Chicago Police Explorer Posts Reach All 20 Districts
The Chicago police department sponsors Explorer Posts for youths in all 20 districts with three posts on the West-Northwest Side. Aimed at teen boys, the program is open to any eligible youth and funds semi monthly meetings. Activities include tours of police headquarters the county jail the shooting range state police headquarters the FBI and the CIA. Participants must maintain a passing school average and meet humane standards.
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Chicago Police Department
Chicago
Jim
FBI
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Austin
Fillmore
Shakespeare
America
Development of physical fitness and explorer oath
The text outlines explorer posts each creating its own code and requiring members to take an oath. It lists applicant criteria: resident of the district, no serious police record, physically sound, and a high school student not older than 18.
Shopping plaza at Chicago and Pulaski plans revealed
Readers learn details on a proposed 642 acre shopping plaza at the southwest corner of Chicago and Pulaski. Farr Chinnock and Sampson Inc. hopes to start construction around Sept 1 1969 with a 1970 opening. exact store count and ownership not yet available.
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Chicago
Pulaski
T.G
Chicago and North Western
Kinzie
Farr, Chinnock and Sampson, Inc
Wayne Maxwell
Farr, Chinnock and Sampson Real Estate
Chicago and
Zone Board To Hear Four Area Zoning Cases
The Chicago zoning board will hold public hearings in Seminar room LL 155 at the Civic Center on Dec 19 at 9 30 a.m. Cases include a second story addition at 683642 North, a parking lot at 357981 Fullerton, and two appeals over denials of permits for conversion and auto repair uses at Humboldt and Sawyer locations.
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Chicago Zoning Board
Civic Center
John T. Egan
Zoning Board
Bergit Stockdal
N. Humbolt
A. Simon Lewkowicz
N. Sawyer
Had the Preserver of Mans' Services at Fifteenth Church
The Bible Lesson Sermon in Christian Science churches this week features the verse about angels guarding in all paths. The service titled Had the Preserver of Mans' Services will be read at Fifteenth Church of Christ Scientist located at 301 N Central and begins at 10 45 a m All are welcome.
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Church of Christ, Scientist
N. Central
Dual Route Likely For Area Section of Crosstown Xway
The Crosstown expressway is likely to follow a two lane design across its length with a 44 mile wide corridor. The South Side segment around Cicero will use eight lanes southbound and four lanes northbound four blocks east. Educational parks and magnet schools are planned near Cross town Eisenhower area. City officials expect announcements on other stretches early in 1969.
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Cortez
Augusta
C. G
Board of Health
30Th Ward Bureau of Sanitation
Ward Yard
Big Bertha
Crosstown
Kennedy
Cicero
Milton Piarsky
Department of Public Works
Dramatic Fire Rescue Captured by Community Photographer
Photos by Bill Holman show firefighters pulling Gary Dascher from a burning 2718 N Spaulding building after a roof collapse trapped him for over three hours. Dascher survived initially but died hours later from injuries and smoke inhalation in a North Side hospital.
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Bill Holman
N. Spaulding
Gary Dascher
Dascher
Dashher
North Side
Services Held For Long Time Local Resident
Funeral services for Edwin Larsen 50 will be held 12 noon to 1 pm at St James Lutheran church. Interment follows at Arlington cemetery. Larsen, longtime Northwest Side resident, died after heart surgery December 6 at St Francis hospital Evanston. He lived at 1722 N Ridgeway with his mother Alexandria. Survived by widow Sylvia three sons Terry David Steven mother five brothers and two sisters and two grandchildren Nancy and Scott. Donations to Heart fund requested. Larsen was a member of Park Ridge post 3779 Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Edwin Larsen
St. James Lutheran Church
Foster
Arlington Cemetery
Larsen
Northwest Side
St Francis Hospital
Evanston
Noridge
N. Ridgeway
Alexandria
Sylvia
Terry
David
Steven
Alexander
Charles
William
Raymond
John
Mildren Zetlitz
Ruth Larkin
Nancy
Scott
Heart Fund
Park Ridge Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
St Timothy Lutheran Church Plans Christmas Gala Schedule
St Timothy Lutheran Church 2106 Kildare announces a Dec 14 Christmas party at 5 30 p m with punch and canapes dinner grab bag and reservations via Mrs Leth HU 3 4346 due today The next day at 3 30 pm the nursery and grades will present programs followed by a 7 pm performance for grades 2 6 On Dec 22 at 1043 am the high school will show a film with refreshments The sequence closes with a candlelight service at 11 pm Christmas Eve and festival worship at dawn on Christmas Day.
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St. Timothy Lutheran Church
Kildare
Leth, HU
Rbibte Denutmen
Christ
Au Am On
Christmady
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Festival of the Lights
Shalom Fineberg
Congregation
B’nai Israel
Jackson
Willie
Community Publications
Chicago Ave
Chicago, TN
Joseph Tobin
Bundesen Health Center
Garfield Park Gold Dome
N. Central Park
Adult Health Department
Tobin
Visiting Nurse Association
Logan Square
YMCA
Fullerton
North Crawford
Chamber of Commerce
Midway Airport
Brach’s Candy
Kinzie and
Kilpatrick
Board of Education
Crosstown-Eisenhower
St.Timothy's
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