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99 unusual facts about Chicago


1901 Chicago White Stockings season

The NL actually gave permission to the AL to put a team in Chicago, and Comiskey moved his St. Paul club to Chicago's South Side.

A Gerald Walker Christmas EP

The album was recorded in Fall 2010 in the United States, but Walker also stated during an interview with, Ynotmydream.net, that parts of the album were demoed in Chicago during the recording of I Remember When This All Meant Something....

American Dental Society of Anesthesiology

The American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA) is an American professional association established in 1953 and based in Chicago.

American Kidney Fund

In Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and select cities nationwide, the American Kidney Fund offers free kidney screenings to the public.

Apo Island

In 2003, Chicago's Shedd Aquarium opened a Wild Reef exhibit based on Apo Island's surrounding reef and marine sanctuary.

Arnie Morton

In 1978, Morton's of Chicago opened in the basement of a Near North Side high-rise in Chicago adjacent to the existing Arnie's restaurant.

Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem

Sennacherib's Prism, which details the events of Sennacherib's campaign against Judah, was discovered in the ruins of Nineveh in 1830, and is now stored at the Oriental Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

B. B. Kahane

After graduating from the Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1912, BB Kahane practiced several years as a lawyer.

Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax

The stocks were invested in the Chicago Rock Island Railway.

Bernard Epton

A resident of the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Epton ran against the liberal African American Democrat Harold Washington in the mayoral election in the spring of 1983.

Boston Baroque

With Pearlman as its music director, the ensemble presents an annual subscription concert series in Greater Boston, Massachusetts; has performed on tour in Carnegie Hall, Chicago's Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles's Disney Hall, and at the Ravinia and Tanglewood festivals; and has toured internationally.

Chasing Vermeer

Set in Hyde Park, Chicago near the University of Chicago, the novel follows two children, Calder Pillay and Petra Andalee.

Cheney Ames

Cheney Ames (June 19, 1808 Mexico, now in Oswego County, New York – September 14, 1892 Chicago, Illinois) was an American politician from New York.

Chicago-style hot dog

Portillo's is without question the top vendor of this variation of hot dog regionally, although a version of it has been available nationally at Sonic Drive-in since 2011, and a variation can also be ordered at Nathan's Famous locations upon request.

Chicago, IL 1996

As has become customary for Halloween shows from the band, several covers debuted for the first time: The Doors' Riders On The Storm, Space Truckin' by Deep Purple and Golden Earring's hit Radar Love.

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot Freight House and Train Shed

Originally, the facility's most distinguishing feature, the clock tower, was pinnacled and modeled after the Giralda in Seville, Spain; high winds destroyed the pinnacle in 1941 and the tower has since had a flat top.

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: South Cle Elum Yard

The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad South Cle Elum Rail Yard located in South Cle Elum, Washington, was a division point on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad's Coast Division.

Chicago: City on the Make

The University of Chicago Press issued a new edition of the essay upon its 50th anniversary in 2001, and it remains one of Chicago's most popular local books.

Children Affected by AIDS Foundation

The Foundation's premiere fundraising effort is Dream Halloween, kid-friendly costume parties held in October in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.

CJOI-FM

Originally known as CFLP when it opened in 1978 as an AM station on 1000 kHz (and identified itself as "Radio Mille"), the station moved to the FM band in late 2000, due to serious problems in nighttime coverage resulting from a very directional signal necessary to protect WMVP 1000 in Chicago, Illinois.

Clifford Jordan

Clifford Laconia Jordan (September 2, 1931, Chicago – March 27, 1993, Manhattan) was a jazz tenor saxophone player.

Conflict Solutions International

However, this Board of Advisors contains professionals from all over the world, including the director of the Outreach Division for the United Nations Department of Public Information, a former Consul General in Washington, DC and an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law, International Center for Human Rights in Chicago.

Convention Industry Council

Additionally, a bronze plaque bearing the recipient’s name is displayed at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Dental laboratory

This merger took place in Chicago and then, in 1952, NADL established its headquarters offices in Washington, D.C., which were moved to Tallahassee, Florida later in 2001.

Dick's Picks Volume 26

It was recorded on April 26, 1969 at the Electric Theater in Chicago, Illinois and on April 27, 1969 at the Labor Temple in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dovid Lifshitz

In 1941, Rabbi Lifshitz reached America along with his wife and daughter, and was appointed a rosh yeshiva of Beis Midrash LeTorah in Chicago.

