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100 unusual facts about Chicago


2012 May Day protests

Protests were held from coast to coast in major cities including New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.

Alphonse Picou

Alphonse Picou at least once followed fellow musicians up north to Chicago about 1917-1918 (and possibly briefly to New York City in the early 1920s), but said he didn't like it up North.

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.

Ann Marie Lipinski

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

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.

Apo Island

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

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.

Auto independence

For long distances, e.g. New York to Chicago, personal accommodations of scheduling is not too difficult.

Barrelhouse Chuck

As of 2012, Barrelhouse Chuck maintains a full performance schedule in Chicago, around the United States, and occasionally abroad, including a regular solo appearance on Wednesday nights at The Barrelhouse Flat, a bar in Lincoln Park.

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.

Budge Budge

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

Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick

The sleeper-lounge passenger railway car Cape Tormentine was built in 1954 by Pullman-Standard of Chicago for the CNR.

CBQ

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (reporting mark CBQ), was a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States

Century tower clocks

Record Publishing Company (Chicago), Portrait and biographical record of northern Michigan: containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the presidents of the United States, 1895

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, 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: 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.

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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.

Clifford Jordan

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

Cyclo-cross

The first United States Cyclo-cross National Championships took place on October 20, 1963 in Palo Park, IL, near Chicago.

Dance Fu

Chicago Pulaski Jones (Mitchell) is a young championship dancer and choreographer from Chicago seeking fame and fortune.

Dick Jurgens

Jurgens held residencies at the Casino Ballroom on Catalina Island, the Elitch Gardens in Denver, the Aragon Ballroom and the Trianon Ballroom in Chicago, and other popular swing venues.

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.

Douglas Malloch

Douglas Malloch (May 5, 1877 – July 2, 1938) was an American poet, short-story writer and Associate Editor of American Lumberman, a trade paper in Chicago.

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.

Edward Eicker

His organ works have been performed in Chicago's Cathedral of the Holy Name and L.A.'s Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries

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

Francis Haar

Accepting a challenge he moved and worked as photographer for the Container Corporation of America, Chicago from 1956 until 1959.

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.

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.

Harold Burrage

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

Harry Chappas

Though he appeared in only 72 career games, he became a cult hero on the South Side due primarily to his stature.

Hennig-Olsen Iskremfabrikk

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

International Council Correspondence

The International Council Correspondence was a council communist magazine published in Chicago from 1934 to 1943.

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.)

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 Timothy Stone

He was pastor of churches at Utica and Cortlandt, New York, until 1900; then of the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, until 1909; and in that year became pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago.

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.

Lawndale, Chicago

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

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.

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”.

London House

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

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.

Luther High School North

Its predecessor was Luther Institute and was located in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois until the early 1950s.

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 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.

Momentum investing

This Chicago money manager takes exception with the old stock market adage of buying low and selling high.

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.

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.

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.

Pilsen Historic District

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

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.

Richard H. Balch

Balch managed the Harriman effort at the 1952 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and his candidate was in fourth place with 123 delegates when he withdrew in favor of Adlai Stevenson, who went on to obtain the nomination.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Terra Foundation for American Art

A selection of Terra Foundation paintings remains on long-term loan to the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Institute also houses the Foundation’s collection of works on paper.

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).

Tom Jorgensen

Jorgensen attended Parker High School in the Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.

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.

Trip generation

The first zonal trip generation (and its inverse, attraction) analysis in the Chicago Area Transportation Study (CATS) followed the “decay of activity intensity with distance from the central business district (CBD)” thinking current at the time.

Tut Imlay

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

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.

WGN

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

Wrestling From Marigold

Wrestling From Marigold is an American sports program broadcast from the Marigold Arena in Chicago which aired on the DuMont Television Network from Saturday, September 17, 1949 until March 1955.

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.

Adams Mills, Michigan

It was established in 1831 by Wales Adams at the point where the road to Chicago crossed the Prairie River.

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.

American Airlines

In 1970 American Airlines had flights from St. Louis, Chicago, and New York to Honolulu and on to Sydney and Auckland via American Samoa and Nadi, Fiji.

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.

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.

David Treuer

It was named for a fleet of trains operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (and by allusion the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.) The novel features a Native American family who migrate to Minneapolis in the mid-twentieth century under the federally sponsored urban relocation program.

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.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Fantasy Productions

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

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.

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.

Ipswich, Massachusetts

True enough, in 1928 a new 59-room mansion designed by Chicago architect David Adler in the English Stuart style stood in its place, called the Great House.

James Rosenbaum

He is most well known for his study of the Gautreaux Project the Chicago housing desegregation program which led to the federal Moving to Opportunity program, and for his work on improving vocational education programs.

John Burgmeier

John Burgmeier (born October 24, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American anime voice actor, ADR script/head writer and the son of voice actress, Linda Young.

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.

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.

Lea Brilmayer

In addition to teaching at Yale, Chicago, and NYU, Brilmayer has taught at University of Texas School of Law, the University of Michigan Law School, Columbia Law School, and Harvard Law School.

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.

Madlener House

Albert Madlener was the son of prominent liquor distiller and merchant Fridolin Madlener, who had come to Chicago from Baden, Germany.

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.

Michael Slive

Early in his life, he practiced law in New Hampshire, serving as judge of the Hanover District Court from 1972 to 1977, and was a partner in a Chicago law firm.

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.

Norris Division

As part of his shtick, ESPN's Chris Berman often refers to the National Football League's NFC North division (previously the NFC Central division) as the Norris Division or "NFC Norris" since the two divisions included teams from three of the same cities: Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis–St. Paul.

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.

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).

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.

SS Christopher Columbus

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

Sucker pole

Bicycle theft is fed mainly from the fact that it generates about $350 million annually and that the risk to criminals is relatively low even compared with stealing an IPhone, a television, or a car in cities such as San Francisco and Chicago which are considered "bike friendly" cities.

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.

Tylman

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

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.