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Henry Joseph Darger Jr. (/ ˈdɑːrɡər / DAR-ghər; April 12, 1892 – April 13, 1973) was an American writer, novelist and artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois. [1] He has become famous for his posthumously recovered 15,145-page manuscript for a fantasy novel titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, [a] along with ...
The Iroquois Theatre fire was a catastrophic building fire in Chicago, Illinois, that broke out on December 30, 1903, during a performance attended by 1,700 people. The fire caused 602 deaths and 250 non-fatal injuries. [1] It ranks as the worst theater fire in the United States, surpassing the carnage of the Brooklyn Theatre fire of 1876 ...
Joseph Majczek and Theodore Marcinkiewicz were two Polish-American men arrested and convicted of the murder of 57-year-old Chicago police officer William D. Lundy [1] on December 9, 1932. [2] Initially, officials held 10 youths in custody on suspicion of killing the officer. [3] Some 11½ years later in 1944, following the intervention of ...
English. Website. jetmag.com. ISSN. 0021-5996. Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community. Founded in November 1951 by John H. Johnson of the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois, [3][4] the magazine was billed as "The Weekly Negro News Magazine".
August 21, 2024 at 1:56 PM. The Chicago Police Department recorded five shootings involving 12 victims, one of whom died, and one aggravated battery incident on Tuesday, the second day of the ...
Chicago circulation wars. The Chicago circulation wars were a period of competition between William Randolph Hearst 's Chicago Evening American and both Robert R. McCormick 's Chicago Tribune and Victor Lawson 's Chicago Daily News in the early 1900s that devolved into violence and resulted in more than 20 deaths. [1]
01:07. An Illinois man was charged Tuesday with murder in connection with the Labor Day shooting of four people who authorities said were sleeping in their seats on a Chicago-area commuter train ...
September 3, 2024 at 9:07 AM. Four people who appeared to be sleeping on a Chicago transit train were fatally shot Monday morning, and a suspect has been taken into custody, police said. “The ...