832, 
 1835, 1836, 1839, 
 1852, 1903 
 
112 Index 
 
 Fortnightly Club 1873 
 
 Fort St. Louis (Starved Rock) 1687 
 
 Foundlings' Home, Chicago 1871 
 
 Fountain of the Great Lakes 1936 
 
 Fountain of Time 1936 
 
 Fowle, Major John 1828 
 
 Fox, Professor Philip 1930 
 
 Free lunch 1893, 1917 
 
 Free soil 1848 
 
 Freeman, Rev. Allen B 1833 
 
 Fremont 1856 
 
 Friend, Judge Hugo M. 1928 
 
 Frink, John 1836 
 
 Fugitive Slave Law 1850 
 
 Gage 1857 
 
 Gage, David A 1881 
 
 Gage form 1914 
 
 Gainsborough portrait 1901 
 
 Gale, Stephen A 1839 
 
 Galena and Chicago Union 1836, 1848, 1852, 
 
 1864 
 
 Gambling 1835 
 
 Gano 1890 
 
 Garden, Mary A 1921 
 
 Garfield, James A 1880 
 
 Garrett, Augustus 1835, 1854 
 
 Garrett, Biblical Institute 1856 
 
 Gas 1850 
 
 Gas, Light and Coke Co., Chicago . . 1848 
 
 Gem of the Prairie 1844 
 
 General News Bureau 1910 
 
 Genna, Angelo 1925 
 
 German in school 1865 
 
 Germania Maennerchor 1865 
 
Index 113 
 
 Germans 1855 
 
 Glenwood Manual Training School . . 1887 
 
 Gliders 1897 
 
 Goggin, Catharine 1916 
 
 Goodman Theater 1925 
 
 Goodrich, Grant 1853 
 
 Governors, list of Appendix, page 162 
 
 Grace Church 1851, 1864 
 
 Graceland 1884 
 
 Graft 1926 
 
 Graham, Ernest R 1936 
 
 Granady, Octavius 1928 
 
 Grand Equestrian Arena 1836 
 
 Grand Lodge of I. 0. G. T 1855 
 
 Grand Opera Company, Chicago . . . 1910 
 
 Grand Pacific Hotel 1875 
 
 Grant, U. S 1868, 1879, 1880 
 
 Grant Hotel 1907 
 
 Grant Monument 1891 
 
 Grant Park 1918, 1926 
 
 Grant Park Stadium 1925 
 
 Great Northern Hotel 1892 
 
 Green, R. G 1854 
 
 Green Tree Tavern 1833 
 
 Greenville, Treaty of 1795 
 
 Guardian Angel, Mission of 1696 
 
 Guarie 1778 
 
 Gunsaulus, Rev. Frank W 1893 
 
 Hahnemann College . 1855, 1860 
 
 Halsted street bridge 1894 
 
 Hamilton, Richard J 1831 
 
 Hamlin, Hannibal 1860 
 
 Hanford, Francis 1876 
 
 Harbor 1833 
 
114 Index 
 
 Harding, Warren G 1920 
 
 Hardware 1855 
 
 Harmon, Dr 1832 
 
 Harmonic Society, Chicago 1835 
 
 Harper, President William R 1906 
 
 Harrison, Benjamin 1888, 1889 
 
 Harrison, Carter H 1858, 1891, 1893, 
 
 1894 
 
 Harrison, Carter H. Jr 1860, 1897, 1911 
 
 Harrison, William Henry 1840 
 
 Hart, Shaffner, Marx and Co 1910 
 
 Harvard School 1909 
 
 Harvey 1895 
 
 Haymarket Riot 1886, 1887 
 
 Heald, Nathan 1810 
 
 Health Commissioner 1876 
 
 Health Department 1876, 1884, 1911, 
 
 1914 
 Health Protection — 
 
 Antitoxin 1895 
 
 Bathing beaches 1901 
 
 Blindness prevention 1914 
 
 Board of Health 1834, 1837, 1847, 
 
 1851, 1876 
 Board of Water Commissioners . . . 1851 
 
 Bubbly Creek 1917 
 
 Common drinking cups 1911 
 
 Common roller towels 1911 
 
 Cerebro-spinal meningitis 1898 
 
 Chlorination of water 1912 
 
 Cholera 1834, 1838, 1849, 
 
 1852, 1854 
 
 Crib 1865, 1872, 1893 
 
 Department of Health 1876, 1884, 1911, 
 
Index 115 
 
 1914 
 
 Erysipelas 1864 
 
 Flies 1885 
 
 Food to be covered 1915 
 
 Foot and mouth disease 1914 
 
 Health commissioner 1876 
 
 Hogs 1843 
 
 Influenza 1918 
 
 "Jungle, The" 1906 
 
 Malaria 1838 
 
 Meat inspection 1868 
 
 Milk ordinance 1870 
 
 North Shore drainage canal 1910 
 
 Oral hygiene 1918 
 
 Pasteur treatment 1911 
 
 Pure milk campaign 1912 
 
 Rauch, Dr. John 1865, 1867 
 
 Registration of births and deaths . . 1901 
 
 Scavenger service 1846 
 
 School inspection 1895 
 
 Sewage 1855, 1856 
 
 Sewers 1898 
 
 Silver nitrate 1914 
 
 Sinclair, Upton 1906 
 
 Smallpox 1864, 1874 
 
 Smoke inspector 1884 
 
 Smoking on street cars 1918 
 
 Spitting 1901 
 
 U. S. Meat inspection 1891 
 
 Venereal diseases 1918 
 
 Healy, George P. A 1855 
 
 Healy, Patrick J 1864 
 
 Hearst, W. R 1900, 1904, 1918 
 
 Heathcock, Edwin 1842 
 
116 Index 
 
 "Heatless Mondays" 1918 
 
 Hebrew Relief Society 1866 
 
 Height of buildings 1898 
 
 Helm, Linai 1811 
 
 Henrotin, Charles 1878 
 
 Herald and Examiner 1918, 1921 
 
 Herald, Chicago 1881, 1894, 1914, 
 
 1918 
 
 Hermann, U. J 1928 
 
 Herrick, Dr. W. B 1852 
 
 Hibbard, Tuttle 1855 
 
 High School, Chicago 1856, 1860 
 
 Hinman, Clark Titus 1853 
 
 Hirsch, Dr. Emil G 1880 
 
 Historical Society, Chicago 1856, 1932 
 
 Hoch, Johann 1906 
 
 Hoeff gen, Robert 1848 
 
 Hogan, John S. C 1832 
 
 Hogs 1843 
 
 Holden, C. N 1849 
 
 Holy Family, Church of 1857 
 
 Holy Name Cathedral 1882 
 
 Holy Name, Church of 1846 
 
 Home for the Aged 1876 
 
 Home for the Friendless 1858 
 
 Home for Incurables 1881 
 
 Homeopathic hospital 1854 
 
 Homeopathy 1836, 1844, 1848, 
 
 1854, 1855, 1860 
 
 Hooley's Theater 1872 
 
 Hopkins, Mayor 1894 
 
 Horner, Judge Henry 1932 
 
 Horr 1895 
 
 Hospital for Women and Children . . 1865, 1895 
 
Index 117 
 
 Hospitals — 
 
 Alexian Brothers 1866 
 
 Central Free Dispensary 1867 
 
 Children's Memorial 1884 
 
 City 1843, 1857, 1874 
 
 Cook County 1847, 1865, 1875, 
 
 1915 
 
 Cook County Insane Asylum 1870 
 
 County poor farm 1870 
 
 Daily News Sanitarium 1888 
 
 Deaconess Institute and Hospital . . 1882 
 
 Dental Infirmary 1882 
 
 Eye and Ear Infirmary 1882 
 
 Homeopathic 1854 
 
 Hospital for Women and Children, 
 
 Chicago 1865, 1895 
 
 Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear 
 
 Infirmary 1858 
 
 Illinois General Hospital of the 
 
 Lakes 1850 
 
 Iroquois Memorial 1911 
 
 Isolation 1896 
 
 Lawndale 1918 
 
 Marine 1848 
 
 Mary Thompson 1895 
 
 Mercy 1850, 1852 
 
 Porter (Maurice) Memorial 
 
 Hospital for Children 1884 
 
 Presbyterian 1883, 1884 
 
 Reese, Michael 1866 
 
 Retreat for the Insane 1847 
 
 St. James 9 1854 
 
 St. Joseph's 1869 
 
 St. Luke's 1864 
 
118 Ind 
 
 ex 
 
 St. Mary's 1866 
 
 Sarah Morris 1910 
 
 United States Marine 1850, 1852, 1867 
 
 Wesley 1888 
 
 Hotel Stevens 1927 
 
 Hotels — 
 
 Blackstone 1910 
 
 Briggs House 1928 
 
 Bull's Head 1848 
 
 City 1836, 1844 
 
 Clifton House 1872 
 
 Dawes, Mary 1917 
 
 Dawes, Rufus 1914 
 
 Drake, Tracy and John B 1910 
 
 First Stop Inn 1855 
 
 Grand Pacific 1873 
 
 Grant 1907 
 
 Great Northern 1892 
 
 Green Tree Tavern 1833 
 
 Hotel Stevens 1927 
 
 Lake House 1836 
 
 Pacific 1873 
 
 Palmer House 1873, 1880 
 
 Sauganash 1831, 1837 
 
 Sherman House 1837, 1844, 1861, 
 
 1888, 1909 
 
 Transit House 1865 
 
 Tremont House . 1833, 1839 1840, 
 
 1850, 1858, 1860 
 
 Wolf Tavern 1829 
 
 Hottest day 1934 
 
 House numbering 1911 
 
 House of the Good Shepherd 1859 
 
 Howland, George 1860 
 
Index 119 
 
 Hoyne School 1893 
 
 Hoyne, Thomas 1853 
 
 Hronek, Anarchist 1889 
 
 Hubbard, Gurdon S 1818, 1834, 1842. 
 
