Mervin G. O`Melia was the first director of the Illinois Local Governmental Law Officers Training Board. His driving skills were otherworldly.
Category Archives: History
I Want to Hold Your Hand (Chris 25)
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago produced great artists like Ray Yoshida, great rock bands like Shrimp Boat and an artist’s colony on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.
Elevator Music (Chris 24)
In the 1920s Major General George Owen Squier designed the technology for piping muzak into homes and businesses. Ray Conniff’s orchestra perfected this easy listening sound.
I Need (Brian 8)
College wrestling can be nasty. Only a few triumph, and even fewer go on to become head coaches at Division I schools.
Come Over Then (Ben 5)
In the 1990s Barack and Michelle Obama could often be found dining at a Hyde Park favorite, the Medici on 57th, whose owner Hans Morsbach was also a carpenter, tree farmer and author of a book on sustainable forestry.
Paul Mason Fotsch 