Driver's license in the United States

In 1899 Chicago and New York City were the first locales to require testing before being allowed to operate a motor vehicle.

Egon Weiner

Egon Weiner (1906 – August 1, 1987) was a Chicago sculptor and longtime professor (1945–1971) at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Electronic Literature Organization

Founded by Scott Rettberg, Robert Coover, and Jeff Ballowe, the ELO moved from Chicago to UCLAMedia Arts departments.

Emilie Blackmore Stapp

On October 28, 1942, in an effort to raise money for the war effort, the United States Treasury Department and the Holy Cathedral Book Club of Chicago sponsored an autographed book party.

Erskine Tate

Erskine Tate (January 14, 1895, Memphis, Tennessee – December 17, 1978, Chicago) was an American jazz violinist and bandleader.

Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries

Extraordinary Ordination of Erik Christensen - October 21, 2006 in Chicago: Pastor Christensen was called to St. Luke's of Logan Square.

First Unitarian Church of Chicago

One of the oldest churches in Chicago, First Unitarian Chicago was founded in 1836 and located at 5650 S. Woodlawn Avenue.

Florence Kirsch Du Brul

Florence Kirsch Du Brul (1915–July 2, 2005) was a concert pianist and master piano teacher and member of Chicago society in the mid-20th century.

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The couple purchased a stately 19th century home in Lincoln Park, Chicago and filled it with art, sculpture, native handicrafts, and other memorabilia from their many trips abroad.

Fraternité Notre-Dame

In 2000, The movement opened its Mother House for North America in Chicago's Austin neighborhood in the former Gammon United Methodist Church, a structure built by noted Cleveland architect Sidney Badgley and featured in a number of books on Chicago architecture, notably "The AIA Guide to Chicago" by Alice Sinkevitch (Harvest Books 2004).

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The church has faced controversies since entering the Chicago area with the opening of its mother house in a former Methodist Church in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago in 2000.

Geography of the Interior United States

The present site of Chicago was determined by an Indian portage or carry across the low divide between Lake Michigan and the headwaters of the Illinois River.

Gonesh

Gonesh is a North American brand of incense, candle, and fragrance products owned by Genieco, Inc. in Chicago, USA.

Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 4

As a supplement to this omission, the third disc contains highlights from concerts later in June 1976 in Philadelphia and Chicago.

Greens/Green Party USA

The Clearinghouse has operated from various locations, including (originally) Kansas City, Missouri; Blodgett Mills, New York; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Chicago, Illinois.

Harold Burrage

Harold Burrage (March 30, 1931, Chicago - November 26, 1966, Chicago, age 35) was an American blues and soul musician(singer and pianist).

Hennig-Olsen Iskremfabrikk

Kristiansand resident Sven Hennig-Olsen (1899–1945) learned the art of making ice cream during a stay in Chicago.

Hollywood Arms

Burnett, determined that the play serve as a tribute to her late daughter's memory, brought it to the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where it opened on April 9, 2002.

Howard Wesley Johnson

He served in the Army in Europe during World War II, and returned to earn a masters degree in economics at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1948 to 1955.

International Cystinuria Foundation

To date, the ICF has held three such symposia, two in New York City and one in Chicago.

It's Polka Time

Also known as simply Polka Time, the program featured authentic polka music, performed out of Chicago, primarily by authentic Polish-Americans.

Jackson Bentley

(His being based in Chicago, and his name being Jackson, Thomas's middle name, are other give-aways.)

Jacob B. Agus

Agus's rabbinic career included Congregation Beth Abraham, Norfolk, Virginia, 1934–1936; Temple Ashkenaz, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1936–1940; Agudas Achim North Shore Congregation, Chicago, 1940–1942; and Beth Abraham United Synagogue Center, Dayton, Ohio, 1942–1950.

Jay Conrad Levinson

He was born in Detroit, raised in Chicago, graduated from the University of Colorado.

Jay Yuenger

Growing up in the diverse Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's south side (home to the University of Chicago), Yuenger was exposed to soul, jazz, folk, and the electric blues and attended Kenwood Academy.

