Much notable Chicago fiction focuses on the city itself, with social criticism keeping exultation in check.

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.

That is the time when I left Columbia University, and after a few months of commuting between Chicago and New York, eventually moved to Chicago to keep up the work there, and from then on, with a few notable exceptions, the work at Columbia was concentrated on the isotope separation phase of the atomic energy project, initiated by Booth, Dunning and Urey about 1940 ".

Hayek's first class at Chicago was a faculty seminar on the philosophy of science attended by many of the University's most notable scientists of the time, including Enrico Fermi, Sewall Wright and Leó Szilárd.

The former had defeated the Forest City nine in two games, by the very close scores of 45-41 in one, and 28-25 in another, when the Forest Citys were invited to meet the Nationals at Chicago on July 25th, a day which proved the most notable of the tour.

The first major dialogue was the Parliament of the World's Religions at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which remains notable even today both in affirming " universal values " and recognition of the diversity of practices among different cultures.

Located in Chicago's central business district, the park's most notable features are Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum Campus.

One of the most notable cases is that of Michael Corke, a music teacher from Chicago, Illinois.

The State University of New York at Albany, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, the Standard Oil building in Chicago, Illinois and the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, were notable examples of late phase work.

A very short listing of notable jazz bands includes King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Jazz Messengers, the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Bill Evans Trio, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Oregon, Return to Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, and the World Saxophone Quartet.

Though the 1991 – 92 roster consisted primarily of NHL journeymen, minor leaguers and rookies, the Sharks had at least one notable player when they acquired 14-year veteran and former Norris Trophy-winning defenseman Doug Wilson from the Chicago Blackhawks on September 6, 1991.

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.

Another notable night spot was The Committee ( improv group ), an Improvisational theatre group founded by alums of The Second City in Chicago.

Particularly notable buildings are the 1902 Pennsylvania Railroad Station designed by Daniel Burnham of Chicago and the 1893 Wayne County Court House designed by James W. McLaughlin of Cincinnati.

Nearly one million visitors take advantage of the marina, its associated beaches and other recreational facilities every summer, including some notable Chicago athletes.

Several notable golf courses are built around Charlevoix: Belvedere Golf Club, Charlevoix Country Club, Dunmaglas, Antrim Dells, and the nine-hole Charlevoix Municipal Golf Course, which was once eighteen holes as part of the Chicago Club.

A notable example of its past is passage through Springfield for work related to the canal of James Hutchinson Woodworth, a former farmer and teacher from Onondaga County, New York, who was making his way West to Chicago where he finally settled and eventually become Mayor.

The team included later notable NFL stars such as David Overstreet, a former running back for the Oklahoma Sooners and Miami Dolphins, and Lovie Smith, head coach of the Chicago Bears.

Among the notable national players included Scott McCready, an English wide receiver who played some preseason games for the New England Patriots, the Claymores ' wide receiver Scott Couper, who played a pre-season game for the Chicago Bears, Constantin Ritzmann, a German defensive end who had played for the University of Tennessee, and Rob Hart, an English rugby player who became a placekicker ; he kicked barefoot.

After his return, he moved to Detroit, Illinois and then Chicago, where he sat in with many notable artists, including Muddy Waters and Little Walter.

The Golden Gloves is often the term used to refer to the National Golden Gloves competition, but it also can represent several other amateur tournaments, including regional golden gloves tournaments and other notable tournaments such as the Intercity Golden Gloves, the Chicago Golden Gloves, and the New York Golden Gloves.

Three of Gonzaga's most recent notable athletes are basketball players — former center Ronny Turiaf ( now playing for the Miami Heat ); third overall 2006 NBA Draft pick and Red Star Belgrade Adam Morrison ( who was selected by the Charlotte Bobcats ), regarded for his likeness to Hall of Famer Larry Bird ; and Courtney Vandersloot, 2011 winner of the Nancy Lieberman Award as the leading Division I women's point guard and women's Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the top Division I player no taller than 5 ' 8 " ( 1. 73 m ), selected third overall by the Chicago Sky in the 2011 WNBA Draft.

He broke into the Chicago scene in 1927, when he was picked by MCA to become a member of " Thelma Terry and Her Playboys ," the first notable American Jazz band ( outside of all-girl bands ) to be led by a female musician.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti, a longtime resident of the city, regularly participates in the festival, which invites orchestras and other performers from around the world.

Other performers on the bill include Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and up-and-comers Chicago.

At first, the blues clubs in Chicago were filled with black performers, and the music itself was aimed for black audiences.