 1860, 1886 
 
 Hugenin, John C 1837 
 
 Hughes, Charles E 1916 
 
 Hull House 1889 
 
 Humboldt Park 1894 
 
 Humphrey (Briggs and Humphrey) . .1834 
 
 Humphrey Bill 1897 
 
 Hunter, Captain David 1839 
 
 Hunter, Joel D 1917 
 
 Hutchinson, B. P 1888 
 
 Hutchinson, Charles L 1882 
 
 Hyde Park 1856, 1861, 1889 
 
 Hydraulic Company, Chicago 1836, 1851 
 
 Hydraulic Mills 1842 
 
 Illinois 1818 
 
 Illinois and Michigan Canal 1819, 1830, 1836, 
 
 1848, 1850 
 
 Illinois Art Association 1882 
 
 Illinois Centennial 1918 
 
 Illinois Central Railroad 1850, 1852, 1855, 
 
 1856, 1927, 1930 
 Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear 
 
 Infirmary 1858 
 
 Illinois General Hospital of the 
 
 Lakes 1850 
 
 Illinois Humane Society 1870 
 
 Illinois Medical and Surgical 
 
 Journal 
 
 LUinois Mission 1677 
 
 Illinois Social Science Association . . 1877 
 
120 Index 
 
 Illinois Staats Zeitung 1848, 1850, 1862 
 
 Illinois State N. R. A. Commission . . 1933 
 Illinois Telephone and Telegraph 
 
 Company 1899 
 
 Illinois Training School for Nurses . . 1880, 1881 
 
 "Illinois" vessel 1834, 1839 
 
 Independent Order of Good 
 
 Templars 1855 
 
 Indians 1673, 1795, 1805, 
 
 1812, 1816, 1821, 
 1827, 1828, 1829, 
 1832, 1833, 1835 
 
 Infant Welfare Society 1903 
 
 Infanta Eulalia 1893 
 
 Influenza 1918 
 
 Inland Steel Co 1935 
 
 Insull, Samuel 1917, 1926, 1935 
 
 International Harvester Co 1916, 1935 
 
 Inter-Ocean 1872, 1890, 1897, 
 
 1907, 1914 
 
 Irish Brigade 1861 
 
 Iroquois Club 1880, 1881 
 
 Iroquois Memorial Hospital 1911 
 
 Iroquois Theater fire 1903 
 
 Irving, Henry 1885 
 
 Irwin, William 1809 
 
 Isherwood 1837 
 
 Isolation Hospital 1896 
 
 Jackson Park 1918, 1921 
 
 Jackson, President Andrew 1832 
 
 Jackson, William 1857 
 
 Jahn School 1913 
 
 Jarecki, Judge 1931 
 
 Jefferson, Joseph 1837 
 
Index 121 
 
 Jefferson, town of 1889 
 
 Jensen, Jens 1894 
 
 Jewish People's Institute 1903 
 
 Jews 1843, 1845, 1849, 
 
 1859, 1860, 1866, 
 1900, 1903 
 
 Johnson, Hiram 1912 
 
 Johnson, Morris 1851 
 
 Joliet, Louis 1673 
 
 Jordan, C. H. and Co 1854 
 
 Jouett, Charles 1805 
 
 Journal, Chicago 1844, 1929 
 
 Joutel, Henri 1687, 1688 
 
 Judd, Orange 1892 
 
 "Jungle, The" 1906 
 
 Juvenile Court 1899, 1904, 1907, 
 
 1908, 1916, 1923, 
 1927, 1933 
 
 Juvenile Court Committee 1904 
 
 Juvenile Protective Association 1904 
 
 Juvenile Protective League 1904 
 
 Kaskaskia 1673 
 
 Keeley, James 1914 
 
 Kennicott, Robert 1857 
 
 Kennison, David 1852 
 
 Kensington 1852 
 
 Kerfoot, W. D. and Co 1862 
 
 Kimball, William W 1857 
 
 Kinzie, Elizabeth 1826 
 
 Kinzie, Ellen M 1805, 1823 
 
 Kinzie, James 1829, 1833 
 
 Kinzie, John 1804, 1812, 1816, 
 
 1828 
 Kinzie, John H 1804, 1833, 1834, 
 
122 Index 
 
 1835, 1837 
 
 Kinzie, Mrs. Juliette 1844 
 
 Know-Nothing 1855 
 
 Knox, Col. Frank 1931 
 
 Kohlsaat, H. H 1895, 1901 
 
 K. Y. W 1921 
 
 Lady Elgin 1860 
 
 Lafayette Lodge 1843 
 
 Lake, Frankie 1924 
 
 Lake, town of 1889 
 
 Lake House 1836 
 
 Lake House ferry 1856 
 
 Lake Street Elevated 1899 
 
 Lake View 1867, 1889 
 
 la Lime, Jean 1784, 1804, 1812 
 
 Land office 1835 
 
 Landis, Judge K. M 1907, 1921 
 
 Landis Award 1921 
 
 Lane Technical High School 1934 
 
 La Salle, Robert 1679 
 
 La Salle street tunnel 1871 
 
 Law and Order League, Chicago .... 1904 
 
 Law book 1839 
 
 Law school (law institute) 1847 
 
 Law School of Northwestern 
 
 University 1929 
 
 Lawndale Hospital 1918 
 
 Lawson, Victor F 1876, 1901, 1925 
 
 Lawson Y. M. C. A 1931 
 
 League for Hard of Hearing 1916 
 
 Leavenworth 1921 
 
 Leavenworth, Ruth 1835 
 
 Lee farm 1812 
 
 Legislative Voters' League 1902 
 
Index 123 
 
 Legler, Henry E 1917 
 
 Leiter, Joseph 1897, 1898 
 
 Le Mai 1784, 1804 
 
 Leyden 1928 
 
 Liberal party 1842 
 
 Libraries — 
 
 Crerar, John 1894 
 
 Hermann, U. J 1928 
 
 Historical Society 1856, 1932 
 
 Legler, Henry 1917 
 
 Municipal Reference 1900 
 
 Newberry 1887 
 
 Public, Chicago 1872, 1886, 1893, 
 
 1897, 1917, 1928 
 
 Roden, Carl B 1917 
 
 Library, Chicago Public 1872, 1886, 1893, 
 
 1897, 1917, 1928 
 
 Library Association, Chicago 1841 
 
 Lighthouse 1831, 1847 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham 1835, 1844, 1847, 
 
