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Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013) online; Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago Transformed: World War I and the Windy City (2016). online; Herrick, Mary J. The Chicago schools: a social and political history (1971) online the major scholarly history. Hogan, David.
Chicagoland Speedway is a 1.520 mi (2.446 km) tri-oval speedway with a curved backstretch in Joliet, Illinois, southwest of Chicago.The speedway opened in 2001 and actively hosted NASCAR racing including the NASCAR Cup Series until 2019.
American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport.On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating this flight was taking off from runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control, and the aircraft ...
Parade was an American nationwide Sunday newspaper magazine, distributed in more than 700 newspapers nationwide in the United States until 2022. [1] The most widely read magazine in the U.S., Parade had a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 54.1 million. [2]
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area.
Riverview Park was an amusement park in Chicago, Illinois, which operated from 1904 to 1967.It was located on 74 acres (30 hectares) bound on the south by Belmont Avenue, on the east by Western Avenue, on the north by Lane Tech College Prep High School, and on the west by the North Branch of the Chicago River. [2]
The Chicago rat hole was a hole shaped like a rat in the sidewalk of West Roscoe Street in the Roscoe Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. After existing for decades, it became a viral phenomenon on social media (mainly Twitter) in January 2024, attracting tourists to the site. City officials removed the sidewalk slab ...
March 2 – Walt Kiesling, American football player (Chicago Cardinals) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903) March 3 – Pierre Benoit, French novelist (b. 1886) March 14 – Giovanna Berneri, Italian educationalist and anarchist (b. 1897) March 15 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) [78]