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Gary Elks
The Gary Elks were an Independent American football team that played four seasons. From 1920 to 1923. 1920 They 1920 season was their first season. They started the season with a 40–0 win over Forest Park Othello A.C. The win followed with 4 more wins until there was a 0–0 tie against the Chicago Thorn Tornadoes. They played their next game against the Hammond Pros, an APFA team. They won the game 7 to 6. They played their first six games at Emerson High School Field, before they moved to Gleason Park. They finished the season with a 8-0-1 record. 1921 They opened the 1921 season with wins against the Evanston Washington Parks, Morocco Independents, Chicago Staym-Foresters, and Chicago Thorn-Tornadoes before losing their first ever game against Chicago Amos A.A. They had three more wins before losing to the APFA Chicago Cardinals. They won the week prior against the Hammond Pros, who they beat the year before. The next week they lost their third game of the season to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary, Indiana
Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The city has been historically dominated by major industrial activity and is home to U.S. Steel's Gary Works, the largest steel mill complex in North America. Gary is located along the southern shore of Lake Michigan about east of downtown Chicago, Illinois. The city is adjacent to the Indiana Dunes National Park, and is within the Chicago metropolitan area. Gary was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. U.S. Steel had established the city as a company town to serve its steel mills. Although initially a very diverse city, after white flight in the 1970s, the city of Gary held the nation's highest percentage of African Americans for several decades. As of the 2020 census the city's population was 70,093, making it Indiana's ninth-largest city. Like other Rust Belt cities, Gary's once thriving steel industry has been significantly affected by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Staym-Foresters
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
