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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 ...
October 6 – American Library Association founded in Philadelphia. November 7 The 1876 presidential election ends indecisively with 184 Electoral College votes for Samuel J. Tilden, 165 for Rutherford B. Hayes, and 20 in dispute. The new president (Hayes) is not decided until 1877.
Smith, Carl S. Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920. (1984). 232 pp. Smith, Richard Norton. The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955. (1997). 597 pp. publisher of Chicago Tribune; Spinney, Robert G. City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago (2000), popular epic; excerpt and text search; WPA.
DuSable Museum of African American History: Chicago: Cook: Chicago area: African-American: History, art and culture of African-American DuSable residents: Earth & Space Science Museum: Elizabeth: Jo Daviess: Northern Illinois: Science: Operated by the Planetary Studies Foundation, includes dinosaur bones, fossils, and the U.S. space program ...
Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times.
September 10 – John Ireland Howe, American inventor (b. 1793) September 27 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate Civil War general (b. 1817) October 1 – James Lick, American land baron (b. 1796) November 16 – Karl Ernst von Baer, Estonian-German scientist, explorer (b. 1792) November 18 – Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, French painter (b. 1807)
The Marshall Fields: The Evolution of an American Business Dynasty. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-02493-4. Rosen, Renee (2014). What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 9780451466716. Soucek, Gayle (2010). Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago. History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-854-5.
The expedition of 1500 officers and men left Fort Fetterman on 14 November 1876, accompanied by four dismounted companies of the 4th Artillery and eleven companies of infantry from the 4th, 9th, 14th and 25th regiments under Colonel Richard I. Dodge, and a medical staff of 6 surgeons. The Indian scouts "scoured" the front, flank and rear up to ...