Today it is off to Glenwood, Illinois. A new visitor to the STCC, Pattispa, is from there.
The photos are: 1) the Glenwoodie Golf Course, 2) the Glenwood School for Boys and Girls, and 3) the Brookwood Middle School in Glenwood.
Glenwood is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 9,000 at the 2000 census.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.7 square miles (7.0 km²), all of it land.
The Glenwood Shoreline is within the village. The village is almost surrounded completely by forest preserves like the nearby town of Thornton.
Neighboring towns include Homewood, Illinois; Flossmoor, Illinois; East Hazel Crest, Illinois; Thornton, Illinois; Lansing, Illinois; Lynwood, Illinois; Ford Heights, Illinois; and Chicago Heights, Illinois.
The Glenwood Shoreline is within the village. The village is almost surrounded completely by forest preserves like the nearby town of Thornton.
Neighboring towns include Homewood, Illinois; Flossmoor, Illinois; East Hazel Crest, Illinois; Thornton, Illinois; Lansing, Illinois; Lynwood, Illinois; Ford Heights, Illinois; and Chicago Heights, Illinois.
The suburban village of Glenwood is partly surrounded by Cook County Forest Preserves. Glenwood's downtown, with its recently constructed but traditionally styled brick municipal building and relatively modest homes located along a grid of streets, seems far removed from the crowded sprawl of the surrounding suburban area.
Settlers in the 1840s called the area Hickory Bend. In 1871 the village of Glenwood was surveyed along the recently completed Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. Glenwood served as a depot for local farmers and a home to workers employed in the railroad's nearby switch tracks, round table, and coal yards. About 500 residents incorporated as a village in 1903.
Despite some unsuccessful subdivision activity in the 1920s, Glenwood remained a small village through the 1950s. However, nearly 3,000 homes were constructed between 1960 and 1980, when the village's population peaked at 10,538. In 2000 there were 9,000 residents in the village.
Glenwood's burst of growth in the 1960s and 1970s fostered a growing racial diversity. In 1970 the village's residents were almost exclusively white, with fewer than 40 African Americans living in the community. By the 1980s large numbers of middle- and uppermiddle-class blacks had moved to the south suburbs. Between 1980 and 1990, as the number of African Americans increased in the community, the white population defined. In 2000 there were around 4,600 white and 4,000 black residents in the village, as well as 450 Hispanics.
On average, the residents of Glenwood are somewhat more prosperous than those in the city of Chicago and in Cook County as a whole. Most of Glenwood's residents live in their own single-family detached homes. Of the 3,500 housing units in the village, fewer than 500 are rented. Unlike nearby suburbs where there has been a great deal of recent construction, there are relatively few new houses in Glenwood. Fewer than 200 houses were built in the village in the 1980s and 1990s.
Although freight train lines pass through the village, the nearest Metra rail stop is in neighboring Homewood, and fewer than 1 in 13 Glenwood residents takes public transportation to work. The overwhelming majority drive to work, spending on average more than one hour per day commuting.
The village is home to the privately funded Glenwood School, established in 1887 in Chicago by Robert Todd Lincoln and Oscar Dudley, with a later second campus in St. Charles. Today it is a residential school that emphasizes a military regime for boys and girls from broken or troubled low-income homes.
Glenwood is also the site of the Mount Glenwood Cemetery, which is reputed to be the first racially integrated cemetery in the Chicago region. During the early twentieth century, African Americans traveled by train from Chicago to bury their dead in the cemetery. Notable black Chicagoans who are buried in Mount Glenwood include Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam, Fred Slater, Illinois' first African American circuit court judge, and Marshall “Major” Taylor, who in the 1890s was rated as the world's fastest bicyclist.
Settlers in the 1840s called the area Hickory Bend. In 1871 the village of Glenwood was surveyed along the recently completed Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. Glenwood served as a depot for local farmers and a home to workers employed in the railroad's nearby switch tracks, round table, and coal yards. About 500 residents incorporated as a village in 1903.
Despite some unsuccessful subdivision activity in the 1920s, Glenwood remained a small village through the 1950s. However, nearly 3,000 homes were constructed between 1960 and 1980, when the village's population peaked at 10,538. In 2000 there were 9,000 residents in the village.
Glenwood's burst of growth in the 1960s and 1970s fostered a growing racial diversity. In 1970 the village's residents were almost exclusively white, with fewer than 40 African Americans living in the community. By the 1980s large numbers of middle- and uppermiddle-class blacks had moved to the south suburbs. Between 1980 and 1990, as the number of African Americans increased in the community, the white population defined. In 2000 there were around 4,600 white and 4,000 black residents in the village, as well as 450 Hispanics.
On average, the residents of Glenwood are somewhat more prosperous than those in the city of Chicago and in Cook County as a whole. Most of Glenwood's residents live in their own single-family detached homes. Of the 3,500 housing units in the village, fewer than 500 are rented. Unlike nearby suburbs where there has been a great deal of recent construction, there are relatively few new houses in Glenwood. Fewer than 200 houses were built in the village in the 1980s and 1990s.
Although freight train lines pass through the village, the nearest Metra rail stop is in neighboring Homewood, and fewer than 1 in 13 Glenwood residents takes public transportation to work. The overwhelming majority drive to work, spending on average more than one hour per day commuting.
The village is home to the privately funded Glenwood School, established in 1887 in Chicago by Robert Todd Lincoln and Oscar Dudley, with a later second campus in St. Charles. Today it is a residential school that emphasizes a military regime for boys and girls from broken or troubled low-income homes.
Glenwood is also the site of the Mount Glenwood Cemetery, which is reputed to be the first racially integrated cemetery in the Chicago region. During the early twentieth century, African Americans traveled by train from Chicago to bury their dead in the cemetery. Notable black Chicagoans who are buried in Mount Glenwood include Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam, Fred Slater, Illinois' first African American circuit court judge, and Marshall “Major” Taylor, who in the 1890s was rated as the world's fastest bicyclist.
Today's Jumble (9/26/08):
APANG = PAGAN; OCTIX = TOXIC; TIBESC = BISECT; HYFORT = FROTHY
CIRCLED LETTERS = PGTISTOTH
How a night on the town left him.
"(IN A) TIGHT SPOT"
It is "Johnny Appleseed Day." Real name is John Chapman. It's Native American Day in California. The Beverly Hillbillies premiered in 1962 and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (a cult classic) premiered in 1975.
Other things on this day in history:
46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
715 - Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
1212 - Golden Bull of Sicily is certified as an hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
1687 - The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1687 - The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
1783 - Fayette County, Pennsylvania is created.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
1792 - Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
1810 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1872 - The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.
1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1908 - Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.
1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
1944 - World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
1950 - Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1954 - Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
1960 - In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
1962 - The Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed.
1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1981 - Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
1983 - Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.
1984 - The United Kingdom agrees to handover of Hong Kong
1997 - A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
1997 - An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
2000 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2000 - The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
2002 - The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
2007 - Shinzo Abe formally ends his term as Prime Minister of Japan.
715 - Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
1212 - Golden Bull of Sicily is certified as an hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
1687 - The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1687 - The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
1783 - Fayette County, Pennsylvania is created.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
1792 - Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
1810 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1872 - The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.
1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1908 - Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.
1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
1944 - World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
1950 - Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1954 - Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
1960 - In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
1962 - The Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed.
1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1981 - Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
1983 - Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.
1984 - The United Kingdom agrees to handover of Hong Kong
1997 - A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
1997 - An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
2000 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2000 - The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
2002 - The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
2007 - Shinzo Abe formally ends his term as Prime Minister of Japan.
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