By the 1930s there were many neighborhood grocery stores in Ottawa. In fact, in 1937 Ottawa had 69 such stores. This presentation by Mollie Perrot will highlight some of the well known provision providers. Admission is $10.
On June 12, 1924 around 9:00 p.m. two bandits climbed over the engine tender of R.P.O. train 57, 30 miles outside Chicago. The two men covered the engineer and firemen at gun forcing them to stop the train near Rondout, Illinois. Four other bandits were a Rondout,
After spending time looking at the condition of the wall surrounding the Wallace-Dickey Cemetery on the north bluff in Ottawa, both Chuck Sanders, president of the Wallace-Dickey Cemetery Preservation Association, and Keith Stehl, Ottawa Masonry, acknowledge it going to be a large and expensive undertaking. “We want
A murder on the I&M and other personal canal memories by Ottawa's Hank Walsh.