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.

The chief advocate and driving force for improving public health in Chicago was Dr. John H. Rauch, M. D., who established a plan for Chicago's park system in 1866, created Lincoln Park by closing a cemetery filled with festering, shallow graves, and helped establish a new Chicago Board of Health in 1867 in response to an outbreak of cholera.

Ten years later he became the secretary and then the president of the first Illinois State Board of Health, which carried out most of its activities in Chicago.

The Loop's historic buildings include the Chicago Board of Trade Building, the Fine Arts Building, 35 East Wacker, and the Chicago Building, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments by Mies van der Rohe.

Derivatives traders at the Chicago Board of Trade

The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

* Best Documentary of the Year awards for The Fog of War ( 2003 ): the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics, and the Washington D. C. Area Film Critics.

Mies served on the initial Advisory Board of the Graham Foundation in Chicago.

For example, the Chicago Board of Trade has retained overwhelming dominance of trading in US Treasury bond futures despite the startup of Eurex US trading of identical futures contracts.

It is primarily traded on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Wheat futures are traded on the Chicago Board of Trade, Kansas City Board of Trade, and Minneapolis Grain Exchange, and have delivery dates in March ( H ), May ( K ), July ( N ), September ( U ), and December ( Z ).

As a result, Railroad Retirement Agents from Chicago inspected the Long Island office of the Railroad Retirement Board on September 23, 2008.

Cermak was elected president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 1922, chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party in 1928, and mayor of Chicago in 1931.

" In 1970, the Board of Managers of the Chicago Bar Association ruled that Washington's license be suspended for only one year, not the five recommended ; the total amount in question between all six clients was $ 205.

Trading at both the Chicago Board of Trade Building and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ended in mid-morning as water seeped into their basements.

Derivatives of the Dow trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and through the CME Group, the world's largest futures exchange company, which owns 90 % of the indexing business founded by Dow Jones, including the Industrial Average.

In the derivatives market, the CME Group through its subsidiaries the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ( CME ) and the Chicago Board of Trade ( CBOT ), issues Futures Contracts ; including the E-mini Dow ($ 5 ) Futures ( YM ), the DJIA ($ 10 ) Futures ( DJ ) and the Big Dow DJIA ($ 25 ) Futures ( DD ) which track the average and trade on their exchange floors respectively.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange ( CBOE ) issues Options Contracts on the Dow through the root symbol DJX in combination with long term expiration options called DJX LEAPS.

* Dow Jones Industrial Average at the Chicago Board Options Exchange

Chicago Board of Trade Futures market

* Chicago Board of Trade ( CBOT )

The bicentennial of Freetown was celebrated in 1987, when in reality Freetown was founded in 1792. Shaw, Rosalind, Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone ( 2002 ), University of Chicago Press, p. 37.

Morgan Stanley agreed to pay a $ 5 million fine to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and an addition $ 1. 75 million to CME and the Chicago Board of Trade.

There is also a statue of her on top of the Chicago Board of Trade Building, which conducts trading in agricultural commodities.

He was an early member of the Chicago Board of Trade, being associated with Armour, Dole & Co. in Chicago.

However, a wealthy Chicago Board of Trade operator named Mr. O. H. Roche donated of land for a townsite, and it was his wish that it be called Round Lake.

The steel mill was also responsible for the production of the elevator cables for the Empire State Building in New York City, the Chicago Board of Trade Building in Chicago and the Washington Monument in Washington, D. C. John A. Roebling & Sons company made the wire for the original slinky as well.

* Free Trade, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations speech November 18, 1998

* Chicago Board of Trade

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.

The Chicago Building by Holabird & Roche ( 1904-1905 ) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window

In 1885, the first steel-framed high-rise building, the Home Insurance Building, rose in the city as Chicago ushered in the skyscraper era, which would then be followed by many other cities around the world.

Chicago offers Broadway-style entertainment at theaters such as Broadway In Chicago's Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre, Broadway In Chicago's Bank of America Theatre, Broadway In Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre, Auditorium Building of Roosevelt University, and Broadway In Chicago's Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place.

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

Landis's courtroom, room 627 in the Chicago Federal Building, was ornate and featured two murals ; one of King John conceding Magna Carta, the other of Moses about to smash the tablets of the Ten Commandments.

His significant projects in the U. S. include in Chicago and the area: the residential towers of 860 – 880 Lake Shore Dr, the Chicago Federal Center complex, the Farnsworth House, Crown Hall and other structures at IIT ; and the Seagram Building in New York.

** Dirksen Federal Building – Office Tower, Chicago

** Kluczynski Federal Building – Office Tower, Chicago

Home Insurance Building in Chicago, United States was considered a skyscraper when it was built in 1884, but it had only ten storeys.

The first steel frame skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building ( originally 10 storeys with a height of ) in Chicago, Illinois in 1885.

* June 19 – In Chicago, the Republican Convention opens at the Auditorium Building.

* The first skyscraper ( the Home Insurance Building ) is built in Chicago, Illinois, USA ( 10 floors ).

The first Chicago performance of the opera took place at the Auditorium Building of Roosevelt University on 9 November 1891.

It is currently the fourth-tallest building in Chicago and the sixth-tallest in the United States, after the Willis Tower, the Empire State Building, the Bank of America Tower, the Trump Tower Chicago, and the Aon Center.