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The family later lived in Chicago, where George Stevens was an accountant before the stock market crash of 1929 instigated the Great Depression, ending his job.

The New Orleans Rhythm Kings in its earliest stages was the brainchild of drummer Mike “ Ragbaby ” Stevens, solely in that he sent the first telegram to Albert Brunies about going to Chicago to make a band and find better gigs than what New Orleans had to offer.

I ’ ll go .’ So Paul went up Chicago and introduced himself to Ragbaby Stevens and Ragbaby liked him … and Paul got the railroad fare from his father and sent me $ 60 ”.

He first went to Chicago in 1919 with a band led by Ragbaby Stevens, then worked on riverboats going up and down the Mississippi River.

The list includes Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman president of Harvard University ; Hanna Holborn Gray, the first woman president of a major research university ( University of Chicago ); modernist poets H. D., and Marianne Moore ; classics scholar Edith Hamilton ; social activist and feminist Grace Lee Boggs ; Nobel Peace Prize winner Emily Greene Balch ; geneticist Nettie Stevens ; artist Anne Truitt ; author Ellen Kushner ; federal judge Ilana Rovner ; economist Alice Rivlin ; personal finance reporter Jennifer Westhoven ; and movie actress Katharine Hepburn.

It was championed by Chicago critics Ashton Stevens and Claudia Cassidy whose enthusiasm helped build audiences so the producers could move the play to Broadway where it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1945.

He also received honorary doctorate degrees from Florida A & M University, Texas Southern University, Virginia State University, Morgan State University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Tuskegee Institute, Bowie State College, Thomas Jefferson University, Chicago State University, Georgian Court University, Drexel University, Kent State University, Central State University and the University of the Sciences.

Stevens left the Great Northern in 1903 for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, where he was promoted to vice-president.

Several large historic hotels are located just south of Congress Parkway, including the Hilton Towers Chicago ( formerly, the Stevens Hotel ), the Congress Plaza Hotel and the Blackstone Hotel.

In 1965, Steve Miller and keyboardist Barry Goldberg founded the Goldberg-Miller Blues Band along with bassist Shawn Yoder, rhythm guitarist Craymore Stevens, and drummer Lance Haas after moving to Chicago to play the blues.

Stevens was born Steven Fisher in Chicago, Illinois.

While in Chicago, Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, the namesake of the Goodman Theatre, introduced Payne to Thomas Woods Stevens and Dr. Arthur Hamerschlag.

In 1925 Stevens departed Carnegie to manage the newly created Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and Payne succeeded him as Chairman of the Drama Department.

In 1934, Payne and Thomas Woods Stevens edited and produced sever short ( one hour ) productions of Shakespeare plays that were presented during the second year of the Chicago World's Fair ( Century of Progress ) at a crude reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe Theater.

Taka Boom ( born Yvonne Stevens, October 8, 1954, Chicago, Illinois ) is a female R & B and dance music singer and is the younger sister of Chaka Khan and Mark Stevens of Aurra.

In 1890 Lathrop moved to Chicago where she joined Jane Addams, Ellen Gates Starr, Alzina Stevens, Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Florence Kelley, Mary McDowell, Alice Hamilton, Sophonisba Breckinridge and other social reformers at Hull House.

James Stella was replaced by keyboardist and vocalist Ron Stockert, Lee Graziano was replaced by Andre Fischer ( former drummer with Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler, and Fischer along with Colbert recruited the eighteen-year-old Chaka Khan ( née Yvette Stevens ) from a south-side club called the " Pumpkin Room " where she sang with a local Chicago group called Lock and Chain led by drummer Scotty Harris.

Those meetings occurred at the Stevens Hotel ( now the Chicago Hilton and Towers ) on South Michigan Street in Chicago, Illinois, in December 1949.

* April 25 – John Frank Stevens, chief engineer and general manager of Great Northern Railway, vice president Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ( d. 1943 ).

* June 2 – John Frank Stevens, chief engineer and general manager of Great Northern Railway, vice president Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ( born 1853 ).

* Steve Stevens Signature Model ( 1993 ) SS80 and SS100 models made at Washburn's Chicago custom shop.

Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

Amy Grant scored her first Billboard No. 1 song in 1986 with " The Next Time I Fall ", a duet with former Chicago singer / bassist Peter Cetera.

*" Class ", a song in the Broadway musical, Chicago

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

* " Free " ( Chicago song )

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

* The Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song " Chicago " ( written by Graham Nash ) was about the 1968 Democratic convention.

Vaudeville singer Emma Carus, famed for her " female baritone ", is said to have been largely responsible for successfully introducing the song in Chicago and helping contribute to its immense popularity.

* A fictional hotel mentioned in the song " Cell Block Tango ", in the musical Chicago ( musical )

" is the official fight song and introduction of the Chicago Blackhawks.

* The Chicago punk group, the Smoking Popes, recorded their version of this song, in 2001

His first theatrical film direction was 2003's Blizzard for which he received a " Best of Fest " award from the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and a Genie Award nomination for his work on the film's theme song, " Center of My Heart.

The song describes a young boy's experience meeting an older and wise gentleman on a bus ride north from Tennessee, most likely to Chicago.

* " Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon " ( song cycle by Chicago from their 1970 album Chicago II ; writer James Pankow misspelled the town name )

( However, in very late 1974, the station started playing the track " Lady " by a Chicago band called Styx from an older album of theirs, resulting in other stations around the country adding the song and making the track Styx ' first national Top 40 hit.

But quietly with no warning, on August 23, 1989 at 7 pm, WLS stopped playing music altogether ( appropriately, the last song played was a song by Chicago, " Just You ' N ' Me ", from their 6th album ) as it became a 24 / 7 all talk station featuring high-rated talk talents from around the country, such as Bob Lassiter from Tampa Bay, Stacy Taylor from San Diego and their biggest hit, Rush Limbaugh out of New York.

The song was also covered by Jeff Buckley on the DVD Live in Chicago and at the Olympia in Paris, as well as on the 1994 debut album by The Presidents of the United States of America, and by Blue Öyster Cult on their 1978 live album Some Enchanted Evening.

On the strength of these releases and constant playing in local clubs and schools, the band established a fan base in the Chicago area, but was unable to break into the mainstream until an earlier song, the power ballad " Lady " ( from Styx II ), began to earn some radio time, first on WLS in Chicago and then nationwide.

The Chess brothers liked the tune and soon the trio were in Chicago recording " Maybellene " and " Wee Wee Hours " – a song Johnson had been playing as an instrumental for years for which Berry quickly penned some lyrics.

A special delivery letter was at the desk waiting for me in the hotel ... so all of these things came about very quickly and very drastically .” Burke completed the song on the train back to Chicago for Cooke's funeral, On 2 April 1965, it became his only # 1 hit, where it remained for three weeks.

In the 1930s, in Chicago, Thomas A. Dorsey ( best known as author of the song " Precious Lord, Take My Hand "), who had spent the 1920s writing secular music, turned full time to gospel music, establishing a publishing house.