• Louis Lesser developed Barrington Plaza, the largest urban renewal project in the western United States under President John F. Kennedy, as well as many of Howard Hughes' properties?

Facts on topics related to Louis Lesser

San Diego

• San Diego artist Salvador Torres led the movement to paint murals on the support columns of a freeway in Chicano Park?
• Kansas City Barbeque is a restaurant and bar in San Diego, California, made famous after scenes in Top Gun were filmed there?
• Malin Space Science Systems is a San Diego, California company that operates the camera on the Mars Global Surveyor?
• the San Diego neighborhood of Old Town was the site of the first European settlement in present-day California?
• the U.S. military base Camp Kearny, predecessor of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, once housed a mooring mast for the Navy's helium dirigibles?

Indianapolis

• Governor of Indiana Samuel M. Ralston declared martial law in Indianapolis to end a workers strike in November 1913?
• Indianapolis claims Charles H. Black as the inventor of the first internal combustion engine automobile, although his vehicle's ignition called for a kerosene torch?
• Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral (pictured) is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33?
• Harold's Steer-In in Indianapolis' North Irvington Gardens Historic District was the site of a 2005 MasterCard commercial featuring quarterback Peyton Manning?
• an Indianapolis architect was sent to Château de Malmaison to replicate a copy of it in Indianapolis' Washington Park neighborhood?
• residents of Indianapolis came to the aid of Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Morton, providing food, clothing, and nursing?
• since 1995 a quintet of untitled jazz musicians has been performing near Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis?
• the 1913 Street Car Strike in Indianapolis, Indiana, lasted eight days and left four dead and hundreds injured?
• the high school quiz competition Brain Game has aired on local television in Indianapolis since 1972?

Chicago

• 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?