* 1977 – Damian O ' Hare, Irish actor

The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, telecommunications, and transportation, with O ' Hare International Airport being the second-busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements.

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.

The lowest temperature of was recorded on January 20, 1985, at O ' Hare Airport.

* 1942 – Lieutenant Edward O ' Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.

* 1962 – Denis O ' Hare, Irish-American actor

* 1970 – Brendan O ' Hare, Scottish drummer ( Teenage Fanclub and Telstar Ponies )

* 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.

* 1952 – Michael O ' Hare, American actor ( d. 2012 )

* 1943 – Edward O ' Hare, American ace pilot ( b. 1914 )

He is joined by his old girlfriend Tulip O ' Hare, as well as a hard-drinking Irish vampire named Cassidy.

He met privately with Michael Bloomberg for 10 minutes, then met with CEO's, including Douglas N. Daft ( Coca-Cola Company ), Gerald M. Levin ( AOL Time Warner Inc .), Maurice R. Greenberg ( American International Group, commercial insurer ), and Dean O ' Hare ( Chubb Corporation, insurer ).

Additionally, a distress signal was sent by the pilots, causing two F-16s to race at supersonic speeds to intercept and escort the aircraft to O ' Hare International Airport.

* Western ( CTA Blue Line O ' Hare branch station ), a station in Chicago

Exhausted by touring, Poly Styrene left the band in mid 1979, though she is seen performing with the band in the 1980 film, D. O. A .. She released a solo album, Translucence, before joining the Hare Krishna movement ( as did Logic, who left the band aged 16 in 1977 to form a new group called Essential Logic ).

* 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.

* February 20 – Lieutenant Edward O ' Hare becomes America's first U. S. Navy WWII flying ace.

* November 26 – Edward " Butch " O ' Hare, American fighter pilot ( b. 1914 )

** American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O ' Hare International Airport, killing all 271 on board and 2 people on the ground in the deadliest aviation accident in U. S. history.

Major construction during his terms in office resulted in O ' Hare International Airport, the Sears Tower, McCormick Place, the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, numerous expressways and subway construction projects, and other major Chicago landmarks.

O ' Hare was a particular point of pride for Daley, with he and his staff regularly devising occasions to celebrate it.

In 2005, Concourse Communications, another Cardinal Growth venture, signed a potentially lucrative city contract for airport wi-fi service at city-owned O ’ Hare Airport and Midway Airport.

On December 3, 2007, shortly after Patrick received the last of those payments, Mayor Daley's City Hall press secretary, Jacquelyn Heard said Patrick Daley “ has no financial interest with the Wi-Fi contract at O ’ Hare .” "... he conflict of interest was blatant ," the Chicago Sun-Times editorialized.

In January 2011, Moody's Investors Service downgraded to a " negative " outlook from " stable " some of the revenue bonds that the Chicago Department of Aviation had issued to help pay for the $ 15 billion O ' Hare Modernization Program and related capital-improvement projects.

* September 28 – Michael O ' Hare, American actor ( b. 1952 )

In 1995 the show won Best New TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards, with O ' Hanlon receiving Top TV Comedy Newcomer Award.

At Yale, he participated in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and was on the team representing Yale University ( along with Murray Gerstenhaber and Henry O. Pollak ) that won the second prize in 1947.

Tim Duncan and David Robinson won the 1999 championship with the Spurs, and Shaquille O ' Neal and Kobe Bryant started the 2000s with three consecutive championships for the Lakers.

The Miami Heat, led by their star shooting guard, Dwyane Wade, and Shaquille O ' Neal, who had been traded from the Lakers during the 2004 summer, won the series over the Dallas Mavericks in 6 after losing the first two games.

Kobe Bryant won his first Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award award in his 13th season after leading the Lakers to their first NBA championship since the departure of Shaquille O ' Neal.

Homecoming won a place in The O. Henry Prize Stories of 1947.

In 1996, King won an O. Henry Award for his short story " The Man in the Black Suit ".

* Cristin O ' Keefe Aptowicz ( who was on the NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam team in 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2010 ) won a NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2011

An Englishman named O. E Woodhouse won the singles title, and a silver cup worth $ 100, by defeating Canadian I. F.

* 44 unique positions are won by ( O )

* 77, 904 finished games are won by ( O )

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

In 1945, O ' Dwyer received the nomination of the Tammany Hall Democrats and easily won the mayoral election.

Paper Moon, a Depression-era comedy starring Ryan O ' Neal that won his 10-year-old daughter Tatum O ' Neal an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress, proved the high-water mark of Bogdanovich's career.

In February 1955, Story of O won the French literature prize Prix des Deux Magots, although this did not prevent the French authorities from bringing obscenity charges against the publisher.

* Eugene O ' Neill won the prize four times — more than any other playwright.

She entered and won a talent contest on the television program Sing, Sing, Sing, hosted by 1960s Australian icon Johnny O ' Keefe, performing the songs " Anyone Who Had a Heart " and " Everything's Coming Up Roses ".

At the 42nd Academy Awards, O ' Toole was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.

O ' Toole won an Emmy Award for his role in the 1999 mini-series Joan of Arc.

In 2003 she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of Eugene O ' Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.

Willis Harold O ' Brien ( AKA: " Obie "; March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962 ) was an Irish American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood " was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history ," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World ( 1925 ), King Kong ( 1933 ) and Mighty Joe Young ( 1949 ), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

The film Mighty Joe Young ( 1949 ), on which O ' Brien is credited as Technical Creator, won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1950. Credit for the award went to the films producers, RKO Productions, but O ' Brien was also awarded a statue.

The film made actor Peter O ' Toole a star and won several more academy awards for Lean, including best picture and best director.