 1858, 1860, 1861, 
 1862, 1865 
 
 Lincoln Park 1845, 1864, 1869, 
 
 1884, 1891 
 
 Lincoln Statue 1887, 1926 
 
 Lind University 1859 
 
 Lindbergh Beacon 1930 
 
 Lingle, Alfred G 1929 
 
 Literary Budget 1854 
 
 Literary Club 1874 
 
 Little Mothers' Clubs 1912 
 
 Little Sisters of the Poor 1876 
 
 Little Wanderer Day Nursery 1905 
 
 Loeb rule 1915, 1916 
 
124 In A 
 
 ex 
 
 Logan, General John A 1897 
 
 Logan Square 1918 
 
 Lombardo, Anthony 1927 
 
 Long, James 1842 
 
 Long, Major 1823 
 
 Lorimer, William 1909, 1910, 1912, 
 
 1914 
 
 Loyola University 1909 
 
 Luetgert, Adolph L 1897 
 
 Lumbard, Frank 1857, 1860, 1861 
 
 Lyceum, Chicago 1834 
 
 Lyon, George W 1864 
 
 Lytton, Henry C. and Sons 1871 
 
 Mack, Judge Julian 1904 
 
 Madden, "Skinny" 1899 
 
 Madeira Pet 1857 
 
 Mail Order 1872 
 
 Maine 1922 
 
 Mandel Bros 1855 
 
 Manual training high school 1886 
 
 Manual Training School, Chicago . . 1884 
 Manufacturers — 
 
 Armour and Co 1867 
 
 Briggs and Humphrey 1834 
 
 Chair factory 1845 
 
 Childs, S. D. and Co 1837 
 
 Church, Goodman and Donnelley . . 1864 
 
 Cleaver, Charles 1847, 1851 
 
 Clybourn, Archibald 1823, 1827, 1829, 
 
 1842 
 
 Clybourn and Hubbard 1842 
 
 Collins, S. D 1838 
 
 Crane, R. T. and Co 1855 
 
 Cudahy, John 1893 
 
Index 125 
 
 Economic Gas Co 1892 
 
 Gas, Light and Coke Co 1849 
 
 Green, R. G 1854 
 
 Hart, Shaffner, Marx and Co 1910 
 
 Hydraulic Company, Chicago .... 1836, 1851 
 
 Inland Steel 1935 
 
 International Harvester Co 1916, 1935 
 
 Mc Cormick and Gray 1847 
 
 Meyers, A 1849 
 
 Packers 1906 
 
 Phillips, John 1845 
 
 Pierce, Asahel 1833, 1834 
 
 Printing Co., Chicago 1853 
 
 Pullman Palace Car Co 1864, 1867, 1894 
 
 Ryerson, Jos. T. and Son 1842, 1935 
 
 Schuttler (Peter) Co 1846 
 
 Scoville and Sons 1848 
 
 Type foundry 1855 
 
 Union Car Works 1852 
 
 Union Stockyards and Transit 
 
 Company 1864, 1865 
 
 Ward, Eber 1872 
 
 White, John T. and Co 1855 
 
 Marine Bank 1852 
 
 Marine Hospital 1848 
 
 Market Hall 1848 
 
 Marquette, Father Jacques 1673 
 
 Marshal 1841 
 
 Martha Washington Home 1882 
 
 Mary Crane Nursery 1925 
 
 Mary Thompson Hospital 1895 
 
 Marx 1902 
 
 Mason, Max 1925 
 
 Masonic Lodge 1843 
 
126 Index 
 
 Masonic Temple 1856, 1892 
 
 Masse, Burt A 1929 
 
 "Massacre at Chicago" 1844 
 
 Mather Building 1927 
 
 May Music Festival 1882 
 
 Mayors, list of Appendix, page 155 
 
 Mayor's term 1863, 1907 
 
 Mc Andrew, Supt. William 1925, 1927 
 
 Mc Clellan, Gen. George B 1864 
 
 Mc Clurg, A. C. and Co 1844 
 
 Mc Cormick and Gray 1847 
 
 Mc Cormick, Cyrus H 1847, 1935 
 
 Mc Cormick, Mrs. Edith R 1920 
 
 Mc Cormick (Harriet) Memorial 
 
 Building of the Y. W. C. A. ... 1929 
 
 Mc Cormick Zoo 1922 
 
 Mc Cowan, Mary 1900 
 
 Mc Coy, Rev. Isaac 1825 
 
 Mc Cutcheon, John T 1927 
 
 Mc Dowell, Mary 1936 
 
 Mc Kee 1827 
 
 Mc Kenzie 1837 
 
 Mc Kinley, President William 1899 
 
 Mc Neil, Lt. Col. John 1821 
 
 Mc Swiggin, William H 1926 
 
 Mc Vickar, Dr. B. L 1876 
 
 Mc Vicker, James H 1857, 1862 
 
 Mead, Dr. Edward 1847 
 
 Meat inspection 1868 
 
 Meat packing 1867 
 
 Mechanics' Institute 1837 
 
 Medical College, Chicago 1859 
 
 Medical Society, Chicago 1850 
 
 Medill, Joseph 1871 
 
Index 127 
 
 Medinah Athletic Club 1928 
 
 Melodeons 1854 
 
 Memorial Day 1867 
 
 Mendelssohn Society 1858 
 
 Merchandise Mart 1922, 1925, 1828, 
 
 1930, 1936 
 Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank . . . 1852 
 
 Merchants' Club, Chicago 1884 
 
 Merchants' Loan and Trust Co 1857 
 
 Mercy Hospital 1850, 1852 
 
 Merriam, Charles E 1908 
 
 Methodist Church 1834 
 
 Metropolitan Elevated 1897 
 
 Mexico, War with 1846 
 
 Meyers, A 1849 
 
 Michelson, A. A 1907 
 
 Michigan avenue bridge 1920 
 
 Michigan Southern and Indiana 
 
 Northern Railroad 1852 
 
 Microscopical Society, Chicago 1868 
 
 Milk ordinance 1870 
 
 Miller Act 1925, 1926, 1927 
 
 Miller, Samuel 1826, 1829, 1832 
 
 Milliken, Isaac L 1854 
 
 Montefiore Special School 1929 
 
 Montgomery Ward 1890 
 
 Montgomery Ward and Co 1872, 1935 
 
 Monuments — 
 
 Alarm, The 1884 
 
 Black Hawk 1936 
 
 Buckingham Fountain 1927 
 
 Fountain of the Great Lakes 1936 
 
 Fountain of Time 1936 
 
 Grant 1891 
 
128 Index 
 
 Lincoln 1887, 1926 
 
 Logan 1897 
 
 Statue of the Republic 1918 
 
 Moody, Dwight L 1856, 1863, 1886 
 
 Moody and Sankey Tabernacle 1876 
 
 Moody Bible Institute 1926 
 
 Morals Court 1913 
 
 Morgan Park 1914 
 
 Morning News, Chicago 1881, 1882 
 
 Morrison, 1835 
 
 Morton, Levi P 1888 
 
 Moseley Special School 1930 
 
 Moss, Joseph L 1926 
 
 Motor coaches 1917 
 
 Motorcycle contest 1895 
 
 Mount Greenwood 1927 
 
 Movie studio 1895 
 
 Mozart Society 1849 
 
 Mulligan, Col. James A 1861, 1864 
 
 Mundelein 1926 
 
 Mundelein, George William 1915, 1924 
 
 Mundelein College 1930 
 
 Municipal Airport 1927, 1930 
 
 Municipal Court 1906 
 
 Municipal Employes' Pension Fund. .1911 
 
 Municipal Lodging House 1904 
 
 Municipal Pier 1916 
 
 Municipal Reference Library 1900 
 
 Municipal Voters' League 1896, 1900 
 
 Murder 1834 
 
 Murphy, Edward 1836 
 
 Murphy, Big Tim 1921, 1928 
 
 Museum of Science and Industry . . 1933 
 
Index 129 
 
 Museums — 
 
 Academy of Science 1857, 1875 
 
 Academy of Fine Arts 1879 
 
 Adler Planetarium 1930 
 
 Aquarium, Shedd 1930, 1936 
 
 Art Institute 1879, 1882, 1893 
 
 Art Palace 1931 
 
 Exposition Building 1873, 1877, 1880, 
 
 1882, 1884, 1888 
 
 Field Museum 1893, 1894, 1921, 
 
 1936 
 
 Historical Society, Chicago 1856, 1932 
 
 Mc Cormick Zoo 1922 
 
 Museum of Science and Industry . . 1933 
 
 Oriental Institute 1931 
 
 Planetarium, Adler 1930 
 
 Rosenwald 1933 
 
 Shedd Aquarium 1930, 1936 
 
 Woods 1863 
 
 Music 1842, 1854, 1858 
 
 Musical Union 1858 
 
 National Broadcasting Company .... 1922 
 
 Navy Pier 1916 
 
 Negro migration 1916 
 
 Negroes 1919 
 
 Nelson, Murry 1890 
 
 New England Church 1853 
 
 Newberry, Oliver 1839 
 
 Newberry Library 1887 
 
 Newberry, Walter L 1887 
 
 News, Chicago Daily 1844, 1875, 1876, 
 
 1882, 1890, 1892, 
 1922, 1929, 1931, 
 1932 
 
130 / n d 
 
 € X 
 
 News Record, Chicago 1892 
 
 Newsboys' and Bootblacks' 
 
