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Dave Matthews Band's tour bus stopping at the Kinzie Street Bridge to empty its blackwater tank. On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus' blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open-top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below.
Cooley High is a 1975 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film that follows the narrative of high school seniors and best friends, Leroy "Preach" Jackson (Glynn Turman) and Richard "Cochise" Morris (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs). Written by Eric Monte and directed by Michael Schultz, the film, primarily shot in Chicago, was a major hit at the box ...
1895 – Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer (d. 1966) 1895 – Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944) 1896 – Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I (d. 1964) 1900 – August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1987)
Contents. Murder of Laquan McDonald. The murder of Laquan McDonald took place on October 20, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. McDonald was a 17-year-old who was fatally shot by a Chicago Police Officer, Jason Van Dyke. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Police had initially reported that McDonald was behaving erratically while walking down the street, refusing to put down ...
The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States. [ 2 ] The rally began peacefully in support of workers striking for ...
Last Comiskey. Last Comiskey is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Matt Flesch, an American independent filmmaker. Flesch's film chronicles the 1990 Chicago White Sox season. 1990 was the last year the White Sox played at Comiskey Park, their home stadium since 1910. Inspired by the ESPN basketball documentary The Last Dance, [3] and ...
Website. rogerebert.com. Roger Joseph Ebert (/ ˈiːbərt / EE-burt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and ...
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.