CBBEL Promotes Three Long-Serving Employees to Vice President - Des Plaines, IL - Director of Marketing Sherry Sporina and Assistant Civil Design Department Heads Lee Fell, PE and Bryan Welch, PE become Vice Presidents
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Chicago mayor targets monuments to Civil War, American Revolution
As tragedies go, few match the poetic dimensions of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, Good Friday, 1865. Coming just five days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered Confederate armies to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, and four years and three days after the attack on Fort Sumter opened the conflict, Lincoln’s killing was, symbolically, the last act in the carnage of the Civil War that had taken the lives of some 700,000 Americans, made 4 million slaves “henceforth and forever free,” and secured for the United States “a new birth of freedom.”
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