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1843: Chicago's first cemetery, Chicago City Cemetery, was established in Lincoln Park. [5] 1844: Lake Park designated. [6] 1847: June 10, The first issue of the Chicago Tribune is published. 1848 Chicago Board of Trade opens on April 3 by 82 local businessmen. Illinois and Michigan Canal opens and traffic begins moving faster.
"The Origin of the Alliance between the New Deal and the Chicago Machine" Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 67#3 (1974), pp. 253-274 online Kimble Jr., Lionel. A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015). xiv, 200 pp.
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
Since its incorporation as a city in 1837 Chicago had been divided into wards whose number varied [a] but which were almost [b] always entitled to two alderpersons. In the early 20th century it was decided that reducing the number of alderpersons to a ward to one would be a cost-saving measure, and an ordinance to that effect was passed in 1920 ...
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 (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 ...
The Adler Planetarium opened on 10 May 1930, through a gift from local merchant Max Adler. [6] It was the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere. Adler was quoted as saying, "Chicago has been striving to create, and in large measure has succeeded in creating, facilities for its citizens of today to live a life."
Miranda, Rowan A. "Post-Machine Regimes and the Growth of Government A Fiscal History of the City of Chicago, 1970-1990." Urban Affairs Review(1993) 28#3 pp: 397-422. Morton, Richard Allen. Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive (1997), 174pp Democrfatic mayor 1905-7 and governor 1913-17. Peterson, Paul E.