He attended the University of Chicago, where he participated in the Ryerson Astronomical Society, received a bachelor of arts in self-proclaimed " nothing " with general and special honors in 1954, a bachelor of science in physics in 1955, and a master of science in physics in 1956 before earning a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960.

In 1924, Chicago was the first American city to have a homosexual-rights organization, the Society for Human Rights.

A better documented group is Henry Gerber's Society for Human Rights formed in Chicago in 1924, which was quickly suppressed.

In 1964 he became an honorary member to the American Philosophical Society, and in 1966 he moved to the United States to work at the Institute for Biomedical Research in Chicago.

This contains over 130 articles corresponding to talks presented at the annual conventions of the Mars Society in Boulder in 2002, in Eugene, Oregon in 2003, and in Chicago, Illinois in 2004.

Not only had the Mattachine Society been active in major cities such as Los Angeles and Chicago, but similarly marginalized people started the riot at Compton's Cafeteria in 1966, and another riot responded to a raid on Los Angeles ' Black Cat Tavern in 1967.

* June 18 – June 22 – The National Convention of the Students for a Democratic Society, held in Chicago, collapses, and the Weatherman faction seizes control of the SDS National Office.

* October 5 – The Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago – ( currently the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago ) is founded by Felix Adler.

* April 17 – The Chicago Historical Society museum is established at 1601 N. Clark Street, Chicago.

In 1910, the American Chemical Society established the Willard Gibbs Medal, through the initiative of William A. Converse, a former chairman and secretary of the Chicago Section.

The San Francisco national chapter retained the name " Mattachine Society ", while the New York chapter became " Mattachine Society of New York, Inc ." Other independent groups using the name Mattachine were formed in Washington, D. C. ( Mattachine Society of Washington, 1961 ), and in Chicago ( Mattachine Midwest, 1965 ).

On the 50th anniversary of Daley's first 1955 swearing-in, several dozen Daley biographers and associates met at the Chicago Historical Society.

Mayor Roswell B. Mason directed the Chicago Relief and Aid Society to assume responsibility for the relief work in the city.

The monument was moved to the lobby of the Chicago Historical Society in 1931.

On March 5, 1899, the Chicago Tribune publicized a Chicago Historical Society replica of the original fort.

* Chicago Art Deco Society

The chants of the protesters shifted from “ Hell no, we won ’ t go ” to “ Pigs are whores .” Tom Hayden, one of the leaders of Students for a Democratic Society, encouraged protesters to move out of the park to ensure that if they were to be tear gassed, the whole city would be tear gassed, and made sure that if blood were spilled in Chicago it would happen throughout the city.

The Chicago Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Film Critics Association named the film the best of 1999, but although the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association recognized American Beauty, they gave their top awards to other films.

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.

Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2010.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

No Southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.

She has rarely been photographed with him and, except for Carl's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration in Chicago in 1953, she has not attended the dozens of banquets, functions, public appearances, and dinners honoring him -- all of this upon her insistence.

She passed the entrance examinations to the University of Illinois, but during the year at Urbana felt more important events transpired at the University of Chicago.

`` And besides, Thorstein Veblen was one of the Chicago professors ''.

At the University of Chicago she studied Whitman and Shelley, and became a Socialist.

( After graduation from the University of Chicago, Paula taught for two years in the normal school at Valley City, North Dakota, then two years at Princeton ( Illinois ) Township High School.

Even after the incident between Bang-Jensen and Shann in the Delegates' Lounge and this was not the way the Chicago Tribune presented it ''.

The other was by Chesly Manley in the Chicago Daily Tribune.

The check had been mailed from Chicago, the envelope bore no return address, and the check was not signed.

In his fight for the Illinois and Indiana delegations, Hearst made several trips to Chicago to confer with Andrew Lawrence, the former San Francisco Examiner man who was now his Chicago kingpin, and once to meet with Bryan.

The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

Since moving from a Chicago suburb to Southern California a few months ago, I've been introduced to a new game called Lanesmanship.

This could never happen in my native Chicago.

In Chicago, the driver cut out would likely jam his gas pedal to the floor in an effort to force the other car back.

Judges under the jurisdiction of the Chicago board of election commissioners are instructed to do this.

At no time did I attempt to seek approval or commendation for the members of the Chicago board of election commissioners for the discharge of their duties.

-- The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children wishes to commend the recent announcement by the Catholic charities of the archdiocese of Chicago and DePaul University of the establishment of the Institute for Special Education at the university for the training of teachers for physically handicapped and mentally retarded children.

Other sources of information include the National Concrete Masonry Association, 38 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill., the Portland Cement Association, 33 West Grand Avenue, Chicago, Ill., and the Structural Clay Products Association, Washington, D.C..

Last year Robert Harris, a leading Junior Handler entered the Dog Judging Contest ( Junior ) at the International KC of Chicago show and had the highest score in judging of any Junior since the Class' inception.