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

Pasley continued: `` They became an institution of the Chicago scene and marked the way to the moral and financial collapse of the municipal and county governments in 1928-29 ''.

`` When they became members of the city police narcotics unit '', Sokol said, `` they were told they would have to get to know certain areas of Chicago in which narcotics were sold and they would have to get to know people in the narcotics racket.

The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the " Capones ", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.

The 1924 town council elections in Cicero became known as one of the most crooked elections in the Chicago area's long history of rigged elections, with voters threatened by thugs at polling stations.

The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.

After Davy Force signed with Chicago, and then breached his contract to play in Boston, Hulbert became discouraged by the " contract jumping " as well as the overall disorganization of the N. A., and thus spearheaded the movement to form a stronger organization.

The Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company which rapidly became a major manufacturer of buses was founded in Chicago in 1923 by John D. Hertz.

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.

In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.

They then won back to back World Series titles in 1907 – 08 In 1902, Spalding, who by this time had revamped the roster to boast what would soon be one of the best teams of the early century, sold the club to Jim Hart, and the franchise became known as the Chicago Cubs.

She won the Logan Medal of the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a member of the National Academy in 1902.

Ten years later he became the secretary and then the president of the first Illinois State Board of Health, which carried out most of its activities in Chicago.

In the 19th century, Chicago became the nation's railroad center, a title it still holds.

It was during this wave that Chicago became a center for jazz, with King Oliver leading the way.

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

In 1983, Harold Washington became the first black mayor of the city of Chicago.

These include from the time of the Great Chicago Fire to about 1900, what became known as the Chicago Literary Renaissance in the 1910s and early 1920s, and the period of the Great Depression through the 1940s.

Styx continued to have multiplatinum albums with their 1981 release Paradise Theater ( a concept album about a decaying theater in Chicago which became a metaphor for childhood and American culture ) and 1983's Kilroy Was Here ( a science fiction rock opera about a future where moralists imprison rockers ).

In North America those who continued to associate with Britain on the basis of the amended 1898 statement became known as the Amended Fellowship, in contrast to the Unamended Fellowship, who took their lead from the Christadelphian Advocate Magazine of Thomas Williams of Chicago.

July 12, 1979 became known as " the day disco died " because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

This railway connection caused transportation and commerce with Chicago to significantly improve. The addition of new railroad lines to Muscatine and Iowa City, and the acquiring of other lines by the Rock Island Railroad, caused Davenport to became a commercial railroad hub.

After losing the first three games of the series against the Sharks, the Red Wings won three consecutive games to force a Game 7, becoming just the eighth team in NHL history to accomplish the feat ( the Chicago Blackhawks became the seventh team to do so earlier in the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs, against the Vancouver Canucks ).

`` We ( the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry ) expect to establish closer relations with nations and their cultural activities, and it will be easy as a member of the fair staff to bring in acts '', explains Mrs. Geraghty.

The team was established in Chicago in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in.

Along with the Chicago Bears, the club is one of two NFL charter member franchises still in operation since the league's founding.

In Chicago, he was an active member of his local Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming proficient enough on the latter for the musical director to invite him to join the orchestra, with which he performed until the age of 18.

Jim Thome ( shown as a member of the Chicago White Sox ), the all time Indians home run leader

The club is a charter member of the American League, one of four clubs ( with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians ) still located in its original city.

A member on the Indiana State Sycamores ' team was Clarence Walker, an African-American athlete from East Chicago, Indiana.

In 1994, he made his Broadway debut, as a replacement cast member playing the Devil in a revival of the baseball musical, Damn Yankees, choreographed by future film director Rob Marshall ( Chicago ).

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.

After three seasons with the Chicago White Sox, Sosa became a member of the Chicago Cubs in 1992 and subsequently became one of the league's best hitters.

John Wentworth ( nicknamed " Long John ") ( March 5, 1815 – October 16, 1888 ) was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives, both before and after his service as mayor.

* Robert Lostutter, painter, original member of the Chicago Imagists

As early as 1927, Robert R. McCormick, a prominent member of the McCormick family, and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, championed a purpose-built lakeside convention center for Chicago.

Szasz completed his residency requirement at the Cincinnati General Hospital, then worked at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis from 1951 – 1956, and then for the next five years was a member of its staff – taking twenty-four months out for active duty with the U. S. Navy.

As a member of The Impressions, Mayfield infused a call and response style of group singing that came out of gospel, and influenced many other groups of the era, notably fellow Chicago artists the Radiants.

The most notable were the SportsChannel networks, which went on the air in 1976 with the original SportsChannel ( now MSG Plus ) and later branched out into Chicago and Florida ; Prime Network, which went on the air in 1983 with the charter member being Home Sports and Entertainment ( now FSN Southwest ) and later branched out onto the West Coast as " Prime Sports "; and SportSouth, the RSN operated by Turner Broadcasting.

Big Ten institutions are also, along with charter member the University of Chicago, part of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, which shares a $ 5. 6 billion research fund.

As a board member of the failing City National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, he felt obligated to work for its rescue.

Arendt also taught at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Committee on Social Thought ; The New School in New York City ; Yale University, where she was a fellow ; and, the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University ( 1961 – 1962, 1962 – 1963 ).

Kenny Rollins, an American basketball player who was a member of the University of Kentucky's " Fab Five " who won the 1948 NCAA Championship, the 1948 Gold Medal Winning U. S. Olympic Team, and the NBA's Chicago Stags and Boston Celtics.