Key performers in this style are Joel Rubin, Budowitz, Khevrisa, Di Naye Kapelye, Yale Strom, The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble, the violinists Alicia Svigals, Steven Greenman and Cookie Segelstein, the flutist Adrianne Greenbaum, and the tsimbl player Pete Rushefsky.

The Chicago Defender reported the event by noting important accomplishments of Black Swan in a short career span, including: pointed out — to the major, all white-owned, record companies — the significant market demand for black artists ; prompted several major companies to begin publishing music by these performers.

Starting in 1924, Okeh also sent mobile recording trucks to tour other parts of the country to record performers not heard in New York or Chicago.

CSE, Farrell and the William Morris Agency — along with Charles Attal Presents — resurrected Lollapalooza as a two-day destination festival in 2005 in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, with an even greater variety of performers ( 70 acts on five stages ) than that of the touring festival.

* Concert comeback of many 70s and 80s performers such as Van Halen, Chicago, Scorpions, Elton John among others.

Along with Detroit, the home of Motown, and Memphis, with its hard-edged, gritty performers ( see Memphis soul ), Chicago and the Chicago soul style helped spur the album-oriented soul revolution of the early 1970s.

Other than the National Barn Dance, broadcast out of Chicago starting in 1924, and the Grand Ole Opry in 1925, American Country Western performers had only live performances and records to promote their music.

Previous Artist Series performers include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel and the Symphonica Toscanini, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, The Canadian Brass, and the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards & Band of the Coldstream Guard.

A Chicago branch of the Cotton Club was run by Ralph Capone and a West Coast branch of the Cotton Club existed in Culver City, California in the late 1920s and early 1930s, featuring performers from the original Cotton Club such as Armstrong, Calloway and Ellington.

Included in the line-up of over fifty performers were The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, The Doors, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Joni Mitchell, The Moody Blues, Melanie, Donovan, Free, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Leonard Cohen, Jethro Tull, Taste and Tiny Tim.

* The Three Graces, 1908 opera which opened at the Chicago Opera House and starred such performers as Trixie Friganza

Chicago, the center for “ soap opera ” production, quickly follows New York and Los Angeles with performers forming their own local chapter.

Occasionally her arrangements intentionally mimic works by other performers, most noticeably on " Rainy Day Parade " from 2000's Pink Pearl, which quotes TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme to lend ironic triumphalism to a song about a woman going back on anti-depressant medication, and " Cinnamon Park " from the 2004 album Underdog Victorious, which paraphrases portions of the 1972 single " Saturday in the Park " by the band Chicago.

Though August Moon went gold, Caldwell subsequently took a hiatus from recording, instead directing his efforts toward composing songs for other performers ( and make his own version of this song ), most notably " Heart of Mine " for Boz Scaggs, " The Next Time I Fall " for Amy Grant and Peter Cetera, " Janet " for the Commodores, " Niagara Falls " for Chicago, " The Real Thing " for Kalapana and " All or Nothing at All " for Al Jarreau.

The next year, the Taste of Chicago was moved to Grant Park and grew in size and scope, becoming a 10-day event with more food vendors and musical performers ; it also became the world's largest food festival.

The performers were The Doors, Plastic Ono Band ( Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Eric Clapton, with Klaus Voormann and Alan White ), Bo Diddley, Chicago Transit Authority ( later renamed " Chicago "), Tony Joe White, Alice Cooper, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Gene Vincent, Junior Walker & the All Stars, Little Richard, Doug Kershaw, Screaming Lord Sutch, Nucleus, Milkwood, and Whiskey Howl.

Past performers include: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, United States Coast Guard Band, Indiana University Philharmonic, U. S. Air Force Band, U. S. Army Blues Jazz Ensemble, U. S. Navy Band Commodores, " President's Own " United States Marine Band, Australian Wind Orchestra, City of Milano Wind Orchestra, Clarence Wind Ensemble, Birmingham Symphonic Winds, Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, and the Eastman Wind Ensemble.

Its earliest star performers included singers Ethel Waters, Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Minto Cato, and Adelaide Hall ; comedian Tim Moore with his Chicago Follies company ( which included his wife Gertie ); the Whitman Sisters and their Company ; musicians Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, Joe " King " Oliver, and Duke Ellington ; comics Sandy Burns, Salem Whitney Tutt, and Tom Fletcher ; future Paris sensation Josephine Baker ; songwriter and pianist Perry Bradford, the mime Johnny Hudgins ; dancers U. S. Thompson, Walter Batie, Earl " Snakehips " Tucker, and Valaida Snow ; comic monologuist Boots Hope ; and many others.