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Man's Country was a chain of bathhouses and private clubs for gay men in Chicago and New York City. Man's Country/Chicago opened at 5015–5017 North Clark Street in Chicago on September 19, 1973, and held the title of Chicago's longest-running gay bathhouse when it closed in 2017.
Chicago City SC. Chicago City SC is an American soccer club based out of Chicago. The organization has two senior teams, with the men's team playing in USL League Two as a member of the Heartland Division and the women's team playing in the USL W League as a member of the Heartland Division. CITY also fields a team in the Midwest Premier League .
Wigwam (Chicago) Coordinates: 41°53′7.3″N 87°38′11.2″W. The Wigwam - 1860 Republican National Convention. The Wigwam was a convention center and meeting hall that served as the site of the 1860 Republican National Convention. [1] It was located in Chicago, Illinois, at Lake Street and Market (later Wacker Drive) near the Chicago River ...
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable [n 1]; before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois. Recognized as the city's founder, [7] the site where he settled near the ...
Holabird & Roche. The City Hall-County Building, commonly known as City Hall, is a 12-story building in Chicago, Illinois that houses the seats of government of the City of Chicago and Cook County. [1] [2] The building's west side (City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St.) [3] holds the offices of the mayor, city clerk, and city treasurer; some city ...
The Chicago Transit Authority ( CTA) is the operator of mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and CTA bus service. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 279,146,200, or about 908,400 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023. The CTA is an Illinois independent ...
Raising of Chicago. During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the grade of central Chicago to lift the city out of its low-lying swampy ground. Buildings and sidewalks were physically raised on jackscrews. The work was funded by private property owners and public funds.
20,000. Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, doing business as CPKC, is a Canadian railway holding company that resulted from the merger of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) on April 14, 2023. It is the first and currently the only single-line railway connecting Canada, Mexico, and the United States, operating ...
The City Treasurer’s Office is the custodian and manager of all cash and investments for the City of Chicago, the four City employee pension funds, and the Chicago Teacher’s Pension Fund. Additionally, the Treasurer’s Office manages a number of programs that promote financial education and small business growth in Chicago’s neighborhoods.
WPAT / WGBB / WFAS. ( Marv Albert, John Andariese) < 1983–84. 1985–86 >. The 1984–85 NBA season was the Knicks' 39th season in the NBA. [1] Bernard King injured his knee on March 25 and was put on injured reserve, ending his season. He was forced to sit out the next year. Before the injury, King scored 60 points in a Christmas Day game ...