Wagner Sign Service Inc., Chicago, for example, supplies them in several colors, in heights of 4, 6, 8, 10, and 17 inches.

Later, a bus will carry members to the Chicago Stadium to see Jack Kramer's professional tennis matches at 8 p.m..

Rogers was born on January 8, 1902, in the suburban Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago.

** Chicago ( now Reisinger ) ( 8 ) 1937, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1950, 1957, 1963

In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

( Explanation of 8 pizza styles: Maryland, Roman, " Gourmet " Wood-fired, Generic boxed, New York, Neopolitan, Chicago, and New Haven )

* 1945 – 1959 Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA-Master planned site and led the design for at least 8 of the approx.

* February 4 – February 8 – Surgeons remove an ovarian cyst from Gertrude Levandowski in a 96-hour long operation in Chicago.

** Richard Speck murders 8 student nurses in their Chicago dormitory.

* December 8 – The Chicago Bears, in what will become the most one-sided victory in National Football League history, defeat the Washington Redskins 73 – 0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.

* October 8 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan.

Known for shrewd party politics, Daley was a stereotypical machine politician, and his Chicago Democratic Machine, based on control of thousands of patronage positions, was instrumental in bringing a narrow 8, 000 vote victory in Illinois for John F. Kennedy in 1960.

The sarcophagus of William Butler Ogden in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx ) | Woodlawn CemeteryOn October 8, 1871, Ogden lost most of his prized possessions in the Great Chicago Fire.

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about in Chicago, Illinois.

* The Chicago Fire, a Major League Soccer team, was founded on October 8, 1997, the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.

A Possible Deathbed Confession " – by Anthony DeBartolo, Chicago Tribune, October 8, 1997 and " Odds Improve That a Hot Game of Craps in Mrs. O ' Leary's Barn Touched Off Chicago Fire " – by Anthony DeBartolo, Chicago Tribune, March 3, 1998

On June 8, the Republican National Convention met in Chicago.

On January 8, 1935, Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agents surrounded a Chicago apartment building at 3920 North Pine Grove, looking for the remaining members of the Barker Gang.

Because of this, it has been suggested that Rose actually broke Cobb's record against the Cubs ' Reggie Patterson with a single in the first inning of a Reds ' 5 – 5 called game against Chicago on September 8.

* 1938 ( 8 ) Bing Crosby Pro-Am, Greater Greensboro Open, Chicago Open, Canadian Open, Westchester 108 Hole Open, White Sulphur Springs Open, Inverness Invitational Four-Ball ( with Vic Ghezzi ), Palm Beach Round Robin

On April 2, 2007, the Tribune Company announced a buy-out plan led by Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell worth $ 8. 2 billion, associated with a stock buyback at $ 34 per share, and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

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.

Other translations include Erich Prokosch's nearly complete German translations of the tenth volume, the 2004 introductory work entitled The World of Evliya Çelebi: An Ottoman Mentality written by University of Chicago professor Robert Dankoff, and Dankoff and Sooyong Kim's 2010 translation of select excerpts of the ten volumes An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi.

* The Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song " Chicago " ( written by Graham Nash ) was about the 1968 Democratic convention.

This footnote has led many scholars to assume that Point du Sable had settled in Chicago by 1779, however letters written by traders in the late 1770s suggest that Point du Sable was at this time settled at the mouth of Trail Creek ( Rivière du Chemin ) at what is now Michigan City, Indiana.

The Prime Directive was not actually written into law until some years after the formation of the Federation — in the Star Trek episode " A Piece of the Action ," an early Federation ship, the Horizon, visited a primitive planet and left behind several items which altered the planet's culture significantly — most notably the book Chicago Mobs Of The Twenties, which the inhabitants quickly seized upon as a blueprint for their entire society.

Hill, who wrote for the paper from 1992 until 1993, acknowledged to the Chicago Reader that she had written the diatribe originally for the Internet, and that the piece eventually was edited for Newcity.

The Front Page is a hit Broadway comedy about tabloid newspaper reporters on the police beat, written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur which was first produced in 1928.

In line with common English practice, style guides — such as the The Chicago Manual of Style — generally state that the number and percent sign are written without any space in between.

* George's Spink's article, " Glenn Miller: The Sound of an Era " written for the Chicago Sun-Times in December 1984 on the 40th anniversary of Miller's disappearance.

A Walking Tour of the Shambles ( Little Walks For Sightseers # 16 ) ( 2002 ), written by Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe, is a tour guide concerning a fictional part of Chicago called ' The Shambles '.

The same can be said of " She Caught the Katy " ( originally written by Taj Mahal and Yank Rachell ) and " Jailhouse Rock " ( sung by Elvis Presley ) or " Sweet Home Chicago " ( Robert Johnson ), acknowledging the fact that covers can become even more famous than original performances.

The show was initially sponsored by Ovaltine, a flavored milk supplement, and its scripts were written by Ovaltine's Chicago ad agency staff.

Luka Bloom's brother Christy Moore also has a song, written by Bloom but recorded by Moore, called ' The City of Chicago ,' that chronicles the effects of the Famine and the subsequent mass emigration.

In written language, mentioned words or phrases often appear between quotation marks (" Chicago " contains three vowels ) or in italics ( When I say honey, I mean the sweet stuff that bees make ), and style authorities such as Strunk and White insist that mentioned words or phrases must always be made visually distinct in this manner.

They were written by Jim O ' Neal, the editor of Living Blues magazine, in Chicago, August, 1975.

His most recent short play, A Very DNA Reunion was written for the evening of plays The DNA Trail, which was conceived by Jamil Khoury and premiered at the historic Chicago Temple Building.

Elling explains on his album Live in Chicago ( Blue Note ) that the lyrics were written while he was under the impression that it was titled " Esperanto " and only later found out the original title, which is the Portuguese word for ' hope '.

Amos and Andy began as one of the first radio comedy series, written and voiced by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll and originating from station WMAQ in Chicago.

" Lazzaro later shoots and kills Billy with a laser gun after his speech on flying saucers and the true nature of time before a large audience in Chicago, in a balkanized United States on February 13, 1976 ( which, at the time the book was written, was in the future ).

* Chicago ( play ), 1926 play written by Maurine Dallas Watkins

The paper initially attracted notoriety in June 1919 with coverage of the libel lawsuit between Henry Ford and the Chicago Tribune, as the stories written by Pipp and Cameron were picked up nationally.

* Danny Masterson will portray Jerry Rubin in the upcoming movie The Chicago 8, written and directed by Pinchas Perry.

In the United States, critic Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying it was " beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, it's an uncommonly thoughtful epic.

In February 1987, the popular syndicated advice column Ask Ann Landers ( commonly known as the " Ann Landers " column and written at that point by Eppie Lederer ) left the Sun-Times after 31 years to jump to the rival Chicago Tribune, effective March 15, 1987.

The original Pringles television commercials were written, produced and directed by Thomas Scott Cadden ( composer of the original Mr. Clean jingle ) in 1968, while working at Tatham-Laird and Kudner Advertising Agency in Chicago.