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"The Loop" not only refers to Chicago's central business district, which is known as the Chicago Loop, but also a rectangular pattern formed by the city's elevated trains. Some trains entering the Loop do a complete circuit around the entire rectangular "loop", and after turning around all four corners, leave on the same path they came from.
Chicago: 1948-06-01: Blues musician killed in a robbery on Chicago's South Side: Sol Butler: Chicago: 1954-12-01: African-American NFL player and Olympic long jumper shot at a bar where he worked: Malcolm Lee Beggs: Chicago: 1956-12-10: Actor beaten to death with beer and whisky bottles in hotel room: Murder of Maria Ridulph: Sycamore: 1957-12-03
Two days after this incident, the local mayor banned wingsuit flying above Chamonix. [109] [110] [97] 18 November 2016 Mehdi Habibi 38 Switzerland Iranian BASE jumper, died after jumping with a wingsuit from the "High Ultimate" in the Lauterbrunnen, Mürren area of the Swiss Alps. He was found dead in rough terrain by a team of Air Glaciers in ...
A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago occurred during the cloudy morning rush hour on October 30, 1972, and was the worst such crash in Chicago's history. Illinois Central Gulf Train 416, made up of newly purchased Highliners , overshot the 27th Street station on what is now the Metra Electric Line , and the engineer asked and ...
Johnny Veal was 17 when he and another man killed Sgt. James Severin and Officer Anthony Rizzato in 1970 as they walked across a field in the Cabrini-Green public housing complex. Veal, 68, and ...
Commissioner of the District of Columbia and two-time Chicago mayoral nominee Lived in Chicago Jane Byrne: May 24, 1934: Nov 14, 2014: Mayor of Chicago: Born in Chicago Anton Cermak: May 9, 1873: Mar 6, 1933: Mayor of Chicago: Enoch Chase: 1809: 1892: State senator in Wisconsin: Lived in Chicago Bernard J. Cigrand: Oct 1, 1866: May 16, 1932
The Chicago district tactical unit involved in killing has “intentionally preyed on Chicago’s young Black men in divested and low-income […] The post Family of Dexter Reed, killed after ...
The list includes notable accidents with at least 5 deaths, which either occurred in unusual circumstances, or have some other significance. For crashes that killed notable people, refer to the list of people who died in traffic collisions. This list records crashes from the year 2000.