Joaquín Sorolla

In 1890, they moved to Madrid, and for the next decade Sorolla's efforts as an artist were focussed mainly on the production of large canvases of orientalist, mythological, historical, and social subjects, for display in salons and international exhibitions in Madrid, Paris, Venice, Munich, Berlin, and Chicago.

Jobs for Youth-Chicago

This effort resonated with the perspectives shared in Alex Kotlowitz' There Are No Children Here, Nicholas Lemann's 'The Promised Land—both of them best sellers—and MacArthur Genius awardee William Julius Wilson's groundbreaking, The Truly Disadvantaged.

John Milton Gregory

John Milton Gregory Elementary School (established 1923) of the Chicago Public Schools is named after Gregory and is located in the historic North Lawndale, Chicago community.

Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room

In the 1940s, Olson hosted a popular radio show in Chicago also titled Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room, an evening variety show running 10:30 pm to 12 midnight (CT).

Jose Cha Cha Jimenez

The few winning court rulings were too little too late as families were once again forced out of their homes in Lakeview, Wicker Park and the Humboldt Park neighborhoods.

Joseph Regenstein

Joseph Regenstein (1889–1957) was an American industrialist whose philanthropy benefited the city of Chicago, especially the University of Chicago, where the Regenstein Library is named in his memory.

Joseph Yuill

In 1893, one the Yuills bulls won first prize at the Columbian exposition in Chicago.

Keg Johnson

Around 1928, in Kansas City, Keg and Budd played in several bands but by 1930 Keg left for Chicago to play with Louis Armstrong, recording his first solo on Armstrong's Basin Street Blues album.

KLNZ

A huge marketing campaign coincided with the change, publicizing the return of popular morning hosts Tim & Willy, who were at KMLE for a few years before a brief stint in Chicago.

Laura Bannon

Her career as a children’s book author and illustrator began in 1939, earning Bannon acclaim from the Children’s Reading Round Table of Chicago and the Society of Typographical Arts.

Leonard Patrick

Patrick grew up in the Jewish neighborhood of Lincoln Park, in Chicago's Near North Side and during Prohibition, eventually becoming an associate and later partner of Greek-American loanshark and extortionist Gus Alex.

Lost Highway: The Concert

The DVD shows the band performing the Lost Highway album in its entirety to an audience of approximately 2,000 people in the Chicago Illinois.

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Lost Highway: The Concert is an exclusive Germany release of the concert recorded in Chicago, 2007.

Melvin Alvah Traylor

He went on to oversee several banks around the United States and became president of the American Bankers Association in 1926 and later the first president of the First Union Trust and Savings Bank in 1928 which would go on to become Chicago's largest bank under his leadership in 1931.

Michael Freytag

For some time he worked in overseas offices of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chicago and at the German Business Association of Hong Kong.

Michael Schwab

He emigrated to the United States in 1879 and lived variously in Chicago, Milwaukee and the Western U.S. before settling permanently in Chicago in 1881.

Murder Ain't What it Used to Be

Behind most of the rackets in Chicago, he hires Jeff to protect his daughter from any of his enemies whilst in London.

Myron Weiner

He taught at Princeton and the University of Chicago before coming to MIT as an associate professor in 1961, where he worked for 38 years before retiring in April 1999.

National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation

In 2009, mini-conferences have been scheduled for Chicago, New York, West Virginia, north Texas, Kansas City and Los Angeles.

National Revival of Poland

NOP also has supporters outside Poland, notably among the United States Polish community, including Polish Patriots’ Association residing in New York City, and the revisionist Polish Historical Institute in Chicago.

Nicholas Engalitcheff

Prince Nicholas Engalitcheff (ru: Николай Енгалычев, 1874–1935) was member of Russian nobility and later the Imperial Russian Vice Consul to Chicago during the early 1900s.

Northern Securities Company

The company controlled the Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and other associated lines.

Off-year election

Many major cities around the country elect their mayors during off-years, including the top five most populous cities: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia.

Orie Amodeo

He joined the Welk orchestra in October 1945, when they were headquartered in Chicago.

Our Neighborhood Times

Our Neighborhood Times is a bimonthly community newspaper based in Hegewisch, Chicago and distributed throughout the neighborhoods along the eastern shore of Lake Calumet.

