The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

Sapir's second wife, Jean Victoria McClenaghan, was sixteen years younger than him, had first met Sapir as a student in Ottawa, but had since also come to work at the University of Chicago's department of Juvenile Research.

* 1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park.

* 1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois.

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

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.

* January 20 – Meet the Beatles !, the first The Beatles album from Capitol Records in the United States, is released ten days after Chicago's Vee-Jay Records releases Introducing ...

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.

He became managing editor of Chicago's first newspaper, the Chicago Democrat, eventually becoming its owner and publisher.

As mayor, Medill gained more power for the mayor's office, created Chicago's first public library, enforced blue laws and reformed the police and fire departments.

Harrison was Chicago's first five-time elected mayor ; eventually his son, Carter Harrison, Jr., was also elected mayor five times.

On April 16, 2009 at 6: 00AM CDT, WYCC-TV transmitting off the John Hancock switched to all-digital broadcasting, becoming Chicago's first television station to stop broadcasting in an analog signal.

Chicago's first airplane flight took place in 1910 in Grant Park, adjacent to Northerly Island, with an international aeronautical exhibition at the same location in 1911.

The case has been called " Chicago's first murder.

It was Chicago's first playoff series victory since 1998, Jordan's last season with the team.

The first soap opera, Clara, Lu, and Em was introduced in 1930 on Chicago's WGN.

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 ).

The first lighthouse in St. Joseph battles Chicago's original lighthouse as the first to be built on Lake Michigan.

Insull moved his stations first into Chicago's Strauss Building, and then to his own Civic Opera House.

When it was first established it was known as the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory ( Met Lab ), and it was previously located within Red Gate Woods.

On February 16, 2003, Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley declared the day " BBS " day in honor of the world's first BBS being created 25 years ago that day.

Max Allan Collins ' 1983 novel, " True Detective ," first in the Nathan Heller mystery series, features Zangara's attempted assassination of Roosevelt, positing it as an actual attempt on Chicago's mayor at the time, Anton Cermak.

* June 9-The Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad, interurban railway serving Chicago's western suburbs, ceases freight operations, thus bringing an end to all of the railroad's operations.

: 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 ).

As a result, Chicago's club nickname transitioned, and by 1890 they had become known as the Chicago Colts, or sometimes " Anson's Colts ," referring to Cap's influence within the club.

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.

The capsizing of the Eastland steamer on the Chicago River in 1915 was Chicago's worst disaster, claiming 844 lives.

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 wealth of greenspace afforded by Chicago's parks is further augmented by the Cook County Forest Preserves, a network of open spaces containing forest, prairie, wetland, streams, and lakes that are set aside as natural areas which lie along the city's periphery, home to both the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe and the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield.

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.

St. Mary of the Angels in Chicago | St. Mary of the Angels, one of Chicago's " Polish Cathedral style | Polish Cathedrals ".

On January 1, 2009, the Red Wings played the Chicago Blackhawks in the third NHL Winter Classic at Chicago's Wrigley Field, beating them 6-4.

The last successful drop kick in the NFL before that was executed by Ray " Scooter " McLean of the Chicago Bears in their 37-9 victory over the New York Giants on December 21, 1941, in the NFL Championship game at Chicago's Wrigley Field.

Mies settled in Chicago, Illinois where he was appointed head of the architecture school at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology ( later renamed Illinois Institute of Technology – IIT ).

In February 1906, when a quarter of Chicago's population was of German descent, James Keeley, editor of The Chicago Tribune traveled to Germany to procure the services of the most popular humor artists.

* Amazing Chicago's Funhouse Maze, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Sears executives decided to consolidate the thousands of employees in offices distributed throughout the Chicago area into one building on the western edge of Chicago's Loop.

Later, the Little Angels of Chicago's Angels Church from Chicago performed the national anthem.

Mayor Daley's son Patrick R. Daley was an MBA student at the University of Chicago's Business School, working as an unpaid intern at Cardinal Growth, a Chicago venture capital firm.

William Blair, Chicago's then-fire commissioner, had ordered the Chicago Fire Department to stop Goodwin by directing a full power fire hose at him and by using fire axes to break window glass in Goodwin's path.

The Great Chicago Fire remains Chicago's most well-known disaster, both for the magnitude of the destruction and the city's recovery and growth.

Located in Chicago's central business district, the park's most notable features are Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum Campus.