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5 hours ago · Oz Park. This magical park, created in honor of The Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, is a must-visit for fans of the book and movie. Located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, you can enjoy ...
1 day ago · Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
1 day ago · LAKE FOREST, IL (AP) — Chicago Bears rookie quarterback Caleb Williams emerged from his first exposure to veteran NFL players at organized team activities and minicamp with a greater ...
1 day ago · Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (sometimes called "Herb Alpert and the TJB") in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss.
1 day ago · The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) [a] is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
1 day ago · In 2014, G. K. Chesterton Academy of Chicago, a Catholic high school, opened in Highland Park, Illinois. [118] A fictionalised G. K. Chesterton is the central character in the Young Chesterton Chronicles , a series of young adult adventure novels by John McNichol, [119] [120] and in the G K Chesterton Mystery series , a series of detective novels by the Australian author Kel Richards .
1 day ago · t. e. Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of ...
