Glessner House Opens First Exhibition on McCormick Place Link
The Glessner House at 1800 Prairie Ave opens its first exhibition titled McCormick Place on the Lake. The Chicago School of Architecture Foundation hosts the event three months after landmark status. CSA plans to turn the house into a historic institution.
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Chicago Commission On Historical and Architectural Landmarks
Glessner
Prairie Ave
McCormick Place
Chicago School of Architecture Foundation
Glessner House
CSA
Chicago's Oldest Community Newspaper 1971 Flyer
January 20 1971 issue notes price 15c per copy and 4.56 yearly by mail with header proclaiming the paper as Chicago's oldest community newspaper and dated publication info.
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Chicago
Hyde Park YMCA open house invites community Sunday
Hyde Park YMCA hosts a 1 30 p m open house led by chairman Winston E Kennedy inviting the public to tour the facility. The event showcases education senior programs Camp Martin Johnson Ward Hills ski area swimming lifesaving diving and swim instruction with demonstrations in karate basketball judo floor hockey gymnastics and roller skating. Free guest passes are issued to all visitors and admission is free.
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Hyde Park
Ward Hills
Counts
Jones and Spurlarks
Bayers
Paynes
Swans
Adrian Irving
Spencer Parsons
Thomas Fitzgerald
Roger Craig
Wests
Joe Field
Saving the CU a tribute to community people
The Hyde Park Co-op Credit Union adopts Wednesday hours 11 am to 5 pm and 9 to 5 Saturday emphasizing resilience after a near collapse in 1969. Manager Wesley Honeycutt recalls delinquency issues, a 500+ member meeting, and a 70 cent on the dollar recovery plan that restored operations by 1970 with 1 percent dividend and renewed loans.
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Credit Union
Hyde Park Co-op
Wesley Honeycutt
The
Herald
Honeycutt
Texas
Richard D. Jaffe
Hyde Park
Minnesota
Chicago pollution board schedules hearings on strict SO2 rules
Ill. Pollution Control board submits an implementation plan aiming to curb sulphur dioxide and particulates in the Chicago region. A key item bans residential coal and residual oil heating within Hyde Park Kenwood and imposes vehicle emission limits and odorous matter controls. Public hearings run Feb 3 4 5 and 19 at 10 am on the University of Illinois Chicago Circle campus with Hyde Park Kenwood residents urged to attend or comment. Copies are at 189 W. Madison. call 793-3620 for details.
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Ald
Leon M. Despres
The
Ill. Pollution Control Board
Chicago
Hyde Park
Kenwood
Chicago Circle
University of Illinois
Steven Klein
the Pollution Control Board
W. Madison
Klein
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Landmark
Prairie
Hyde Parkers
Fifth Ward
Marian Despres
John Jacob Glessner
International Harvester
Henry Hobson Richardson
Boston
Andersons
Crewdsons
Koppelmans
Gordon Humphrey
Florence Lassers
Betty Atkins
Nickey Will
Ann Tyskling
Hyde Park-Kenwood
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