Consulates, British expatriates and ordinary Chicagoans alike felt the weight of the announcement of the queen's death.
England-born Ed Pennington, right, and riend Jason Kirsch share a pint at the Red Lion Pub on Sept. 8, 2022, in Chicago. Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday at age 96 after the longest reign in British history.
News of the death of Queen Elizabeth II traveled swiftly around the globe, including to Chicago, where consulates, British expatriates and ordinary Chicagoans alike felt the weight of the announcement. Elizabeth, who died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland at age 96, had been Britain’s longest-serving monarch with a reign of some seven decades, and for much of the Chicago and world she remained the face of her home country.On Chicago’s North Side, Cordwell said he wept at the news.
His son runs the place today, vastly rebuilt in 2014, and now a handsome homage/museum, with an open-air dining room, three fireplaces on two levels, shelves filled with more than 1,000 books from his personal collection, vaulted ceilings, large windows, dozens of items lining the walls of the War Room — a tribute to his father and grandfather.
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