A United Air Lines Boeing 737-222 crashed on December 8, 1972, at 1428 c.s.t. while making a nonprecision instrument approach to Runway 31L at the Chicago-Midway Airport, Chicago, ILL. The accident occurred in a residential area approximately 1.5 miles southeast of the approach end of Run...
The Park Slope Plane Crash occurred on December 16, 1960, when United Airlines Flight 826, a Douglas DC-8-11, collided with Trans World Airlines Flight 266, a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, over New York City with the United DC-8 crashing in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. All...
On the day in 1882 Tom Mooney, the son of Irish immigrants, was born in Chicago. Mooney's father was a coal miner who died of tuberculosis at the age of 36. When he was fourteen Mooney started work at a local factory. The following year he was apprenticed as an iron molder and in...
The Princess was widowed in 1942, when her husband was killed in a plane crash on active service. In later life, she carried out many royal engagements, including the independence celebrations for Ghana and Botswana. Birthplace: Athens, Greece George P. Shultz Age: 104 George Pratt Shultz (...
including two Guggenheim Fellowships and the Rome Prize. His work has been exhibited in institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), the Albertina Museum (Vienna, Austria) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francis...
Chicago’s Longest-Tenured Guitarist QuitsAfter almost 27 years in Chicago, guitarist Keith Howland announced his retirement in early December. Howland’s decision was due to an accident that left him temporarily unable to play. “I broke my arm just before we were supposed to go on stage in...
(1972), “Ain’t It All Worth Living For” (1972), “Lovin’ Her Was Easier” (1981), “Just One Time” (1981), “It’ll Be Her” (1982), “I Still Love You” (1982). Competed on TV’sArthur Godfrey Talent Scouts1957. Sang tenor backup for Marty Robbins (“El Paso”), ...
Grain and oilseeds trading on Chicago futures exchanges are up more than 25% from 2006. Copper prices soared so high that the U.S. Mint had to ban people from melting pennies and nickels to resell the metal. Climate change may wipe some Indonesian islands off map Many of Indonesia's ...