He eventually became executive vice-president with the Chicago Blitz, where he returned to his concept of arena football.

* Chicago hosted the Fire of the AFA, Blitz of the USFL and the Enforcers of the XFL.

* Chicago Blitz

The Stars were able to defeat the preseason favorites to win the 1983 title — George Allen's Chicago Blitz — by withstanding 7 turnovers and coming back from 21 down in the fourth quarter to win 44-38 in overtime.

The first game in franchise history was a portent of things to come ; the Federals were drilled at RFK 28-7 by the Chicago Blitz, the preseason title favorites coached by former Washington Redskins coach George Allen.

The Chicago Blitz were a professional American football team that played in the United States Football League in the mid 1980s.

The league could not simply fold the Blitz, however — its contract with ABC required the league to have teams in the New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago markets ( not coincidentally, these markets are also home to ABC's strongest-performing owned and operated stations ).

The Wranglers only scored more than 23 points once all season --- in their week 2 upset of George Allen's Chicago Blitz.

They were in a division with three expansion teams and a Chicago Blitz team that had swapped nearly all of its players with the last-place Arizona Wranglers.

By 1980, Eddie Einhorn had sold his interest in the network and became the head of CBS Sports, and later became an owner of the Chicago White Sox with Jerry Reinsdorf ; he would also spend time as owner of the USFL's Chicago Blitz.

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To address some of their needs, the Gold acquired DE Dennis Edwards ( who had 6 sacks in 1983 ), from the Los Angeles Express and former Dallas Cowboy DE Bruce Thornton from the Chicago Blitz in mid-March.

Davis brought in former Chicago Blitz QB Vince Evans.

Blitz, a co-founder of the Genetic Warlords along with Hilton Krieger, also ended up getting drafted into the Plexus Rangers, but ended up leaving to become mayor of Chicago.

The school was also used as a training facility for the Chicago Blitz of the short-lived United States Football League and as a mortuary college.

After his stint in the broadcast booth, Allen served as head coach of the Chicago Blitz and Arizona Wranglers in the United States Football League during 1983-84.

Midway through the 1986 season, following a two-year hiatus from coaching and one season as the head coach of the Chicago Blitz of the USFL, Levy returned to the NFL as head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

They also acquired Larry Canada, the Chicago Blitz ' leading rusher.

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* Kevin Long ( running back ) ( born 1955 ), former football player with the USFL Chicago Blitz ( and later the NFL )

Previously, he played in the United States Football League for the Chicago Blitz, Arizona Wranglers and the Arizona Outlaws from 1983 to 1985.

Category: Chicago Blitz players

Spencer was drafted by the Chicago Blitz of the United States Football League in 1983 after a college football career at Ohio State where he ran for 1371 yards in his senior season.

The Chicago Press club will fete George E. Barnes, president of the United States Lawn Tennis association, at a cocktail party and buffet supper beginning at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow.

He received his medical degree from Université de Lyon, and practiced in France and in the United States at the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

* 1812 – War of 1812: The Battle of Fort Dearborn is fought between United States troops and Potawatomi at what is now Chicago, Illinois.

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

* Andersonville, Chicago, a neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Emigrants did succeed, however, in spreading the concepts of the Bauhaus to other countries, including the “ New Bauhaus ” of Chicago: Mies decided to emigrate to the United States for the directorship of the School of Architecture at the Armour Institute ( now IIT ) in Chicago and to seek building commissions.

The General Social Survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and the Saguaro Seminar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University are examples of national community development in the United States.

At a time when scientific research in the United States was still in its infancy, George Ellery Hale, a solar astronomer from the University of Chicago, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904.

U. S. News & World Report ranked Caltech as the 5th best university in the United States in their 2012 national college rankings, together with MIT, Stanford University, University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania.

Chicago ( or ) is the third most populous city in the United States.

In 1795, following the Northwest Indian War, an area that was to be part of Chicago was turned over to the United States for a military post by native tribes in concordance with the Treaty of Greenville.

As the site of the Chicago Portage, the city emerged as an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States.

It is the principal city in Chicago Metropolitan Area situated in the Midwestern United States and the Great Lakes region.

The United States ' two tallest towers are both located in Chicago ; Willis Tower ( formerly Sears Tower, and the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere ), and Trump International Hotel and Tower.

A 2011 study by Walk Score ranked Chicago the fourth most walkable of fifty largest cities in the United States.

Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in 1979 during his first trip ever to the United States after being elected to the Papacy in 1978.

On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called " Disco Demolition Night " had shown that an angry backlash against disco and its culture had emerged in the United States.

* 1972 – United Airlines Flight 553 crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45.

In the United States William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago developed the concept of extended education, whereby the research university had satellite colleges of education in the wider community, and in 1892 he also encouraged the concept of correspondence school courses to further promote education, an idea that was put into practice by Columbia University.

See of the University of Chicago and the United States Naval Observatory stated that the orbital anomalies proved the existence of a dark body in the 70 Ophiuchi system with a 36-year period around one of the stars.

The fanzine movement has even spread to the United States, where ice hockey fans in Chicago and St. Louis have produced several popular fanzines, including Blue Line Magazine and The Committed Indian for the Chicago Blackhawks, along with Game Night Revue and St Louis Game Time for the St. Louis Blues.