Support for this is found in the Chicago Defender, an African-American newspaper that had a national circulation.

There are also several regional and special-interest newspapers and magazines, such as Chicago, the Dziennik Związkowy ( Polish Daily News ), Draugas ( the Lithuanian daily newspaper ), the Chicago Reader, the SouthtownStar, the Chicago Defender, the Daily Herald, Newcity, StreetWise and the Windy City Times.

In May 1967, the Salisbury Daily Times referred to Twiggy as a supermodel ; the February 1968 article of Glamour magazine listed all 19 " supermodels "; the Chicago Daily Defender wrote " New York Designer Turns Super Model " in January 1970 ; The Washington Post and Mansfield News Journal used the term in 1971 ; and in 1974 both the Chicago Tribune and The Advocate also used the term " supermodel " in their articles.

The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 by an African American for primarily African-American readers.

The promotion of Chicago as an attractive destination for the migration of southern blacks was a main function of the Defender.

One of Sengstacke's most striking accomplishments occurred on February 6, 1956, when the Defender became a daily newspaper and changed its name to the Chicago Daily Defender, the nation's second black daily newspaper.

Control of the Chicago Defender and her sister publications was transferred to a new ownership group named Real Times Inc. in January 2003.

Chicago investors included Picou, Bobby Sengstacke, David M. Milliner ( who served as publisher of the Chicago Defender from 2003 to 2004 ), Kurt Cherry and James Carr.

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*" Chicago Defender celebrates 100 years in business "-Karen E. Pride, Chicago Defender, May 5, 2005

*" Chicago Defender photo exhibit looks back to the future "-Coverage of star-studded opening for exhibition of Defender photography

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An article in the Chicago Defender of 17 January 1920 asserted, " This is the picture that required two solid months to get by the Censor Boards.

For example, an article in the Defender reported that on February 24 of 1920, Within Our Gates would be shown at the States Theater in Chicago " without the cuts which were made before its initial presentation.

1905 had been a bloody year on the gridiron ; the Chicago Tribune reported 18 players had been killed and 159 seriously injured that season.

* 1999 – A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches ( 359 mm ) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches ( 487 mm ) in Chicago, Illinois, where temperatures plunge to-13 ° F (- 25 ° C ); 68 deaths are reported.

" Late in the month, Nasdaq was reported to be considering asking either ICE or the Chicago Merc to join in what would probably have to be, if it proceeded, an $ 11 – 12 billion counterbid.

After the Chicago incident, kangaroo sightings were reported in Illinois and Wisconsin.

A University of Chicago researcher Linda Waite Professor in Sociology, states " 16 percent of cohabiting women reported that arguments with their partners became physical during the past year, while only 5 percent of married women had similar experiences.

The Chicago Tribune reported that Bryan had lit the spark " which touched off the trail of gun-powder ".

In protest of Washington's perceived " deification " by the city and citizens of Chicago, and because it was widely reported by local media that Washington was found by paramedics wearing women's underclothes, Art Institute of Chicago student David Nelson painted Mirth & Girth, a caricature that depicted Washington wearing women's lingerie and holding a pencil.

Anthony DeBartolo reported evidence in the Chicago Tribune suggesting that Louis M. Cohn may have started the fire during a craps game.

The exposition was extensively reported by Chicago publisher William D. Boyce's reporters and artists.

In July 1926, The Chicago Tribune reported that a vending machine dispensing pink talcum powder had appeared in an upscale hotel washroom.

In 1992, celebrity gossip magazines reported that Seymour dated musician Peter Cetera, former bass guitarist and lead singer of the rock band Chicago.

That number was less than the 90 newsroom jobs that Crain's Chicago Business previously had reported were to be eliminated.

In 2006, University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin and Academy of Natural Sciences paleontologist Ted Daeschler reported the discovery of the fossil of a Paleozoic ( ca.

A similar service reported on the scores of most high-school games in Chicago, but otherwise there was no sports coverage.

Almost 11 years later, it ended on October 16, 2006, after a reported attendance of 17, 681, which is 326 under the capacity at Pepsi Center, before a game against the Chicago Blackhawks.

On July 3, 2008, the Chicago Tribune reported that Del Harris agreed to become an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls along with former Charlotte Bobcats head coach Bernie Bickerstaff and longtime NBA assistant Bob Ociepka.

