The White Stockings were close contenders all season, despite the fact that the Great Chicago Fire had destroyed the team's home field and most of their equipment.

Ultimately, two of the league's western clubs went out of business during the first season and the Chicago Fire left that city's White Stockings impoverished, unable to field a team again until 1874.

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.

Artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire | Great Chicago Fire of 1871

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.

The destruction caused by the Great Chicago Fire led to the largest building boom in the history of the nation.

These include from the time of the Great Chicago Fire to about 1900, what became known as the Chicago Literary Renaissance in the 1910s and early 1920s, and the period of the Great Depression through the 1940s.

After the Great Chicago Fire, Lyell was one of the first to donate books to help found the Chicago Public Library.

As a result of the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and recent population boom, new development was plentiful in the city.

At RFK Stadium in Washington, D. C., the Wizards, with the league's best defense, tried to prove that defense wins championships by beating the team with the league's best offense, the Chicago Fire.

But Tony Meola stopped every one of them and the defense barely held on to the lead as time ran out on the Chicago Fire.

The full history of Lyon & Healy is complicated by the destruction of its building and loss of company records during four fires including the Great Chicago Fire ( 1871 ).

" She traveled to Chicago to try her luck but lost some of her early paintings in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

* 1871 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.

The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, leaving nearly 100, 000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire kills as many as 2, 500 people, making it the deadliest fire in United States history.

In Chicago, the driver cut out would likely jam his gas pedal to the floor in an effort to force the other car back.

Juniors who attend this Chicago show should make a point to enter this Class as it would be of great help to them.

`` 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 January 2012, Aon announced that headquarters would be moved from Chicago to London.

Although he would go on to have back-to-back 17-win seasons for the Chicago Cubs in 1971 and 1972, including a no-hitter in the latter season, this did not help the Reds, who ended up losing the 1970 World Series to Robinson and the Orioles.

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 game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals in particular was cited for putting Ryne Sandberg ( as well as the 1984 Cubs in general, who would go on to make their first postseason appearance since 1945 ) " on the map.

The club was originally called the Chicago White Stockings, after the nickname abandoned by the Cubs, and the name was soon shortened to Chicago White Sox, believed to have been because the paper would shorten it to Sox in the headlines.

They then won back to back World Series titles in 1907 – 08 In 1902, Spalding, who by this time had revamped the roster to boast what would soon be one of the best teams of the early century, sold the club to Jim Hart, and the franchise became known as the Chicago Cubs.

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.

What would become the influential Poetry Magazine was founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, who was working as an art critic for the Chicago Tribune.

The following season, the Wings looked poised to " three-peat " for the first time in franchise history, acquiring three-time top blueliner Chris Chelios from his hometown Chicago Blackhawks in March 1999, but they would end up losing the Western Conference Semifinals to Colorado in six games.

To continue the research where it would not pose a public health hazard, the reactor was disassembled and moved to a wooded site outside Chicago, where Fermi directed research on reactors and other fundamental sciences.

Hawks encountered a minor amount of censorship when the film was banned in Chicago, which would deal with even further on his next film.

Microsoft announced at the conference its intentions to develop a successor to both Windows NT and Windows 3. 1's replacement ( Windows 95, codenamed Chicago ), which would unify the two into one operating system.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

Chicago was designed to have support for 32-bit preemptive multitasking like OS / 2 and Windows NT, although a 16-bit kernel would remain for the sake of backward compatibility.

Chicago had been considered the slight favorite but would win all four games, the first two at U. S. Cellular Field in Chicago and the final two in Houston.

The Colts faced the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl and would go onto win the game 29 – 17, giving Manning, Polian, Irsay and Dungy their first Super Bowl title, as well as the first title for the city of Indianapolis.

By 1894, Dewey had joined Tufts, with whom he would later write Ethics ( 1908 ), at the recently founded University of Chicago and invited Mead and Angell to follow him, the four men forming the basis of the so-called " Chicago group " of psychology.

The debate led to a decision that Chicago needed neither a big name nor an experienced academic administrator, but rather, as Trustee Chairman Glen A. Lloyd put it, `` a top scholar in his own right '' -- a bright light to lure other top scholars to Chicago.

But though Kimpton put Chicago in what he felt was working order, some old grads feel that it still needs the kind of lively teachers who filled it in the heady Hutchins era.

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.

In the United States William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago developed the concept of extended education, whereby the research university had satellite colleges of education in the wider community, and in 1892 he also encouraged the concept of correspondence school courses to further promote education, an idea that was put into practice by Columbia University.

Before General Motors invited Bel Geddes to submit a proposal for the exhibit, they had planned to put in another production line as was featured at their exhibit in the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933 in Chicago.

Sears and the City of Chicago approved the design, and the first steel was put in place in April 1971.

Although Chicago scored first with a field goal, San Francisco scored 37 unanswered points to put the game out of reach by the end of the third quarter.

After Mick Dumke, a reporter for the Chicago Reader, questioned the effectiveness of the city's handgun ban, Daley picked up a rifle with a bayonet from a table of confiscated weapons and told him, " If I put this up your butt, you'll find out how effective it is.

Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert put the film on his " Great Movies " list in 2007, calling it "... modern, lean, and honest.

" Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times compared the film's innovative animation to Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, saying " Both movies take apart the universe of cinematic visuals, and put it back together again, allowing us to see in a new way.

Similar contests are put on by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and the Seattle Times > These contests frequently correspond with the Easter holiday.

The portrait and payment were exchanged in Chicago in March 1901, and a couple of months later the painting arrived in London and was put up for sale.

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars and wrote, " The plot of Working Girl is put together like clockwork.

* " Some still put faith in gods of the past " by Kimberly Winston, Chicago Tribune Aug. 20, 2004

Post-war inflation, rampant speculative investments ( overwhelmingly in railroads ), a large trade deficit, ripples from economic dislocation in Europe resulting from the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870-1871 ), significant property losses in Chicago ( 1871 ) and Boston ( 1872 ) fires, and other factors put a massive strain on bank reserves, which plummeted in New York City during September and October 1873 from $ 50 million to $ 17 million.

" A. C. Graham, < i > Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China </ i > ( Chicago: Open Court, 2003 ) p. 89 .</ ref > Other interpretations have been put forward by Fung Yu-lan and Chad Hansen among others ( ibid.

But with the repeal of the Volstead Act ( the very thing that put the gangsters into power ) the North Side gang declined along with many other gangs and Moran decided to leave Chicago after a few years.

Turner's " Frontier Thesis ", was put forth in a scholarly paper in 1893, " The Significance of the Frontier in American History ", read before the American Historical Association in Chicago during the Chicago World's Fair.

The NL actually gave permission to the AL to put a team in Chicago, and on March 21, 1900, Comiskey moved his St. Paul club to the South Side, where they became the Chicago White Sox.

In 1992, after the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis as he left the Cabrini – Green public housing project for school, the Chicago Tribune put every child murder on the front page ( generally no murders were front page news ).

He put Ford-el in charge of the Chicago Temple.