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The Mayor's Revenge

Sometimes politics, especially when money ...

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The Mayor's Revenge

Sometimes politics, especially when money is involved, can take a nasty turn, but rare is the occasion that a mayor physically attacks another citizen... and with a club and a stiletto no less!

This is what happened on ...

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Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Reservation Marker - Northeast Corner

Treaty of 1821 and the Marking of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Reservation
 
The land cession made by the 1821Treaty of Chicago was the first that directly affected the Ottawa and Pottawatomi who lived along ...

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Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Reservation Marker - Southeast Corner

Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish and the Treaty of Greenville (1795)
 
With the1795 Treaty of Greenville, the Anish'na'abe and other tribes ceded to the United States their land east of the Wabash and Miami Rivers. First ...

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The Wigwam

The Wigwam was a temporary two-story meeting hall built by Chicago's business leadersto house the 1860Republican National Convention. The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln to be the president of the United States

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Winslow Warf Marina/Hall Brothers Shipyard

Hall Brothers Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company was once one of the best-known makers of wooden ships on the Pacific Coast. Located on the northern shore of Eagle Harbor, the former site of the shipyard is now the Winslow Wharf ...

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Pneumatic Tubes at the Chicago Federal Building

A network of tunnels for pneumatic mail-transport tubes once buzzed with activity under the block now occupied by Chicago’s John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, Post Office, and Plaza. The post office housed in the old Chicago Federal Building, which ...

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The American National Bank Building

Seville Tower, originally called the American National Bank Building, was designed by J.E.R. Carpenter in 1908 in the commercial style, is a product of a "boom" period in Pensacola's economy when local businessmen promoted the city as a potentialimport and ...

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The Dillingham Siblings

Deaf Matrons and Teachers

Abigail Dillingham enrolled at the American School for the Deaf (ASD) as part of the first class in 1817. She was already 31 years old when she started school and graduated in 1821. ...

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The Whipple Home School for Deaf-Mutes

Different Views for Deaf Education

Jonathan Whipple successfully taught lip-reading and speech to his deaf son Enoch and paved the way for oral schools in Connecticut. Inspired by this success, his grandson, Zerah C. Whipple, developed his own method of ...

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The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Dedication to Education

Daniel Wadsworth supported Dr. Mason Cogswell’s dream for a deaf education from its inception. In 1815, he was amongst a handful of gentlemen Cogswell invited to his home to discuss the idea for a school and became ...

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