Traffic and revenues on the Chicago Skyway have been a great disappointment to planners and investors alike.

In January 2006, Skyway Concession Company, a joint venture between the Australian Macquarie Infrastructure Group and Spanish Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte S. A., paid the City $ 1. 83 billion for rights to operate the Chicago Skyway and collect tolls for 99 years.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP negotiated the city's much-criticized long-term lease of its parking meters, and also the city's leases of the Chicago Skyway and City parking garages.

The Calumet River, with the Chicago Skyway traversing it.

In the state of Indiana, US 41 runs from the Ohio River south of Evansville to Chicago with US 12 and US 20 beneath the termini of the Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road.

US 41 enters Illinois cosigned with US 12 and US 20 on Indianapolis Boulevard beneath the Chicago Skyway.

It then becomes just Interstate 94 at the split with the Chicago Skyway ( which leads to Interstate 90 ), with a remaining distance of.

Eastbound view on the Chicago Skyway bridge

The Chicago Skyway was originally known as the Calumet Skyway.

Nearly eight miles of elevated roadway, the Chicago Skyway was originally built as a shortcut from State Street, a major north-south street on Chicago's South Side that serves the Loop, to the steel mills on the Southeast to the Indiana state line where the Indiana Toll Road begins.

Later, when the Dan Ryan Expressway opened, the Chicago Skyway was extended west to connect to it.

The Chicago Skyway opened to traffic on April 16, 1958.

The city of Chicago claims a record number of motorists used the Skyway in 2002.

In 2003 and 2004, the city of Chicago initiated a $ 250 million project to rehabilitate and widen the Skyway.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

He was also at this time, although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone, the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld, the roughneck king.

Finally, we may also mention the several members of the self-consciously `` neoliberal '' movement that developed at the University of Chicago and is heavily indebted philosophically to the creative work of Alfred North Whitehead.

Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.

Carolina also traded a third round draft pick in the 2012 NFL draft to the Chicago Bears for TE Greg Olsen.

An incident also occurred in April 2007 in the Chicago Loop district, where a coyote, later nicknamed " Adrian ", quietly entered a Quizno's restaurant during the lunch hours ; it was later captured and released at a wildlife rehabilitation center near Barrington, Illinois.

Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion of the city limits also extend into DuPage County.

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

The Chicago Loop is the central business district, but Chicago is also a city of neighborhoods.

Chicago is also a prominent center of the Polish Cathedral style of church architecture.

A new and interesting addition to the Chicago classical music scene is also the Renovo String Orchestra of Chicago.

Ravinia Park, located north of Chicago, is also a favorite destination for many Chicagoans, with performances occasionally given in Chicago locations such as the Harris Theater.

The park also hosts the annual Taste of Chicago festival.

The city is also the home of several talk shows, including former The Oprah Winfrey Show on WLS-TV, while Chicago Public Radio produces programs such as PRI's This American Life and NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!

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.

The entertainment and cultural magazine Time Out Chicago and GRAB Magazine are also published in the city.

Chicago has also been the setting for many popular television shows.

The Good Wife is also set in Chicago.

Chicago is also home to a number of national radio shows, including Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont on Sunday evenings.

Johnson campaigned vigorously, undertaking a public speaking tour of the north, known as the " Swing Around the Circle "; the tour, including speeches in Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Columbus, proved politically disastrous, with Johnson making distasteful and blasphemous comparisons between himself and Christ, and occasionally engaging in hostile and irrational arguments with hecklers.

Playing to the pitcher's desire to return to his Midwestern roots and challenging Spalding's integrity, Hulbert convinced Spalding to sign a contract to play for the White Stockings ( now known as the Chicago Cubs ) in 1876.

The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the " Capones ", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.

The 1924 town council elections in Cicero became known as one of the most crooked elections in the Chicago area's long history of rigged elections, with voters threatened by thugs at polling stations.

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.

Originally, the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award, named after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s.

In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.

In order to halt the ongoing economic collapse, economic reforms were drafted by a group of technocrats known as the Chicago Boys because many of them had been trained or influenced by University of Chicago professors.

As a result, Chicago's club nickname transitioned, and by 1890 they had become known as the Chicago Colts, or sometimes " Anson's Colts ," referring to Cap's influence within the club.

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.

After the retirement of Sandberg and the trade of Dunston, the Cubs had holes to fill and the signing of Henry Rodriguez, known affectionately at " H-Rod " to bat cleanup provided protection for Sammy Sosa in the lineup, as Rodriguez slugged 31 round-trippers in his first season in Chicago.

The 1780s saw the arrival of the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who is believed to be of Haitian and French descent.

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.

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.

Chicago is well known for its wealth of public art, including works by such artistic heavyweights as Chagall, Picasso, Miro and Abakanowicz that are all to be found outdoors.

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.

In North America those who continued to associate with Britain on the basis of the amended 1898 statement became known as the Amended Fellowship, in contrast to the Unamended Fellowship, who took their lead from the Christadelphian Advocate Magazine of Thomas Williams of Chicago.

From 1977-1978, Jones wrote and drew the syndicated comic strip Crawford ( also known as Crawford & Morgan ) for the Chicago Tribune-NY News Syndicate.

July 12, 1979 became known as " the day disco died " because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954 ) was an Italian physicist, naturalized American later in his life, particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics.

He was also known to be an inspiring teacher at the University of Chicago, and was known for his attention to detail, simplicity, and careful preparation for a lecture.