Within a short time he changed his mind and soon acquired two Rodin marbles, Orpheus and Cupid and Psyche, for his Chicago mansion, the first two of Rodin's works known to have been sold to an American collector.

Gathmann was very interested in astronomy and had three observatories built in the Chicago area during the 1880s, one of which was a domed observatory tower which he had installed on the side of his mansion on Lincoln Avenue.

From 1930 to 1935, the interior designer Madeleine Castaing and her husband welcomed him home during the summer in their mansion of Lèves, becoming his patrons, so that Soutine could hold his first exhibition in Chicago in 1935.

Tobin's most famous visitors included boxer Joe Louis, who would arrive and depart at the Tobin station on the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railway interurban in the mid-1930s as part of his workout training at the Ham Fisher mansion in nearby Carol Beach.

True enough, in 1928 a new 59-room mansion designed by Chicago architect David Adler in the English Stuart style stood in its place, called the Great House.

For a period in the 1970s, Hefner divided his time between the Chicago mansion and the Mansion West, moving full time to the California mansion in 1974.

Image: 1224DearbornChicago. jpg | A historic mansion converted into luxury condominiums in Chicago, United States

In 1889 Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr established the first settlement house in America ( a settlement house is a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services ), in what was then a dilapidated mansion in one of the poorest immigrant slums of Chicago on the corner of Halstead and Polk streets.

On January 2, 1873, Dewey's mansion was destroyed in a fire, and he was forced to give up the property to pay his creditors ; the estate passed into the ownership of Walter C. Newberry of Chicago.

The fans and the Angels leave for Chicago just moments before the mansion is raided by the Green police.

Also, the center of the Chicago Bulls ' floor resides in Michael Jordan's trophy room at his mansion in North Carolina.

Katherine Dexter was born August 27, 1875 in Dexter, Michigan, in her grandparents ' mansion, Gordon Hall, and grew up in Chicago where her father, Wirt Dexter, was a prominent lawyer.

Upon her death at her winter residence, The Oaks in Osprey, Florida, her body was returned to Chicago to lie in state at the Castle, the sumptuous mansion Potter Palmer had built on Chicago's Gold Coast.

In Chicago, Cobb and partner Charles S. Frost designed Potter Palmer's mansion ( demolished ) on Lake Shore Drive ; the Chicago Varnish Company Building — listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Chicago Landmark ; the Episcopal Church of the Atonement at 5749 N. Kenmore Avenue — also on the National Register of Historic Places ; the Chicago Federal Building ( demolished ); the Newberry Library ; the Fisheries Building ( demolished ) at the World's Columbian Exposition ; and many pre-1900 buildings at Lake Forest College and the University of Chicago.

Bennington ' Baby Bink ' Cotwell Jr. ( Adam and Jacob Worton ), a mischievous baby who lives in a huge mansion in a suburb of Chicago with his parents Laraine ( Lara Flynn Boyle ) and Bennington Sr. ( Matthew Glave ), is just about to appear in the social pages of the newspaper.

The extravagant building was reported by local and national papers ; the New York Times called it the " finest mansion between New York and Chicago.

Palmer and Wheeler had first met in 1882, when they worked together on the decoration of the Palmer mansion in Chicago.

The estate in the novel was based on Tryon Hall, a mansion in Fort Tryon Park built after 1900 by Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, a retired president of the Chicago Coke and Gas Company.

Meanwhile, local police lieutenant Toomey is keeping an eye on the mansion, believing that Snaps is meeting with Chicago mobsters soon.

After the 1992 – 93 season, in which the Cavs boasted a 54 – 28 regular-season record but suffered an early exit from the playoffs in the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals to the Chicago Bulls, Wilkens left to coach the Atlanta Hawks.

With the influx of dryland farming, the county soon boasted access to three major railway systems ; the Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railroad and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.

Within 30 years of the Iron Work's founding, Elk Rapids had become the county seat of Antrim County ( which Bellaire took from Elk Rapids in 1880 ), plus the town boasted a cement plant, a chemical plant, a depot on the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad, and a population of nearly 2000.

Merchants could not compete with the commissary's prices or quality ; for example, it boasted that the meat it sold had been refrigerated every moment from the Chicago slaughterhouse to the moment it was passed to the consumer.

It strove for mass readership in contrast with its primary competitor, the Chicago Tribune, which was more influential among the city's elites ; for many years, the Daily News boasted a 1 ¢ newsstand price.

By the end of Caliguiri's time in office, not a single major steel mill operated in a city once known as the " Steel City ", and the city that once boasted more Fortune 500 corporate headquarters save for New York and Chicago, had less than ten.

He worked with brass bands including the Tuxedo and the Onward, with Papa Celestin, and with Richard M. Jones band in Storyville and other local groups before moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1917.

* Arnold Jacobs, former tubist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and influential teacher of brass pedagogy ( deceased )

The contemporary brass quintet was started in the late 1940s by two different groups operating independently — the Chicago Brass Quintet and the New York Brass Quintet.

