Category Archives: History
Al Capone’s first Chicago home—a historical landmark, or at least it should be
In the deep south side of Chicago lay a red brick house that today is used as a two-flat home. It’s in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood, just between the I-90 and the I-94, about 11 miles south from the … Continue reading
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Tagged 7244 S Prairie Ave, Al Capone, Chicago, Chicago Outfit, crime, Greater Grand Crossing, organized crime, real estate, South Side
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The celebrities of Mount Carmel Cemetery
About 20 miles west of Chicago, in Hillside, IL, lies a huge plot of land. It’s Mount Carmel Cemetery and it’s the final resting place of many famous characters whom most of us know from history and through numerous books, … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Capone, Chicago, Chicago Outfit, Dean O'Banion, Dennis Farina, Frank Nitti, gangsters, Hillside IL, Hymie Weiss, Mafia, Mount Carmel Cemetery, North Side Gang, Sam Giancana
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Kidnapping of Estonian officer is political – as is everything related to Russia
On 5 September, operatives of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) illegally entered the territory of the Republic of Estonia, a member of NATO and the European Union, and kidnapped by force an officer of the Internal Security Service (ISS) … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold War, Eston Kohver, Estonia, kidnapping, NATO, Russia
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Jewish soldiers buried in Normandy, at Colleville-sur-Mer
In the recent days—on and around the 70th anniversary of D-Day—hundreds of people have reached my blog looking for the answer to the question, how many Jewish soldiers were buried at the American cemetery in Normandy, at Colleville-sur-Mer, just next … Continue reading
To the men who won our freedom
Tonight 70 years ago, at the very early hours of June 6, 1944, over 150,000 men were deployed on a mission that to this day is considered the largest seaborne invasion in history. And despite the hardships before and after … Continue reading
The Clutter house—probably the most famous murder house in America
On November 15, 1959, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith broke into a house in Holcomb, KS. They were looking for a safe that was supposedly filled with money. Unfortunately for them, they never found it—mainly because it didn’t exist. That … Continue reading
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Tagged Clutter family, Clutter house, Clutter murder, Garden City, Holcomb, In Cold Blood, Kansas, murder house, Truman Capote
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The Chicago streetcar—a piece of history
When the communists of the Chicago municipality started digging up my main street to work on its streetscape—that means, building pedestrian islands in the middle of the road every few hundred feet and in the process changing a four-lane street … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, Chicago streetcar, Chicago Surface Lines, CTA, streetcar, tram
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January 27, 1945. Holocaust Remembrance Day
Posted in History, Personal
Tagged 27 January, 27 January 1945, Auschwitz, Auschwitz liberation, Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27, January 27 1945, Shoah
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