And along Chicago's West Jackson Boulevard, La Salle Street, and around the Merchandise Mart Plaza there sit men who chart crop reports, who divide the number of reported lady-bugs by the number of reported green-bugs, and the number of hogs by the amount of corn.

To settle this slight, O'Banion went down to the La Salle Theatre in the Loop, where, he had learned, Dave Miller was attending the opening of a musical comedy.

* 1651 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer and Catholic saint ( d. 1719 )

* 1929 – Roch La Salle, Canadian politician ( d. 2007 )

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

* 1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.

* 815: 290 La Salle / Rockford, IL

* 1719 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French saint ( b. 1651 )

** Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

* 1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.

* 1958: La Salle des mariages, City Hall of Menton – La Chapelle Saint-Pierre ( lithographies )

* 1962 – Eriq La Salle, American actor

In 1947, he graduated from La Salle Military Academy in Oakdale, Long Island, New York.

La Salle, IL: Open Court Press 1987.

La Salle, IL: Open Court Press, 1974.

In 1682 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle went down the Mississippi from the Great Lakes to the Gulf.

La Salle and Mackenzie used professional voyageurs and Indian guides.

When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by here the Mississippi River for France, he named it, meaning " Land of Louis ".

** Jean-Baptiste de La Salle ( Roman Catholic Church )

* 1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.

* 1643 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer ( d. 1687 )

They continued the exploration of the New World: René Robert Cavelier de La Salle travelled in the area of the Great Lakes, then on the Mississippi River.

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle led an expedition to the Ohio River in 1669.

In 1669 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, led an expedition of French traders who became the first Europeans to see the river.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

In 1542, Calvin adapted a service book used in Strasbourg, publishing La Forme des Prières et Chants Ecclésiastiques ( The Form of Prayers and Church Hymns ).

* A daily ferry service known as the Cataño Ferry, ( La Lancha de Cataño in Spanish ) which operates a route across San Juan Bay between Old San Juan and the municipality of Cataño.

Between 1930 and 1933, the Surrealist Group in Paris issued the periodical Le Surrealisme au service de la revolution as the successor of La Révolution surréaliste.

Versailles is served by Versailles – Chantiers station, which is an interchange station on Paris RER line C, on the Transilien La Défense suburban rail line, on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail line, and on several national rail lines, including low-frequency TGV service.

** September 17 NYC Crash-Telephone and data service to Kennedy, La Guardia, and Newark airports goes down.

Paisiello left Russia in 1784, and, after producing Il Re Teodoro at Vienna, entered the service of Ferdinand IV of Naples, where he composed many of his best operas, including Nina and La Molinara.

* January – Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World.

* The postal service is run by ECOBOL ( National Company ) which has its headquarters in La Paz.

For instance, the French mail service La Poste owns a few special TGV trains for carrying postal freight.

* L ' Ordre de la Pleiade, Chevalier, 1990 For exceptional service to La Francophonie

As of August 2010, there is a service for faster entry whereby visitors can buy an entry code either at Servicaixa ATM kiosks ( part of ' La Caixa ') or online.

In 1780, Anne Nompar de Caumont de La Force, comtesse de Balbi entered the service of Marie Joséphine.

The service was conducted by the Cardinal de Bouillon-a member of the House of La Tour d ' Auvergne.

La Sorbonne au service des humanités: 750 ans de création et de transmission du savoir, 1257 – 2007.

The new train service was destined to bring development to the Wildomar area, then known as just Rancho La Laguna.

Hardtner served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from La Salle Parish as well as long service on the La Salle Parish Police Jury.

* La Plata ( Amtrak station ) provides passenger train service.

Commercial service is available 33 miles to the south in Columbia at the Columbia Regional Airport or the MO-X ( an airport shuttle to and from STL and MCI ), 60 miles to the south in Jefferson City via the Amtrak station, 45 miles to the north in La Plata via the Amtrak station, or 55 miles to the North in Kirksville at the Kirksville Regional Airport.

Regular service from Marcus to La Porte did not begin until 1866 due to difficult winter conditions at the Narrows of the Arrow Lakes on the first attempt in 1865.

La Barge was granted U. S. citizenship for his service during the war of 1812.

A service was conducted at La Madeleine in Paris before 3, 500 mourners and a crowd of well-wishers outside.

Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais ( comte de La Bourdonnais ) ( Saint-Malo, 11 February 1699 – Paris, 10 November 1753 ) was a French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the French East India Company.