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4 Children for Sale is a photograph that depicts a mother, Lucille Chalifoux, hiding her head as her four children sit unwittingly beneath a sign that offers all of them for sale. [2] The photo was first published by the Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, Indiana on August 5, 1948 and was circulated widely during the following week.
The 1,687 acre (6.7 km 2) recreation area is located near Le Roy, Illinois . The predecessor of Moraine View, the McLean County Conservation Area, traces its history to 1959. The park was renamed Moraine View State Park in 1975, then Moraine View State Recreation Area in 1995. It is managed for active recreation, including camping, hiking ...
Illinois Department of Natural Resources. William W. Powers State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources on 580 acres (230 ha) in the Hegewisch community area of the City of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. [ 1] The area includes 419 acres (170 ha) of water in Wolf ...
The movie's famous house — yep, it's a real house — hit the market this week for the first time in 12 years, selling for $5.25 million. The 9,126-sq. ft. home, built in 1921 and located in the ...
Chain O'Lakes State Park (Illinois) / 42.45889°N 88.17417°W / 42.45889; -88.17417. Chain O'Lakes State Park is a 2,793-acre (1,130 ha) Illinois state park at the inlet of the Fox River into the Chain O'Lakes in Lake and McHenry counties, in the suburban wildlife of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is one of the centerpieces of the ...
Here are the top 10 most expensive postal codes in the Chicago area, according to data from the Zillow Home Value Index: 10) River Forest, 60305 With an average home value around $739,000, 60305 ...
April 20, 1995. Riis Park is a 56-acre park on Chicago's Northwest Side in the Belmont-Cragin neighborhood. [2] The park is named for Jacob Riis, a famous New York City muckraker journalist and photographer who documented the plight of the poor and working class. Riis was designed to include a variety of recreational amenities for the middle ...
The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities to the state government. Of the initial twelve parks, only Muscatatuck State Park ...