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At its first appearance in records by explorers, the Chicago area was inhabited by a number of Algonquian peoples, including the Mascouten and Miami.The name "Chicago" is generally believed to derive from a French rendering of the Miami–Illinois language word šikaakwa, referring to the plant Allium tricoccum, as well as the animal skunk. [3]
Chicago Film Archives founded. February 17: E2 nightclub stampede; June 29: 2003 Chicago balcony collapse; 2004: Millennium Park opens. [68] 2005 The Chicago White Sox win their first World Series in 88 years. Regional Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning established. [69] 2006 May 1, the 2006 U.S. immigration reform protests draw over 400,000.
Chicago Daily News, 1876–1978; Chicago Daily Telegraph, 1878–1881 (became Chicago Morning Herald) Chicago Daily Times, 1929–1948 (merged with Chicago Sun to form Chicago Sun-Times) Chicago Democrat, 1833–1861; Chicago Democratic Press, 1852–1857; Chicago Evening Mail, 1870–1875 (became Post & Mail)
History of African Americans in Chicago; Afro-American Patrolmen's League; Alderbrink Press; Allium tricoccum; America First Committee; American Conservatory of Music; American Flyer; American Licorice Company; American Revolution 2; Ameritech; History of the Appalachian people in Chicago; Armour and Company; George Armour; Artemisia Gallery
The Encyclopedia of Chicago is a historical reference work covering Chicago and the entire Chicago metropolitan area published by the University of Chicago Press. Released in October 2004, the work is the result of a ten-year collaboration between the Newberry Library and the Chicago Historical Society .
The Chicago Daily News published its last edition on Saturday, March 4, 1978. [1] As reported in The Wall Street Journal, later in 1978, Lloyd H Weston, president, editor and publisher of Addison Leader Newspapers, Inc., a group of weekly tabloids in the west and northwest suburbs—obtained rights to the Chicago Daily News trademark.
The Tribune absorbed three other Chicago publications under the new editors: the Free West in 1855, the Democratic Press of William Bross in 1858, and the Chicago Democrat in 1861, whose editor, John Wentworth, left his position when elected as Mayor of Chicago. Between 1858 and 1860, the paper was known as the Chicago Press & Tribune.
This is a bibliography of selected publications on the history of Chicago.For most topics, the easiest place to start is Janice L. Reiff, et al. eds. The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004), which has thorough coverage by leading scholars in 1120pp of text and many illustrations.