He is perhaps best known for his inspiring speech beginning with " Sisters and Brothers of America ," through which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.

* Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School, an all-female Catholic school in Chicago affiliated with the Sisters of Mercy

By 1948 the orphanage comprised the Lisle Manual Training School for Boys and the Lisle Industrial School for Girls, both of which were managed by the Sisters of St. Benedict and run by the Archdiocese of Chicago.

Both the Good Counsel Province of the Polish Felician Sisters and the Evangelical Covenant Church are headquartered in this neighborhood, as is Chicago's PBS station, WTTW, in the Chicago Production Center.

Located on the edge of the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods on the far north side of Chicago, Illinois, Mundelein College was founded and administered by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

It is owned by the Brothers of Holy Cross and managed by the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago Service Corporation.

With the City of Chicago less than ten years old, the Sisters of Mercy, under the guidance of Mother Mary Francis Warde, RSM, established Saint Francis Xavier Female Academy.

In 1928 the Franciscan Sisters further expanded the complex by building a new St. Joseph Home of Chicago, a structure that stood until recently at 2650 North Ridgeway.

It was around this time, while emceeing a vaudeville show in Chicago, he decided to introduce a sister act, The Gumm Sisters, to laughs from the audience.

In 1928 the Franciscan Sisters further expanded the complex by building a new St. Joseph Home of Chicago, a structure that stood until recently at 2650 North Ridgeway.

He later moved to Chicago, where he helped found Lakeside Hospital, later named Mercy Hospital, and was responsible for bringing the Sisters of Mercy to staff the new Mercy Hospital, founded the Illinois Medical Society, and taught at Rush Medical College.

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.

The movie helped make " Hard to Say I'm Sorry " a # 1 hit for Chicago, and also featured " I'm so Excited " by The Pointer Sisters.

In the early 1960s, the Carmelites and the Sisters of Charity were asked to build separate but similar Catholic high schools for the northern part of the Archdiocese of Chicago ; an area corresponding roughly to Lake County.

The entrance to Stage 2, at 330 West 16th StreetOther Mamet productions by Atlantic include the plays The Blue Hour, Yes, But So What ?, Revenge of the Space Pandas, The Poet and the Rent, Vermont Sketches, Reunion, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Duck Variations, The Woods, The Water Engine, his adaptation of Three Sisters, Home, School, and Keep Your Pantheon.

Mercy Hospital is affiliated with the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Regional Province of Chicago.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

For example, the Chicago City Railway, also designed by Eppelsheimer, opened in Chicago in 1882 and went on to become the largest and most profitable cable car system.

* 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

After his graduation, he opened an office in Chicago, but left it when Walter Q. Gresham, the new United States Secretary of State, named him his personal secretary in 1893.

His early projects at the IIT campus, and for developer Herb Greenwald, opened the eyes of Americans to a style that seemed a natural progression of the almost forgotten nineteenth century Chicago School style.

This stage version, the first to use the shortened title " The Wizard of Oz ", opened in Chicago in 1902, then ran on Broadway for 293 stage nights from January to October 1903.

During 1946, Friedman accepted an offer to teach economic theory at the University of Chicago ( a position opened by departure of his former professor Jacob Viner to Princeton University ).

After losing the 1917 Series to the Chicago White Sox ( the White Sox's last World Series win until 2005 ), the Giants played in four straight World Series in the early 1920s, winning the first two over their tenants, the Yankees, then losing to the Yankees in 1923 when Yankee Stadium opened.

The first full-line year-round Saks store was opened in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929, followed by another resort store in Miami Beach, Florida.

The 1896 Democratic convention opened at the Chicago Coliseum on July 7, 1896.

The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when the damaged wall of a utility tunnel beneath the Chicago River opened into a breach which flooded basements and underground facilities throughout the Chicago Loop with an estimated of water.

Parliament of the World's Religions opened on 11 September 1893 at the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

Initially endowed by Julius Rosenwald, the Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist, it was supported by the Commercial Club of Chicago and opened in 1933 during the Century of Progress Exposition.

When a new Field Museum building opened near downtown Chicago in 1920, the museum organization moved and the former site was left vacant.

In 1973, the chain opened an experimental Jewel Grand Bazaar, on the southwest side of Chicago ; a store that encompassed an entire city block at the northwest corner of 54th Street and Pulaski Road.

A second Grand Bazaar was opened in 1974 at 87 W. 87th St in Chicago and in 1977, a " Jewel Grand Bazaar " was opened at 6505 W. Diversey in the Brickyard Mall.

