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The day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, about 200 Black Youth Project 100 Chicago Chapter members, dressed in black T-shirts with the words "Fund Black Futures" written across them, blocked the entrance of the Chicago Patrolmen's Federal Credit Union in an effort to protest the Fraternal Order of Police's advocacy of the Chicago police ...
Ann Curry (born November 19, 1956) is an American journalist and photojournalist, [1] who has been a reporter for more than 45 years, focused on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters.
Fort Dearborn depicted as in 1831, sketched 1850s although the accuracy of the sketch was debated soon after it appeared.. The first settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Frenchman of European and African descent, [11] who built a farm at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1788 to 1790 [a].
The 2008 Mumbai attacks [14] (also referred to as 26/11 attacks) [15] [a] were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant Islamist [16] organisation from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
Wrigley Field in Chicago recorded the largest regular season paid attendance in its history when 46,572 people came out to see Jackie Robinson make his first appearance at the ballpark for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Cubs (A Ladies' Day at Wrigley in 1930 had recorded an attendance of 51,556, but that was not the paid attendance record ...
American Airlines Flight 320, a Lockheed L-188 Electra from Chicago crashes into the East River on approach to New York City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 65 of the 73 people on board. February 6 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida , the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
Date: August 9, 2014; 10 years ago (): Time: 12:01–12:03 p.m. ()Location: Ferguson, Missouri, U.S.: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Homicide, police shooting: Participants: Darren Wilson (shooter); Michael Brown (deceased); Dorian Johnson (accompanied Brown); Deaths: Michael Brown: Non-fatal injuries: Darren Wilson: Charges: None: Litigation: Wrongful death lawsuit settled for undisclosed amount: On ...
WBEZ planned to host a live showing and a Q+A of "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" in Chicago on April 7, 2012. [29] On March 16, 2012, This American Life officially retracted the episode after learning that several events recounted both in the radio story and the monologue were fabrications. [ 29 ]