The first American automobile race is generally held to be the Thanksgiving Day Chicago Times-Herald race of November 28, 1895.

* 1877 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

It was used as entrance music by various American sports teams, most notably by the Chicago Bulls during their 1990s NBA dynasty.

* 1948 – Danny Seraphine, American drummer and producer ( Chicago )

: 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 ).

* 1803 – James Curtiss, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( d. 1859 )

* 1871 – Alexander Loyd, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.

Once the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads reached Chicago, that time dynamic changed, and American poleboats became less common, relegated to smaller rivers and more remote streams.

He entered into an agreement to buy the club, but the American League vetoed the sale, preferring to keep an American League team in Chicago to compete with the crosstown Cubs.

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Chicago team was established as a major league baseball club in.

From 1890 on, he had a friend and admirer in Judge Francis C. Russell of Chicago, who introduced Peirce to editor Paul Carus and owner Edward C. Hegeler of the pioneering American philosophy journal The Monist, which eventually published articles by Peirce, at least 14.

The plane won the 1933 American Air Race in Chicago and later set a new world speed record for engines smaller than 500 cubic inches by averaging.

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois.

In its first-ever home opener at Memorial Stadium later in the afternoon, they treated a sellout crowd of 46, 354 to a 3 – 1 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

That same afternoon, they robbed the First National Bank in East Chicago.

The paper continued as an afternoon broadsheet until 1969 when the Tribune converted the paper to the tabloid-format Chicago Today.

With its connections to news sources and its bravado, the small staff of the American regularly scooped its larger, more respectable afternoon competition, the Chicago Daily News.

In the end, TV news brought an end to most afternoon papers, but up until the 1970s, Chicago had a competitive journalistic scene unmatched by most other American cities, five daily newspapers and four wire services in competition, and none more competitive than Chicago's American.

Cole was living at 703 Silver Lake Road in Cary, Illinois, about 40 miles northwest of Chicago, and told his wife at about two in the afternoon that he was picking up the mail and the newspapers.

The buses travel from Dyer to Chicago in the morning and from Chicago to Dyer in the afternoon.

With a week remaining in the season, he went 2 for 4 with a walk in a Saturday afternoon game against the White Sox in Chicago, to raise his average to. 296.

The newspaper was owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, which would acquire the afternoon Chicago Daily News in 1959 and launch WFLD television in 1966.

On a Sunday afternoon in Chicago during either the 1886 or 1887 baseball season, Sunday and several of his teammates were out on the town for their day off.

Second-half regular-season play began the next afternoon with a game in Wrigley Field in Chicago.

In the mid-1980s, Joyner was simultaneously offered two positions: one for a morning show at KKDA-FM ( K104 ) in Dallas and one for an afternoon show at WGCI-FM in Chicago.

When the cars returned from Lincoln the next day, they were placed back in the westbound California Zephyr's consist for the next train out of Chicago that afternoon.

For several years, southbound afternoon Purple Line Express trains stopped at the Addison Red Line station before weekday evening Chicago Cubs baseball games, in order to provide direct service to Wrigley Field for passengers from northern Chicago, Evanston, and Skokie.

The afternoon Chicago papers trumpeted that " strike leader " Albert Parsons had been " arrested " that day — neither of which things were true.

He next surfaced in 1961 in Cleveland, where a onetime Chicago colleague hired him for $ 400 a week as an afternoon television talk-show host at WKYC-TV, then known as KYW-TV.

On the day of his funeral, all the stores along State Street, big and small, closed and the Chicago Board of Trade suspended afternoon trading in his honor.

In August, 2010, Ty Bentli, former afternoon driver at WKSC-FM in Chicago, replaced Sean Hamilton as a host of the afternoon drive show, 3 p. m. to 7 p. m.

The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Support for this is found in the Chicago Defender, an African-American newspaper that had a national circulation.

There are also several regional and special-interest newspapers and magazines, such as Chicago, the Dziennik Związkowy ( Polish Daily News ), Draugas ( the Lithuanian daily newspaper ), the Chicago Reader, the SouthtownStar, the Chicago Defender, the Daily Herald, Newcity, StreetWise and the Windy City Times.

Joseph Smith echoed Cowdery's statement in 1842, in a letter to a Chicago newspaper editor outlining the church's basic beliefs.

The most prominent reference to the term evangelist in the denomination's literature is found in its Articles of Faith, derived from the Wentworth letter, a statement by Joseph Smith in 1842 to a Chicago newspaper editor that the church believes in " the same organization that existed in the primitive church ", including " evangelists ".

Reading a newspaper article describing a gas attack on British forces which he hypothesized had employed chlorine gas, Garner remembered experiments he had performed while teaching at the University of Chicago, thus he set about creating the first gas mask which he tested on two of his associates in a gas filled chamber.

" Instead of coaching his 1926 team against Carnegie Tech, Rockne traveled to Chicago for the Army – Navy Game to " write newspaper articles about it, as well as select an All-America football team.

After Baum's newspaper failed in 1891, he, Maud and their four sons moved to Humboldt Park section of Chicago, where Baum took a job reporting for the Evening Post.

In 2004 Wertico was honored as a Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune ; he has been recommended by that newspaper and the Chicago Sun-Times for album-of-the-year awards.

In 1907, Lardner moved to Chicago, where he joined the Inter-Ocean, considered the worst newspaper in the city.

Chicago newspaper sees cowboy-TR campaigning for governor

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

Under Medill, the Tribune became the leading Republican newspaper in Chicago.

Because the FBI had no jurisdiction in a state murder case, they attempted to keep Bolton ’ s revelations confidential, until the Chicago American newspaper somehow got their hands on a second-hand version of the bank robber ’ s confession.

Within several years, he was writing for the Chicago Globe newspaper and then the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

" The editors of the newspaper The Chicago Tribune, a publication that had supported Nixon, wrote, " He is humorless to the point of being inhumane.

The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company.

Formerly self-styled as the " World's Greatest Newspaper " ( for which WGN radio and television are named ), it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is currently the eighth largest newspaper in the United States by circulation ( and became the second largest under Tribune's ownership after the Chicago Tribune's parent company purchased the Los Angeles Times ).

Soll went on to marry Chicago newspaper ( and future TV ) reporter Pam Zekman and eventually work for the short-lived Chicago Times magazine in the late 1980s.