History in Lincoln Park
Trivia
Apartment of "The Lady in Red"
Anne Sage (a.k.a., "The Lady In Red") accompanied John Dillinger to the Biograph Theater for a showing of "Manhattan Melodrama" on the night he was shot and killed. She lived in an apartment building at 2420 North Halsted Street, directly around the corner from the theater. The building has since been demolished and now serves as Julia Porter Park.
John Dillinger - Seminary Restaurant
John Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1, frequently dined at the Seminary Restaurant at 2402 North Lincoln Avenue. Today it's the site of a McDonald's.
John Dillinger Pronounced Dead
After police gunned down Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger, he was pronounced dead at Alexian Brothers Hospital at 1200 West Belden Avenue at 10:55 p.m. on July 22, 1934.
Love Affair Between Nelson Algren And Simone de Beauvoir
Famed American author Nelson Algren and renowned French writer (and feminist) Simone de Beauvoir had a brief and intense romance that was kindled at Algren's apartment at 1523 West Wabansia Avenue in 1947. (The building has since been demolished and replaced.) The relationship did not persist, however, as de Beauvoir wished to remain in her native Paris, and Algren felt he was only capable of writing about Chicago.
Back in France, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre were lifelong friends and lovers, and Sartre once described her as a man's brains in a woman's body.
According to the Chicago Tribute Project, Algren also resided at 1958 West Evergreen Street.