 Association 1868 
 
 Newspapers — 
 
 American, Chicago 1835, 1839, 1900 
 
 Commercial Advertiser 1836 
 
 Daily Democratic Press 1852 
 
 Daily News, Chicago 1844, 1875, 1876, 
 
 1882, 1890, 1892, 
 
 1922, 1929, 1931, 
 
 1932 
 
 Democrat, Chicago 1833, 1836, 1840 
 
 Drovers' Journal 1872 
 
 Evening Journal, Chicago 1895 
 
 Evening Post, Chicago 1890, 1895, 1928, 
 
 1932 
 
 Evening Press 1895 
 
 Examiner, Chicago 1904 
 
 Gem of the Prairie 1844 
 
 Herald, Chicago 1881, 1894, 1914, 
 
 1918 
 
 Herald and Examiner 1918, 1921 
 
 Illinois Staats Zeitung 1848, 1850, 1862 
 
 Inter-Ocean 1872, 1890, 1897, 
 
 1907, 1914 
 
 Journal, Chicago 1844, 1929 
 
 Morning News 1881, 1882 
 
 News Record, Chicago 1892 
 
 Orange Judd Farmer 1892 
 
 Prairie Farmer 1841, 1924 
 
 Record, Chicago 1901 
 
 Record-Herald 1901, 1914 
 
 Times, Chicago 1854, 1861, 1863, 
 
 1891, 1894 
 
Index 131 
 
 Times-Herald 1894, 1895, 1901 
 
 Tribune, Chicago 1840, 1847, 1848, 
 
 1871, 1895, 1922, 
 1925, 1928 
 
 Volksf reund, Chicago 1845 
 
 Western Herald 1846 
 
 Niagara limestone 1846 
 
 Nicholson pavement 1857 
 
 Niedemeyer 1902 
 
 Niles 1922 
 
 Nobel prize 1907 
 
 Normal School, Chicago 1899 
 
 North Chicago Railway Co 1859, 1886 
 
 North Market Hall 1854 
 
 North Shore Drainage Canal 1910 
 
 Northern Pacific Railroad 1892 
 
 Northwestern Christian Advocate .... 1853 
 
 Northwestern Elevated 1900 
 
 Northwestern Journal of Homeopathy. 1848 
 
 Northwestern University 1851, 1853, 1855, 
 
 1879, 1890, 1920, 
 1929 
 Northwestern University Settlement. . 1897 
 
 Norwood Park 1893, 1896 
 
 N. R. A 1933 
 
 Numismatic and Archaeological 
 
 Society, Chicago 1879 
 
 Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum. . .1860 
 
 Oakwoods Cemetery 1864, 1895 
 
 O'Banion, Dion 1924 
 
 Odd Fellows' Hall 1853 
 
 Odd Fellows' Lodge 1844 
 
 Office Buildings — 
 
 Carbide and Carbon 1928 
 
132 Index 
 
 Civic Opera House 1929, 1936 
 
 Exchange 1857 
 
 Masonic Temple 1856, 1892 
 
 Mather 1927 
 
 Medinah Athletic Club 1928 
 
 Merchandise Mart 1922, 1925, 1928, 
 
 1930, 1936 
 
 Orchestra Hall 1904, 1919 
 
 Palmolive 1928, 1930 
 
 Saloon 1836, 1837, 1840 
 
 Temperance Temple 1892 
 
 333 North Michigan 1928 
 
 Wrigley 1921, 1923 
 
 Ogden, William B 1836, 1837, 1857 
 
 Ogden Gas 1895 
 
 Ogden- Wentworth Ditch 1872 
 
 Olivet Institute 1887 
 
 Old Ladies' Home 1861 
 
 Old Peoples' Home 1861 
 
 Open air school 1909 
 
 Opera 1831, 1850, 1885 
 
 Oral hygiene 1918 
 
 Orange Judd Farmer 1892 
 
 Orchestra Hall 1904, 1919 
 
 Orchestral Association 1890 
 
 Oriental Institute 1931 
 
 Orphan Asylum, Chicago 1849 
 
 Otis Law 1917 
 
 Ouilmette, Antoine 1790 
 
 Owen, Thomas J. V 1833 
 
 Pacific Garden Mission 1877 
 
 Pacific Hotel 1873 
 
 Packers 1906 
 
 Painters 1894 
 
Index 133 
 
 Palmer, Frank W 1881 
 
 Palmer House 1873, 1880 
 
 Palmer, Potter 1885 
 
 Palmolive Building 1928, 1930 
 
 Panics .....' 1837, 1838, 1849, 
 
 1857, 1873, 1894 
 
 Parental School 1899, 1902 
 
 Parker, Col. Francis W 1883, 1899 
 
 Parks — 
 
 Bughouse Square 1842 
 
 Dearborn 1839 
 
 Grant 1918, 1926 
 
 Humboldt 1894 
 
 Jackson 1918, 1921 
 
 Lincoln : 1845, 1864, 1869, 
 
 1884, 1891 
 
 Union 1853 
 
 Washington 1868 
 
 West Side 1869 
 
 Zoological, Chicago 1920, 1922, 1927, 
 
 1934 
 
 Parmelee, Frank 1853 
 
 Parmelee Transfer Co 1853 
 
 Pasteur treatment 1911 
 
 Patten, James A 1909, 1928 
 
 Patti, Adeline 1853, 1883 
 
 Paving 1856, 1859 
 
 Peabody, Houghteling and Co 1865 
 
 Peacock, C. D 1837 
 
 Pelletier, Jean B. and Eulalie 1796 
 
 Pendleton, George Hunt 1864 
 
 Pension Board of Public Schools . . . 1926 
 
 Pensions for teachers 1895 
 
 People's Church 1881 
 
134 Index 
 
 Pharmacy 1844 
 
 Philharmonic Society 1850 
 
 Phillips, John 1845 
 
 Philosophical Association 1873 
 
 Phrenological Society 1855 
 
 Piano 1857 
 
 Pickard, Supt. Josiah L 1865 
 
 Pierce, Asahel 1833, 1834 
 
 Pinckney, Judge Merritt 1908 
 
 Pinet, Father Francois 1696, 1697, 1698 
 
 Pinkerton, Allan 1842, 1853, 1861, 
 
 1884 
 
 Pinkerton Detective Agency 1852 
 
 "Pioneer" 1848 
 
 Plan of Chicago 1909 
 
 Planetarium, Adler 1930 
 
 Plumbers 1890 
 
 Plymouth Congregational Church .... 1852 
 
 Police 1855 
 
 Police patrol wagon 1880, 1908 
 
 Police telephone system 1880 
 
 Polk, President 1847 
 
 Polk street mail robbery 1921 
 
 Pope, Judge Nathaniel 1848 
 
 Port of entry 1846 
 
 Porter (Maurice) Memorial Hospital 
 
 for Children 1884 
 
 Porter, Rev. Jeremiah 1833 
 
 Portraits 1855 
 
 Postal Savings Bank 1911 
 
 Postal Tubes 1893 
 
 Postoffice 1831, 1832, 1880, 
 
 1899, 1934, 1936 
 Pottery Club 1883 
 
Index 135 
 
 Prairie Club 1908 
 
 Prairie Farmer 1841, 1924 
 
 Prendergast, Patrick E 1894 
 
 Presbyterian Church 1833, 1835 
 
 Presbyterian Hospital 1883, 1884 
 
 Press Club 1880 
 
 Principals' Club, Chicago 1899 
 
 Printers' Union 1850, 1852 
 
 Printing Co., Chicago 1853 
 
 Prisoners' Aid Association 1882 
 
 Progressive Convention 1912 
 
 Protestant Church 1864 
 
 Protestant Orphan Asylums 1849 
 
 Provision "corner" 1893 
 
 Public Library, Chicago 1872, 1886, 1893, 
 
 1897, 1917, 1928 
 
 Public School Art Society 1894 
 
 Public Welfare of Cook County 1926 
 
 Pullman, George M 1881, 1895 
 
 Pullman car 1864 
 
 Pullman Palace Car Co 1867, 1894 
 
 Pure milk campaign 1912 
 
 Quarter, Bishop 1844 
 
 Race riots 1919 
 
 Radio — 
 
 National Broadcasting Co 1922 
 
 K. Y. W 1921 
 
 Tribune Square 1922 
 
 W. B. B. M 1923 
 
 W. C. F. L 1926 
 
 W. E. N. R 1925 
 
 W. G. N 1922 
 
 W. G. U 1922 
 
 W. L. S 1924 
 
136 Index 
 
 W. M. A. Q 
 
 Railroads — 
 
 Belt Railway Co 1882 
 
 Chicago, Aurora and Elgin 1902 
 
 Chicago and Milwaukee 1851 
 
 Chicago and Northwestern 1859, 1864, 1911 
 
 Chicago and Western Indiana .... 1879 
 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. .1851, 1852 
 Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac. 1859 
 
 Elevated 1889, 1892, 1897, 
 
 1899, 1900 
 
 Galena and Chicago Union 1836, 1848, 1852, 
 
 1864 
 
 Illinois Central 1850, 1852, 1855, 
 
 1856, 1927, 1930 
 Michigan Southern and Indiana 
 
 Northern 1852 
 
 Northern Pacific 1892 
 
 North Chicago Railway Co 1859, 1886 
 
 "Pioneer" 1848 
 
 Rock Island 1851 
 
 Surface carlines 1913 
 
 Transcontinental 1935 
 
 Union Station 1921, 1936 
 
 West Division Railway 1861 
 
 Rainfall 1883, 1934 
 
 Rand, Mc Nally and Co 1856 
 
 Rand, William H 1856 
 
 Randall's contingent 1894 
 
 Randolph, Isham 1893 
 
 Rauch, Dr. John 1866, 1867 
 
 Real estate 1833, 1834, 1835, 
 
 1862 
 Record, Chicago 1901 
 
Index 137 
 
 Record-Herald 1901, 1914 
 
 Recorder's court 1853 
 
 Red Cross Amer. Association 1882 
 
 Reese (Michael) Hospital 1866 
 
 Reformed Episcopal Church 1863 
 
 Registration of births and deaths . . . 1901 
 Relief and Aid Society, Chicago .... 1857 
 
