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 Joliet
* 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
* Illinois Institute of Technology
* Loyola University
* Northwestern University (in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb 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 (merged with Chicago Sun to form 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 (mmerged with Chicago Daily Times to form 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 &
Mail, 1875-1878 (absorbed by Chicago Daily News)
* Today, 1969-1974
*
City News Bureau of Chicago, local cooperative wire service
Sports
* Chicago Bears (American football) (Play at Soldier Field)
* Chicago Blackhawks
(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
* Founding
of Chicago Surrealist Group, 1966
* 1968 Democratic National Convention, August
26-August 29, 1968
* Chicago Flood, April 13, 1992
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:
1. " 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.
2. "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
3. "City of Big Shoulders" (from a Carl Sandburg
poem)
4. "Hog-Butcher To The World" (from a Carl Sandburg poem)
Novels set in Chicago:
* Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
* Theodore Dreiser's
Sister Carrie
* Nella Larsen's Passing
* Sara Paretsky's thrillers featuring
private eye V.I. Warshawski
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