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 system is used by Chicago's Office of Emergency Management in case of an emergency call: it detects the caller's location and instantly displays the real-time video feed of the nearest security camera to the operator, not requiring any user intervention.

Chicago's Cabrini – Green housing project, which has since been mostly torn down, was named after her, due to her work with Italian immigrants in the location.

* in 1983, the game was played on Wednesday night, July 6, at Chicago's Comiskey Park 50 years to the day after the first all-star game in the same location.

Chicago's transportation system became unique in the midwest as railroad and water traffic met in a central city location.

Chicago's location at the center of the country's railroads and Great Lakes shipping made it the center of the dry goods wholesaling business by the 1870s, with Field's former partner John V. Farwell being his largest rival.

Chicago's location at a short canoe portage ( the Chicago Portage ) connecting the Great Lakes with the Mississippi River system attracted the attention of many French explorers, notably Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette in 1673.

The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was constructed on former wetlands at the present location of Jackson Park along Lake Michigan in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.

The Mission moved to 646 S. State Street, in 1923, following a shift in the location of Chicago's Skid Row, just south of The Loop.

Chicago's food truck ordinance requires food trucks to park 200 feet away from any restaurant and cannot sell for more than 2 hours at one location.

A vacant rackets court built into the University of Chicago's Stagg Field served as the location of the first artificial nuclear chain reaction on December 2, 1942.

In 1964, it moved to its current location under Michigan Avenue, made possible by Chicago's network of multilevel streets.

On March 5, 2002 Aztar acquired full ownership of the Tropicana location in Las Vegas by purchasing the 50 % share held by Chicago's Jaffe family.

ABC & E's first location was opened on Chicago's " Magnificent Mile " in September 1978 on the 15th floor of a North Michigan Avenue office building, along with ABC & E's in-house advertising agency.

The current Greektown location dates to the 1960s ; it replaced Chicago's original Greek neighborhood, known as " The Delta ," which was displaced by the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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

Agrippina is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.

Adelaide is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.

Abigail is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented in one of the 999 tiles of the Heritage Floor.

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.

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

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

According to the National Weather Service, Chicago's highest official temperature reading of was recorded on June 1, 1934, and July 11, 1936, both at Midway Airport.

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 PBS station can be seen on WTTW, producer of shows, such as Sneak Previews, The Frugal Gourmet, Lamb Chop's Play-Along and The McLaughlin Group, just to name a few and WYCC.

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 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.

" 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.

Chicago's Big Black was a major influence on noise rock, math rock, and industrial rock.

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

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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.

This definition was based on the steel skeleton — as opposed to constructions of load-bearing masonry, which passed their practical limit in 1891 with Chicago's Monadnock Building.

Many American developers tried to capitalize on the template established by Street Fighter II, but it was Chicago's Midway Games who achieved unprecedented notoriety when they released Mortal Kombat in 1992.

Disney was born on December 5, 1901, at 2156 N. Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa community area to Irish-Canadian father Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney, who was of German and English descent.

* 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.

* 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.

Night scenes will add an exciting touch to your vacation travelogue and what better place to take them then along Chicago's Lake Shore Drive??

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.

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 history and economy are closely tied to its proximity to Lake Michigan.

Lake Shore Drive runs adjacent to a large portion of Chicago's lakefront.

New lock and dam structures that replaced the historic Illinois and Michigan Canal In 1892, the direction of part of the Chicago River was reversed by the Army Corps of Engineers with the result that the river and much of Chicago's sewage flowed into the canal instead of into Lake Michigan.

* Brysiewicz, Joseph W. Chicago's metropolitan fringe: Lake Villa, Illinois: the construction of multiple historical narratives Forest, Illinois: Lake Forest College, 2001.

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.

He purchased and relocated sixteen structures from Chicago's 1933-34 Century of Progress World's Fair, four of which were transported by barges on Lake Michigan.

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

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.

Chicago's nearly flawless home playoff history meant little in the end, as they lost to Salt Lake 5 – 3 on penalties after 120 scoreless minutes.

Burgess claimed that Chicago's central business district was surrounded by a series of rings, broken only by Lake Michigan.

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

US 41 then runs along numerous small streets to Jackson Park, where US 41 turns north onto Lake Shore Drive, passing through Chicago's lakefront area as it runs along the western shore of Lake Michigan and past downtown Chicago.

At the intersection of Ashland and Milwaukee Avenues, the Blue Line descends into Chicago's second subway route, continuing southeast under Milwaukee Avenue, east under Lake Street ( crossing beneath the Chicago River ) south under Dearborn Street ( through the central business district ) and west under Congress Parkway ( and a second river crossing ).

It utilizes the system's oldest segments ( dating back to 1892 ), extending ( check infobox for time lengths ) with 30 stops between Forest Park and Oak Park ( Harlem / Lake ), through Chicago's Loop, to the South Side and Englewood ( Ashland / 63rd ) and Woodlawn ( Cottage Grove / 63rd ).

The Lake Street Elevated was Chicago's second rapid transit line.

To the political columnist Mike Royko, Lake Shore Drive was goo-goo territory, a land occupied by Chicago's wealthy " good-government " types.

In 1988, Geauga Lake celebrated its centennial by introducing the Raging Wolf Bobs, a wooden roller coaster with a hybrid twister / out and back design modeled after the original Bobs roller coaster at Chicago's defunct Riverview Park.

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.