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The Chicago Code is an American crime drama television series created by Shawn Ryan that aired on Fox in the United States. The series was filmed in Chicago , Illinois, originally airing from February 7 to May 23, 2011, with Fox announcing cancellation on May 10, 2011.
With the depletion of new numbers in area codes 312 and 773, an overlay of both of them, area code 872, was created in November 2009, beginning ten-digit dialing within the city limits of Chicago. The remaining area without an overlay in the northern part of Illinois, 708, eventually received such with area code 464 taking effect on January 21 ...
The Municipal Code of Chicago is the codification of local ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City of Chicago. [1] The Code contains original and new ordinances, adopted by the Chicago City Council, organized into eighteen titles of varying subject matter. [2] The first Code of Chicago was adopted in 1837. [3] The current Code ...
It was a few blocks west of the 1884 ballpark. The 39th Street Grounds served as the playing field of the Chicago Wanderers cricket club during the 1893 World's Fair and then through 1899. After Charles Comiskey built a wooden grandstand on the site in 1900, it became the home of the Chicago White Sox of the American League. It served as home ...
Chicago is traditionally divided into the three "sides" of the North Side, West Side, and South Side by the Chicago River. These three sides are represented by the white stripes on the Flag of Chicago. [12] The city is also divided into 50 wards for the purpose of electing one alderman each to the Chicago City Council. These wards have at times ...
The Wanderers are a fictional group of superheroes appearing in comics published by DC Comics. They first appeared as allies of the Legion of Super-Heroes in Adventure Comics #375 written by Jim Shooter , illustrated by Win Mortimer with a cover by Neal Adams . [ 1 ]
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 spurred the first wave of development, as homeless Chicagoans looked to build new houses. Before the end of the 19th century, Germans and Norwegians tended to live in the area's north and northwestern sections. Wicker Park became the abode of Chicago's wealthy Northern European immigrants.