* Chicago Sting, an American soccer team ( 1975 – 1988 )

However, four NASL teams ( Chicago Sting, Minnesota Strikers, New York Cosmos, and San Diego Sockers ) joined the Major Indoor Soccer League for its 1984 – 85 season.

The Fire keeps a close connection with the Chicago Sting ( its predecessor team in the NASL ) by holding frequent commemorative events, reunions, and wearing Sting-inspired shirts.

Third shirts have often been yellow ( for the Chicago Sting, later for the partnership with Morelia.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, " The plot ... is not as complex as a movie like The Sting, and we can see some of the surprises as soon as they appear on the horizon.

# 4. 18 – Victor Nogueira ( Chicago Sting, Cleveland Force, San Diego Sockers )

In 1978, Advocaat made the move to the United States to play with the Chicago Sting in the North American Soccer League ( NASL ).

The series won two silver plaques in Chicago for the episodes Scarlet Cinema and The Sweetest Sting.

In October 1985, Rongen signed as a free agent with the Chicago Sting of MISL.

Category: Chicago Sting ( MISL ) players

That same year the Carousel and Hippodrome were memorable sets in the film The Sting, although the story was set in Chicago.

The Sting were founded in 1974 by Lee Stern of Chicago and competed in the NASL for the first time in the 1975 season.

The team was named in reference to the popular 1973 film, The Sting, whose action was set in Chicago of the 1930s.

1974 – 75: The Chicago Sting were the dream child of Lee Stern, a leading Chicago commodities broker, who in 1974 took an expensive gamble that his hometown would accept soccer as a major league sport.

In Chicago he hit six goals in the Sting ’ s inaugural season and firmly established himself as a fan ’ s favourite.

1976: The Sting ’ s second season saw the arrival of more players from the British Isles and the return to Chicago of Polish striker Janusz Kowalik.

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers were beaten in the first round of the playoffs ( the Sting winning the best of three series by two wins to none ) but the San Diego Sockers proved to be too strong for Chicago and booked a place at Soccer Bowl ’ 79 with a 2 – 0 win in California followed by a 1 – 0 victory at Wrigley Field.

1980: Phil Parkes, the former Wolverhampton Wanderers ‘ keeper, became the Sting ’ s number 1, moving to Chicago from the Vancouver Whitecaps where he had played for the past three seasons and established himself as the NASL ’ s top glovesman.

The 1980 campaign, and the 1980 – 81 Indoor Season that followed ( the Sting ’ s first foray into the world of the indoor game ), were major turning points as far as the Chicago public were concerned and the club started to attract large crowds on a regular basis.

26, 468 saw the Sting take on the Tampa Bay Rowdies at Wrigley Field, 18, 112 watched the Washington Diplomats home fixture, and two other matches drew crowds in excess of 16, 000, while indoors 16, 257 packed the Chicago Stadium for one game as the Sting ’ s reached – but lost – the NASL Championship finals.

Chicago Sting Mascot ' Stanley Sting ' pictured in 2009. 1981: The addition of Pato Margetic to the Sting front line – Margetic had joined from the Detroit Express – showed coach Will Roy ’ s attacking intent for the coming campaign, indeed the club would finish as the NASL leading scorers with 81 goals.

* Sterling Quinlan, The Hundred Million Dollar Lunch ( Chicago, J. P. O ' Hara, 1974 ), ISBN 0-87955-310-3.

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.

* 1974 – Rachel Barton Pine, violinist from Chicago

Chicago, 1974: In the early morning hours of 18 October 1974, Officer Michael Byrne and Leonard Ciagi of the Chicago police were called to investigate a report that a kangaroo was standing in someone's porch.

* The Chicago Theme ( CTI, 1974 )

Chicago was a centre of ice speed skating in America ; the Chicago Tribune sponsored a competition called the Silver Skates from 1917 to 1974.

Bob Dylan and The Band touring in Chicago in 1974.

The Aon Center ( 200 East Randolph Street, formerly Amoco Building ) is a modern skyscraper in the Chicago Loop, Chicago, Illinois, United States, designed by architect firms Edward Durell Stone and The Perkins and Will partnership, and completed in 1974 as the Standard Oil Building.

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.

( Chicago: Swallow Press, 1974 )

* 1975: Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, " for his film criticism during 1974.

A second Grand Bazaar was opened in 1974 at 87 W. 87th St in Chicago and in 1977, a " Jewel Grand Bazaar " was opened at 6505 W. Diversey in the Brickyard Mall.

), University of Chicago Press, 1974, ISBN 0-226-42454-5.

: Ross Brupbacher, LB ( Chicago Bears ) 1974

* Chicago Fire 1974 / Chicago Winds 1975

* Soldier Field, Chicago ( 1974 – 75 )

Measures to bolster the paper were unsuccessful, and Chicago Today published its final issue on September 13, 1974.

# Chicago Today May 24, 1970-September 13, 1974

* 1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.

* 1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

* 1877 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

* 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.

* 1812 – War of 1812: The Battle of Fort Dearborn is fought between United States troops and Potawatomi at what is now Chicago, Illinois.

* 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at, at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.

* 1992 – The Great Chicago Flood.

* 1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.

* 1948 – Danny Seraphine, American drummer and producer ( Chicago )

* 1969 – The " Chicago Eight " plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

The largest population clusters of North America ( the Boston – Washington, San Francisco-San Diego, Chicago – Pittsburgh, and Quebec City – Windsor Corridors ) are all thousands of kilometers away from Alberta.

* 1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.

* 2005 – Chicago – 1. 17. 04 ( Official Bootleg series )

* 2009 – Chicago – 9. 22. 07 ( Official Bootleg series )

Rice, Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera ( Chicago 1998 ), ISBN 0-226-71125-0 – ISBN 978-0-226-71125-6 ( preview at Google Book Search )

* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

* 1803 – James Curtiss, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( d. 1859 )

* 1871 – Alexander Loyd, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )