Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

`` 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.

In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago to take advantage of a new opportunity to make money smuggling illegal alcoholic beverages into the city during Prohibition.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

:* Chicago has hosted a variety of Bastille Day celebrations in a number of locations in the city, including Navy Pier and Oz Park.

The NL actually gave permission to the AL to put a team in Chicago, provided he not use the city name in the team's branding.

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.

Chicago ( or ) is the third most populous city in the United States.

Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion of the city limits also extend into DuPage County.

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed.

Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha + global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world in the 2012 Global Cities Index.

The city has many nicknames, which reflect the impressions and opinions about historical and contemporary Chicago.

The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as " Checagou " was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir written about the time.

As the site of the Chicago Portage, the city emerged as an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States.

While raising Chicago, and at first improving the health of the city, the untreated sewage and industrial waste now flowed into the Chicago River, then into Lake Michigan, polluting the primary source of fresh water for the city.

In 1900, the problem of sewage contamination was largely resolved when the city reversed the flow of the Chicago River so that it flowed away from Lake Michigan, rather than into it.

In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire broke out, destroying an area of about 4 miles long and 1 mile wide, a large section of the city at the time.

In 1924, Chicago was the first American city to have a homosexual-rights organization, the Society for Human Rights.

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

It is the principal city in Chicago Metropolitan Area situated in the Midwestern United States and the Great Lakes region.

The city lies beside huge freshwater Lake Michigan, and two rivers — the Chicago River in downtown and the Calumet River in the industrial far South Side – flow entirely or partially through Chicago.

Comiskey moved his St. Paul club to the Near South Side and renamed it the White Stockings, grabbing a nickname that had once been used by the Chicago Cubs.

* 1935 – The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.

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

Mies settled in Chicago, Illinois where he was appointed head of the architecture school at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology ( later renamed Illinois Institute of Technology – IIT ).

Fermi's experiments at the University of Chicago were part of Arthur H. Compton's Metallurgical Laboratory, part of the Manhattan Project ; the lab was later moved outside Chicago, renamed Argonne National Laboratory, and tasked with conducting research in harnessing fission for nuclear energy.

* September 5 – The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues ( later renamed Minor League Baseball ), is formed in Chicago.

* November 1 – In the United States, the newly created Weather Bureau ( later renamed the National Weather Service ) makes its first official meteorological forecast: " High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee ... and along the Lakes ".

* A week after his death, the former William J. Bogan Junior College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, was renamed as the Richard J. Daley College in his honor.

In 1882, the academy was renamed the Art Institute of Chicago.

By 1922, after travels in California, Oliver was the jazz king in Chicago, performing as King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band at the Royal Gardens ( later renamed the Lincoln Gardens ).

On 11 November 1995, a section of Michigan Avenue, one of the most prominent streets in downtown Chicago, was formally renamed " Swami Vivekananda Way ".

In September 2000, fellow Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper became the permanent co-host and the show was renamed At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper.

On completion the line was renamed the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific.

In 1981, Miró's The Sun, the Moon and One Star — later renamed Miró's Chicago — was unveiled.

* 1903: Chicago White Stockings officially renamed Chicago White Sox

The American was bought by the Chicago Tribune in 1956, and was renamed as < nowiki > Chicago's American </ nowiki >.

The community was established in 1855 when the newly completed Central Military Tract Railroad ( later renamed the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ) built a station there.

In 1888 the Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railroad ( later renamed the Chicago Great Western Railway ) reached Pearl City.

It was renamed in 1891 to Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway which shut down in 1980, renamed in 1980 to Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, merged in 1988 to Missouri Pacific Railroad, merged in 1997 to the current Union Pacific Railroad.

* In June 2011, the City of Chicago renamed a portion of East 36th Street near Cottage Grove Avenue as the honorary " Sam Cooke Way " to remember the singer near a corner where he hung out and sang as a teenager.