After all these years, you may be able to find who you’ve been looking for. Barry Fleig, a cemetery historian and member of the Chicago Genealogists Society, has spent the past 20 years sifting through documents to create a searchable database of the people buried at Cook County Cemetery. Nearly 38,000 people are buried at the site…
Remembering Adventurer Sir Edmund Hillary
Celebrate Sir Edmund Hillary's 95th birthday by visiting your local library and checking out some mountaineering books. Why risk altitude sickness and frostbite when you can enjoy a mountaineering adventure from the comfort of your favorite chair? These reads will have you feeling lighted-headed and exhilarated, just as Sir Edmund Hillary must have felt when…
2013 Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup Champions
The 2012-2013 NHL season got off to a late start. The collective bargaining agreement had expired, and the players' union and the owners couldn't agree on new contract. The lockout lasted almost three months, effectively cancelling 34 regular season games. This long delay proved magical for the Chicago Blackhawks. During the first 24 games of…
1991 Chicago Bulls Won NBA Championship
When one door closes, another opens. That about sums up the 1991 NBA championship. The door closed on "Showtime" and the Los Angeles Lakers. Prior to the Lakers and Bulls meeting in the NBA finals, the Lakers had won five championships in the 1980s. While the Lakers' dominance was coming to a close, the Chicago…
1905 1st Chicago Marathon
Chicago's first marathon was run on September 23, 1905. The newly created Illinois Athletic Club sponsored the event. Fifteen runners were to participate in the inaugural event. The race included 1904 marathon silver medalist Albert Corey as well as 17-year-old Sidney Hatch, a silver medalist from a 1904 relay team. The race was set to…
1934 Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup Champions
The Chicago Blackhawks had a less than stellar regular season leading up to the 1934 playoffs, winning 20 games, losing 17 and tying 11. That was enough to get them in the postseason, though. In the first round they faced the Montreal Canadiens. Playoff series were only two games in those days. The goals from…
1910 Comiskey Park Opened
Charles Comiskey was the first owner of the Chicago White Sox. He purchased 15 acres of land between 34th and 35th streets, and Wentworth and Shields avenues, used by the city for a landfill. Comiskey commissioned Zachary Taylor Davis to build him and his club a stadium. Davis was a recent graduate of the nearby…
Black Sox Scandal: How the 1919 White Sox Threw the World Series
After World War I, Major League Baseball's popularity reached new heights. Some of its biggest new fans were gamblers, and they found willing associates in the clubhouse on the South Side of Chicago. Many of the 1919 Chicago White Sox weren't too fond of their owner, Charles Comiskey, who was notorious for being cheap. (Players…
1917 White Sox World Series Championship
The Chicago White Sox met the New York Giants in the 1917 World Series. (In 1917 there were two professional sports teams in New York going by the same name. Surely this caused confusion during water cooler talks until 1957 when the Giants moved to San Francisco.) Charles Comiskey had his White Sox decked out in…
1914 Wrigley Field Built
The intersection of Clark and Addison was a sparse part of town in the early 20th century. The wide open space would quickly change with the opening of the Addison el station in June 1900 and the sale of the land then occupied by the Lutheran Theological Seminary. In June 1909, Charles Havenor, owner of…
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