Our Private World

The storyline started on As the World Turns, with Lisa boarding a train to Chicago and the announcer (Dan McCullough) encouraging the audience to watch the spin-off.

Paul Roldan

In 2001, he participated in a comprehensive community planning effort to manage development in Humboldt Park, Chicago, on the city’s west side.

Pilsen Historic District

Pilsen is a neighborhood made up of the residential sections of the Lower West Side community area of Chicago.

Providence St. Mel School

A charter school was added in Chicago's Englewood community area during Fall 2006 and is known as Providence Englewood.

Ray Linn

Ray Linn (born October 20, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois - died November 1996 in Columbus, Ohio) was an American jazz trumpeter.

Robert Seaman

Robert Livingston Seaman (1822 – March 11, 1904) was an American millionaire industrialist who was the husband of investigative journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran (better known as Nellie Bly), whom he married in 1895 in Chicago.

Ron Grzywinski

In 1973, Ron and three colleagues (Milton Davis, James Fletcher, and Mary Houghton) purchased the South Shore Bank (eventually renaming it ShoreBank) in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood to fight redlining.

Salvi Sports Enterprises

Salvi Sports Enterprises,LLC based in Chicago, Illinois, is a sports ownership group.

Santo Pecora

He moved to Chicago late in the decade, playing both in jazz bands and in theater palaces, then became a big band sideman in the 1930s.

Sonny Rollins Plus 4

The Quintet was in Chicago as well in November 1955, and were playing at the Bee Hive Club in Hyde Park.

Southwest Limited

the Southwest Limited formerly operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road") between Chicago/Milwaukee and Kansas City

Springfield Township, Lucas County, Ohio

Sailors were seen there in 1840 as a result of business on the Miami and Erie Canal and the Maumee River, railroad men arrived or were so occupied in the 1860s with the running of the first railroad on May 20, 1852 between Toledo and Chicago, through what would later be called Holland, workers were available for the oil fields that appeared in northwest Ohio in the 1870s and 1880s, and finally the automobile industry provided and still provides work for many in the township.

StarToons

StarToons International, LLC was an American animation studio located in the Chicago, Illinois area.

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Before its demise in 2001, StarToons had a plethora of exciting projects lined up, such as pilots "Up With the Chickens", "Tuna Sammich", "The Kitchen Sink Gang", "The Neverland Gnomes", and M-7, a Japanese-style anime which was to be animated fully in Chicago.

The Al Morgan Show

Unlike most DuMont offerings which were broadcast from the network's studios in New York City, the series was broadcast from WGN-TV in Chicago.

Tomato juice

His combination of squeezed tomatoes, sugar and his special sauce became an instant success as Chicago businessmen spread the word about the tomato juice cocktail.

Tut Imlay

The Bucs played all their games on the road, and ran out of Chicago.

U.S. Route 54 in Texas

The northern Panhandle portion was originally assigned to State Highway 56, paralleling the Chicago, Rock Island, and Gulf Railroad.

United States presidential election, 1916

The 1916 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago between June 7 and 10.

Utah College of Dental Hygiene

The Commission on Dental Accreditation can be contacted at (312) 440-4650 or at 211 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611-2678.

West Albany, New York

The cattle stockyards were moved here from Albany in 1860 and quickly rose to national importance, ranking just behind Chicago and Buffalo at the end of the 1880s, and occasionally even surpassing them in business transacted.

WGN

World's Greatest Newspaper, former slogan of the Chicago Tribune and the namesake for the WGN broadcasting outlets in Chicago, Illinois.

Yugoslav Republican Alliance

The Yugoslav Republican Alliance (Jugoslovanski Republicansko Zdruzenje) was a political party founded in 1917 founded in exile in Chicago, United States, by the fusion of the Slovene Republican Alliance with Croats and other South Slav people.


1990 NBA Playoffs

Game 5 @ Chicago Stadium, Chicago (May 16): Chicago 117, Philadelphia 99

2005 American League Championship Series

Paul Konerko's two-run homer in the first inning provided a Chicago lead that the Angels could never overcome, despite a two-run home run by Orlando Cabrera in the sixth, as the White Sox took the series lead, two games to one, with Jon Garland pitching a complete game.