 Republicans 1856, 1860, 1868, 
 
 1872, 1880, 1884, 
 1888, 1904, 1908, 
 1912, 1916, 1920 
 
 Retreat for the Insane 1847 
 
 Revival, religious 1839 
 
 R. F. C 1934 
 
 Rice, John B 1847, 1850, 1851 
 
 Richmond, Dean 1856 
 
 Riots 1854, 1855, 1877, 
 
 1885, 1886, 1919 
 
 Beer 1855 
 
 Haymarket 1886, 1887 
 
 Race 1919 
 
 River and Harbor Convention 1847 
 
 River Grove 1929 
 
 Riverside 1920 
 
 Rock Island Railroad 1851 
 
 Rockefeller, John D 1892 
 
 Roden, Carl B 1917 
 
 Roeski 1902 
 
 Rogers, Henry Wade 1890 
 
 Rogers Park 1893 
 
 Roller skating 1880 
 
 Roosevelt, Franklin D 1932 
 
 Roosevelt, Theodore 1904, 1910, 1912 
 
 Roosevelt Road 1918 
 
138 Ind 
 
 ex 
 
 Root, George F 1860, 1861 
 
 Root and Cady 1860 
 
 Rosenwald Museum 1933 
 
 Rotary Club 1905 
 
 Rush Medical College 1837, 1843, 1844, 
 
 1884 
 
 Rush street bridge 1884 
 
 Russell, Aaron 1834 
 
 Ryerson, Jos. T. and Son 1842, 1935 
 
 Safe blowers 1891 
 
 Saible, Pointe de 1784, 1796 
 
 Saloon Building 1836, 1837, 1840 
 
 Saloons 1915, 1917 
 
 "Sands" 1857 
 
 Sanitary and Ship Canal 1892, 1900 
 
 Sanitary District 1890, 1893 
 
 Sanitary Fair 1863 
 
 Sanitation See Health Protection 
 
 Sarah Morris Hospital 1910 
 
 Sauganash (Billy Caldwell) 1831 
 
 Sauganash Hotel 1831, 1837 
 
 Scammon, J. Young 1840, 1844, 1852, 
 
 1872 
 
 Scavenger service 1846 
 
 Schiller School 1900 
 
 Schneider, George 1850, 1862 
 
 Schofield, General 1886 
 
 School Children's Aid Society 1897 
 
 School dental service 1910 
 
 School districts 1835 
 
 School lands mortgaged 1934 
 
 School of Pharmacy, Chicago 1859 
 
 Schoolcraft, Henry R 1820 
 
Index 139 
 
 Schools, Public — 
 
 Airport property 1930 
 
 Assistant and district 
 
 superintendents Appendix, page 159 
 
 Bedside teacher 1915 
 
 Blind, class for 1896 
 
 Board of Education 1857, 1864, 1895, 
 
 1896, 1900, 1914, 
 1919, 1930, 1933 
 
 Board of School Inspectors 1857 
 
 Bodine, W. L 1899 
 
 Brown, John 1836 
 
 Chadsey, Supt. Charles E 1919 
 
 Chappel, Eliza 1833 
 
 Chicago and Cook County School 
 
 for Boys 1881, 1914, 1916, 
 
 1931 
 
 Child study department 1899 
 
 Christopher, Dr. W. S 1900 
 
 Compulsory education law 1883 
 
 Cook County Normal School 1867, 1883, 1896 
 
 Cox, William 1816 
 
 Crane Technical High School .... 1903 
 
 Crippled children, class for 1900 
 
 Curtis, John B 1896 
 
 Deaf, classes for 1875 
 
 Deaf, oral methods 1900 
 
 Dearborn School 1845, 1854 
 
 De Wolf, Calvin 1838 
 
 Dental service 1910 
 
 Dore, John C 1854 
 
 Doty, Duane 1880 
 
 Dupee, Charles A 1860 
 
 Economy program 1933 
 
140 Index 
 
 Educational Commission 1897 
 
 Educational councils 1913 
 
 Emeritus service 1925, 1926, 1928 
 
 Epileptic children 1913 
 
 Evening schools 1857, 1864 
 
 Flower (Lucy) Technical High 
 
 School for Girls 1911 
 
 Gage farm 1914 
 
 German taught 1865 
 
 Goggin, Catharine 1916 
 
 Hamilton, Richard J 1831 
 
 Hanford, Francis 1876 
 
 High School, Chicago 1856, 1860 
 
 Howland, George . 1860 
 
 Hoyne School 1893 
 
 Lane Technical High School 1934 
 
 Leases to Tribune and News 1895 
 
 Leavenworth, Ruth 1835 
 
 Little Mothers' Clubs 1912 
 
 Loeb Rule 1915, 1916 
 
 Manual training high school 1886 
 
 Mc Andrew, Supt. William 1925, 1927 
 
 Medical inspection 1895 
 
 Miller Act , 1925, 1926, 1927 
 
 Montefiore Special School 1929 
 
 Moseley Special School 1930 
 
 Murphy, Edward 1836 
 
 Normal School, Chicago 1899 
 
 Open air school 1909 
 
 Oral hygiene 1918 
 
 Otis Law 1917 
 
 Parental School 1899, 1902 
 
 Parker, Col. Francis W 1899 
 
 Pensions for teachers 1895, 1926 
 
Index 141 
 
 Pickard, Supt. Josiah L 1865 
 
 Presidents of Board of Education . Appendix, page 157 
 
 Principals' Club, Chicago 1899 
 
 Public School Art Society 1894 
 
 Radio instruction 1929 
 
 R. F. C. loan 1934 
 
 School Children's Aid Society 1897 
 
 Speech correction 1910 
 
 School dental service 1910 
 
 School lands mortgaged 1934 
 
 Smith, Robert M 1896 
 
 Sproat, Granville T 1833, 1834 
 
 Strayer Commission 1932 
 
 Superintendents of Schools 1853, 1854 
 
 Appendix, page 159 
 
 Teachers' Association 1850 
 
 Teachers' councils 1921 
 
 Teachers' Federation, Chicago 1897, 1902, 1916 
 
 Tenure of office for teachers 1917 
 
 Training class . . 1893 
 
 Truant officers 1865 
 
 Vacation schools 1896 
 
 Van der Bogart 1834 
 
 Watkins, John 1832 
 
 Wells, William H 1856 
 
 Worthy (John) School 1896 
 
 Young, Ella Flagg 1899 
 
 Schuttler (Peter) Co 1846 
 
 Scott, Walter Dill 1919 
 
 Scoville and Sons 1848 
 
 Scrip 1837 
 
 Scripps, John L 1852 
 
 Seal, municipal 1837 
 
 Sears, Richard W 1886 
 
142 Index 
 
 Sears, Roebuck Co 1935 
 
 Secret service 1861 
 
 Seeds 1854 
 
 Selle, Rev. Augustus 1846 
 
 Servite Sisters' Industrial 
 
 Home for Girls 1877 
 
 Sewage 1855, 1856 
 
 Sewers 1898 
 
 Sharpshooters' Association, Chicago . . 1865 
 
 Shedd, John G 1930 
 
 Shedd Aquarium 1930, 1936 
 
 Sheridan (Mark) School 1913 
 
 Sherman, Francis C 1844 
 
 Sherman House 1837, 1844, 1861, 
 
 1888, 1909 
 
 Sheman, James S 1912 
 
 Sherman, John B 1865 
 
 Shovel Day 1892 
 
 Sibley, Solomon 1821 
 
 Signal service 1870 
 
 Signal system 1934 
 
 Silver nitrate 1914 
 
 Silver question 1895 
 
 Sinai Congregation 1860 
 
 Sinai Temple 1876, 1880 
 
 Sinclair, Upton 1906 
 
 Sisters of Charity 1858, 1869 
 
 Sisters of the Good Shepherd 1859 
 
 Sisters of Mercy 1846, 1850 
 
 Slaves 1837, 1842, 1851, 
 
 1857 
 
 Smallpox 1864, 1874 
 
 Smith, Dr. David Sheppard 1836, 1844 
 
 Smith, Robert M 1896 
 
Index 143 
 
 Smoke inspector 1884 
 
 Smoking on street cars 1918 
 
 Snowfall 1908 
 
 Snowhook, William B 1846 
 
 Social Agencies — 
 
 Adult Education Council 1925 
 
 American Association of the 
 
 Red Cross 1882 
 
 American Humane Society 1877 
 
 American Red Cross 1915 
 
 Anti-Saloon League 1897 
 
 Anti-Slavery Society 1840 
 
 Associated Catholic Charities .... 1918 
 
 Associated Jewish Charities 1900 
 
 Association of Day Nurseries .... 1897 
 
 Bathhouse 1893 
 
 Better Government Association . . . 1923 
 
 Bible Society, Chicago 1835 
 
 Boys' Clubs, Chicago 1901 
 
 Central Howard Association 1901 
 
 Charity Organization Society 1883 
 
 Citizens' Association 1874 
 
 Civic Federation 1896 
 
 Commons, Chicago 1894 
 
 Council of Boy * Scouts 1910 
 
 Council of Social Agencies 1914 
 
 Cradle Society 1923 
 
 Crane (Mary) Nursery 1925 
 
 Detention Home 1907, 1923 
 
 Erring Woman's Refuge 1863 
 
 Foundlings' Home 1871 
 
 Hebrew Relief Society 1866 
 
 Home for the Aged 1876 
 
 Home for the Friendless 1858 
 
144 Index 
 
 Home for the Incurables 1881 
 
 House of the Good Shepherd .... 1859 
 
 Hull House 1889 
 
 Illinois Humane Society 1870 
 
 Infant Welfare Society 1903 
 
 Jewish People's Institute 1903 
 
 Juvenile Court Committee 1904 
 
 Juvenile Protective Association . . . 1904 
 
 Juvenile Protective League 1904 
 
 Law and Order League, Chicago . . 1904 
 League for the Hard of Hearing, 
 
 Chicago 1916 
 
 Legislative Voters' League 1902 
 
 Little Sisters of the Poor 1876 
 
 Little Wanderer Day Nursery .... 1905 
 
 Martha Washington Home 1882 
 
 Morals Court 1913 
 
 Municipal Lodging House 1904 
 
 Municipal Voters' League 1896, 1900 
 
 Newsboys' and Bootblacks' 
 
 Association 1868 
 
 Northwestern University 
 
 Settlement 1897 
 
 Nursery and Half Orphan 
 
 Asylum, Chicago 1860 
 
 Old Ladies' Home 1861 
 
 Old People's Home 1861 
 
 Orphan Asylum, Chicago 1849 
 
 Prisoners' Aid Association 1882 
 
 Protestant Orphan Asylums 1849 
 
 Public Welfare of Cook County . . 1926 
 Red Cross American Association . . 1882 
 Relief and Aid Society, Chicago . . . 1857 
 
