`` 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.

With a large number of people relocating to the state from the Midwest and the Northeast, as well as from California, many teams ( most notably the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers ) have normally had large followings in Arizona.

City sculptures additionally honor the many people and topics reflecting the rich history of Chicago.

In the Encyclopedia of Chicago, Northwestern University Professor Bill Savage describes Chicago fiction as prose which tries to " capture the essence of the city, its spaces and its people.

* 1929 – Saint Valentine's Day massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.

In 2001, computer giant IBM launched an advertising campaign in Chicago and San Francisco which involved people spray painting on sidewalks a peace symbol, a heart, and a penguin ( Linux mascot ), to represent " Peace, Love, and Linux.

* 1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.

* 1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing 12 people.

Twelve million people live along Lake Michigan's shores, mainly in the Chicago and Milwaukee metropolitan areas.

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* 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O ' Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.

Donated by Picasso to the people of Chicago

* 1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area.

* Late evening: The Chicago Tribune reports that an anti-Arab rally was held by a crowd of a few hundred people near Bridgeview mosque in Bridgeview, Illinois.

The skyscraper is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Chicago, and over one million people visit its observation deck each year.

* 1977 – About 4, 200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.

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.

In the late 19th century, the typhoid fever mortality rate in Chicago averaged 65 per 100, 000 people a year.

* On May 25, 1979, the American Airlines Flight 191 from O ' Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles International Airport, crashed during take-off, killing all 271 on board and 2 people on the ground.

At least 739 people die in Chicago alone.

* August 28 – The Plainfield Tornado ( F5 on the Fujita scale ) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people ( the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area ).

** American Airlines Flight 320, a Lockheed L-188 Electra heading from Chicago to New York City, crashes into the East River, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.

** United Airlines Boeing 737 from Washington National to Chicago Midway crashes short of the runway, killing 43 of 61 passengers and 2 people on the ground.

** An outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States ( in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, where 33 people are killed and 500 injured ).

But though Kimpton put Chicago in what he felt was working order, some old grads feel that it still needs the kind of lively teachers who filled it in the heady Hutchins era.

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

At a time when scientific research in the United States was still in its infancy, George Ellery Hale, a solar astronomer from the University of Chicago, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904.

Because the Cubs lost two seasons to the Great Chicago Fire, the Braves have played more seasons, although the Cubs hold the record for oldest team still in its original city.

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

The term " midway " for a fair or carnival referred originally to the Midway Plaisance, a strip of park land that still runs through the University of Chicago campus and connects Washington and Jackson Parks.

The Merchandise Mart, once first on the list of largest buildings in the world, and still listed as 20th, has its own ZIP code, and stands near the junction of the North and South branches of the Chicago River.

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.

Hutchins and Adler implemented these ideas with great success at the University of Chicago, where they still strongly influence the curriculum in the form of the undergraduate Common Core.

In 2012, of the teams they were unbeaten or winless against, the Texans have already played against and beaten Miami ( now 7-0 ), and still have games scheduled to be played against Baltimore, Chicago, Minnesota, and the New York Jets.

Lyon & Healy's headquarters and manufacturing facility, still in Chicago, contains a showroom and concert hall.

Lyon & Healy harps are still located in Chicago, Illinois, at 168 North Ogden Avenue.

Two very well known smooth jazz stations are WNUA in Chicago and 94. 7 The Wave in Los Angeles, both of which were introduced in 1987, and still continue to enjoy tremendous success in the format today.

Willis Tower ( formerly named and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower ) is a 108-story, 1, 451-foot ( 442 m ) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois.

One of the few revenue-generating assets that the Andersen firm still has is Q Center, a conference and training facility outside of Chicago.

* The TRS-80 Color Computer ( and clones ) still has users and an annual conference in Chicago ; as of 2007 the 17th Annual " Last " Chicago CoCoFEST is scheduled for April 2008.

This 1893 sketch of the Art Institute of Chicago shows most of today's Grant Park still submerged under Lake Michigan with railroad tracks running along the shoreline behind the Museum

Although Moran suffered a heavy blow, he still managed to keep control of his territory until the early 1930s, when control passed to the Chicago Outfit under Frank Nitti, who had taken control of the Capone organization after Capone's conviction for income tax evasion.

Eventually it was classified as a leak, which is why many residents still call it the " Great Chicago Leak.

A column from the ruins of a Roman temple in Ostia given to Chicago by the Italian government to honor General Italo Balbo's 1933 trans-Atlantic flight still stands near Soldier Field.

He was sent to the Naval Training Station in North Chicago, where he was still a student when World War One came to an end.

In the 1850s, he partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in forming the North-Western Police Agency, later known as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and is still in existence today as Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations, a subsidiary of Securitas AB.

Gandhi was most likely the first Jain and the first Gujarati to travel to the United States and his statue still stands at the Jain temple in Chicago.

There is also a Major League Soccer team called the Chicago Fire, and there are / were also NBA teams called the Memphis Grizzlies ( 2001 – present ) and Charlotte Hornets ( 1988 – 2002 ) ( although the nickname " Hornets " for minor league baseball teams in Charlotte long precedes the WFL entry, and the " Grizzlies " name for the Memphis NBA team was selected when the franchise was still in Vancouver ).