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The site of CP-1 was designated as a National Historic Landmark on 18 February 1965. [2] When the National Register of Historic Places was created in 1966, it was immediately added to that as well. [1] The site was also named a Chicago Landmark on 27 October 1971. [3]
The Sauganash Hotel. Mark Beaubien built a tavern on the site of the later Wigwam in 1829–30. [9] In 1831, he added a frame to the log structure to create Chicago's first hotel, the Sauganash Hotel, [9] on the east bank of the south branch of the Chicago River at the point where the north and south branches meet. [1]
The Chicago Sun-Times claims to be the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city. That claim is based on the 1844 founding of the Chicago Daily Journal, [4] which was also the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine O'Leary was responsible for the Chicago fire. [5]
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. [13] 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 University of Chicago has been the site of some important experiments and academic movements. In economics, the university has played an important role in shaping ideas about the free market [178] and is the namesake of the Chicago school of economics, the school of economic thought supported by Milton Friedman and other economists.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Chicago city limits is −27 °F (−33 °C) at O'Hare on January 20, 1985, [16] though unofficial temperatures as low as −3 °F (−19 °C) have been recorded at Chicago Aurora Airport in far western suburbs and in the rural areas to the west of Chicago. [41]
Chicago is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the jazz age , the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same title by Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported.
Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois.The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, generating several hit ballads.