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2019: May 20: Lori Lightfoot becomes the first female African-American mayor of Chicago. 2020 February 16: The NBA hosts its 69th All-Star game at the United Center in Chicago. March 16: First Chicago death due to the COVID-19 pandemic; Governor J. B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot issue a stay at home order. Over 7,700 people in Chicago ...
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: NYC 1893–1930 1889–1893 Chicago and Great Western Railroad: C&NP 1889–1890 Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railway: AT&SF 1888–1890 Wabash Railroad: N&W 1887–1964 Wisconsin Central Railway: MStP&SSM 1900–1909 1887–1900 Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago Railway: CI&L 1885–1897
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Building 1905 [72] 14 [72] Yes 223 West Jackson Boulevard Brooks Building. 1910 [73] 12 [73] Yes 216 West Jackson Boulevard Jackson-Quincy Court 1900 / 1931 [74] 10 [74] Yes 209 West Jackson Boulevard McKinlock Building 1893 / 1918 [75] 12 [75] Yes 200 West Jackson Boulevard 1970 [76] 28 [76] No [76] 175 West ...
Riots and civil unrest in Chicago chronological order; Date Issue Event Deaths Injuries April–July, 1905 Labor 1905 Chicago teamsters' strike - The United Brotherhood of Teamsters started a strike in support for a small union of workers from Montgomery Ward but soon garnered support from most unions in the city. Riots occurred almost daily ...
The political environment in Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s let organized crime flourish to the point that many Chicago policemen earned more money from pay-offs than from the city. Before the 1930s, the Democratic Party in Chicago was divided along ethnic lines - the Irish, Polish, Italian, and other groups each controlled politics in their ...
1930 Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr. 1931 Merchandise Mart, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; 1930s-1960s Illinois Institute of Technology, including S.R. Crown Hall, Second Chicago School, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; 1934 Field Building, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; 1940 to the ...
A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934. The fair, registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), celebrated the city's centennial.