From July 21 to July 24, 1976, more than 2,000 members of the Pennsylvania chapters of the American Legion attended their annual state convention at a Philadelphia hotel. By Aug. 15, 182 ...

developers of the former Stratford Hotel site see it differently. “We think there is a huge demand for residential in that area,” said Jamie Heffernan, co-founder of Stamford-based Empire ...

Legionnaires' disease takes its name from an outbreak at the Pennsylvania American Legion convention held at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia in July 1976 blamed for 34 deaths.