Abercrombie Lawson

After a year as assistant in botany Lawson spent 1901 at the University of Chicago with Professors John Merle Coulter and Charles Joseph Chamberlain in the new Hull laboratories and was awarded a Ph.D. (1901).

Andreu Martín

The novel, set in Chicago during the 1930s, stars Zack Dallara, a private investigator who had a business that was destroyed by the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Anna-Jane Casey

Casey made her first appearance in Chicago as Velma Kelly in 1998, a role she has reprised on numerous occasions.

Bertha Palmer

Vast sums were spent on the Palmer Mansion in Chicago, starting with $100,000 and rising over $1 million.

Bessemer Park

Bessemer Park is a public park in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Created in 1904, it was named for Henry Bessemer, the inventor of the eponymous steelmaking process.

Bloody Valentine

Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, a conflict between two gangs in Chicago on February 14, 1929

Candace Kroslak

Candace Kaye Kroslak (born Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, July 22, 1978) is an American actress of Slovak descent, probably best known for her role as Lindy Maddock in the Swedish-American soap opera Ocean Ave.

Carl A. Roles

A Thoroughbred trainer and owner, he trained for prominent stable owners such as Ada L. Rice of Chicago and Hollywood film studio boss, Louis B. Mayer.

Chicago VI

After recording all of Chicago's first five albums (including the live album Chicago at Carnegie Hall) in New York City, producer James William Guercio had his own Caribou Studios built in Nederland, Colorado during 1972, finished in time for the band to record their sixth album the following February.

Fading Trails

It is a compilation of tracks from four different recording sessions, including recordings at Electrical Audio in Chicago, engineered by Steve Albini, Sound of Music Studio in Richmond, Virginia, produced by David Lowery, and Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, engineered by James Lott.

Food and Nutrition Service

It administers the programs through its headquarters (HQ) in Alexandria, VA; regional offices (ROs) in San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and Robbinsville (NJ); and field offices throughout the US.

Frank Selee

After he left Boston, he went on to manage in Chicago where built the basis for the Cubs' later success by signing and utilizing the talents of Frank Chance, Joe Tinker, and Johnny Evers.

George Wein

Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities around including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo.

Gitte Haslebo

In 1960–61 Haslebo spent a year in the United States, graduating in 1961 from Homewood-Flossmoor High School in suburban Chicago.

Grikor Suni

Ronald Grigor Suny, Emeritus Professor of political science at the University of Chicago, is a grandson of Grikor Mirzaian Suni.

Hollywood Arms

Most of the Chicago cast remained with the play, with Leslie Hendrix replacing Barbara E. Robertson.

Inclusive capitalism

Allen Hammond is Vice President of Special Projects and Innovation at the World Resources Institute: a Washington, DC-based, non-profit, environmental, think tank created in 1982 through a $15 million donation by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago (World Resources Institute website 2008).

J. Christopher Reyes

He sits on the Board of Trustees of the Ronald McDonald House Charities and is Chairman of Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

J. Frank Duryea

On November 28, 1895, Frank Duryea won the first motor-car race in the United States, a 54-mile loop along the lakeshore from Chicago to Evanston and back again.

Jim Zulevic

Zulevic, of Scottish and Croatian extraction, grew up in Chicago, where he graduated from St. Thomas More Grammar School, Brother Rice High School and Columbia College Chicago.

John Hoerr

Later he worked at The Daily Tribune in Royal Oak, Michigan, rejoined UPI for two years in Chicago, and served separate stints with Business Week, in Detroit and Pittsburgh, specializing as a labor reporter on the automobile, steel, and coal-mining industries.

Kate Booth

At her husband's wish, Katie and the children travelled with him to the cult leader John Alexander Dowie's Zion City, a township about 40 miles north of Chicago.

Kooman and Dimond

Homemade Fusion is a song cycle, and was originally produced at Carnegie Mellon University, and moved on to venues such as The Pittsburgh CLO's Cabaret Space, The Zipper Theater, and Monday Nights New Voices Chicago.

Little Chicago, Wisconsin

Little Chicago received worldwide recognition in 2002 by being referenced as the title of Adam Rapp's novel "Little Chicago."

Matt Lauria

After finishing Friday Night Lights, Lauria moved to Chicago, Illinois after being cast in the series regular role of Caleb Evers in Fox's crime drama The Chicago Code.

