Noted Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene penned a 2008 book, When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams, detailing his occasional appearances with Jan & Dean's touring band throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

* Janus ( American band ), hard rock band, established mid 90s in Chicago, Illinois

" The first known use of the phrase punk rock appeared in the Chicago Tribune on March 22, 1970, attributed to Ed Sanders, cofounder of New York's anarcho-prankster band The Fugs.

The Chicago scene began not with a band but with a group of DJs transforming a gay bar, La Mere Vipere, into what became known as America's first punk dance club.

In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Former music stations such as KLIF, Dallas, Texas ), WLW ( Cincinnati, Ohio ), WHAS ( Louisville, Kentucky ), WHAM ( Rochester, New York ), WLS ( Chicago, Illinois ), KFI ( Los Angeles, California ), WRKO ( Boston, Massachusetts ), WKBW ( Buffalo, New York ), and WABC ( New York, New York ) made the switch to all-talk as their ratings slumped due to listener migration to the FM band.

Stewart found a practice space and joined with Jones to start an R & B band playing Chicago blues.

The first halftime show by a marching band at a football game was done by the University of Illinois Marching Illini also in 1907 at a game against the University of Chicago.

Sousaphonist, Mike Hogg and his band BS Brass Band have produced three albums of Jazz, Funk and New Orleans R & B and regularly entertain Chicago crowds during Mardi Gras.

On April 6, 1812 a band of Winnebago Indians murdered Liberty White, an American, and John B. Cardin, a French Canadian, at a farm called Hardscrabble that was located on the South Branch of the Chicago River in the area now called Bridgeport.

A band of white lights at the top of the building is visible all over Chicago at night and changes colors for different events.

He lost his life savings to a collapsed bank in Chicago, and he struggled to keep his band together through a series of hand-to-mouth gigs until the group broke up and Oliver was stranded in Savannah, Georgia, where he worked as a janitor at Wimberly's Recreation Hall ( 526-528 West Broad Street ); "... he died there of arteriosclerosis, too broke to afford treatment.

As a mentor to Armstrong, Oliver gave young Louis his first cornet in New Orleans and later summoned him to Chicago to record and play with his band.

Every album, except 1969's The Chicago Transit Authority, 1978's Hot Streets and 1995's Night and Day: Big-Band, released by Chicago Transit Authority / Chicago has been the band name followed by a Roman numeral or numbered in some other manner.

* Treaty of Paris ( band ), pop-punk, rock band from Chicago

In 1992, celebrity gossip magazines reported that Seymour dated musician Peter Cetera, former bass guitarist and lead singer of the rock band Chicago.

In between live dates, Turner took the band to Cincinnati to record for Federal in 1956 and Chicago for Cobra / Artistic in 1958, as well as fulfilling his contract as a session musician back at Sun.

In early 1916 a promoter from Chicago approached clarinetist Alcide Nunez and drummer Johnny Stein about bringing a New Orleans-style band to Chicago, where the similar Brown's Band From Dixieland led by trombonist Tom Brown already was enjoying success.

* Piglet ( band ), a math-rock band formed in 2005 in Chicago, Illinois

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 ).

A Chicago Cubs fan by the name of Steve Bartman, of Northbrook, IL, reached for the ball and deflected it away from the glove of Moisés Alou for the second out of the 8th inning.

The Chicago Police Department made numerous arrests, and the extensive damage to the field forced the White Sox to forfeit the second game to the Detroit Tigers, who had won the first game.

The Chicago Pile-1 | Chicago Pile Team, including Fermi ( bottom left ), and Leó Szilárd ( second from right on bottom )

The offseason after their second World Series title, the Marlins made a questionable cost-cutting move as Derrek Lee was traded to Chicago Cubs for Hee Seop Choi and pitcher Mike Nannini.

In, Greenberg and Veeck teamed up for a second time when their syndicate purchased the Chicago White Sox ; Veeck served as team president with Greenberg as vice president and general manager.

* 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.

The stockyards, which were second only to those of Chicago in size, never recovered from the Great Flood of 1951 and eventually closed.

Smith finished second in MVP balloting to Andre Dawson, who had played on the last-place Chicago Cubs, largely because Smith and teammate Jack Clark split the first-place vote.

Armstrong's successor in Chicago, George S. Bangs, was appointed as the second general superintendent of the postal railway service.

In the 1971 Emmy Award winning TV movie " Brian's Song " which portrays the story of former Chicago Bears running backs Brian Piccolo and Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, it ’ s the night after Piccolo's second surgery and Piccolo ( James Caan ) is talking to Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams ) on the phone.

They had a young star in the likes of Jack Clark, along with veteran first baseman Willie McCovey, second baseman Bill Madlock ( whom the Giants had acquired from the Chicago Cubs ,) shortstops Johnnie LeMaster and Roger Metzger, and third baseman Darrell Evans.

The Patriots took the second quickest lead in Super Bowl history after linebacker Larry McGrew recovered a fumble from Walter Payton at the Chicago 19-yard line on the second play of the game ( the Bears themselves would break this record in Super Bowl XLI when Devin Hester ran back the opening kickoff for a touchdown ).

On New England's second drive of the period, Chicago cornerback Reggie Phillips ( who replaced Frazier ) intercepted a pass from Grogan and returned it 28 yards for a touchdown to increase the lead 37-3.

Led by Staubach and the Doomsday Defense, Dallas advanced to their second Super Bowl after posting a 12-2 record season record and playoff victories over the Chicago Bears and the Minnesota Vikings.

The Cowboys earned their second trip to the Super Bowl in three years by defeating the Chicago Bears, 37-7, and the Minnesota Vikings, 23-6, in the playoffs.

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 ).

* The second World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago.

A second issue followed in 1990, and a third in March 1991, after which the venture stalled ( although several ashcans of the as yet unpublished Fourth Trip were distributed at comic book conventions in the Detroit and Chicago areas between 1991 and 2006 ).

By the second half of the nineteenth century, bustling Chinatowns were also established in Vancouver, New York City, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Montreal.

He is the second longest-serving Chicago mayor in history.

On the flag of Chicago, the second star commemorates the fire.