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100 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.

Ann Marie Lipinski

Lipinski and her husband, Steve Kagan, live in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago and have one daughter.

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.

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.

Benjamin F. Church

He went first to Chicago, Illinois, and then in the fall of 1835 went north to the new settlements that would become Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Budge Budge

Hindu evangelist Swami Vivekananda landed at Budge Budge ferry ghat in 1897 when he returned from his Chicago visit.

Chasing Vermeer

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

Chicago Democrat

He did not cite, but presumably was responding to, the appearance of his first competition, the Chicago's American (sponsored by a rival political party, the Whigs).

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

Unrivaled in its depiction of Chicago's downtrodden, the essay recounts the repeated ways Chicago sells out its dreams and disappoints its dreamers, including the 1919 Black Sox scandal, in which eight Chicago White Sox players were accused of accepting bribes to throw the world series.

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.

College Football All-Star Challenge

The event, produced by Chicago-based Intersport, features senior-class college football players competing in a number of skills contests, including throwing for distance, throwing for accuracy, shuttle runs, and powerlifting.

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.

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.

Dick's Picks Volume 35

It is a four CD set that contains the complete show recorded on August 7, 1971 at Golden Hall in San Diego, California, and a substantial portion of the show recorded on August 24, 1971, at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

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.

Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford

Blatchford’s contributions continue to be present across the state of Illinois through his extensive work as a trustee of Illinois College, Rockford Seminary, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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.

Ford City Mall

Ford City Mall is a family retail destination located on the Southwest Side of Chicago in the West Lawn neighborhood at 76th Street and Cicero Avenue.

Four Star Playhouse

The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here (under that title, 25 February 1954), as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat (titled "Search in the Night," 5 November 1953).

Frank Melrose

He was born in Sumner, Illinois, the younger brother of Walter and Lester Melrose who set up the Melrose Brothers Music Company in Chicago in 1918, and went on to become leading figures in the Chicago blues and jazz scene of the 1920s and 1930s.

Georgia Marble Company

The Georgia Marble Company supplied the marble used to build the New York Stock Exchange annex, the statue in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the National Air and Space Museum, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland, and the Buckingham Fountain in Chicago.

Glitch art

On September 29 thru October 3, 2010, Chicago played host to the first GLI.TC/H, a five-day conference in Chicago organized by Nick Briz, Evan Meaney, Rosa Menkman and Jon Satrom that included workshops, lectures, performances, installations and screenings.

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.

Herbert Blitzstein

He lived at 6720 North Damen Avenue in Rogers Park, Chicago with his third wife, but spent a great deal of time at Phil Alderisio's bar, The Tradewinds in The Patch.

Hiram F. Mather

Hiram Foote Mather (February 13, 1796 Colchester, New London County, Connecticut - July 11, 1868 Chicago, Illinois) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

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.

Hugh H. Young

He was also active in community affairs and was known to be a supporter of Albert Cabell Ritchie, a Maryland politician who made a bid for presidency in 1932 but lost the nomination to Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Democratic Party convention in Chicago, where Young was among the delegates.

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.)

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.

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And music was always a part of the events – with MacArthur “genius” Award winner and JFY graduate, ragtime pianist Reginald Robinson, entertaining the guests on a couple of occasions.

John Guzlowski

After working on farms in western New York State to pay off their passage to America, they eventually settled in Chicago in the city's old Polish Downtown in the vicinity of St. Fidelis Parish in Humboldt Park.

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).

Jon Lowenstein

Lowenstein was recently awarded the 2012 Open Society Foundation’s Audience Engagement Grant and was named a 2011 Guggenheim fellow in photography for his work on the South Side, 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.

Kurt Heinecke

After touring around the country and serving as a teacher in the Bahamas Kurt finally settled down in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois where he later became Director of Church Music at the Park Community Church.

Lawndale, Chicago

Lawndale may refer to either of two neighborhoods on the far west side of the city of Chicago.

Leonard Weinberg

In the 1930s he filed one of the earliest damages lawsuits against a labor union; he was a delegate to the 1932 Democratic Convention held in Chicago in support of Governor Albert Ritchie of Maryland nomination.

Leroy and the Old Man

LeRoy Chambers is the sole witness to a murder by a local Chicago gang called "The Wolves”.

Live in Chicago Vol. 1

For Cornmeal's first six years as a band they would play every Wednesday at a local club in Chicago.

