Chicago offers Broadway-style entertainment at theaters such as Broadway In Chicago's Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre, Broadway In Chicago's Bank of America Theatre, Broadway In Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre, Auditorium Building of Roosevelt University, and Broadway In Chicago's Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place.

Polish language productions for Chicago's large Polish speaking population can be seen at the historic Gateway Theatre in Jefferson Park.

* July 22 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, " Public Enemy No. 1 " John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.

The play Bald Grace by Marki Shalloe debuted at Chicago's Stockyards Theatre in 2005 and was featured at Atlanta's Theatre Gael ( America's oldest Irish-American theatre ) in 2006.

The latest artistic project is the musical play The Pirate Queen by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Richard Maltby, Jr. and John Dempsey, which originally debuted at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre in October 2006, with American stage actor Stephanie J.

Charles Picard portrayed Gandalf in the 1999 stage production of The Two Towers at Chicago's Lifeline Theatre.

On December 15, 2010, Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre announced that Plimpton will be the guest of honor at their second-annual " Salute to Women in the Arts ".

Later dates included August 15 at Chicago's Chopin Theatre.

Farley was best known for his loud energetic comedy style and physical comedy, and was a member of Chicago's Second City Theatre and cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live between 1990 and 1995.

He then performed at Chicago's Second City Theatre, initially as part of Second City's touring group.

In early 1982, he appeared in A Streetcar Named Desire with Chicago's Wisdom Bridge Theatre.

After its major success at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, Hwang's newest play Chinglish quickly made its way to Broadway in October 2011.

Dave Trager, who is quite a showman and boss of Chicago's new pro basketball Packers, is debuting a new International club, for the exclusive use of season ticket holders, in the Stock Yards Inn.

Chicago's notability has found expression in numerous forms of popular culture, including novels, plays, movies, songs, various types of journals ( for example, sports, entertainment, business, trade, and academic ), and the news media.

Concern for social problems among Chicago's immigrant poor led Jane Addams to co-found Hull House in 1889.

The chief advocate and driving force for improving public health in Chicago was Dr. John H. Rauch, M. D., who established a plan for Chicago's park system in 1866, created Lincoln Park by closing a cemetery filled with festering, shallow graves, and helped establish a new Chicago Board of Health in 1867 in response to an outbreak of cholera.

After successfully standing for re-election five times, and becoming Chicago's longest serving mayor, Richard M. Daley announced he would step down at the end of his final term in 2011.

There are also preliminary plans to erect a 1: 1-scale replica of Wacław Szymanowski's Art Nouveau statue of Frederic Chopin found in Warsaw's Royal Baths along Chicago's lakefront in addition to a different sculpture commemorating the artist in Chopin Park for the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin's birth.

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.

Chicago's northern suburb of Wilmette, Illinois, is the Bahá ' í Temple, the only temple for the Bahá ' í Faith in North America.

Mies designed a series of four middle-income high-rise apartment buildings for developer Herb Greenwald: the 860 – 880 ( which was built between 1949 and 1951 ) and 900 – 910 Lake Shore Drive towers on Chicago's Lakefront.

Patinkin's cousins include Mark Patinkin, an author and nationally syndicated columnist for The Providence Journal, and Sheldon Patinkin of Columbia College Chicago's Theater Department, a founder of The Second City.

Chicago's WGN radio station broadcast the trial with announcer Quin Ryan via clear-channel broadcasts for the first on-the-scene coverage of a criminal trial.

They went to Kellogg Elementary School in Chicago's Beverly area, and graduated from Whitney Young High School, known for its performing arts and science curriculum, in 1983 and 1986, respectively.

* January 10 – Introducing ... the Beatles is released by Chicago's Vee-Jay Records to get the jump on Capitol Records ' release of Meet the Beatles !, scheduled for January 20.

In World War II, from 1942 to 1945, Mulliken directed the Information Office for the University of Chicago's Plutonium project.

Daley then made a successful run for Cook County Clerk and held that position prior to being elected Chicago's mayor.

Daley's supporters deluged his office with grateful letters and telegrams ( nearly 4, 500 according to Time Magazine ), and it has been credited for Chicago's being one of the cities least affected by the riots.

Many of his father's old allies blamed the son for splitting the white vote with Byrne and allowing the relatively unknown legislator Congressman Harold Washington to become Chicago's first black mayor.

Mark Gyrion is Daley's second cousin, and was a superintendent of garages for the City of Chicago's Water Management Department.

The independent Fitch Ratings credit-rating agency downgraded the city of Chicago's bond rating in August 2010, citing the Daley administration ’ s habit of drawing on reserve funds for general operating expenses and underpaying its pension funds since well before the recession started, and pointed out the city lacks a plan for developing new revenue and faces a rising tide of fixed operating costs.

* The University of Chicago's Common Core, established by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins is another well-known example of educational perennialism.

Another example of Brinkley's seething wryness was evinced on the third night of Chicago's infamous Democratic Convention of 1968.

An example of this occurs where the rules of Chicago's Wrigley Field award a ground rule double if a batted ball hangs in the vines on the outfield bleacher wall.

One example is the voice and laugh of WGN-TV Chicago's Bob Bell, who also wore a red costume throughout the first decade of his portrayal.

Such a scale-model based diorama is used, for example, in Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry to display railroading.

Colloquially known by locals as " Koz Park ", or even the " Land of Koz ", the area is a prime example of a local identity born thanks to the green spaces created by Chicago's civic leaders of the Progressive Era.

" The Report became notorious for its harsh description of certain establishments, for example describing Chicago's 14 medical schools as " a disgrace to the State whose laws permit its existence ... indescribably foul ... the plague spot of the nation.

Colloquially known by locals as " Koz Park ", or even the " Land of Koz ", the area is a prime example of a local identity born thanks to the green spaces created by Chicago's civic leaders of the Progressive Era.

The Devon Avenue corridor on Chicago's north side is an example of this, as it is one of the largest South Asian neighborhoods in North America.

Consequently, the classic ballparks typically had little space for automobiles, as it was expected that most fans would take mass transit to the games, a situation that still prevails at Chicago's Wrigley Field, for example.

He utilized newspaper reports, archives of organizations, personal letters, and diaries, which he acquired by placing advertisements in Chicago's Polish-language press, offering, for example, 10 or 20 cents for each mailed letter collected from Poland.

For example, the absence of sky exposure plane provisions in Chicago's Zoning Code makes the Chicago skyline quite different from the skyline of New York where construction of tall buildings was guided by the zoning ordinance since 1916.