William Wallace Kimball (1828 – 1904) was the founder of the enterprise now recognized as Kimball Intercontinental. Kimball was born in Rumford, Maine. He moved to Decorah, Iowa, in his mid-twenties and grew to become a genuine estate broker. He liquidated his investments just just before the Panic of 1857 and moved to Chicago.[1] In… Continue reading Chicago IL ~ Prairie Avenue District ~ 2002