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Palmer Square, located in Chicago’s northwest neighborhood of Logan Square, was named for the Chicago luminary, Potter Palmer, an extremely successful business magnate and real estate investor of [...]

In 1929, at just twenty-two, Adele Bartos began working in the statistics department at the very elegant Continental and Commercial National Bank and Trust Company on LaSalle Street, 19th floor. [...]

In the novel, A Girl Like You, Henrietta Von Harmon at one point decides to leave her job as a 26 girl to become a taxi dancer at the Promenade Club, hoping to make more money.  While the [...]