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unusual facts about City of Chicago



Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund

Since 1941, IMRF has provided employees of local governments and school districts in Illinois (with the exception of the City of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois) with a sound and efficient system for the payment of retirement, disability, and death benefits.


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Adolph Kiefer

In the 1960s he worked with Mayor Richard J. Daley to build swimming-pools across the inner city of Chicago, providing the facilities needed for thousands of children to learn to swim.

Arthur W. Cutten

After studying at Guelph Collegiate, in 1888 a young Arthur Cutten left home, making his way to the United States where he settled in the rapidly growing city of Chicago.

Arvey

Jacob Arvey (1895–1977), political leader in the city of Chicago, Illinois

Barat College

Jane Byrne, former mayor of the City of Chicago, is a graduate of Barat College.

Chicago 21

The Chicago 21 Plan, a 1970s urban renewal plan for the city of Chicago

Chicago Temple Building

The temple is located at the southeast corner of Clark and Washington Street across from the Richard J. Daley Center which houses offices for the offices for the city of Chicago and Cook County courts and the Chicago Picasso.

Douglas, Chicago

Bronzeville is a neighborhood located in the Douglas and Grand Boulevard community areas on the South Side of the City of Chicago around the Illinois Institute of Technology and Illinois College of Optometry.

Harvey, Illinois

Harvey was originally intended as a model town for Christian values and was one of the Temperance Towns; it was closely modeled after the company town of Pullman, which eventually was annexed into the city of Chicago.

Herman Kogan

Herman Kogan (November 6, 1914 - March 8, 1989) was a Jewish-American journalist who spent fifty years covering the city of Chicago, many with the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times.

Johnny Kerr

February 10, 2009 was declared Johnny Red Kerr Appreciation Day in the city of Chicago by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Joseph K. Edgerton

Edgerton also served as president of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad and the Ohio Railroad, which were constructed to connect major cities of the Midwest, especially the booming industrial city of Chicago, through which many natural resources flowed to the East.

Joseph Regenstein

Joseph Regenstein (1889–1957) was an American industrialist whose philanthropy benefited the city of Chicago, especially the University of Chicago, where the Regenstein Library is named in his memory.

Lawndale, Chicago

Lawndale may refer to either of two neighborhoods on the far west side of the city of Chicago.

Mitts

Emma Mitts, alderman of the 37th ward of the City of Chicago

Nancy Chunn

Chicago Library Uptown Branch, Chicago, IL, permanent installation painting, commissioned by the City of Chicago, 1993-1995.

Raymond R. Schumacher

Raymond Richard Schumacher (15 Apr 1924 Chicago - 04 Nov 1973 Oak Lawn,IL) served in the Army Air Force during World War II, played as a fullback for the Chicago Bears after the war, and later worked as civil engineer for the City of Chicago.

Robert Blanchon

While in Chicago, Blanchon was an active participant in the non-profit art scene, curating exhibitions at N.A.M.E. gallery, contributing to Tony Tasset, et al.'s artist project Anonymous Museum, and designing a poster for the City of Chicago's billboard campaign Art Against AIDS: On the Road.

Robert Kennicott

Kennicott was born in New Orleans and grew up in "West Northfield" (now Glenview), Illinois, a town in the prairie north of the then nascent city of Chicago.

Six Days or Forever?

Ginger, later a Professor of History at Brandeis, Wayne State University, and the University of Calgary and at the time a New York trade book editor, had written about Eugene Debs and the city of Chicago in the time of John Peter Altgeld before tackling the Scopes trial.

We Believe: Chicago and Its Cubs

We Believe: Chicago and its Cubs is a 2009 documentary film about the city of Chicago and her enduring love for the Chicago Cubs directed by John Scheinfeld (The U.S. vs. John Lennon).

Woodlawn, Illinois

Woodlawn, Chicago, a neighborhood in the south side of the City of Chicago