Paddy Harmon
Paddy Harmon
Patrick 'Paddy' Thomas Harmon was an Irish American businessman and sports promoter based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is noted for the building of Chicago Stadium arena in 1929, then the world's largest indoor arena. Born in poverty to immigrant parents, he became an entrepreneur, owning dance halls and promoting cycling races and boxing matches. He succeeded in getting the Stadium bui
"It is not hard to please the public. All you have to remember is that we are all born children, that we all die children and that in-between times we are children.", from the article The Chicago Stadium Organ "Remember the Roar" in The Tracker."
"Never stay licked", quoted in The Spokesman-Review, February 24, 1929"
