MACOMB, IL - - Discover the spirit of small-town America while celebrating the legacy of Unforgettable Forgottonia's Macomb native and Monopoly inventor, Lizzie Magie, at Macomb's 43rd annual Heritage ...

Other properties could include the Mississippi River internment camps established after the 1927 Mississippi River Flood or the city of Natchez, Mississippi, after the Civil War. I mustn’t overlook ...

This is exactly what the inventor of Monopoly went through, unfortunately. In 1866, in Macomb, Illinois, a daughter was born to James Magie, a newspaper publisher and an advocate of economic reform.

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie was born in 1866 in Macomb during the heart of the Reconstruction era. The daughter of James Magie, a newspaper publisher and an abolitionist who once traveled ...

Macomb Area Chamber Gift Certificates New gift certificate design honors Monopoly inventor Lizzie Magie, who was born in Macomb, IL, and promotes supporting local businesses MACOMB, IL, UNITED ...

Well, she was half right. Monopoly became a hit, selling 278,000 copies in its first year and more than 1,750,000 the next.

Produced by the Monopoly game’s inventor, Charles Darrow, he hand-produced 5,000 copies of the game. It’s a circular piece of oilcloth with drawn-on squares, cards, and wooden pieces.

Monopoly is one of those games that no matter if you love or hate it, everyone has an opinion about it. The Nintendo Switch is a platform familiar with quite a few different Monopoly titles, and this ...

1969 also proved to be the last year Unimation had a monopoly over the robotics market. Nachi Robotics launched an industrial robotics program in 1969 in Tokyo. 1973 — KUKA and Six-Axel Robotic Arms ...