The City Of Des Plaines

tribes to abandon their settlement. Thirty years after Christopher Columbus, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spaniard, arrived to the Texas’ shore. At the time Spain had already conquered South and Central America. Cabeza de Vaca was the first person to explore North America for Spain. A tribe of Indians took care of him and his men. Eventually, most of the tribe died from dysentery. As an outcome, Cabeza de Vaca and his men were held as

began, Des Plaines, Illinois Ray Kroc opened the Des Plaines restaurant in 1955. First day's revenues-$366.12! It’s no longer a functioning restaurant, the

The naked corpse of Frank Landingin was found in the Des Plaines River. At the time of the discovery police were not yet aware of Gacy's horrible crimes and the case was still under investigation. But, investigators found Landingin's driver's license in Gacy's home and connected him to the young mans murder. Landingin was not the only one of Gacy's victims to be found in the river. Also, on December 28th, police removed from the Des Plaines River the body of James Mazzara, who still had his underwear

17:01 hours I was dispatched to a report of a reckless driver in the area of Union St and Line St in the City of Belle Plaine. As I made my way to the area dispatched advised a silver van was seen smoking on the side of the road and a female was standing outside of it yelling. A second vehicle was reportedly leaving the area northbound on Line St. I began to make my way to the area and Belle Plaine Police Sgt. Barry advised he was out with a silver Dodge Neon at the rail road tracks at 8th and Line

When investigating officers paid a visit to 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Des Plaines, they followed the unpleasant smell to a trap door that led to the crawl space under Gacy's house. On Friday, December 22, 1978, Gacy finally confessed to police that he killed at least thirty people and buried most of the remains of the victims

The population of Saint Domingue at the time was classified into three main categories. Each main category was then subdivided. The whites were divided between the gran blancs and the petit blancs; the free blacks were usually referred to as the gens de couleur; and the slaves were called affranchis. Another factor which must be understood before explaining the events that took place before, during, and after the revolution is the general geography of the island itself. In 1789, Saint Domingue

American dream and how the Windy City changed the culture in the early twentieth century. The most major event that made Chicago what it is today would be the Great Depression and the effect it had on the lives of the overpopulated, undereducated, citizens. Sandburg's use of imagery paints a very real and vivid picture of the people in Chicago. "Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue

time. The fire raged through the city of Chicago, Illinois from October 8th to October 10th, destroying 3.3 square miles of downtown Chicago. While the fire was devastating, it laid the groundwork for rebuilding a stronger Chicago. Chicago, Illinois was a popular city in the early United States. Chicago was a center for trade due to the water sources running through it. The two rivers located in Chicago, the Chicago River and the Des Plaines River, connected the city to the Mississippi river and Lake

pre-wrapped, and kept warm under heat lamps, ready for hungry customers working against the clock. Seeing great promise in their restaurant, Kroc began a franchise program for the McDonald brothers, opened their first franchise on April 15, 1955, in Des Plaines, Illinois, launched their corporation in the same year, and eventually, Ray Kroc bought out the company in 1961. As the new burger chain became more and more popular, Kroc decided the company needed a new public face. In 1963, Ronald McDonald was

Ray Kroc Ray Kroc was born on October 5, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois. Kroc was only 15 when World War One was going on, but that did not stop him from joining the force. He would become a Red Cross ambulance driver. During his training he met a man named Walt Disney whom he would later have a professional relationship with. Kroc knew he would be a businessman from a young age. When he was young, his father took him to a phrenologist. This person could ,supposedly, predict Kroc’s future by reading