Index 145 
 
 Servite Sisters' Industrial Home 
 
 for Girls 1877 
 
 Sisters of Charity 1859 
 
 Sisters of the Good Shepherd .... 1859 
 
 Sisters of Mercy 1846, 1850 
 
 Society for Home Teaching 
 
 of the Blind 1883 
 
 Society of Social Hygiene 1906 
 
 Society of St. Vincent de Paul .... 1857 
 
 St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum 1849, 1864 
 
 St. Joseph's Home for the 
 
 Friendless 1878 
 
 St. Vincent's Infant Asylum 1882 
 
 Travelers' Aid Society 1914 
 
 Tuberculosis Institute, Chicago . . . 1906, 1909 
 
 Union League Foundation for 
 
 Boys' Club 1919 
 
 United Charities 1909 
 
 United Hebrew Relief Association. 1859 
 
 University of Chicago Settlement. .1894 
 
 Urban League, Chicago 1915 
 
 Visiting Nurse Association 1889 
 
 Washingtonian Association 1875 
 
 Washingtonian Home 1863 
 
 Washington Temperance Society . . 1840 
 
 W. C. T. U 1892, 1898 
 
 Wieboldt Foundation 1921 
 
 Y. M. C. A 1858, 1891, 1931 
 
 Y. W. C. A 1877 
 
 Society for Decorative Art, Chicago . . 1877 
 
 Society for Ethical Culture 1883 
 
 Society for Home Teaching of 
 
 the Blind 1883 
 
 Society of Jesus 1869 
 
146 Index 
 
 Society of the New Jerusalem 1843 
 
 Society of Social Hygiene 1906 
 
 Society of St. Vincent de Paul 1857 
 
 Soldier Field 1925, 1926 
 
 Sonnambula 1850 
 
 Sons of Liberty 1864 
 
 South Branch 1928 
 
 South Englewood 1890 
 
 South Market 1925 
 
 South Water Street . 1834 
 
 Southgate, Colonel 1892 
 
 Southwestern Plank Road 1848 
 
 Spaulding, A. G 1870 
 
 Speech correction 1910 
 
 Sperry, Elmer A 1930 
 
 Spitting 1901 
 
 Sproat, Grenville T 1833, 1834 
 
 Stadium, Chicago 1928, 1932 
 
 Stage coaches 1836 
 
 Standard Club 1869 
 
 Standard Oil 1907 
 
 Starr, Ellen Gates 1889 
 
 State Bank 1835 
 
 State constitution 1922 
 
 State Council of Defense 1917 
 
 State Microscopical Society 1868 
 
 State Superintendent of Prisons .... 1917 
 
 State's Attorney 1896 
 
 Statue of the Republic 1918 
 
 St. Cyr. Father 1833 
 
 St. Gaudens 1887 
 
 St. Ignatius College 1869, 1870, 1909 
 
 St. James Episcopal Church 1834, 1837 
 
 St. James Hospital 1854 
 
Index 147 
 
 St. Joseph's Home for the 
 
 Friendless 1878 
 
 St. Joseph's Hospital 1869 
 
 St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum 1849, 1864 
 
 St. Luke's Hospital 1864 
 
 St. Mary, College of 1844, 1846 
 
 St. Mary's Church 1833, 1843 
 
 St. Mary's Hospital 1866 
 
 St. Patrick's Church 1846 
 
 St. Paul's German Lutheran Church. .1846 
 St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal 
 
 Church 1863 
 
 St. Vincent de Paul, Society of 1857 
 
 St. Vincent's Infant Asylum 1882 
 
 St. Xavier's Academy 1846 
 
 Steamboat 1838, 1839 
 
 Stereotypers 1898 
 
 Steuben Club 1928 
 
 Stevenson, Adlai 1892 
 
 Stickney 1915 
 
 Stock, Frederick 1919 
 
 Stockyards 1868, 1904, 1906, 
 
 1914, 1934 
 
 Stone, John 1840 
 
 Storey, W. F 1861 
 
 Storrow, Judge Samuel A 1817 
 
 Strayer Commission 1932 
 
 Street cars 1859 
 
 Streeter, Captain George W 1886, 1921 
 
 Strike, street car 1922 
 
 Strikes — 
 
 Carpenters 1890 
 
 International Harvester Co 1916 
 
 Painters 1894 
 
148 Index f ; - 
 
 Plumbers 1890 
 
 Stereotypers 1898 
 
 Stockyards 1904 
 
 Street car 1922 
 
 Subnormal room 1900 
 
 Sullivan, Roger 1919 
 
 Sumner, Dean Walter T 1910 
 
 Sunday Evening Club 1907 
 
 Sunday School 1832 
 
 Superintendent of Schools 1853, 1854 
 
 Appendix, page 159 
 
 Surface car lines . 1913 
 
 Swanson Judge 1928 
 
 Swedenborg 1843 
 
 Sweitzer, Robert M 1935 
 
 Swift, Augustus F 1877 
 
 Swift, Gen. H. K 1861 
 
 Swing, Rev. David 1877 
 
 Swope, Rev. Cornelius 1851 
 
 Synagogue 1849 
 
 Taft, Lorado 1936 
 
 Taft, William Howard 1908, 1912 
 
 Taylor, Graham 1894 
 
 Teachers' Association 1850 
 
 Teachers' councils 1921 
 
 Teachers' Federation, Chicago 1897, 1902, 1916 
 
 Telegraph 1848 
 
 Telegraphic News Service 1849 
 
 Telephone and telegraph wires 1881 
 
 Telescope 1897 
 
 Temperance Temple 1892 
 
 Temple, Chicago 1922 
 
 Tennes, Monte 1910 
 
 Tenure of office for teachers 1917 
 
Index 149 
 
 Terry, Ellen 1885 
 
 Thanksgiving 1839 
 
 Theaters — 
 
 Academy of Music 1871 
 
 Auditorium 1889, 1910, 1918 
 
 Central Music Hall 1877, 1879 
 
 Columbia 1885 
 
 Crosby's Opera House 1865, 1868 
 
 Goodman 1925 
 
 Hooley's 1872 
 
 Mc Vicker's 1857, 1862 
 
 Rice's 1847 
 
 Theological Seminary, Chicago 1855, 1858 
 
 Thomas, Rev. H. W 1873, 1881 
 
 Thomas, Theodore 1869, 1877, 1890, 
 
 1891, 1904 
 Thompson-Crowe-Small-Galpin 
 
 machine 1928 
 
 Thompson, Dr. Mary Harris 1865, 1895 
 
 Thompson, William Hale 1900, 1915, 1927, 
 
 1928 
 
 333 North Michigan 1928 
 
 Tilden School 1900 
 
 Times, Chicago 1854, 1861, 1863, 
 
 1891, 1894 
 
 Times Herald 1894, 1895, 1901 
 
 Title and Trust Co., Chicago 1847 
 
 Tobacco 1849 
 
 Tomlins, William L 1875, 1882 
 
 Tompkins, Arnold 1900 
 
 Tonty, Henry 1698 
 
 Tornado 1896, 1912 
 
 Transcontinental railroads 1935 
 
 Transit House 1865 
 
150 Index 
 
 Travelers' Aid Society 1914 
 
 Traylor, Melvin A ' 1933 
 
 Treaties 1795, 1816, 1821, 
 
 1829, 1833, 1835 
 
 Tremont House 1833, 1839, 1840, 
 
 1850, 1858, 1860 
 
 Tremont Music Hall 1850, 1853 
 
 Tribune, Chicago 1840, 1847, 1848, 
 
 1871, 1895, 1922, 
 1928 
 
 Tribune Square 1922 
 
 Tribune Tower 1925 
 
 Truant officers 1865 
 
 Tuberculosis Institute, Chicago 1906, 1909 
 
 Tunnel Company, Chicago 1932 
 
 Tunnels 1864, 1865, 1866, 
 
 1869, 1870, 1872, 
 1892, 1899, 1906, 
 1907, 1932 
 
 Turngemeinde, Chicago 1853 
 
 Tuthill, Judge Richard S 1899 
 
 Twain, Mark 1879 
 
 Type foundry 1855 
 
 Typographical Union, Chicago 1850, 1852 
 
 Underground Railroad 1839 
 
 Undertakers 1854 
 
 Union Car Works 1852 
 
 Union Club 1878 
 
 Union College of Law 1879 
 
 Union League Club 1879, 1886 
 
 Union League Foundation for 
 
 Boys' Clubs 1919 
 
 Union Lodge 1844 
 
 Union Park 1853 
 
Index 151 
 
 Union Station 1921, 1936 
 
 Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. . . 1864 
 
 Union Stockyards 1865 
 
 Unitarian Church 1836, 1857 
 
 United Charities 1909 
 
 United Hebrew Relief Association . . 1859 
 United States Government Building. .1880 
 United States Life Saving Station . . . 1875 
 
 United States Marine Hospital 1850, 1852, 1867 
 
 United States Meat inspection 1891 
 
 United States Weather Bureau 1870 
 
 Unity Church 1857 
 
 Universalist Church 1836 
 
 University of Chicago 1857, 1889, 1892, 
 
 1897, 1905, 1907, 
 1909, 1924, 1931 
 University of Chicago Settlement .... 1894 
 
 Urban League, Chicago 1915 
 
 Utilities, Chicago 1935 
 
 Vacation schools 1896 
 
 Valentine Day Massacre 1929 
 
 Van Buren, Martin 1842, 1848 
 
 Van Buren street tunnel 1892 
 
 Van der Bogart 1834 
 
 Van Dine 1902 
 
 Van Schaack, Peter and Son 1844 
 
 Van Voorhis, Dr. Isaac 1811 
 
 Varnum, Jacob 1816 
 
 Vessels 1854, 1865 
 
 Veterinary College, Chicago 1883 
 
 Vice Commission, Chicago 1910, 1911, 1913 
 
 Visiting Nurse Association 1889 
 
 Volk, Leonard 1857, 1860 
 
 Volksfreund, Chicago 1845 
 
152 Index 
 
 Volunteers of America 1896 
 
 Wacker Drive 1926 
 
 Waldheim Cemetery 1874, 1887, 1893 
 
 Wales, Prince of 1860 
 
 Walker, Father Jesse 1826, 1830 
 
 War exhibition 1918 
 
 Ward, Captain Eber 1872 
 
 Ward, Montgomery 1890 
 
 Warren, Hooper 1836 
 
 Washington Heights 1890 
 
 Washington Park 1868 
 
 Washington Park Club 1883 
 
 Washington School 1865, 1869 
 
 Washington Square 1842 
 
 Washington street tunnel 1869 
 
 Washington Temperance Society .... 1840 
 
 Washingtonian Association 1875 
 
 Washingtonian Home 1863 
 
 Water tower 1867, 1869 
 
 Waterworks 1842, 1852, 1854 
 
 Watkins, John 1832 
 
 W. B. B. M 1923 
 
 W. C. F. L 1926 
 
 W. C. T. U 1892, 1898 
 
 Weather — 
 Rainfall- 
 Heaviest 1883 
 
 Lightest 1934 
 
 Temperature — 
 
 Highest 1934 
 
 Lowest 1872 
 
 Snowfall, heaviest 1908 
 
 Tornado 1896, 1912 
 
 Weather Bureau 1891, 1898 
 
Index 153 
 
 Wind velocity, highest 1894 
 
 Weather Bureau 1891, 1898 
 
 Webster, Daniel 1837 
 
 Webster and Gage 1857 
 
 Well 1834 
 
 Wells, Henry 1845 
 
 Wells, William H 1856 
 
 W. E. N. R 1925 
 
 Wentworth, D. S 1867 
 
 Wentworth, John 1836, 1839, 1843. 
 
