Unlike many artists who were " discovered " and recorded in their normal venues, in December 1925 or January 1926, he was taken to Chicago, Illinois, to record his first tracks.

His son Chris Lemmon ( b. 1954 ), was his first child by his first wife, actress Cynthia Stone ( b. February 26, 1926, Peoria, Illinois, d. December 26, 1988 ).

* 1926 – Original Sam ' n ' Henry aired on Chicago, Illinois radio later renamed Amos ' n ' Andy in 1928.

Joseph Gurney Cannon ( May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926 ) was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party.

Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois.

From 1926 to 1947 in the US, the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railway carried motor carrier vehicles and shippers ' vehicles loaded on flatcars between Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois.

" In the fall of 1926, Debs was admitted to Lindlahr Sanitarium in Elmhurst, Illinois.

Stevenson received his Bachelor of Laws degree from Northwestern in 1926 and passed the Illinois State Bar examination that year.

In 1926, Monsanto founded and incorporated a company town named Monsanto, later renamed Sauget, Illinois.

In 1926, Hibbard Casselberry of Winnetka, Illinois was visiting his wife ’ s aunt in nearby Winter Park, Florida when he met Gordon Barnett and signed on as his exclusive sales agent for Fern Park Estates.

* Ayabe, Masatomo, “ Ku Kluxers in a Coal Mining Community: A Study of the Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923 – 1926 ,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 ( Spring 2009 ), 73 – 100.

The following high schools were also established: Malvern Preparatory School in Pennsylvania ( 1842 ); St. Rita of Cascia High School in Chicago ( 1909 ); St. Augustine High School in San Diego, California ( 1922 ); Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai, California ( 1925 ); Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa, Oklahoma ( 1926 ); Monsignor Bonner High School in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania ( 1953 ); St. Augustine College Preparatory School in South Jersey ( 1959 ); Austin Preparatory School in Reading, Massachusetts ( 1961 ) and in 1962, Providence Catholic High School, which serves the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois.

On September 20, 1926, Moran again attempted to kill Capone, this time in Cicero, Illinois, the base of Capone's operations.

Robert Shelton ( June 28, 1926, Chicago, Illinois, United States – December 11, 1995, Brighton, England ) was a music and film critic.

in history at Harvard ( 1926 ) and began his academic career at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, teaching history and literature.

Albion Woodbury Small ( May 11, 1854 – March 24, 1926 ) founded the first Department of Sociology in the United States at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1892.

* Ford Hangar at The Lansing Municipal Airport, Lansing, Illinois ( South Suburban Chicago Area ), 1926

The Reverend Robert Eugene Richards, known as Bob Richards ( born February 20, 1926, in Champaign, Illinois ), known as the " Vaulting Vicar " or the " Pole Vaulting Parson " in his competitive days, was a versatile athlete who made three Olympic teams in two events.

Ms. Drake was born in Evanston, Illinois and graduated from Wellesley College in 1926.

His first radio appearance came in 1926 when he performed on the National Barn Dance show on WLS-AM in Chicago, Illinois.

The corporation was formed in Quincy on July 1, 1926, as a publishing company upon the consolidation of Quincy Herald, direct descendant of the Illinois Bounty Land Register first published in Quincy in 1835, and the Quincy Whig-Journal, descendant of the Quincy Whig founded in 1838.

While this school was founded in 1842, by 1909 two Augustinian houses and a school had been established in Chicago, 1922 in San Diego, by 1925 a school in Ojai and Los Angeles ; 1926 a school in Oklahoma ; in 1947 Merrimack College ; in 1953 a school in Pennsylvania ; 1959 a school in New Jersey and in 1962 a school in Illinois.

It is part of the Illinois Waterway and was constructed between 1926 and 1933.

* 1926 – U. S. Route 66 is established.

The way in which US 60 violated two of the conventions would prove to be one of the major sticking points ; US 60 eventually became the famous U. S. Route 66 in 1926.

