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About Calumet City
Calumet City is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United
States. Population of 39,072 at 2000 census. Zip code 60409th
Calumet City (commonly referred to locally as "Cal City") was established in
1892, when the villages Schrumville and Sobieski Park merged under the name
of West Hammond, since it is located in the west side, Illinois, Indiana
frontier Hammond, Indiana. 1924, West Hammond officially changed its name to
Calumet City.
Moreover, bounded on the east by Hammond, it is also bordered by Burnham to
the north, Lansing, to the south and the South Holland and Dolton to the
west.
First World War
If the United States entered the Great War (later known as World War I)
1917, the patriotic fervor led to many young men enlisting in the armed
forces, and nowhere was that patriotism is more than the Western-Hammond,
which saw a larger percentage of its population, residents of enlist than
any other community in the nation. Even many members of the city sizable
German population in the military to fight the Central Powers. A bronze
plaque bearing the names of every citizen, who served in war, was dedicated
to the West at Hammond's Memorial Park in 1922.
"Sin City"
However, it can be the start of Prohibition in 1919, West Hammond / Calumet
City quickly became aware of something other than his or her patriotism.
Bootleggers were found by local officials and police are ready to turn a
blind eye, and the city became a magnet for speakeasies, gambling and
prostitution. A large number of illegal Sprange confirmed nightclubs across
the city and were particularly focused on a stretch of State Street that
quickly became known regionally and, ultimately, national and "bar", such as
Calumet City was dubbed the original American "Sin City." With the repeal of
the Volstead Act, and the return of legal liquor in 1933, Calumet City
speakeasies converted into a legitimate nightclubs, many of them owned or
influenced by organized crime, which is from Chicago (including Al Capone,
who owned the "Getaway" home-Calumet City). Clubs, bars and saloon continued
to succeed in a Calumet City, and the new record was set when he was
convinced that the town had more liquor licenses per capita than any other
community in the nation. Many of the clubs featured Las Vegas-style showgirl
revues, as well as such marquee talent such as Frank Sinatra, Sophie Tucker,
Keith speaks, and Gypsy Rose Lee.
By 1960, shadier elements of the city was moved to check the bars, gambling,
drugs and prostitution rings as a federal crime, the severity of large
families, breaking up their holdings, and the sending of illegal mob bosses
in prison. In the following decades, Calumet City's Strip was no longer seen
as a kind of "North Las Vegas," but, instead, was infamous as the place to
acquire drugs and prostitutes, such as at home, that threadbare string of
bars that were in the shadow of the nightclubs that once reigned there.
In 1980 and after the closure of reformist efforts succeeded in Calumet
city, many bars and State Street Strip today, essentially industrial park.
The Smiley Towers
A significant landmark and the pride among Cal City Point residents are the
two large water towers painted as the popular "Have a Nice Day" smiley
faces: The Smiley Towers (external link) The history of the Smiley Towers
Calumet City in 1995 found the formula:
"The Story behind Smile"
Some big smiles are shedding light on the positive Calumet City since 1973.
Citrus yellow Smiley Face water towers - one of River Oaks Center and the
Second Avenue and Paxton Ave Dolton - the idea was suggested by Kim Fornero.
Then I had a child, he could be one of the tower of his home and thought
that it would "look cute with a smiley face on it," recalled Dennis Bonic
director of the Calumet City Water Department.
The 1970s were the era of the smiley face. Those happy faces of all the
buttons appear in lunch boxes.
Fornero, the then Mayor Robert Stefaniak, and its towers and the city
council agreed to have painted. The move to make national headlines.
"There was a great to do it, when they went in 1973," said Bonic. "He went
national. It was a network TV, before I even had the water department."
This was one of the first times someone thought to use a municipal water
tower, such as a billboard, he said. Other cities soon followed suit and
Calumet City began placing symbols, slogans and insignias of their water
towers.
The Smiley Face towers were heralded as "a progressive community to the
project and a big smile every day reminder," said Bonic.
River Oaks Tower, the so-called "Mr. Smiley Face", his bow tie is a sport
'neck. " Other tie-less tower is affectionately known, whether the "Mrs." or
"Miss" Smiley Face ".
"I think that everyone wants to see the smiley face and think about the city
a positive light," he said, "This is just a reminder of things to see the
bright side."