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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chicago American (1900–1939, became Herald-American) Chicago Chronicle (1895–1908) Chicago Courier (1874–1876) 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 (CBS) -- Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...
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 ...
The second Coliseum 1896 Democratic National Convention. The second Coliseum, in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the city's south side, had a difficult history. Initial construction began early in 1895 on a 14-acre (57,000 m 2) site of the World's Columbian Exposition, but on August 22, the incomplete structure collapsed, and builders had to start over. [3]