Melina Paez

She has trained for improvisation at Chicago's The Second City, performed in several sketch comedy shows, plays and in non-commercial radio (DJ Slothgirl, 89.1fm WIDR, Kalamazoo).

Milbank, South Dakota

The city was founded in 1880 when the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway first laid rails into South Dakota, and was named in honor of railroad director Jeremiah Milbank.

Miles Stroth

In 1991, Stroth began studying long-form improvisation with Del Close and Charna Halpern at what was then called Improv Olympic, now the iO Theater in Chicago.

Ontario Highway 427

In 1963, it was announced by MacNaughton that Highway 401 would be widened from a four-lane highway to a collector-express system, modelled after the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago.

Peotone High School

Peotone High School or PHS, is a four-year high school located approximately 1 mile east of Interstate 57 near the intersection of Corning Ave and Rathje Rd in Peotone, Illinois, a village located 43 miles (69 km) south of Chicago, Illinois and 16 miles (25 km) north of Kankakee, Illinois, in the United States.

Proviso Township High Schools District 209

The school was designed by the noted Chicago architectural firm of Perkins and Will.

Randy Daniels

He began his journalism career in Chicago, as a reporter for WVON radio.

Resurrection Health Care

Prior to the merger, Resurrection Health Care's six hospitals were Holy Family Medical Center (Des Plaines, Illinois), Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center (Chicago), Resurrection Medical Center (Chicago), Saint Francis Hospital (Evanston, Illinois), Saint Joseph Hospital (Chicago), and Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center (Chicago).

Shobhabazar

It was in the Shobhabazar Rajbari dalan (courtyard) that Swami Vivekananda was accorded a civic reception after his return from the Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago.

SS Christopher Columbus

In 1915, the SS Eastland capsized while docked in the Chicago River, with the loss of over 800 lives.

Steadfast Networks

Steadfast Networks is a Chicago, Illinois-based Internet Service Provider primarily focused on Shared Hosting, Dedicated Servers and Colocation.

Sveum

Dale Sveum (born 1963), American former baseball player and current manager of the Chicago Cubs

Teenage Jesus

Album came about when The Emotron played with Chicago Synth-Pop Act The Mystechs, Singer/Label Owner Emil Hyde asked The Emotron if they would like to record and put out a DIY release on his label Death By Karaoke Records.

The Chicago Plan Revisited

The Chicago Plan Revisited is an IMF report from 2012 by Jaromir Benes and Michael Kumhof that has become renowned because of its radical content.

The Third Miracle

In Chicago, in 1979, Father Frank Shore (Ed Harris) is a priest, now a Postulator, who investigates claims of miracles for the Vatican performed by a devout woman whose death caused a statue of the Virgin Mary to bleed upon and cure a girl with terminal lupus.

Tylman

Stanley D. Tylman (1893–1982), professor of dentistry (1920–1962), University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry

W.N. Flynt Granite Co.

Many public buildings in Monson and the surrounding communities were constructed of Flynt granite, but the quarry also shipped granite for buildings in Boston, New York, Chicago, and even as far as Kansas and Iowa.

Weather Underground

In December 1969, the Chicago Police Department, in conjunction with the FBI, conducted a raid on the home of Black Panther Fred Hampton, in which he and Mark Clark were killed, with four of the seven other people in the apartment wounded.

Willie Humphrey

After establishing himself with such New Orleans bands as the Excelsior and George McCullum's band, Humphrey traveled up north, playing with such other New Orleans musicians as Lawrence Duhé, and King Oliver in Chicago (Photos show Humphrey with Duhé's band playing in the stands for the infamous 1919 World Series).

WJJL

Former WGN Radio-Chicago VP/General Manager Tom Langmyer worked there as a summer fill-in personality, news reporter and anchor while in college.

You Know Me Al

Lardner was a sportswriter who moved to Chicago in 1907, where he covered the Cubs and White Sox for several city newspapers, most notably the Chicago Tribune.

Zoellner Arts Center

The venue has had a wide array of performers, including: the New York Philharmonic and Itzhak Perlman, the Tuvan throat singers Huun-Huur-Tu and Laurie Anderson, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, MOMIX, the Aquila Theatre Company, Lily Tomlin, Bernadette Peters and Queen Latifah.