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The gang culture that brewed in the neighborhood during the 1950s and 1960s carried on for successive generations. The 1970s was a particularly tumultuous decade in Chicago for violent crime, and against Chicago Police officers [19] who faced some of the highest fatality rates in many decades, often as a result of gunfire. [20]
1980s – Operation Greylord was a federal-level investigation, followed by various corruption trials, targeting the Cook County, Illinois, judiciary (the Chicago jurisdiction). 1980s – "Marquette Ten": 10 police officers in Chicago's Marquette District were convicted of taking bribes from drug dealers.
The West Side is one of the three major sections of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The others are the North Side and South Side. The West Side contains communities that are of historical and cultural importance to the history and development of Chicago. On the flag of Chicago, [1] the West Side is represented by the central white ...
The Chippewa, Odawa and Potawatomi ceded land in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan in the 1833 Treaty of Chicago and were forced to move west of the Mississippi River by 1838. [ 17 ] On July 12, 1834, the Illinois from Sackets Harbor, New York , was the first commercial schooner to enter the harbor, a sign of the Great Lakes trade that would ...
August 4, Chicago is surveyed and platted for the first time by James Thompson. Population: "Less than 100". [1] 1833 1833 Treaty of Chicago; Chicago incorporated as a town. [1] 1835 August 31, about 800 Potawatomi men gathered for a war dance in Chicago before being removed to west of the Mississippi River. [2] 1837 Chicago incorporated as a ...
Aerial view of the North Branch of the Chicago River, from the south, with Goose Island, near center. Early settlers named the North Branch of the Chicago River the Guarie River, or Gary's River, after a trader who may have settled the west bank of the river a short distance north of Wolf Point, at what is now Fulton Street.
For those festivals, nearly 2,800 Chicago police officers worked a combined total of 27,000 hours of overtime to patrol the events, according to a CBS News Data Team analysis of police overtime ...
The City has been working on the development plan for the Chicago Riverwalk since the 1990s. During the reconstruction of East-West Wacker Drive, the roadway was reconfigured to allow greater public access to the river. The City received Congressional approval to redefine the navigational channel allowing the build-out of the path 20 feet under ...