While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

The Indians were only one game behind the division-leading Chicago White Sox on August 12 when a players strike wiped out the rest of the season.

Despite this, Chicago engaged St. Louis in a see-saw battle for first place into August, but the Cardinals played to a torrid 20 – 6 pace that month, designating their rivals to battle in the Wild Card race, from which they were eliminated in the season's final week.

On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of around 200 at that time.

Microsoft marketing adopted Windows 95 as the product name for Chicago when it was released on 24 August 1995.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( born as Maria Ludwig Michael Mies ; March 27, 1886, Aachen – August 17, 1969, Chicago ) was a German-American architect.

The railway post office | RPO section of the Pioneer ZephyrIn response to Armstrong's request to experiment with the concept, the first railway post office ( RPO ) began operating on the Chicago and North Western Railway between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa, on August 28, 1864.

* Chicago 1964 race riot, Dixmoor riot, August 16 – 17, Chicago, Illinois

Tim Lincecum held the Chicago Cubs to two hits through eight innings on August 21, but the team scored only one run, losing to the Cubs by a score of 5 – 1.

On August 17, 2009, EW announced that Twain would be a guest judge on American Idol in Chicago, for the show's August 30 and 31 episodes.

* ZZ Top Live In Chicago August 7, 2011

* August 28 – The Plainfield Tornado ( F5 on the Fujita scale ) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people ( the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area ).

* August 16 – Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, Illinois.

* August 22 – August 30 – Police clash with anti-war protesters in Chicago, Illinois, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U. S. President, and Edmund Muskie for Vice President.

* August 31 – Jimmy Lavender of the Chicago Cubs pitches a no hitter against the New York Giants.

* August 11 – The Beatles hold a press conference in Chicago, during which John Lennon apologizes for his " more popular than Jesus " remark, saying, " I didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing.

* August 12 – The city of Chicago is established at the estuary of the Chicago River by 350 settlers.

* August 4 – Gen. John J. Pershing, in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while Charles Lindbergh speaks to an isolationist rally at Soldier Field in Chicago.

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* 2009 – Chicago – 9. 22. 07 ( Official Bootleg series )

The researchers estimate there are up to 2, 000 coyotes living in " the greater Chicago area " and that this circumstance may well apply to many other urban landscapes in North America .< ref name =" urb ">< span class =" plainlinks ">" Thriving under our noses, stealthily: coyotes " URL accessed on January 9, 2006 .</ span ></ ref > In Washington, D. C .' s Rock Creek Park, coyotes den and raise their young, scavenge roadkill, and hunt rodents.

Their championship tally is surpassed only by the Green Bay Packers ( 13 ) and Chicago Bears ( 9 ).

From 1966 to 1968, the league expanded from 9 to 14 teams, introducing the Chicago Bulls, Seattle SuperSonics ( now Oklahoma City Thunder ), San Diego Rockets ( who relocated to Houston four years later ), Milwaukee Bucks, and Phoenix Suns.

He announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 ( early reports appear in Scientific American and several newspapers in the beginning of November, and an even earlier announcement of Edison working on a ' talking-machine ' can be found in the Chicago Daily Tribune on May 9 ), and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29 ( it was patented on February 19, 1878 as US Patent 200, 521 ).

The first was on the right side with the channel number, call signs and city, then the second was the blue bar and the call letters only By the late 1990s, the call signs were minimized to be just barely readable to meet FCC requirements, and the stations were simply known as " UPN ", then channel number or city ( e. g., WPWR-TV in Chicago had been referred to as " UPN Chicago " and WWOR-TV in New York was referred to as " UPN 9 " until The CW merger was announced in late January 2006 ).

* October 9 – October 12 – Days of Rage: In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in to control demonstrations involving the radical Weathermen, in connection with the " Chicago Eight " Trial.

* May 9 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago ( d. 1933 )

* June 9 – Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago, Illinois.

The first Chicago performance of the opera took place at the Auditorium Building of Roosevelt University on 9 November 1891.

The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States congressman from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896.

Anton " Tony " Joseph Cermak (, ; May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933 ) was an American politician of Czech origin, mostly known as the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1931 until his assassination in 1933.

On October 9, 1871 a fire swept through the city of Urbana, Illinois, south of Chicago, destroying portions of its downtown area.

On March 9, 1803, Henry Dearborn, the Secretary of War wrote to Colonel Jean Hamtramck, the commandant of Detroit, instructing him to have an officer and six men survey the route from Detroit to Chicago, and to make a preliminary investigation of the situation at Chicago.

On October 9, 1893, the day designated as Chicago Day, the fair set a record for outdoor event attendance, drawing 716, 881 persons to the fair.

Hyundai announced they would be revealing their future rally plans at the 2011 Chicago Auto Show, on February 9.

Other translations include Erich Prokosch's nearly complete German translations of the tenth volume, the 2004 introductory work entitled The World of Evliya Çelebi: An Ottoman Mentality written by University of Chicago professor Robert Dankoff, and Dankoff and Sooyong Kim's 2010 translation of select excerpts of the ten volumes An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi.

It was produced by The Hypocrites and ran for several months in 2010 at The Chopin Theater in Chicago.

* Bartley Madden ( July 2010 ) Free To Choose Medicine: How Faster Access to New Drugs Would Save Countless Lives and End Needless Suffering Chicago: The Heartland Institute, 2010.

Crane also attempted to buy the Chicago Cubs in 2008 and the Texas Rangers during their 2010 bankruptcy auction.

During the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, several Keynesian economists such as James Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz blamed the free market philosophy of Friedman and the Chicago school for the economic turmoil.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

* Piot, Charles, Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa After the Cold War ( University of Chicago Press, 2010 ).

The Enlightenment: A Genealogy ( University of Chicago Press ; 2010 ) 209 pages

In McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U. S. 3025 ( 2010 ), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment limits state and local governments to the same extent that it limits the federal government.

* 2010: McDonald v. Chicago

Among leading style guides, the Reuters style guide, The Chicago Manual of Style, and the AP Stylebook ( since April 2010 ) all recommend " website ".

In 2006, the IWW moved its headquarters to Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 2010, headquarters was moved back to Chicago, Illinois.

Currently there are six exchanges trading in UNFCCC related carbon credits: the Chicago Climate Exchange ( until 2010 ), European Climate Exchange, NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe, PowerNext, Commodity Exchange Bratislava and the European Energy Exchange.

3020 ( 2010 ), which challenged handgun bans in the Chicago and in the neighboring suburb of Oak Park, was taken up by the US Supreme Court.

In May 2010, Daley held a press conference to address gun control and a pending possible adverse decision in McDonald v. Chicago.

" The remark placed first in a 2010 online pool of Chicago Tribune readers.

On June 28, 2010, the US Supreme Court held, in a 5 – 4 decision in McDonald v. Chicago, that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment, thus protecting the right of an individual to " keep and bear arms " from local governments, and all but declared Mayor Jane Byrne's 1982 handgun ban unconstitutional.

Dow Jones sold a 90 % stake in its Index business for $ 607. 5M to Chicago-based CME Group, which owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in February 2010.

Springfield is the third and current capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 116, 250 ( U. S. Bureau of the Census, 2010 ), making it the sixth most populated city in the state and the second most populated Illinois city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area.

In a 2010 article in Harper's Magazine, Frederick Kaufman argued the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index caused a demand shock in wheat and a contango market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, contributing to the 2007 – 2008 world food price crisis.

On February 8, 2010, the Chicago Tribune shrank its newspaper's width by an inch.

Dudley made his first trade on June 23, 2010, involving nine players and draft picks, with the Chicago Blackhawks.