DeKoven Street is a street in Chicago. Located in the city's Near West Side, it was named for John DeKoven, one of the founders of the Northern Trust Company...

belonging to the O'Leary family that bordered the alley behind 137 W. DeKoven Street. The shed next to the barn was the first building to be consumed by...

Jean de Koven (1915 - 23 July, 1937) was an American ballet dancer and dance tutor from Boston, Massachusetts who was murdered in Paris, France in July...

DeKoven Street. Several modern sources say it was bounded by 23rd Street, State Street, 22nd Street (now Cermak Road) and what is now Federal Street....

of October 8, 1871, a fire consumed the O'Leary family's barn at 137 DeKoven Street. Due to a high wind and dry conditions, it spread to burn a large percentage...

Great Chicago Fire is alleged to have begun. O'Leary was born at 137 DeKoven Street, the house in which his family lived and where the Great Chicago Fire...

Louise DeKoven Bowen (also Louise deKoven Bowen; February 26, 1859 – November 9, 1953) was an American philanthropist, civic leader, social reformer, and...

is today known as the DeKoven Center, a conference center, educational facility, and special events venue operated by the DeKoven Foundation. The historic...

Hayner, Don; McNamee, Tom (1988). Streetwise Chicago: A History of Chicago Street Names. Chicago: Loyola University Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-8294-0597-6. Andersonville...

been that the fire, which had started with a blaze at a barn on 137 DeKoven Street, had been caused when Mrs. Catherine O'Leary had gone into milk a cow...