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Whalebacks were invented and designed by Capt. Alexander McDougall (1845-1923), a Scottish immigrant and industrialist.
Henry Ford's Quadricycle was notable in its own right, but Charles Brady King drove his own horseless carriage through the ...
CHICAGO — A bottlenose dolphin at a Chicago zoo gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom, in a successful birth recorded on video by zoo staff. The dolphin calf ...
Henry Ford's Quadricycle was notable in its own right, but Charles Brady King drove his own horseless carriage in Detroit first.
The Chicago Cocktail Classic allows you to sample drink menus from more than two dozen world class bars at three bars here in the city. The tastings will be held at neighboring bars Three Dots and ...
Lifeline Theatre’s new adaptation of the 1898 H.G. Wells novel “The War of the Worlds” has many of the ... This setting makes sense for a Chicago production, more so than English towns ...
The president of World Boxing has apologized after Olympic ... We'll catch you up on the news you need to know with the Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. The governing body announced all athletes ...
It’s impossible to name a best hotel in the world, but you can declare a 10-way ... scores for the top prize and includes The Peninsula Chicago, a luxury hotel just off the Magnificent Mile ...
A decade earlier, George Keck created a sensation at Chicago’s 1933 World’s Fair with his glassy, 12-sided House of Tomorrow. The Kecks went on to have a 50-year career designing modernist ...
Later, in the year 1893, this locomotive was displayed at the Chicago World’s Fair, and the engineer, Charles Hogan, became famous for his high speed operations and represented the New York ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...