Route 66 was completed in 1926 and ran through Flagstaff.

The alignment of Route 18 through Middlesex County from Middlesex to Highland Park was first designated in the 1926 designing of a new highway system as State Highway Route S-29, a prefixed spur of New Jersey Route 29 ( U. S. Route 22 ) through Middlesex County, following Washington Avenue in Middlesex and the River Road in Piscataway until terminating at State Highway Route 27 near the Albany Street Bridge in Highland Park.

With the creation of the U. S. Highway System in 1926, U. S. Route 22 was designated along with Route 28.

With the establishment of the U. S. Highway System in 1926, U. S. Route 22 was concurrently designated along the entire length of Route 9.

U. S. Route 22 ( US 22 ) is a west – east route and is one of the original United States highways of 1926, running from Cincinnati, Ohio, at US 27, US 42, US 127, and US 52 to Newark, New Jersey, at U. S. Route 1 / 9 in the Newark Airport Interchange.

* 25px U. S. Route 66 ( 1926 – 1979 )

* 20px U. S. Route 66 ( 1926 – 1979 )

* 20px U. S. Route 66 ( 1926 – 1979 )

* 25px U. S. Route 66 ( 1926 – 1979 )

* 25px U. S. Route 66 ( 1926 – 1979 )

* 20px U. S. Route 66 ( 1926 – 79 )

Cutout state route marker used prior to 1953After a failed renumbering in 1926, a completely new numbering was instituted in 1927, with only four sections of pre-1927 routes remaining as their old numbers suffixed with N-Route 4N, Route 5N, Route 8N and Route 18N.

In 1926, Interlachen first gained electricity and Route 14, now State Road 20, was constructed through Interlachen.

In 1921 paving was finished on the Chicago to Springfield road, which in 1926 was designated as Route 66.

** Winners ( 10 ): 1891-92, 1921 – 22, 1926 – 27, 1931 – 32, 1932 – 33, 1951 – 52, 1961 – 62, 1972 – 73, 1991 – 92, 2001 – 02, 2007 – 08

From the creation of the highway in 1926 until 1935, US 73 was split between Oswego, Kansas and Horton, Kansas.

1909 – 10, 1911 – 12, 1912 – 13, 1920 – 21, 1921 – 22, 1924 – 25, 1926 – 27, 1927 – 28, 1928 – 29, 1930 – 31, 1934 – 35, 1936 – 37, 1949 – 50, 1950 – 51, 1951 – 52, 1952 – 53, 1954 – 55, 1957 – 58, 1961 – 62, 1967 – 68, 1969 – 70, 1972 – 73, 1974 – 75, 1976 – 77, 1992 – 93

Between 1926 and 1938, Plánička played 73 times in goal for Czechoslovakia, a world record at the time and a national record that stood until 1966 when Ladislav Novák earned his 74th cap.

* Runners-up: 1919 – 20, 1926 – 27, 1944 – 45, 1960 – 61, 1963 – 64, 1972 – 73

* Manx FA Cup ( 30 ): 1890 – 91, 1891 – 92 ( Shared ), 1908 – 09, 1926 – 27, 1929 – 30, 1932 – 33, 1934 – 35, 1936 – 37, 1938 – 39, 1945 – 46, 1947 – 48, 1948 – 49, 1952 – 53, 1953 – 54, 1957 – 58, 1958 – 59, 1959 – 60, 1960 – 61, 1962 – 63, 1963 – 64, 1968 – 69, 1972 – 73, 1973 – 74, 1974 – 75, 1976 – 77 1981 – 82 1983 – 84 1996 – 97 1998 – 99, 2006 – 07

* Rommel, Otto: Franz von Soxhlet Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift 73 ( 1926 ) 994 – 995

In 1926, a significant part of Route 15 became U. S. Route 54, including the section that is today Route 73.

** Winners 1925 – 26, 1926 – 27, 1962 – 63, 1972 – 73, 1985 – 86, 2001 – 02, 2002 – 03, 2007 – 08