The modernist building of Temple Israel, on 44th and St. Lawrence Streets. After merging with B'nai Shalom, this also served as the synagogue of B'nai Shalom Temple Israel.
1869-1889
Tarrant & Co. was established in 1834 and formed a partnership with Johann Hoff in 1869. Johann Hoff’s Malt Extract had been marketed as a medicinal tonic since its invention in 1847; Tarrant & Co. became the sole agent for the product…
"Each lot in this subdivision is for all purposes perpetually restricted to the Caucasian race."(Source: Plat #10053219, Platbook 261, Page 4. Approved: May 2, 1928. Recorded: June 12, 1928. Expired: January 1, 1980)Back to Restricted Chicago…
In a clip from the documentary Studs on a Soapbox (2000), Studs Terkel talks about Chicago-style television of the 1940s and '50s, and in particular his show Studs' Place, a live sitcom set in a Chicago diner.
A group of African American students demonstrate against the Board of Education in front of the Picasso sculpture where a few of them are wearing masks and hovering over a coffin with the “Board of Education” painted on it.
A 1903 advertisement for the Streator bottle and glass Company in Streator, Illinois, boasting their wine and liquor bottles would not break in shipment (as their competitors’ bottles would).
RRH
"Freedom of conscience and of worship is the cornerstone of the foundation of our nation. There is no 'official' church in this country; indeed, it is indisputable that many of our forebears [**10] came to America to escape the established church and…