They were located on the west side of Chicago at 4052 W. Grand Ave ( a former Jewel opened in 1957 to celebrate the chain's 25th anniversary ), Oak Lawn, Arlington Heights and Chicago Heights.

In October 2008, Jewel-Osco opened its first LEED certified store at Kinzie & Des Plaines in Chicago.

In 2004, the musical comedy Spamalot debuted in Chicago and opened in New York's Shubert Theatre on 14 February 2005.

Johnson campaigned vigorously, undertaking a public speaking tour of the north, known as the " Swing Around the Circle "; the tour, including speeches in Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Columbus, proved politically disastrous, with Johnson making distasteful and blasphemous comparisons between himself and Christ, and occasionally engaging in hostile and irrational arguments with hecklers.

By mid-1860, he was playing in such cities as New York ; Boston ; Chicago ; Cleveland ; St. Louis ; Columbus, Georgia ; Montgomery, Alabama ; and New Orleans.

Toledo is located within approximately four hours or less of eight major US cities: Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, and Chicago.

Subsequently, the Pledge was first used in public schools on October 12, 1892, during Columbus Day observances organized to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

On April 8, 2009, the Columbus Blue Jackets secured the first Stanley Cup Playoff berth in the franchise's eight-year history with a 4-3 shootout win over the Chicago Blackhawks.

Even without Interstate 69, The county is within a day's drive of Chicago, Cincinnati, Chattanooga, Columbus, Indianapolis, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, Springfield, St. Louis, even South Bend, and Fort Wayne despite the lack of freeway connection.

Allen County is within a radius of 17 percent of the total United States population and within a day's drive of half of the nation's population, along with sitting nearly equidistant from Chicago, Columbus, Ohio, Detroit and Indianapolis.

Ramp meters are commonplace in the New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Columbus, and Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan areas, and they are also found in more than two dozen smaller metropolitan areas.

Director of the first and second Harry Potter movies Chris Columbus also kept a home in River Forest due to his wife's family ties, and Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano once lived in River Forest.

East Chicago Public Library System operates a main library at 2401 East Columbus Drive and the Robert A. Pastrick Branch Library at 1008 West Chicago Avenue at Baring Avenue.

The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway ( also known as the " Big Four ", a predecessor of the New York Central ) had the east-west route connecting Indianapolis, Anderson and Muncie, Indiana with Sidney, Bellefontaine and Columbus, Ohio.

In 1864, the two were merged into the " Bee " Line: the Bellefontaine Railway, in 1869, into the first " Big Four ": the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway, and in 1889, into the second " Big Four ": the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway.

Some teams all of the way from St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, Louisville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Philadelphia, as well as minor league squads from Columbus, Ohio and Toledo, Ohio to play at Riverside Park.

YIP had chapters all over the US and in other countries, with particularly active groups in New York, Vancouver, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Columbus, Chicago and Madison.

In places where snowfall is typical, such as Utica, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, Bismarck, Fargo, Rapid City, Sioux Falls, Omaha, St. Louis, Des Moines, Wichita, Denver, Albuquerque, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Flagstaff, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Portland, Chicago, Syracuse, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Toronto, such small snowfalls are rarely disruptive, because of effective snow and ice removal by municipalities, increased use of four-wheel drive and snow tires, and drivers being more used to winter conditions.

Under the club's first head coach, Bob Bradley – and against all expectation – the team completed the double in its first competitive year, beating D. C. United in the 1998 MLS Cup Final, and defeating the Columbus Crew in Chicago to win the 1998 U. S. Open Cup a week later.

Columbus is roughly a six-hour drive away from Chicago.

Columbus is served by Amtrak's Empire Builder between Chicago and Seattle, with a train stopping at the station in each direction every day.

Mother Cabrini died of complications from dysentery at age 67 in Columbus Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on December 22, 1917, while preparing Christmas candy for the local children.

Due to the overwhelming increase of pilgrims to her room at Chicago ’ s Columbus Hospital, Cardinal Stritch consecrated a National Shrine built in the saint ’ s honor within the hospital complex.

It os located in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago at the former Columbus Hospital.

The Shrine was at the heart of Columbus Hospital, which, as stated above, was located in Chicago ’ s Lincoln Park.

He played " Engine " ( The " Holland, 1945 " B-side ) with Julian Koster at the Pittsburgh, Columbus, Chicago, Bloomington & Lexington, KY shows.