Harold Washington Cultural Center: Facts

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architect John M. Van Osdel drafted the plans for the first architect-designed house in Chicago, formed Chicago's first architectural firm and ensured passage of Chicago's first building codes?
blues musician Henry Gray is credited as helping to create the distinctive sound of the Chicago blues piano?
blues singer Jesse Fortune, better known as the "Fortune Tellin' Man," passed on performing in Europe because he did not want to disappoint customers at his Chicago barbershop?
Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson (pictured) transferred from Georgetown University Law Center to University of Illinois College of Law to be with her future husband, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.?
Chicago theater-owner Tony DeSantis survived two near-fatal explosions in his life?
Chicago composer Margaret Bonds wrote her first work, the Marquette Street Blues, at the age of five?
Chicago hairstylist John Lanzendorf owned one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur-themed artwork?
Chicago politician Giuseppe Esposito was shot and killed in front of his family during the 1928 Republican Pineapple Primary?
Chicago's Crown Fountain (pictured) displays LED images of faces, which typically create the illusion of puckered lips spouting water?
Chicago's Fountain of Time by Lorado Taft is considered the earliest outdoor concrete sculpture?

bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois?
Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park (pictured), which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters?
Wilmette, Illinois's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village?
algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
Augustus Louis Chetlain was said to have been the first man in Illinois to volunteer for the American Civil War?
Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago, Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures?
David Moosman led his high school to the Illinois state championship in football and qualified for the state championships three times in wrestling?
Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago, Illinois?
Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College?