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Kiddieland Amusement Park (stylized as " KiDDieLAND ") was an amusement park located at the corner of North Avenue and First Avenue in Melrose Park, Illinois. It was home to several classic rides including the Little Dipper roller coaster, which opened in 1950. The park closed on September 27, 2009, and was demolished in 2010 to make way for a ...
The 1950 CTA Streetcar Crash, also known as the Green Hornet Streetcar Disaster, occurred on May 25, 1950, when a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) streetcar collided with a gasoline truck in Chicago, Illinois, United States. [1] The resulting explosion killed 34 people and injured 50 others, remaining one of the most deadly public transit ...
School fire. Cause. Not officially determined. Deaths. 95. On Monday, December 1, 1958, a fire broke out at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, shortly before classes were to be dismissed for the day. The fire originated in the basement near the foot of a stairway. The elementary school was operated by the Archdiocese of Chicago ...
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the Union Stockyards was Vanderbilt ...
773: Chicago, covers most of the geographical area of Chicago except the downtown Chicago Loop, which is in area code 312. 815/779: Northern Illinois outside of the immediate Chicago area including Joliet, Kankakee, LaSalle, DeKalb, and Rockford. Area code 815 was overlaid with area code 779 in 2007. 847/224: North and northwest suburbs of ...
PCC streetcar, Chicago, 1950. 1950 Chess Records in business. [47] Population: 3,620,962. This was the peak of Chicago's population, which has been declining ever since. [48] 1953: American Indian Center, the oldest urban Native American center in the United States, opened. 1954: Johnson Products Company in business.
0–9. 1950 Chicago streetcar crash. 1950 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. 1950 NBA draft. 1951 Chicago mayoral election. 1951 NFL draft. 1952 Democratic National Convention. 1952 Republican National Convention. 1955 Chicago mayoral election.
The Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan were a pair of American named passenger trains operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. They ran between Chicago, Illinois and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The trains were introduced as a Chicago– Wichita service in 1938 and extended to Oklahoma City (with Dallas through sleepers) the next year. A ...