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.

The Oriental Institute ( OI ), established in 1919, is the University of Chicago's archeology museum and research center for ancient Near Eastern studies.

Gold Coast and Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side.

Dorman is an international scholar in the field of Egyptology and formerly chaired the University of Chicago's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Cabrini – Green was a Chicago Housing Authority ( CHA ) public housing project located on Chicago's Near North Side.

The Neighborhood is part of Chicago's West Side which consists of Austin, West Garfield Park, East Garfield Park, North Lawndale and Near West Side.

Born Antonino Leonardo Accardo ( also known as Anthony Joseph Accardo ) on Chicago's Near West Side, the son of Francesco Accardo, a shoemaker, and Maria Tillota Accardo.

A former warehouse for printing presses converted to a loft apartment on Chicago's Near West Side.

" Taylor Street's Little Italy is part of a larger community area — Chicago's Near West Side.

On February 26, 2009 he was found unresponsive in his apartment on Chicago's Near West Side.

The team played home games at Wrigley Field on Chicago's North Side through the 1970 season.

They are also known as " The North Siders " because Wrigley Field, their home park since 1916, is located in Chicago's north side Lake View community at 1060 West Addison Street.

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

Despite poor performances from the usually steady Chris Capuano and more nagging injuries to Ben Sheets, the Brewers found themselves in a heated pennant race with Chicago's North Siders.

* September 18 – Valerie Percy, 21-year-old daughter of then U. S. Senate candidate Charles H. Percy, is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the family mansion on Chicago's North Shore.

On the morning of Thursday, February 14, 1929, St. Valentine's Day, five members of the North Side Gang, plus gang collaborators Reinhardt H. Schwimmer and John May, were lined up against the rear inside wall of the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side, and executed.

In North America, contemporary sketch comedy is largely an outgrowth of the improvisational comedy scene that flourished during the 1970s, largely growing out of Chicago's The Second City.

There is another Colfax Avenue in South Bend, Indiana ( a few miles east of his New Carlisle home and adjacent to his burial site ); Colfax Place in the Highland Square neighborhood in Akron, Ohio, in Grant City, Staten Island ; in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; in Roselle Park, New Jersey ; and a Colfax Street on Chicago's North Side.

Social registers and society pages listed the privileged, who mingled in the same private clubs, attended the same churches, and lived in neighborhoods — Philadelphia's Main Line and Chestnut Hill neighborhoods ; New Jersey's Princeton ; Florida's Palm Beach ; Fairfield County, Connecticut ; Manhattan's Upper East Side ; Westchester County, New York ; and the North Shore of Long Island ; Boston's Beacon Hill ; Georgetown, Washington D. C .; and Chicago's Lake Forest are all examples.

At Chicago's North Pond in Lincoln Park.

During the early years, classes were held in private homes on Chicago's near North Side.

Those that survived into the 1960s tended to be lines that had become commuter systems serving large cities, such as Chicago's North Shore Line and South Shore Line.

Relying on his family and friends as campaign staff, Gutiérrez opened up his campaign office on North California Ave in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood.

It also includes a large portion of Chicago's North Side bordering Lake Michigan.

In Chicago's Northwest Suburbs, it is known as Northwest Highway due to its direction as well as it paralleling the old Chicago and North Western railroad ( now Union Pacific.

It shifted downtown Chicago's retail center of gravity north from State Street to North Michigan Avenue.

The Kellogg School's Full-Time and Executive MBA facilities are situated along the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston, Illinois on Chicago's North Shore, while the school's Part-Time MBA program is housed on Northwestern's Downtown Chicago campus in Wieboldt Hall.

Chicago's Polish presence is felt in the large number of Polish-American organizations located here beginning with the Polish Museum of America, the Polish American Association, the Polish National Alliance and the Polish Highlander's Alliance of North America.

Toronto Scottish won a North American club championship in 1933 by beating holders and US champions St. Louis Stix at Chicago's Soldier Field by a score of 2-1.

I felt lonely and depressed as I stared out the bus window at Chicago's grim, dirty West Side.

I grew up in an Irish neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.

In 1951 he landed a regular spot at the 708 Club on Chicago's South Side, with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters.

" Talk Radio " host John Williams, of Chicago's WGN 720 AM, has used " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " from Life of Brian in a segment of his Friday shows.

Ed Delahanty was the first, hitting his four in Chicago's West Side Park on July 13, 1896.

Daley was Chicago's third mayor in a row from the working-class, heavily Irish American Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, where he lived his entire life.

Born and raised in Chicago's South Side, Margulis, along with her three siblings, attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

The materials are inspired by the factories and warehouses of Chicago's South Side and " embod 20th century methods and materials: steel and concrete frames with curtain walls of brick and glass.

At Kankakee it heads northward largely parallel to the now decommissioned route of old US 54 ( since renumbered largely as Illinois 50 ) into greater Chicago, meeting Interstate 80 in Chicago suburbs and feeding Interstate 94 on Chicago's South Side.

Early users of such multiple units include the Liverpool Overhead Railway ( the first multiple units ) and Chicago's South Side Elevated Railroad ( the first units to use a low-voltage control system ).

Puckett was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project on Chicago's South Side ( the escape from which he frequently referred back to during his career ).

Riders can use this bus route to travel to Munster, Hammond and Chicago's East Side neighborhood, where transfers to other routes provide connections to other Northwest Indiana and Chicago Southland municipalities.

The former primarily runs along Indianapolis Boulevard, running from Chicago's East Side neighborhood to Whiting, Hammond, East Chicago and Highland.

EasyGo Lake Transit's Green Route bus service has stops in the northern portion of Schererville, connecting riders to Highland, Hammond, East Chicago, Whiting, and Chicago's East Side community area.

from Chicago's South Side.

Route 1 of Hammond Transit, a bus service run by Northwest Indiana Regional Bus Authority, runs through Whiting, connecting it to Hammond and Chicago's East Side neighborhood.

The Upper East Side in New York City and Chicago's Gold Coast, both featuring high-rise apartments, are the wealthiest urban neighborhoods in the United States.

Sears originally operated its station at its Chicago headquarters on Chicago's West Side where the company's mail order business was located.

Isidore became a rabbi and owner of a small vegetable shop in Chicago's Maxwell Street neighborhood, a vibrant Jewish ghetto akin to the New York's Lower East Side of the 1920s and ' 30s.