Jay Gentile is the publisher of Chicago INNERVIEW Magazine and a Chicago-based freelance writer who was totally asleep during history class. Jonathan Porter would love to tell you more on a trip with Chicago Prohibition Tours. Chicago, Illinois, USA - JShedd Aquarium, the largest indoor aquarium in the world opened in 1930, and contains 32,000 animals. You can find out more about Chicago Bar Project on its website or by checking out site creator Sean Parnell’s book, Historic Bars of Chicago. Sign up here for our daily Chicago email and be the first to get all the food/drink/fun in town. That’s about 97 pounds of garbage per person in 1910 compared to 657 pounds per person in 2013 But. Gangsters Al Capone and John Dillinger grabbed headlines, but the real power lay with the city’s political machine, a system of patronage. By 1930 Chicago had ten thousand speak-easies. Cellular Field (you can park here for free with purchase of a meal during Sox games), the bar is a legendary hangout of former Chicago mayors and White Sox owners.įun fact: According to 90-year-old Jack Schaller, who has lived above the bar for 37 years and has no shortage of stories, the tavern formerly housed a horse bookmaking operation and once hosted the 21st birthday celebration of none other than Richard M. In total, the city of Chicago produced 99,537 tons of garbage in 1910 and 892,034 tons in 2012. By the 1930s Chicago’s population reached 3 million. And in his informal history of the citys underworld, Gem of the Prairie, Herbert Asbury described the. When the stock market crashed in 1929, Paul Galvin noticed that radios sales were down but car sales remained steady owning a vehicle was still important to consumers, even in a poor economy. While the points of origin may have changed over the years, Chicago continues to welcome a significant immigrant population. Located across the street from the 11th Ward Democratic Party headquarters and a 15-minute walk from U.S. The first commercially successful car radio was designed and built in 1930 by Chicago’s Galvin Manufacturing Company. As Chicago’s oldest continually running tavern, this South Side institution got its name from a mechanism that allegedly pumped beer from a former brewery located next door into the tavern during the days of Prohibition.
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