Two members of the Chicago Brass Quintet can arguably be credited with helping plant the seed for today's success of the brass quintet medium: Arnold Jacobs, tubist of the CBQ was teacher to the two founders Daellenbach and Watts of the Canadian Brass, while Renold Schilke, trumpet player in the CBQ and master craftsman, was mentor to the entire group, successfully crafting the first-ever matched set of gold-plated quintet brass instruments.

In addition to Nigel Olsson playing drums on all tracks, once again a permanent member of John's touring and recording band, the album features renown gospel vocalist Adam McKnight, as well as members of Chicago contributing horns and brass arrangements.

Late in the 19th Century, Chicago was part of the bicycle craze, as home to Western Wheel Company, which introduced stamping to the production process and significantly reduced costs, while early in the 20th Century, the city was part of the automobile revolution, hosting the brass era car builder Bugmobile, which was founded there in 1907.

As explained by the Telegraph in London on Sept. 18, 2009, “ The orchestra ’ s rise to fame began with the great Fritz Reiner in the Fifties, but it was during the 22-year reign of the fierce Hungarian Georg Solti that the orchestra became the brawny yet subtle precision instrument that it is today, famed especially for its noble and stupendously powerful brass sound .” A Smithsonian profile of Herseth, published Sept. 1, 1994, offered this description: “ The Chicago has long been recognized as one of the world ’ s great orchestras, and Adolph Sylvester Herseth has had a major role in the evolution of its distinctive sound .” As described in the Chicago Sun-Times, July 22, 2001, “ For decades Herseth's rich, golden tone and powerful yet expressive playing were a cornerstone of the fabled ‘ Chicago Sound .’” That brass sound drew worldwide attention to the CSO, and propelled the great American orchestra ’ s reputation around the globe.

It also made Chicago an international center for the study of brass instrument performance.

In a game between the Cardinals and Chicago Cubs, he was at the plate with a count of 3 – 1.

Suddenly, it all collapsed, largely because the Knights were unable to handle so much on their plate at once, and because they took a smashing blow in the aftermath of the Haymarket Riot in May 1886 in Chicago.

Beginning in the early 1880s, architectural pioneers of the Chicago School explored steel-frame construction and, in the 1890s, the use of large areas of plate glass.

Ward was signed on December 7, 2006 by the Chicago Cubs to a one-year deal worth $ 1. 05 million after hitting. 308 with a. 380 OBP in 2006 for Washington and Atlanta in 150 combined plate appearances.

On Opening Day, the 12th of April, Goslin came up to the plate against the Chicago White Sox with a bat that featured 12 longitudinal green stripes.

Baseball player, Jack Taylor, Chicago Cubs, warming up at home plate, West Side Grounds.

Portrait of Jack ( John ) Taylor, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, National League, warming up with other players at home plate at West Side Grounds located between West Polk Street, South Wolcott Avenue ( formerly Lincoln Street ), West Taylor Street, and South Wood Street, in the Near West Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.

The youngest of their three sons, Chuck Lindstrom, played briefly for the 1958 Chicago White Sox, hitting a sacrifice fly, walking and tripling for a perfect 1. 000 batting average in three plate appearances.

He was the home plate umpire on September 10, 1963, when brothers Jesus, Matty and Felipe Alou batted consecutively for the San Francisco Giants, and also on June 3, 1987, when the Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs hit a combined three grand slams at Wrigley Field.

On July 1, 1990, Scott was the home plate umpire as Andy Hawkins of the New York Yankees pitched eight hitless innings in a road game against the Chicago White Sox, yet lost ; it was only the second game in history in which a pitcher lost a complete game no-hitter.

The final moments of her execution ( by " State Electrician " Robert G. Elliott ) were caught on film with the aid of a miniature plate camera custom-strapped to the ankle of Tom Howard, a Chicago Tribune photographer working in cooperation with the Tribune-owned New York Daily News.

In Chicago, Illinois a small fleet of highly visible vans are parked alongside major state and federal routes with automated speed detection and camera equipment, monitoring both for speeders and other offenders by license plate.

New York City requires emergency lights to carry a Calendar Number signifying approval for local installation, Chicago requires emergency lighting to have a metal face plate, and Los Angeles requires additional exit signs be installed within of the floor around doors to mark exits during a fire, as smoke rises and tends to block out higher installed units.

If the plate owned by the Chicago Historical Society had been a copy made from the facsimiles in History of the Church, that stroke in that character would have been etched, like the rest of the characters.

He was an outfielder for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball in 2005 and is best known for being hit in the head on the first pitch of his only plate appearance, ending his Major League career.

On Memorial Day in 1932, Moriarty worked behind the plate for a Cleveland Indians home game against the White Sox ; when several Chicago players took exception to his calls, he challenged them to settle the dispute under the stands of League Park after the game.

Tartabull is well remembered by Red Sox fans for throwing out the Chicago White Sox ' Ken Berry at home plate on August 27, 1967, to win a key game during the 1967 American League pennant drive.