A January 2007 article in the Chicago Sun-Times reported that gang members in the military are involved in the theft and sale of military weapons, ammunition, and equipment, including body armor.

Kenosha County has traditionally attracted newcomers from suburban Chicago and in March 2008 the demographers of the Wisconsin Department of Administration reported that Kenosha County's improvements in roads, business's need for personnel and quality-of-life factors have contributed to a decades-long influx of Illinois transplants.

Rostropovich's health declined in 2006, with the Chicago Tribune reporting rumours of unspecified surgery in Geneva and later treatment for what was reported as an aggravated ulcer.

In December, 2005, the Chicago Tribune reported that the Rendon Group received $ 1. 4 million in 2004 to help Afghan President Hamid Karzai with media relations.

According to one widely reported account, newsman Ed Lahey wrote this lead for the Chicago Daily News: " Richard Loeb, despite his erudition, today ended his sentence with a proposition.

Gray reported in 1951 that Annie's origin lay in a chance meeting he had with a ragamuffin while wandering the streets of Chicago looking for cartooning ideas.

Rock station DJs Steve Dahl and Garry Meier, along with Michael Veeck, son of Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck, staged the promotional event for disgruntled rock fans between the games of a White Sox doubleheader.

Stern later mentioned that she was scheduled to appear at a concert event, The Expo of the Extreme, in Chicago two weeks after the interview.

On October 9, 1893, the day designated as Chicago Day, the fair set a record for outdoor event attendance, drawing 716, 881 persons to the fair.

The exposition was such a major event in Chicago that one of the stars on the municipal flag honors it.

As the World's Columbian Exposition ( a. k. a. Chicago World's Fair ) was set to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival at the America's, Upham sought to link the publication's drive to the event, " so that every school in the land ... would have a flag raising, under the most impressive conditions.

The decisive event was the opening of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 ; six days by train brought a traveler from Chicago to San Francisco, compared to six months by ship.

In the 1950s, under Sengstacke's direction, the Bud Billiken Parade expanded and emerged as the largest single event in Chicago.

According to the Friday, August 12, 2011 online edition of the Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President Barack Obama, who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a three-state bus tour of the Midwest focusing on jobs, the state of the economy, and the housing market in a campaign-style event.

The event was similar to the earlier Nation's celebrations, last held in Chicago on February 26, 1975.

An unprecedented event occurred with the interview that was granted by Mircea Eliade to poet Adrian Păunescu, during the latter's 1970 visit to Chicago ; Eliade complimented both Păunescu's activism and his support for official tenets, expressing a belief that

* July 12 – " Disco Demolition Night ", an anti-disco promotional event for a Chicago rock station involving exploding disco records with a bomb, causes a near-riot between games during a baseball major league doubleheader, forcing the cancellation of the second game.

Stone went with her daughter to Chicago in May, 1893 and gave her last public speeches at the World's Congress of Representative Women where she saw a strong international involvement in women's congresses, with almost 500 women from 27 countries speaking at 81 meetings, and attendance topping 150, 000 at the week-long event.

He was a construction worker for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, an event which author Erik Larson cites as a source of inspiration for his son Walt and the Disney kingdom he would eventually create.

Originally taking place in Los Angeles, the festival has expanded to several locations over the years including Chicago, New York, Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto and Liverpool, England ( the latter event included performances at the re-created Cavern Club ).

The Chicago chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences honored Cheap Trick at the 2007 Recording Academy Honors event in Chicago on October 11, 2007.

The city of Chicago, Illinois, had won the original bid to host the 1904 Summer Olympics, but the organizers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis would not accept another international event in the same time frame.

* 1893: First commemorative event stamps: World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

It was a spinoff from the Chicago Music Show, which until then had served as the main event for exhibiting consumer electronics.

From 1991 to its final year, the event was played at the Cog Hill Golf & Country Club, Dubsdread course in the Chicago suburb of Lemont.

In Chicago, people still debate whether the medical examiner exaggerated the numbers and wonder if the crisis was a " media event.

Disco Demolition Night was a promotional event that took place on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, during which a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field.

Michael Clarke Duncan, a Chicago native and 21 at the time, attended the event.

The event was held during the Chicago Auto Show.