Chicago
Chicago is a city in Illinois, United States.
Famous attractions
Sears Tower Standard Oil building John Hancock building Buckingham Fountain Grant Park Navy Pier McCormick Place Water Tower Lincoln Park Drake Hotel Tribune Tower Wrigley Building Chicago River
Important Citizens
Jane Addams Nelson Algren Saul Bellow Daniel Burnham Jane Byrne Al Capone Harry Caray Anton Cermak "Bathhouse" John Coughlin Richard J. Daley Richard M. Daley John Dillinger Stephen Douglas Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Marshall Field Steve Goodman George Halas Carter Harrison, Sr. Carter Harrison, Jr. Ernest Hemingway Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard Louis Jolliet Michael "Hinky-Dink" Kenna John Kinzie David Mamet Jacques Marquette Joseph Medill William Butler Ogden George Pullman Mike Royko Carl Sandburg Captain George Streeter Studs Terkel William Hale Thompson Harold Washington John Wentworth Frank Lloyd Wright Charles Yerkes
Colleges
Depaul University Loyola University Northwestern University (in Evanston, suburb of of Chicago) Roosevelt University University of Chicago University of Illinois-Chicago
Museums
Adler Planetarium Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Historical Society Field Museum of Natural History Lincoln Park Zoo Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Science and Industry Oriental Institute Peggy Notebaert Museum Shedd Aquarium and Oceanarium
Airports
Meigs Field Midway Airport O'Hare International Airport
Newspapers
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 (became Chicago Sun-Times) Chicago Defender, 1905-present Chicago Democrat, 1833-1845 Chicago Democratic Press, 1852-1857 Chicago Evening Mail, 1870-1875 (became Post & Mail) Chicago Evening Post, 1865-1875 (became Post & Mail) Chicago Evening Press & Mail, 1884-1897 Chicago Examiner, 1902-1918 (became Herald-Examiner) Chicago Express, 1842-1843 Chicago Globe, 1887-1895 Chicago Herald, 1881-1918 Chicago Herald-American, 1939-1958 (became Chicago’s American) Chicago Herald-Examiner, 1918-39 Chicago Journal, 1844-1929 (absorbed by Chicago Daily News) Chicago Mail, 1885-1894 Chicago Morning News, Chicago Morning Herald, 1893-1901 (became Record-Herald) Chicago Post, 1890-1929 (absorbed by Daily News) Chicago Reader, 1972-present Chicago Record, 1881-1901 Chicago Record Herald, 1901-1914 Chicago Republican, 1865-1872 (became Inter Ocean) Chicago Sun, 1941-1948 (became Chicago Sun-Times) Chicago Sun-Times, 1948-present Chicago Times, 1861-1895 (became Times-Herald) Chicago Times-Herald, 1895-1901 (became Record-Herald) Chicago Tribune, 1847-present Chicago's American, 1958-1969 (became Today) Daily Southtown, 1906-present Inter Ocean, 1872-1914 (became Record-Herald) Post, 1890-1932 (absorbed by Chicago Daily News) Post & Mail, 1875-1878 (absorbed by Chicago Daily News) Today, 1969-1974
Sports
Chicago Bears (American football) (Play at Soldier Field) Chicago Black Hawks (Hockey)(Play at the United Center) Chicago Bulls (Basketball) (Play at the United Center) Chicago Cubs (Baseball)(Play at Wrigley Field) Chicago Fire (Soccer/Football) Chicago White Sox (Baseball) (Play at Comiskey Park) Chicago Wolves (Hockey)
Historical Events
Fort Dearborn Massacre, August 15, 1812 Lager Beer Riot, 1855 Lady Elgin Disaster, September 8, 1860 Great Chicago Fire, October 8-October 10, 1871 Haymarket Riot, May 4, 1886 World Columbian Exposition, 1891-1892 Pullman Strike, May 11-August 2, 1894 Eastland Disaster, July 24, 1915 St. Valentine's Day Massacre, February 14, 1929 Century of Progress, 1933 1968 Democratic National Convention, August 26-August 29, 1968 Chicago Flood, July 17-July 18, 1996
Events:
Chicago Earth Month 2002 - activities throughout Spring 2002. Chicago Earth Month is an opportunity for Chicagoland's vibrant advocates for the environment to celebrate past achievements in ecological areas and to improve public awareness for issues that are important to our future environmental health. The highlight of Earth Month is Chicago's Earth Day Festival.
Chicago's Earth Day Festival - April 20, 2002, 9am to 4pm. Look for us in Lincoln Park at Canon Drive and Fullerton Avenue.
Taste of Chicago - Annual event in the week leading up to Independence Day in which hundreds of restauranteurs sell samples in Grant Park while bands play. This event draws millions each year.
Nicknames:
- "The Windy City" - It is often recited that this nickname was first used by Charles Gibson Dana, editor of the New York Sun and former editor of the Chicago Republican in 1890 in reference to the city's claims for the World Columbian Exposition. In this theory, it is said the nickname was inspired by the speechmaking proclivities of its politicians more than by its prevailing weather conditions. Ardent word sleuth Barry Popik, however, has found a reference to the "Windy City" in the Cleveland Gazette dated 19 September 1885. The name may indicate the summer breezes as is described at Weather Doctor's Weather History.
- "Second City" (so called because it was, for many years, the second-largest city in the United States, and also because of its rebirth after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871). The term was originated in an article by A.J. Liebling that appeared in The New Yorker
- "City of Big Shoulders" (from a Carl Sandburg poem)
- "Hog-Butcher To The World" (from a Carl Sandburg poem)
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