London House

The London House, Chicago, a former s a jazz club and restaurant in Chicago

Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

One Major Mitchell's Cockatoo that has become quite famous is "Cookie," a beloved resident of Illinois' Brookfield Zoo near Chicago since it opened in 1934.

Marcos Balter

He currently lives in Chicago, where he is the Director of Music Composition Studies at Columbia College Chicago.

Marina Towers

Marina City, a mixed-use residential/commercial building complex in Chicago

Mary Houghton

Houghton, along with Milton Davis, James Fletcher, and Ron Grzywinski purchased what was then South Shore Bank to fight redlining in the Chicago neighborhood.

Maxwell Street Depot

The Maxwell Street Depot, commonly called "Depot" or "Ghetto Dog" by its regular customers, is a 24-hour fast-food restaurant with locations throughout the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, although the best known branch is found on 31st Street and Canal Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood.

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 Diversey

St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Chicago was built on land donated to the parish by Michael Diversey.

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.

Midway Gardens Orchestra

The Midway Gardens Orchestra was a jazz group active in the Chicago area of the United States during 1923.

Model Tobacco Building

Located at 1100 Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. Route 1), in Richmond, Virginia, the building was designed by the Chicago architecture firm of Schmidt, Garden and Erikson and is known for the 9' tall Moderne MODEL TOBACCO letters which dominate the north end of the building.

Moses Mescheloff

In 1954, Mescheloff moved to Chicago, in time to celebrate Hanukkah with his new congregation in West Rogers Park, Chicago, Congregation K.I.N.S. (Knesset Israel Nusach Sfard) of West Rogers Park.

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.

One Live Kiss

The live concert was recorded at the House of Blues in Chicago, IL, on November 6, 2006 and features performances of Stanley's songs from his 1978 self-titled solo album and the 2006 release Live to Win, as well as selected songs from various eras of Kiss.

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.

Pine Village, Indiana

When the C&EI floundered in the early 1920s, Charles F. Propst purchased the Coal Road and in October 1922 incorporated it as the Chicago, Attica and Southern Railroad.

Pioppi

Jeremiah Stamler (b. 1919), a renowned cardiologist, who, after retirement, is dividing himself between Minnelea, Long Island, and Chicago.

Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria

In 2001, she visited and toured the church of St John of Rila the Wonderworker in Chicago's Portage Park community area.

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.

Siebel Institute of Technology

The Siebel Institute of Technology is a technical school located in the Lincoln Park neighbourhood of Chicago that focuses on brewing science.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Then, in 1981 the Museum of Modern Art (New York) mounted a retrospective of her work that subsequently traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), and the Musée d'Art Contemporain (Montreal).

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

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.

Steadfast Networks

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

Taleb Rifai

After completing his B.S. in Architectural Engineering from the University of Cairo in 1973, Rifai went on to attain a master's degree in Engineering and Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, United States in 1979.

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.

The Night Chicago Died

The East Side is not one of these "sides" of town, but in reality is a neighborhood located on the South Side, several miles away from where Al Capone lived (at 7244 South Prairie Avenue).

Thomas P. Barnett

Surviving examples include the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, Texas, and the Saint Clement Catholic Church in Chicago.

Tut Imlay

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

Twin Cities Rail Transport

Rail transport in the Twin Cities currently consists of Amtrak service between Chicago and Seattle, the METRO Blue Line light rail service running between downtown Minneapolis and the Mall of America, passing by the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, and the Northstar Commuter Rail line between downtown Minneapolis and a number of northwest suburbs.

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.

Valkenburg resistance

This soldier was Bob Hilleque from Chicago, the only member of the A platoon of the 119th regiment who was still alive at the time.

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.

Wicker Park

Wicker Park, Chicago, a neighborhood in the West Town community area outside of the Chicago Loop

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.


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.

2008 Paris Motor Show

In this edition, the subject was "Taxis du Monde" (Taxis from around the world), and it featured a variety of taxi vehicles from different cities and eras, such as a New York Checker cab, a Chicago Yellow Cab, London Black cabs, a Manila Jeepney, a Bangkok Tuk Tuk, etc., as well as several Parisian taxis, starting with the classic Renault Taxi de la Marne and ending with the proposed future taxi Peugeot Expert Tepee.

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).

Alfredo Toro Hardy

His book The Age of Villages, with a foreword by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Director of Chatham House, won the “Latino Book Award” (best book by an author whose original language is in Spanish or Portuguese) in the category of contemporary history/political sciences, at the BookExpo America celebrated in Chicago in 2003.