 1857 
 
 Wesley Memorial Hospital 1888 
 
 West Division Railway, Chicago .... 1861 
 
 West Ridge 1893 
 
 West Roseland 1890 
 
 West Side Parks 1869 
 
 Western Herald 1846 
 
 Western News Co 1861 
 
 Western Society of Engineers 1869 
 
 W. G. N 1922 
 
 W. G. U 1922 
 
 Wheat 1838, 1856, 1897, 
 
 1898, 1909, 1935 
 
 Wheat cornered 1888 
 
 Whig 1840, 1847 
 
 Whistler, Captain John 1803, 1810 
 
 Whistler, Sarah 1804 
 
 White, John T. and Co 1855 
 
 White Sox 1906 
 
 Whitman, John L 1917 
 
 Wieboldt, W. A 1883 
 
 Wieboldt Foundation 1921 
 
 Wigwam 1860 
 
 Willard, Frances E 1898 
 
154 Index 
 
 Williams Bay 1897 
 
 Wind velocity 1894 
 
 W. L. S 1924 
 
 W. M. A. Q 1922, 1929 
 
 W. M. B. 1 1926 
 
 Wolfson, Carl 1872 
 
 Wolcott, Alexander 1819, 1823, 1826 
 
 Wolf Tavern 1829 
 
 Woman's City Club 1910 
 
 Woman's suffrage 1913 
 
 Women's Club, Chicago 1875 
 
 Women's Hospital Medical College . . 1870 
 
 Wood's Museum 1863 
 
 Workmen's Compensation Act 1913 
 
 World's Columbian Exposition 1893, 1918, 1931 
 
 Worthy (John) School 1896 
 
 Wright, John S 1835 
 
 Wrigley Building 1921, 1923 
 
 Yacht Club, Chicago 1875 
 
 Yates, Governor Richard 1861 
 
 Yellow Cab Co., Chicago 1935 
 
 Yerkes, Charles T 1886, 1887, 1897, 
 
 1899 
 
 Y. M. C. A 1858, 1891, 1931 
 
 Young, Ella Flagg 1899 
 
 Young Men's Association 1841 
 
 Y. W. C. A 1877 
 
 Zangara, Guiseppe 1932 
 
 Zoological Park, Chicago 1920, 1922, 1927, 
 
 1934 
 Zouaves, Chicago 1860 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 MAYORS 
 
 1. William B. Ogden 1837. 
 
 2. Buckner S. Morris 1838. 
 
 3. Benjamin F. Raymond . . .1839. 
 
 4. Alexander Lloyd 1840. 
 
 5. Francis C. Sherman 1841 . 
 
 6. Benjamin W. Raymond . . . 1842. 
 
 7. Augustus Garrett 1843 . 
 
 8. Alson S. Sherman 1844. 
 
 9. Augustus Garrett 1845. 
 
 10. John P. Chapin 1846. 
 
 11. James Curtiss 1847. 
 
 12. J. H. Woodworth 1848. 
 
 13. J. H. Woodworth 1849. 
 
 14. James Curtiss 1850. 
 
 15. Walter S. Gurnee 1851 . 
 
 16. Walter S. Gurnee 1852. 
 
 17. Charles M. Gray 1853. 
 
 18. Isaac L. Milliken 1854. 
 
 19. Levi D. Boone 1855. 
 
 20. Thomas Dyer 1856. 
 
 21. John Wentworth 1857. 
 
 22. John C. Haines 1858. 
 
 23. John C. Haines 1859. 
 
 24. John Wentworth 1860. 
 
 25. Julian S. Ramsey 1861 . 
 
 26. Francis C. Sherman 1862. 
 
 155 
 
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 . Democrat 
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 .Whig 
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 . Democrat 
 . Democrat 
 . Know-Nothing 
 . Democrat 
 . Republican 
 . Republican 
 . Republican 
 . Republican 
 . Republican 
 . Democrat 
 
156 Appendix 
 
 27. Francis C. Sherman 1863 . . . Democrat 
 
 28. John B. Rice .1865. . .Republican 
 
 29. John B. Rice 1867. . .Republican 
 
 30. Roswell B. Mason 1869. . .Peoples 
 
 31. Joseph Medill 1871 . . . Citizens 
 
 32. Harvey D. Colvin 1873. . .Peoples 
 
 33. Thomas Hoyne 1875 . . . Republican 
 
 34. Monroe Heath 1876. . .Republican 
 
 35. Monroe Heath 1877 . . . Republican 
 
 36. Carter H. Harrison 1879. . .Democrat 
 
 37. Carter H. Harrison 1881 . . . Democrat 
 
 38. Carter H. Harrison 1883 . . . Democrat 
 
 39. Carter H. Harrison 1885 . . . Democrat 
 
 40. John A. Roche 1887. . .Republican 
 
 41. De Witt C. Creiger 1889. . .Democrat 
 
 42. Hempsted Washburne .... 1891 . . . Republican 
 
 43. Carter H. Harrison 1893 . . . Democrat 
 
 44. John P. Hopkins 1893. . .Republican 
 
 45. George B. Swift 1895. . .Republican 
 
 46. Carter H. Harrison Jr 1897. . .Democrat 
 
 47. Carter H. Harrison Jr 1899. . .Democrat 
 
 48. Carter H. Harrison Jr 1901. . .Democrat 
 
 49. Carter H. Harrison Jr 1903 . . . Democrat 
 
 50. Edward F. Dunne 1905 . . . Democrat 
 
 51. Fred A. Busse 1907. . .Republican 
 
 52. Carter H. Harrison Jr 1911. . .Democrat 
 
 53. William H. Thompson . . .1915. . .Republican 
 
 54. William H. Thompson ... 1919. . .Republican 
 
 55. William E. Dever 1923. . .Democrat 
 
 56. William H. Thompson . . .1927. . .Republican 
 
 57. Anton J. Cermak 1931 . . .Democrat 
 
 58. Frank J. Corr 1933 . . . Democrat 
 
 59. Edward J. Kelly 1933. . .Democrat 
 
 60. Edward J. Kelly 1935 . . . Democrat 
 
Appendix 157 
 
 Presidents of the Board of Education 
 
 School Inspectors — 
 
 Peter Bolles 1839 to 1840 
 
 William Jones 1840 to 1843 
 
 Jonathan Y. Scammon 1843 to 1845 
 
 William Jones 1845 to 1848 
 
 Dr. E. S. Kimberly 1848 to 1849 
 
 Record for 1849 missing 
 
 Henry Smith 1850 to 1851 
 
 William Jones 1851 to 1852 
 
 Flavel Moseley 1852 to 1853 
 
 William H. Brown 1853 to 1854 
 
 Flavel Moseley 1854 to 1856 
 
 Board of Education — 
 
 Flavel Moseley 1856 to 1858 
 
 Luther Haven 1858 to 1860 
 
 John C. Dore 1860 to 1861 
 
 Samuel Hoard 1861 to 1862 
 
 John H. Foster Jan. to May 1862 
 
 Luther Haven 1862 to 1863 
 
 Walter L. Newberry 1863 to 1864 
 
 Levi B. Taft 1864 to 1865 
 
 Charles N. Holden 1865 to 1867 
 
 George C. Clarke 1867 to 1868 
 
 Lorenz Brentano 1868 to 1869 
 
 Samuel A. Briggs 1869 to 1870 
 
 William H. King 1870 to 1871 
 
 Eben F. Runyan 1871 to 1872 
 
 William H. King 1872 to 1874 
 
 John C. Richberg 1874 to 1876 
 
 William K. Sullivan 1876 to 1878 
 
 William H. Wells 1878 to 1879 
 
 Philip A. Hoyne 1879 to 1880 
 
158 Appendix 
 
 Martin A. De Lany 1880 to 1882 
 
 Norman Bridge 1882 to 1883 
 
 Adolf Kraus 1883 to 1884 
 
 James R. Doolittle 1884 to 1885 
 
 Adolf Kraus 1885 to 1886 
 
 Allan C. Story 1886 to 1888 
 
 Graeme Stewart 1888 to 1889 
 
 William G. Beale 1889 to 1890 
 
 Louis Nettlehorst 1890 to 1892 
 
 John Mc Laren 1892 to 1893 
 
 Alfred S. Trude 1893 to 1895 
 
 Daniel R. Cameron 1895 to 1896 
 
 Edward G. Halle 1896 to 1898 
 
 Graham H. Harris 1898 to 1902 
 
 Clayton Mark 1902 to 1903 
 
 Graham H. Harris 1903 to 1904 
 
 Clayton Mark 1904 to 1905 
 
 Edward Tilden 1905 to 1906 
 
 Emil W. Ritter 1906 to 1907 
 
 Otto C. Schneider 1907 to 1909 
 
 Alfred R. Urion 1909 to 1910 
 
 Dr. Jas. B. Mc Fatrich 1910 to 1913 
 
 Peter Reinberg 1913 to 1914 
 
 Michael J. Collins 1914 to 1916 
 
 Jacob M. Loeb 1916 to 1917 
 
 Edwin S. Davis 1917 to 1918 
 
 Jacob M. Loeb 1918 to 1919 
 
 Edwin S. Davis 1919 to 1922 
 
 Dr. John D. Robertson 1922 to 1923 
 
 Charles M. Moderwell 1923 to 1925 
 
 Edward B. Ellicott 1925 to 1926 
 
 Julius F. Smietanka 1926 to April 1927 (Acting) 
 
