This could never happen in my native Chicago.

The sketch featured Cheers co-star George Wendt, a Chicago native, as host of a radio talk-show ( similar in tone to WGN radio's " The Sportswriters "), with co-panelists Carl Wollarski ( Robert Smigel ), Pat Arnold ( Mike Myers ) and Todd O ' Connor ( Chris Farley ).

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.

In a September interview with Heidi Watney of the New England Sports Network, Johnny Bench, who was watching a Cleveland Indians / Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, did an impression of late Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray after Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis, a native of Cincinnati, made a tough play.

The Brewers first significant free-agent signing in many years was veteran catcher Damian Miller, a Wisconsin native, and to address a need for better run production, the Brewers traded speedy outfielder Scott Podsednik and relief pitcher Luis Vizcaino to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for slugging outfielder Carlos Lee.

The modern era of the NCAA began in July 1952 when its executive director, Kansas City, Missouri native Walter Byers, moved the organization's headquarters from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago ( where its offices were shared by the headquarters of the Big Ten Conference ) to the Fairmount Building at 101 West 11th Street in Downtown Kansas City.

The syndicated television series Soul Train, created hosted by Chicago native Don Cornelius, debuted in 1971.

On June 26, 2008, the Bulls drafted Chicago native Derrick Rose as the Number 1 draft pick.

A native of Chicago, Cancel joined Menudo in 1981, replacing Óscar Meléndez.

* Greg Walker, former first baseman and hitting coach for the 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox, is a native of Douglas.

The native population was numerous until the autumn of 1840 when the U. S. Government forcibly removed the Indians to reserves west of the Mississippi under Authority of the Indian Removal Act and Treaty of Chicago.

The native population was numerous until the U. S. Government forcibly removed the Indians to reserves west of the Mississippi under Authority of the Indian Removal Act and Treaty of Chicago.

Harvey W. Braniger ( 1875 – 1953 ), a native of Morning Sun, Iowa and developer of Ivanhoe at Chicago, is generally considered the founder of Gulf Hills.

Shedd-Porter Memorial Library, built in 1909-1910 in the Beaux-Arts style, was a gift to Alstead and Langdon by native son John G. Shedd, president of Marshall Field's department store in Chicago.

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Mrs. Abbe and her husband, Robert E. Abbe, Sr. ( 1915 – 1977 ) came to Lubbock and then Tahoka through his employment with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Once he was part of the management team, Black solicited Jack " Chappy " Blackburn, another Chicago native, became Louis's trainer.

His work of the 1860s and 1870s often tended toward the panoramic and picturesque, topped by cloud-laden and threatening skies, and included views of his native country ( Autumn Oaks, 1878, Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Catskill Mountains, 1870, Art Institute of Chicago ), as well as scenes inspired by numerous travels overseas, especially to Italy and France ( The Monk, 1873, Addison Gallery of American Art ; Etretat, 1875, Wadsworth Atheneum ).

Despite having only 1. 7 % probability, the Bulls won the NBA Draft Lottery and selected Chicago native Derrick Rose with the first pick in the 2008 NBA Draft.

At Bloomington, he wrote several essays about his native Chewa tribe for the folklorist Stith Thompson, who introduced him to Edward Sapir, an anthropologist at the University of Chicago, to which, after four semesters, he transferred.

Born the son of Abdul Haqhas, a Pashtun and native of the Sarobi district in Kabul province, Ahady holds a Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) and a Ph. D in political science from the post-graduate faculty of Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, north of Chicago.

The Guinness Book record holder for Fastest Rap MC is the Seattle-based No Clue ( Ricky Brown ), breaking the record previously held by Chicago rapper Rebel XD who broke another Chicago native, mainstream rapper Twista's record back in 1993.

Momentum grew with the long-anticipated signing of Chicago native Brian McBride on a free transfer in July 2008.

The game lists Harriman as a native of Chicago, Illinois, with a son named Ferris and an interest in 20th century sports cars, a reference to the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which is set in Chicago, and in which Alan Ruck, who plays the role of Ferris Bueller's best friend, has a father who owns a collection of sports cars.

The first Pascal compiler written in North America was constructed at the University of Illinois under Donald B. Gillies for the PDP-11 and generated native machine code.

One of the leaders of the silver movement was Illinois Governor Altgeld ; a native of Germany, he was constitutionally barred from the presidency by his foreign birth.

According to a report prepared by Illinois State University, on the Fox River and Des Plaines River watershed, " The rusty crayfish ( used as bait ) has been dumped into the water and its survivors outcompete the native clearwater crayfish ".

The native range lies roughly south of a line from southeastern Nebraska through southern Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana to southwestern Ohio.

Roger Ebert is a native of the adjoining town of Urbana, Illinois and is an alumnus of the University.

States formerly with landcover in native tallgrass prairie such as Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Missouri have become valued for their highly productive soils and are included in the Corn Belt.

The county, which was primarily unsettled prairie and was still home to its native Potawatomi Indians, was created by the Illinois State Legislature in 1839.

States formerly with landcover in native tallgrass prairie such as Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Missouri have become valued for their highly productive soils and are included in the Corn Belt.

A native of LaSalle County, Illinois, he returned in the late 1880s and lived in San Luis Rey.

Though the Potawatomi and Illinois Confederation tribes were native to the area, the Sauk, from Michigan, became the namesake of the Sauk Trail.

The Village and Township of Broadwell sent two of its native sons to the Illinois General Assembly during the late Twentieth Century.

Jesse W. Fell, a native of Chester County in southeastern Pennsylvania, was a widely known land dealer in Central Illinois who played major role in founding many Illinois towns including Clinton, Dwight, Normal, Pontiac, and who was the driving force behind the establishment of the school that would become Illinois State University Holder was linked with Fell in many of his town founding schemes including Normal and Larchwood in Lyon County, Iowa ; the McLean County town of Holder is named in his honor.

In 1908, James M. Thomas, a native of Shamrock, Illinois, moved to this area and opened a store.

A native of Belvidere, Illinois, where she was a three-time All State selection at Belvidere High, Levens began her collegiate playing career at Old Dominion University.

The Milner Library was named for Angeline “ Ange ” Vernon Milner ( 1856 – 1928 ), a Bloomington-Normal native and the first full-time librarian of Illinois State Normal University.

Cornus florida ( flowering dogwood ) is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America, from southern Maine west to southern Ontario, Illinois, and eastern Kansas, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas, with a disjunct population in Nuevo León and Veracruz in eastern Mexico.

Kilpatrick succeeded the 12-year president, John S. Kyser, a native of El Paso, Illinois.

The pecan (,, or ), Carya illinoinensis, is a species of hickory, native to south-central North America, in Mexico from Coahuila south to Jalisco and Veracruz, in the United States from southern Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Indiana to Virginia, southwestern Ohio, south through Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Florida, and west into New Mexico.

The native range of the mosquitofish is from southern parts of Illinois and Indiana, throughout the Mississippi River and its tributary waters, to as far south as the Gulf Coast in the northeastern parts of Mexico.

Nielsen formed Cheap Trick in 1972 with bassist Tom Petersson, another Rockford, Illinois native.

After stepping down as a lobbyist for the cable industry, Freeport, Illinois, native Robert L. Johnson decided to launch his own cable television network.