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John Winthrop: Founder's Memorial
John Winthrop (1588-1649) was an English aristocrat and th...
James Otis, Jr.
James Otis, Jr. (1725-1782) was a prominent lawyer and def...
Dr. Joseph Warren
Dr. Joseph Warren (1741-1775) came from an average middle-...
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) was a self-taught man,...
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) was born and raise...
John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) was the son of Irish imm...
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John Winthrop: Founder's Memorial
John Winthrop (1588-1649) was an English aristocrat and the only son to a lord. He married numerous times and became a widower. His wife Margaret by all accounts was the love of his life. Altogether, Winthrop had 16 children between ...
James Otis, Jr.
James Otis, Jr. (1725-1782) was a prominent lawyer and defender of colonial rights living and working in Boston. Born in a town outside of Boston, Otis was educated at Harvard and shortly after graduating he started working under a leading ...
Dr. Joseph Warren
Dr. Joseph Warren (1741-1775) came from an average middle-class farming family not far from Boston. He attended school and then at the age of fourteen he went to Harvard and graduated with his medical degree. It is through being a ...
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) was a self-taught man, who loved to read. Through his love of reading he was able to become an inventor, statesman, and famous intellectual. He was born in Boston to a soap maker who eventually fathered seventeen ...
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) was born and raised in Boston by a mixed race family. Her family was religious, her father helped found a Boston Zion church. The family was also considered one of the most well off and ...
John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) was the son of Irish immigrants, but was a native-born Bostonian. After his father passed away at an early age, his mother remarried a London trained engraver. By having an artist in the family, Copley was ...
Benito Juarez Statue
Heriberto Galindo, the consul general of Mexico in Chicago, presented this statue of Mexican president
Jane Byrne Park
Jane Byrne Park was dedicated in 2014 in honor of Chicago's first female mayor. The location was chosen for its proximity to Byrne’s longtimeStreetervilleapartment, which overlooked the park.
Byrne defeated incumbent mayor ...
Mary Richardson Jones Park
In 2005, the Chicago Park District renamed this park to honor Mary Richardson Jones, a prominent abolitionist and women's rights advocate who lived with her husband John in Chicago during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Uwajimaya
Uwajimaya is the largest Asian supermarket in North America. The store has a long history in Seattle and connects the city to places and producers across the Pacific.
Uwajimaya founder Fujimatsu Moriguchi immigrated to Seattle in 1923, where he ...