Allan Bridge

Born in Falls Church, Virginia, Bridge attended the University of Chicago, where he earned a Bachelors degree in fine arts.

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.

Anoplophora

It is also common in some major cities in North America, including Toronto, Chicago, and New York City, where it has infested and damaged thousands of street and park trees.

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.

Chicago 19

Similar to the reaction to its predecessor, Chicago 19 became a moderate success on the album chart (although it went platinum) yet had major hit singles, including the #1 hit "Look Away", as well as "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love" (#3), and "You're Not Alone" (#10).

Cy Touff

Cyril James Touff (March 4, 1927, Chicago – January 24, 2003, Evanston, Illinois) was a jazz bass trumpeter.

Ed FitzGerald

In 1995, FitzGerald was commissioned as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and was assigned to the Organized Crime Task Force in Chicago.

Emanuel Sayles

Sayles moved to Chicago in 1933, where he led his own group and worked often as an accompanist on blues and jazz recordings with Roosevelt Sykes and others.

Fantasy Productions

In 2001, when FASA closed, FanPro founded a sister company based in Chicago, although most of its employees worked remotely.

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 V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs

David Wilhelm, Visiting Professor of Leadership and Public Affairs, has managed campaigns for President Bill Clinton, Sen. Paul Simon, Sen. Joe Biden, and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

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.

Grikor Suni

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

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).

Jim Post

Post was a regular performer at the Earl of Old Town and other Chicago folk music bars, and was a contemporary of notable singer-songwriters Steve Goodman, John Prine, Fred Holstein, and Bonnie Koloc, and a frequent collaborator with singer/songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Mick Scott and the late Tom Dundee.

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.

King Kolax

Kolax had a position in the Chicago Federation of Musicians, and union rules prevented him from being able to gig and hold office at the same time.

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.

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Other episodes that were later expanded into theatrical films (initially for European release) included "Once Upon a Savage Night" (released as Nightmare In Chicago) and "In Darkness, Waiting" (Strategy of Terror).

Lloyd Pettit

Pettit was born in Chicago and moved as a small child to the Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood, Wisconsin where he graduated from Shorewood High School.

Machold Rare Violins

Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.

Marion Stamps

In 1994, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley skipped a news conference on job creation; fearing facing her.

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.

National People's Action

Headquartered in Chicago, NPA was founded in 1972 by Austin neighborhood activist Gale Cincotta and professional organizer Shel Trapp.

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.

Pilsen Historic District

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

Robert Kennicott

Kennicott was born in New Orleans and grew up in "West Northfield" (now Glenview), Illinois, a town in the prairie north of the then nascent city of Chicago.

Robert Michael Dow Jr.

On December 2, 2010, Judge Dow ruled against five states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), stating that five Chicago-area shipping locks will stay open despite the risk that Lake Michigan Asian carp pose to the multi-billion dollar fishing industry, saying not enough evidence was presented that indicated the danger was truly imminent.

Saffo the Greek

In July 1914, he was in attendance with other figures of the Levee including John Torrio (representing Jim Colosimo), John Jordan, Jackie Adler and Harry Hopkins at Port Lamp Burke's roadhouse near Cedar Creek (Indiana) several hours after gunman Roxie Vanilli, a cousin of Torrio whom he had brought in from New York, had shot and killed Chicago detective Sgt. Stanley Birns.

Southeast Chicago Observer

Southeast Chicago Observer is delivered throughout the Bush, South Chicago, East Side and Hegewisch, with most copies distributed on the East Side.

SS Christopher Columbus

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

Sveum

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

Teco pottery

The American Terra Cotta Tile and Ceramic Company was founded in 1881; originally as Spring Valley Tile Works; in Terra Cotta, Illinois, between Crystal Lake, Illinois and McHenry, Illinois near Chicago by William Day Gates.

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.

Thomas R. Allen

In 2010 Allen cosponsored an ordinance with 30th Ward Alderman Ariel Reboyras that designated a stretch of Central Avenue in the vicinity of its intersection with Belmont Avenue as "Honorary Lech Kaczynski Way" to honor the deceased Polish President.

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

In 2003, the Toyota Technological Institute of Nagoya, Japan opened the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, jointly with the University of Chicago.

Tylman

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

Victor Lawson

Lawson's family grew rich from real estate dealings in Chicago, and held stakes in a Norwegian-language newspaper called the Skandinaven.

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.

Yorkville High School

Yorkville High School, or YHS, is a public four-year high school located in Yorkville, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.