* 1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.

The record stood until the Los Angeles Dodgers drew a crowd in excess of 92, 500 to watch Game 5 of the 1959 World Series at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum against the Chicago White Sox.

The Chicago Coliseum

The 1896 Democratic convention opened at the Chicago Coliseum on July 7, 1896.

Republican Convention, Chicago Coliseum | The Coliseum, Chicago

By the time it was banned, the ball was so large that it had to be held in the Chicago Coliseum, the city's major convention center.

By the time it was banned, the ball was so large that it had to be held in the Chicago Coliseum, the city's major convention center.

They played their first game on November 17 when they played the Toronto St. Patricks in the Chicago Coliseum.

In preseason play the Colonels defeated the Chicago Bulls 95-86 at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 1, 1975 ; lost to the New York Knicks in Landover, Maryland at the Capital Centre 107-102 on October 4, 1975 ; defeated the Detroit Pistons 114-113 on October 5, 1975 in Cincinnati ; defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 96-91 in Freedom Hall on October 10, 1975 ; lost an overtime game to the Detroit Pistons in Detroit on October 12, 1975, 115-107 ; defeated the Buffalo Braves 120-116 in Freedom Hall on October 14, 1975 ; defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 112-110 in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 17, 1975 ; and won another ABA vs. NBA exhibition on October 19, 1975 with a 121-111 victory over the Washington Bullets in Lexington, Kentucky.

The convention was held in Chicago, Illinois, at the Chicago Coliseum from June 8 to June 12, 1920.

Blake scored his 99th and 100th career NHL goals against the Chicago Blackhawks at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on October 31, 2006.

He negotiated a deal to play at the Chicago Coliseum, the same arena that the fledgling Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League used for its home games.

The first Coliseum stood at State and Washington streets in Chicago ’ s downtown in the late 1860s.

The Coliseum hosted the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL from 1926 – 1929 with a seating capacity of 6, 000.

It was initially popularized circa 1984 in discothèques catering to gay and mixed, primarily African-American and Latino audiences in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, fanned out to other major cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, Boston, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris.

* Ophur, Chicago, IL based rock band circa 1997-2004

The interior of a Pullman car on the Chicago and Alton Railroad circa 1900.

Chicago SDP founder Victor L. Berger, circa 1898.

Rock Island Locomotive # 627, circa 1880Its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company, was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.

The Chicago Great Western, circa 1897. In 1854, the Legislature of the Territory of Minnesota had chartered the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad ( M & NW ) to be built between Lake Superior, Minneapolis and Dubuque, Iowa.

He received the nickname " Dooley " while working in the Pekin Theatre in Chicago, circa 1908, because of his then-signature Irish song " Mr. Dooley ," which he performed in whiteface.

The interior of a Pullman car on the Chicago and Alton Railroad circa 1900.

State Street ( Chicago ) | State Street circa 1907

Eden T. Brekke ( 1893-1978 ) circa 1930-1940 in Chicago

Streamliner circa 1940s between Chicago and St. Louis.

Criminal IQ Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois, founded by John Babbin and Darius Hurley to facilitate the releases from Chicago's no-wave / punk scene circa 2003 to present.

The first season follows Chicago Police detective Lt. Mike Torello ( Dennis Farina ) and his pursuit of organized crime from Chicago to Las Vegas, circa 1963-64.

He did the initial design for the Inland Steel Building in Chicago ; built circa 1956-1957, this was the first skyscraper built in Chicago's Loop after the Great Depression.

* Chicago Blackhawks – circa 1940

The Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad | B & OCT Bascule bridge | Bascule Bridge over the Chicago River, as seen from the northwest, circa 1988.

Bloomfield was Instructor in German at the University of Cincinnati, 1909 – 1910 ; Instructor in German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1910 – 1913 ; Assistant Professor of Comparative Philology and German, also University of Illinois, 1913 – 1921 ; Professor of German and Linguistics at the Ohio State University, 1921 – 1927 ; Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Chicago, 1927 – 1940 ; Sterling Professor of Linguistics at Yale University, 1940-1949.

By mid 1913 the " Chicago " IWW was flourishing and the SLP-associated pro-Detroit IWW Club in decline.

Cubism and modern European art was introduced into the United States at the now legendary 1913 Armory Show in New York City, which then traveled to Chicago.

Chicago Mayor Mr. & Mrs. Carter Harrison, Jr. on a sidewalk ( likely near North Rush Street ( Chicago ) | Rush Street and East Grand Avenue ( Chicago ) | Grand Avenue, 1913 )

Following an international contest for the city's design, a blueprint by the Chicago architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was selected and construction commenced in 1913.

Immediately following the Giants ' October loss in the 1913 World Series, Thorpe and the Giants joined the Chicago White Sox for a world tour.

His controversial 1907 painting Nu bleu was burned in effigy at the Armory Show in Chicago in 1913.

It was first published in the August 1913 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse which had begun publishing the year before in Chicago, Illinois and was included as the title poem in a collection of poems Trees and Other Poems ( 1914 ).

* A Thief for a Night ( 1913 ) ( Chicago )

* Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne, ( 1853 – 1937 ) 31 mayor of Chicago ( 1905 – 1907 ); governor of Illinois ( 1913 – 1917 ) was born in Watertown.

I. Chicago and New York: The Lewis Company, 1913.

On October 24, 1913, more than 3, 000 fans watched the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play a world tour exhibition game on the local ball field that is still in use today.

Winifred was founded in 1913 as the terminus of a newly-built branch line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (" the Milwaukee Road ").

In 1913, he moved to Chicago to work for Essanay Studios, cast as Sweedie, The Swedish Maid, a masculine character in drag.

The Orchestra was renamed " Chicago Symphony Orchestra " in 1913.

Kerr Glass Manufacturing moved to Sand Springs from Chicago in 1913.

# Buck Weaver: 392 ( Chicago White Sox, 1913 )

File: The Bewitched Mill by Franz Marc 1913. jpg | The Bewitched Mill, 1913, Art Institute of Chicago

* Kerby Farrell ( 1913 – 1975 ), Major League Baseball Player, Manager Boston Braves, Chicago White Sox

After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago in 1913, he was a staff artist with the Chicago Herald ( 1914 – 18 ), where he drew the Sunday kids ' page Tom, Dick and Harry and another strip, Mrs. Pippin's Husband.