Fire Gutts Tenement After Three Alarm Blaze
A three alarm fire gutted a tenement at 6041-43 Woodlawn causing about $20,000 in damage. The blaze started in the basement and the cause was undetermined. Most occupants were away. one woman was escorted out by firefighters. The building had 82 city ordinance violations cited by Julian Levi of the South East Chicago Commission.
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Woodlawn
Allen Stessman
Julian Levi
South East Chicago Commission
Building Bureau
Housing Bureau
Witness Describes Thanksgiving Eve Slaying Gang
A grammar school girl testified she watched the assault that killed Lester Wolf in his Blackstone area shop. She gave police unusually detailed descriptions of a five man gang. Lt. Mullen spoke at a Hyde Park meeting noting little other evidence and urging citizen help.
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Lester Wolf
Blackstone
Wolf
Billings
James Mullen
Arnold Abrams
Hyde Park Kenwood Conference Names Irving Horwitz Executive Director
At the Hyde Park Kenwood Community Conference 11th annual meeting Harry N. Gottlieb announced Irving Horwitz as executive director designating January start. Horwitz, 5400 Harper, currently leads relocation for the Pur due Calumet Development Foundation at East Chicago and has served as conference block director and assistant director. He holds BA and MA degrees in political science from the University of Chicago and has resided in Hyde Park for 10 years.
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Hyde Park-Kenwood
Harry N. Gottlieb
Irving Horwitz
Harper
Horwitz
Purdue-Calumet Development Foundation
East Chicago
University of Chicago
Hyde Park
Ozzie Bacal
Dorchester
Harry Borshow
Gottlieb
39Th
47Th Streets
South Side
Woodlawn
Community Conservation Board
Daily News
CCB
Philip Hauser
Chicago
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Carl Christiansen
Christiansen
Irene Blankner
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Mullen
Thomas Egan
Ben Piller
Hyde Park Station
George V. Bobrinskov
Hal Baron
E. 48Th
James Hufford
Kimbark
Gale
52Nd
Joyce
Ed Gourfain
Yale
Hyde Park High School
PTA
Lester Asher
Wagner
E. M. Goldman
Slingston
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