 Walter J. Raymer April 1927 to May 1927 
 
 J. Lewis Coath 1927 to 1928 
 
Appendix 159 
 
 H. Wallace Caldwell 1928 to 1930 
 
 Lewis E. Myers 1930 to 1933 
 
 Orville J. Taylor February 1933 to May 1933 
 
 James B. Mc Cahey 1933 to 
 
 Superintendents 
 
 Service Death 
 
 John C. Dore 1854—1856 1900 
 
 William H. Wells 1856—1864 1885 
 
 Josiah L. Pickard 1864—1877 1914 
 
 Duane Doty 1877—1880 1902 
 
 George Howland 1880—1891 1892 
 
 Albert G. Lane 1891—1898 1906 
 
 E. Benjamin Andrews 1898—1900 1917 
 
 Edwin G. Cooley 1900—1909 1923 
 
 Ella Flagg Young 1909—1915 1918 
 
 John D. Shoop 1915—1918. 1918 
 
 Charles E. Chadsey 1919 1930 
 
 Peter A. Mortenson 1919—1924 1937 
 
 William Mc Andrew 1924—1928 
 
 William J. Bogan 1928—1936 1936 
 
 William H. Johnson 1936— 
 
 Assistant and District Superintendents 
 
 George D. Broomell 1869—1870 
 
 Francis Hanford 1870—1875 
 
 Leslie Lewis 1875 
 
 Duane Doty 1875—1877 
 
 Edward C. Delano 1877—1907 
 
 John C. Burroughs 1883—1892 
 
 Elizabeth L. Hartney 1887—1896 
 
 Albert R. Sabin 1887—1902 
 
 Ella Flagg Young 1887—1899 
 
 James Hannan 1890—1900 
 
 Leslie Lewis 1890—1902 
 
160 Appendix 
 
 Augustus F. Nightingale 1890 — 1901 
 
 Alfred Kirk 1892—1906 
 
 William W. Speer 1894—1902 
 
 Albert G. Lane 1898—1906 
 
 M. Elizabeth Farson 1899 — 1902 
 
 Henry G. Clark 1900—1902 
 
 William C. Dodge 1900—1917 
 
 Lincoln P. Goodhue 1900—1902 
 
 Charles D. Lowry 1900—1934 
 
 William C. Payne 1900—1902 
 
 Ella C. Sullivan 1900—1930 
 
 Mary E. Baughen 1900—1902 
 
 Fred M. Sargent 1900—1902. . .Assistant 
 
 Charles P. Megan 1901—1913. . .Assistant 
 
 William M. Roberts 1902—1913. . .Assistant 
 
 Orville T. Bright 1908—1918. . .District 
 
 Minnie R. Cowan 1908—1930. . .District 
 
 Edward C. Rosseter 1908—1917. . .District 
 
 Henry C. Cox 1909—1917. . .District 
 
 Gertrude E. English 1909—1917. . .District 
 
 Rufus M. Hitch .1909—1925. . .District 
 
 Kate Starr Kellogg 1909—1916. . .District 
 
 John D. Shoop 1910—1916. . .First Assist. 
 
 William M. Roberts 1913—1917. . .District 
 
 Elizabeth W. Murphy 1913—1915. . .Assistant 
 
 Samuel B. Allison 1913—1917 . . . District 
 
 Elizabeth W. Murphy 1915—1924. . .District 
 
 Ernest E. Cole 1916—1917. . .District 
 
 Ernest E. Cole 1917—1923. . .Assistant 
 
 William M. Roberts 1917—1919. . .Assistant 
 
 Peter A. Mortengpn^.--. . .1917 — 1918. . .Assistant 
 Henry P. Clark ~12,W7??. . .1917— 1930. . .District 
 
 Martha V. Bishop "B 1917—1933. . .District 
 
 Frederick M. Sisson 1917 — 1919 . . . District 
 
Appendix 
 
 John H. Stube 1917—1931 . . 
 
 James E. Armstrong 1918—1919. . 
 
 Clarence E. De Butts 1919—1928. . 
 
 Morgan G. Hogge 1919—1928. . 
 
 Ambrose B. Wight 1919—1926. . 
 
 Henry S. Crane 1919—1921 . . 
 
 John A. Long 1919—1923. . 
 
 Jaroslav J. Zmrhal 1921 — 
 
 William J. Bogan /. 1924—1928. . 
 
 Elizabeth W. Murphy 1924—1928. . 
 
 William B. Owen 1924—1928. . 
 
 Charles C. Krauskopf 1924—1933.. 
 
 William Hedges 1924—1933. . 
 
 Joseph Gonnelly 1925—1933 . . 
 
 Arthur G. Deaver 1925—1933. . 
 
 Willis E. Tower 1926—1933. . 
 
 Jacob H. Hauch 1926—1932. . 
 
 Margaret Madden 1926—1928. . 
 
 James E. Mc Dade 1928— 
 
 Isabella Dolton 1928—1935. . 
 
 Charles J. Lunak 1928—1936. . 
 
 Rose A. Pesta 1928—1933. . 
 
 Benjamin F. Buck 1928—1935. . 
 
 Jane Neil 1928—1932. . 
 
 Morgan G. Hogge 1928—1934. . 
 
 Lillian M. Tobin 1928— 
 
 Joseph L. Bache 1928—1933. . 
 
 Daniel Beeby 1930— 
 
 Minnie E. Fallon 1931—1936. . 
 
 George F. Cassell 1934—1936. . 
 
 William H. Johnson 1935—1936. . 
 
 Frank L. Beals £€*$pl~8^ 
 
 George F. Cassell 1936tr- ; 
 
 Minnie E. Fallon 1936— . . 
 
 161 
 
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162 Appendix 
 
 GOVERNORS OF ILLINOIS 
 
 Party Inauguration 
 
 1. Shadrach Bond . . . .Democrat. . .October 8, 1818 
 
 2. Edward Coles Democrat . . . December 5, 1822 
 
 3. Ninian Edwards . . .Democrat. . .December 6, 1826 
 
 4. John Reynolds .... Democrat . . . December 6, 1830 
 
 Resigned November 17, 1834, to become Representative 
 in Congress. 
 
 5. William L.D.Ewing. Democrat. . .November 17, 1834 
 
 6. Joseph Duncan .... Democrat . . . December 3, 1834 
 
 7. Thomas Carlin .... Democrat . . . December 7, 1838 
 
 8. Thomas Ford Democrat . . . December 8, 1842 
 
 9. Augustus C. French . Democrat . . . December 9, 1846 
 
 Governor French was reelected under Constitution of 1848. 
 
 10. Augustus C. French . Democrat . . . January 8, 1849 
 
 11. Joel A. Matteson. . .Democrat. . .January 10, 1853 
 
 12. William H. Bissell . Republican . January 12, 1857 
 
 Governor Bissell died March 15, 1860 and was succeeded 
 by John Wood, Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 13. John Wood Republican. .March 31, 1860 
 
 14. Richard Yates .... Republican .. January 14, 1861 
 
 15. Richard J. Oglesby . Union January 16, 1865 
 
 16. John M. Palmer . . .Republican. .January 11, 1869 
 
 17. Richard J. Oglesby . Republican .. January 13, 1873 
 
 Governor Oglesby resigned January 23, 1873, to become 
 United States Senator and was succeeded by John 
 L. Beveridge, Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 18. John L. Beveridge. .Republican. .January 23, 1873 
 
 19. Shelby M. Cullom. .Republican. January 8, 1877 
 
 20. Shelby M. Cullom. .Republican. January 10, 1881 
 
 Governor Cullom resigned February 8, 1883, to become 
 United States Senator and was succeeded by John 
 M. Hamilton, Lieutenant Governor. 
 
Appendix 163 
 
 21. John M. Hamilton. .Republican. .February 6, 1883 
 
 22. Richard J. Oglesby . Republican .. January 30, 1885 
 
 23. Joseph W. Fifer ... Republican .. January 14, 1889 
 
 24. John P. Altgeld . . .Democrat. . . January 10, 1893 
 
 25. John R. Tanner ... Republican .. January 11, 1897 
 
 26. Richard Yates .... Republican .. January 14, 1901 
 
 27. Charles S. Deneen. .Republican. .January 9, 1905 
 
 28. Charles S. Deneen . . Republican . . January 18, 1909 
 
 29. Edward F. Dunne. .Democrat. . . February 3, 1913 
 
 30. Frank 0. Lowden. .Republican. .January 8, 1917 
 
 31. Len Small Republican. .January 10, 1921 
 
 32. Len Small Republican. .January 12, 1925 
 
 33. Louis L. Emmerson . Republican . . January 14, 1929 
 
 34. Henry Horner . . . .Democrat. . . January 9, 1933 
 
 35. Henry Horner . . . .Democrat . . .January 11, 1937 
 
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