The 1919 Black Sox Baseball Scandal Was Just One of Many
Besides the money, there may have been another reason for what happened in 1919. In 1927, Charles “Swede” Risberg, the ringleader of the eight Black Sox, told the Chicago Tribune that he knew about four rigged games between the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers, and that the entire Detroit team knew too. Those games were played in two double-headers on Sept. 2 and 3, 1917.
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Zoe 12/21/2006-11/20/2020
Zoe died this evening after almost 14 years. I picked her up as a puppy late February 2007 and she has been my life constant ever since. She leaves behind her dog mate Brandon and a giant hole in my heart. Here’s the two of them playing together in 2010.
Here’s Zoe as a pup when she sat in the window. She gave up the window station to Brandon many years ago.
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Who Speaks for Crazy Horse?
There are many Lakota who praise the memorial. Charles (Bamm) Brewer, who organizes an annual tribute to Crazy Horse on the Pine Ridge Reservation, joked that his only problem with the carving is that “they didn’t make it big enough—he was a bigger man than that to our people!”
14 secret parks and gardens in Chicago
Aside from the small neighborhood parks, our city has sprawling historic parks from Frederick Law Olmsted’s lakefront parks to Jens Jensen’s Prairie-era parks. Landscape architecture continues to be an area of design Chicago represents with projects like Maggie Daley Park, The 606 and the Riverwalk.
