George Williams College (Chicago) George Williams College (Chicago) George Williams College was a college located in the northwestern corner of Hyde Park, Chicago. The college was an expansion of a summer camp founded by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) on the shores of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin in 1886. The college remained in Hyde Park from its founding in 1890 until 1965, when it moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. Subsequently, the Hyde Park campus was demolished in 1989. George Williams College can trace its origin to a summer camp founded on the shores of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin by YMCA leaders I. E. Brown, William
Bell's Life in London came too late. Contributors included: Bell's Life in London Bell's Life in London, and Sporting Chronicle was an English weekly sporting paper published as a pink broadsheet between 1822 and 1886. "Bell's Life" was founded by Robert Bell, a London printer-publisher. Bell sold it to William Innell Clement, owner of "The Observer", in 1824 or 1825, and the paper swallowed up a competitor, "Pierce Egan's Life in London and Sporting Guide". From 1824 to 1852 it was edited by Vincent George Dowling, "during which time "Bell's Life" became Britain's leading sporting newspaper, without which no gentleman's Sunday was quite complete".