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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RZ7_thomas-edwin-greenfield-ransom_Chicago-IL.html
Born Norwich Vt.
Nov. 29, 1834
Died Near Rome Ga.
Oct. 29, 1864
Charleston · Ft. Donelson
Shiloh · Corinth
Champion Hills Miss
Vicksburg
Pleasant Hill La
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RZ5_frances-e-willard_Chicago-IL.html
Founder of the World's
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RYY_florsheim-shoe-company-building_Chicago-IL.html
This building is a significant early 20th-century industrial building built for one of Chicago's best-known manufacturers. Founded and headquartered in the city for many years, the Florsheim Shoe Company was one of the nation's leading shoe manufa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RYW_sauganash-veterans-memorial_Chicago-IL.html
Dedicated to the
men and women of Sauganash
who served their country in
1941 · World War II · 1945
[Honor Roll of Veterans]
[Died in Service]
Lemuel Day · J. Donald Gibe
John T. Hartney · Elmer Julius
…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QNH_palmer-house-hotel_Chicago-IL.html
This massive hotel, once the world's largest, bears the name of Potter Palmer, one of Chicago's most important businessmen. It is designed in the Classical Revival style with French Neoclassical influences. Interior spaces of note include the gran…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MU2_site-of-absolem-wells-cabin_Chicago-Heights-IL.html
Site of
Absolem Wells Cabin
1833
First Settler
Southern Cook County
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MU1_dixie-highway-connected-chicago-to-miami-in-the-early-days-of-automobile-travel_Homewood-IL.html
Following a path worn by buffalo, Native Americans traveled the length of the eastern border of Illinois. French fur trapper-traders utilized the same trail. Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, a fur trader for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Trading Comp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MTZ_dixie-highway_Homewood-IL.html
Dixie Highway was the first national road linking industrial northern states to agricultural southern states. Several governors met in 1915 to consider an improved road to Miami. Ten states lobbied for inclusion, resulting in eastern and western d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MTW_washington-park-racetrack_Homewood-IL.html
Opening on July 3, 1926, with the American Derby and a $100,000 purse, Washington Park Racetrack, built by Washington Park Corporation and Illinois Jockey Club, became a home for the nation's finest thoroughbreds. Colonel Matt Winn and the America…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MTV_camp-thornton-2605-and-the-civil-conservation-corps_Glenwood-IL.html
In the spring of 1934, Camp Thornton opened on this site as a home to young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). At first, the men slept in tents in grass and weeds three feet tall. Later they built their own military style barracks with …