* 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at, at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.

For Hurricane Ike in 2008, Selig mandated that the Astros play two home games against the Chicago Cubs in his hometown of Milwaukee despite proximity to the visiting Cubs.

View from the Stamford Bridge ( stadium )# West_Stand | West Stand of Stamford Bridge ( stadium ) | Stamford Bridge during a UEFA Champions League | Champions League game, 2008 In October 1905 it hosted a rugby union match between the All Blacks and Middlesex, and in 1914 hosted a baseball match between the touring New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox.

The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

Crane also attempted to buy the Chicago Cubs in 2008 and the Texas Rangers during their 2010 bankruptcy auction.

Noted Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene penned a 2008 book, When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams, detailing his occasional appearances with Jan & Dean's touring band throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

In 2008, the Twins finished the regular season tied with the White Sox on top of the AL Central, forcing a one-game playoff in Chicago to determine the division champion.

Album of the Damned: Snapshots from the Third Reich 2008 ISBN 978-0-89733-576-8, Academy Chicago Publishers

This interpretation is particularly argued to apply to recent municipal transactions in the United States, particularly for fixed term, such as the 2008 sale of the proceeds from Chicago parking meters for 75 years.

* 2008 – Chicago, IL

* Italics, organized with the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2008

* Oscar winners: Gladiator ( 2000 ), A Beautiful Mind ( 2001 ), Chicago ( 2002 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ), Crash ( 2005 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ), Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), The Hurt Locker ( 2009 )

* Soundstage: Stevie Nicks Live ( Sears-exclusive Blu-Ray ) ( 2008 ) ( later released on DVD as Live in Chicago in 2009 )

As a result, Railroad Retirement Agents from Chicago inspected the Long Island office of the Railroad Retirement Board on September 23, 2008.

It regained some popularity from the early-1980s onward and was revived in a series of new productions at the San Francisco Opera ( 1982 ), Lyric Opera of Chicago ( 1984 ), at La Scala ( 1984 ) and the Met ( 1985 ), the 2008 stagings being the first since that time.

* The TRS-80 Color Computer ( and clones ) still has users and an annual conference in Chicago ; as of 2007 the 17th Annual " Last " Chicago CoCoFEST is scheduled for April 2008.

The Chicago City Council approved, by a 41 – 6 vote on February 6, 2008, an increase in the city's real-estate transfer tax to bail out the Chicago Transit Authority.

In September 2008, Chicago accepted a $ 2. 52 billion bid to lease Midway International Airport for 99 years to a group of private bidders that included Citigroup.

In 2008, Chicago agreed to lease its parking meter system to an operating company created by Morgan Stanley in a 75-year, $ 1. 16 billion deal as it struggled to close a yawning budget deficit.

* The Chicago Shimpo – The Chicago Japanese American News, Friday, October 10, 2008.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

The 2008 Norwegian film The Man Who Loved Yngve features the fictional punk rock Mathias Rust Band, headed by the character Jarle Klepp.

The song was featured on the 1984 film Repo Man, as well as in a 1986 episode of the TV show Miami Vice (" Free Verse ", which also featured a cameo appearance of the group performing in a new wave / punk club ) and in the 2008 film Iron Man, where the song plays in the background as Tony Stark works on his car.

* Canadian ska punk band The Johnstones covered " Lump " on their 2008 EP SEX.

In the 2008 documentary This Is the Life, L. A. hip hop artist and Good Life regular 2Mex likened the Good Life movement to that of the New York punk rock and Seattle music scenes.

* 2008 Gay protest singer Ste McCabe released a punk version of " Bedsitter " on his debut album " Hate Mail ".

In 2008, Fahey appeared in the Chris Ward-written and directed short film What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor ( based on the life of artist / model Nina Hamnett, self-styled " Queen of Bohemia "), with Fahey playing the role of Hamnett opposite actor Clive Arrindel, Donny Tourette ( frontman with punk band Towers of London ) and Honey Bane ( former vocalist of the punk band Fatal Microbes ).

In 2005, the band released Crimson which expanded upon the band's punk rock influences, with prominent overdubs and additional instrumentation, and continued with this direction on Agony & Irony ( 2008 ), which was released on V2 Records.

The Japanese nu metal / hardcore punk band Maximum the Hormone released the song " F " as part of a double A-side single on July 9, 2008.

* Float ( Flogging Molly album ), a 2008 album by Irish American Celtic punk band Flogging Molly

* The punk band Anti-Flag has a speech from Mumia Abu Jamal in the intro to their song " The Modern Rome Burning " from their 2008 album The Bright Lights of America.

In 2008, Fear ( with Ving as the only original member ) participated in the annual Warped Tour, a traveling punk rock-themed festival.

Velvet Revolver is an American hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N ' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth and Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland who left the band in 2008.

Georgia has had a decent contribution to the ska scene with the bands Treephort, 50: 50 Shot, and The Taj Motel Trio and ska punk has seen a recent revival in the state of Georgia with the regional ska festival, the Mass Ska Raid, taking place for the first time in 2008.

Following a guest appearance playing " Ain't Doin Nothin " with the Pork Dukes at the Vienna Rebellion punk festival on 27 April 2008, he played with his new band Jet Bronx and the New Forbidden at the 2008 Rebellion Festival in Blackpool, UK.

The band performed at Hamilton's Festival of Friends in August 2008 with Frankie Venom, the lead singer of legendary Canadian punk band Teenage Head.

* 45 Revolutions ( A definitive discography of UK punk, mod, powerpop, new wave, NWOBHM, and Indie singles 1976-1979, Volume I ) Editor Mario Panciera, 2008

Struycken collaborated on a number of projects with writer / director Rene Daalder, including the 1986 punk rock musical Population: 1, which featured Tomata du Plenty of The Screamers and which was released on DVD in October 2008.

In 2008, Michaels collaborated with the indie / punk group Hard Girls to form a punk band called Classics of Love.

Dropkick Murphys, a celtic punk band dedicated the song ( F ) lannigan's Ball to Ronnie during their set at the Reading Festival in 2008.

In a 2008 editorial blog, a Rolling Stone editor, reviewing the band's punk history, declared the Daddies " one of the most misunderstood bands of the nineties ".

Examples include Four Minute Warning as the name of a 1980s hardcore punk band from England, the poem ' Your Attention Please ' by Peter Porter, as well as the name of a solo song by Take That singer, Mark Owen, " Four Minutes " by Roger Waters ( of Pink Floyd fame ) on his 1987 solo album Radio K. A. O. S .. John Paul Jones has a song entitled " 4-Minute Warning " on the 1988 Brian Eno album Music for Films III, the 2008 Madonna track " 4 Minutes " and the name of a 2007 Radiohead song, on the second disc of their album In Rainbows.

in 2008, but pulled out after finding out that he would have been a late entrant to the camp and concerned that he would be portrayed as a " trouble-making punk ".