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The Chicago River has been traditionally dyed green for St. Patrick’s Day since 1962. Who started this tradition?

It was a plumber.

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Terry Gregory
Chicagologist

Photograph of the Water Tower by T. Gregory – 2003

]]> http://chicagology.com/2007/12/21/xmas2007/feed/ Fire Maps http://chicagology.com/2007/09/08/firemaps/ http://chicagology.com/2007/09/08/firemaps/#comments Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:52:20 +0000 Administrator http://chicagology.com/2007/09/08/firemaps/ The Robinson’s Atlas of the City of Chicago was one of several surveys performed after the Great Fire of 1871. The purpose of these books was to provide outlines of all buildings as well as a color coded system to identify the building’s building materials in case of fire for insurance purposes. This brilliantly designed illustration is from the Title Page of Volume Five. The books were published in 1886.

Terry Gregory
Chicagologist
Robinson

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Chicagology has just added baseball to its archives. Many Chicagoans are aware of the modern day history of their Chicago ball clubs. The famous Crosstown Series of 1906 in which the powerful Cubs were over matched by the Hitless Wonders of the south side, the infamous Black Sox scandal of 1919 in which under-paid players were taunted with new homes and cash for throwing the World Series are just a couple episodes.

Well, what about the early part of the game? When baseball was just a baby and players would leave the game to start a new business, like A. G. Spalding. The rules were changing every year, and sometimes even in mid-game! Even though the game that was played in the 1800’s was not the same game played when Ruth and company joined the party, but it was a very interesting time and it is Chicagology’s job to provide a little insight as to what base-ball was like during these formulative years using sources from the actual period. They even spelled it differently!

Play Ball!

Terry Gregory
Chicagologist

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Chicagology is proud to present a Family Tree of the Chicago Newspapers. The purpose is to provide an easy to read view of how the newspapers of Chicago were born, married and buried.

The following introduction was taken from the Regan Printing House book Story of Chicago In Connection With the Printing Business which was published in 1912.

The history of the newspaper undertakings of Chicago during the past three quarters of a century reads like a chapter of romance as we contemplate the enthusiastic efforts with which ambitious publishers would inaugurate their enterprises and the many disappointments which would attend their projects.

The atmosphere of early Chicago seemed charged with the stimulating ozone which took form in pretentious newspapers and periodicals, the period of rapid changing thought, political alignment, and development doubtless giving added impetus to the publication idea. At all events. there were issued newspapers and magazines in response rather to the impulse of the promoter than to the desire of or its ability to support these after they were started. As a consequence, many of them had but an ephemeral existence, and the delver into facts is forced to turn into almost forgotten receptacles to bring forth even brief references to past publications.

After much labor and research there has been rescued from oblivion, as far as possible, the banes and titles of publications of former days, and it is a source of satisfaction to be able to present many enterprises. In numerous lines of effort, these papers are recognized as among the most influential in their class, and while some have been doubtless overlooked in the rapidity with which this work has been compiled, on the hole, the extensive list presented can be regarded as embracing a very large percentage of projects in Chicago, almost four score years ago.

Cheers

Terry Gregory
Chicagologist

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