Cermak
Cermak may refer to: Chicago CTA stations *54th/Cermak (CTA station), a Chicago Transit Authority Pink Line station * Cermak–Chinatown (CTA station), a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line station * Cermak–McCormick Place (CTA station), a Chicago Transit Authority Green Line station Other * Anton Cermak, 34th mayor of Chicago. * Cermak Road, an east–west road in Chicago's Near South Side *Čermák (surname) Čermák (feminine Čermáková) is a Czech language, Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrián Čermák (born 1993), Slovak footballer * Aleš Čermák (born 1994), Czech footballer * Anton Cermak (1873–1933), mayor of Ch ...

Anton Cermak
Anton Joseph Cermak ( cs, Antonín Josef Čermák, ; May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933) was an American politician who served as the 44th mayor of Chicago, Illinois from April 7, 1931 until his death on March 6, 1933. He was killed by an assassin, whose likely target was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but the assassin shot Cermak instead after a bystander hit the assassin with a purse. Life Cermak was born to a mining family in Kladno, Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic), the son of Antonín Čermák and Kateřina née Frank(ová). He emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1874, and grew up in the town of Braidwood, Illinois, where he was educated before beginning to work full time while still a teenager. He followed his father into coal mining, and labored at mines in Will and Grundy counties. After moving to Chicago at age 16, Cermak worked as a tow boy for the horse-drawn streetcar line, and then tended horses in the stables of Chicago's Pilsen neighbor ...
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Cermak Road
Cermak Road, also known as 22nd Street, is a 19-mile, major east–west street on Chicago's near south and west sides and the city's western suburbs. In Chicago's street numbering system, Cermak is 2200 south, or twenty-two blocks south of the baseline of Madison Street (Chicago), Madison Street. Normally, one mile comprises eight Chicago blocks, but the arterial streets Roosevelt Road, formerly named Twelfth Street and at 1200 South, and Cermak Road (Twenty-Second Street) were platted before the eight-blocks-per-mile plan was implemented. Roosevelt Road is one mile south of Madison Avenue and there are twelve blocks within that mile. Cermak Road is two miles south of Madison Avenue and there are ten blocks within the mile between Roosevelt and Cermak Roads. The street was named after Democratic politician Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago from 1931 until 1933. Cermak was shot and killed on February 15, 1933, by an assassin who was aiming for President Franklin Roosevelt. Cermak wa ...
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54th/Cermak (CTA Station)
54th/Cermak is an 'L' station and the current terminus of the CTA's Pink Line. It was the terminus of the former Cermak branch of the Blue Line. It is located at Cermak Road between 54th and Laramie Avenues in Cicero, Illinois. It is the only terminal with only one track used for service. Trains board on the eastern half of 54th/Cermak station and unload on the western half. Previously known as the Cicero-Berwyn Terminal, it is located about from the city of Berwyn. Tracks continue westward to the 54th Yard, the maintenance and storage yard for Pink Line trains. Bus connections CTA *21 Cermak *N60 Blue Island/26th (Owl Service - Overnight only) Pace *302 Ogden-Stanley *316 Laramie Avenue *322 Cermak Road-22nd Street Notes and references Notes Platforms and tracks *North platform: It is served by CTA's Pink Line to Loop in downtown Chicago ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, ...
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