On April 2, 2007, the Tribune Company announced a buy-out plan led by Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell worth $ 8. 2 billion, associated with a stock buyback at $ 34 per share, and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

The statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, the New York Stock Exchange Building in New York City and Watertower Place in Chicago are but a few examples produced from and by Georgia Marble.

Frederick Stock founded the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the first training orchestra in the United States affiliated with a major symphony orchestra, in 1919.

Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra made a series of recordings for Victor, beginning in 1925, first in Victor's Chicago studios and then in Orchestra Hall.

* American premiere: 15 April 1921, Chicago, conducted by Frederick Stock.

Adler was not only an architect but also a gifted civil engineer who, with his partner Louis Sullivan, designed many buildings including influential skyscrapers that boldly addressed their steel skeleton through their exterior design: the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York, the Chicago Stock Exchange Building ( 1894 – 1972 ) and the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri.

* Timothy Blackstone ( 1829 – 1900 ), Chicago Railroad and Stock Yard president

On October 22, 1981, trading was halted on both the Chicago Board of Trade and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange after anonymous callers said bombs had been placed in those buildings.

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The Chicago Stock Exchange ( CHX ) is a stock exchange in Chicago, Illinois, U. S ..

The Chicago Stock Exchange is the third most active stock exchange in the United States by volume, and the largest outside New York City.

The Chicago Stock Exchange is currently located at 440 South LaSalle Street ( One Financial Place ).

Old Chicago Stock Exchange Building, ca.

On April 26, 1920, the Chicago Stock Exchange Stock Clearing Corporation was established.

On October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed, resulting in a very difficult time period for the Chicago Stock Exchange, and the stock market in general.

In April 1978, the Chicago Stock Exchange launched an Intermarket Trading System ( ITS ), a system that allows order to be sent from one exchange to another to ensure that customers receive the best execution available.

In the 1980s, the Chicago Stock Exchange made several technological advancements to improve trading.

The Chicago Stock Exchange / LaSalle Train Station as viewed from the Sears Tower in July 2008.

In the 1990s, the Exchange had a rebirth, and in 1993 changed its name back to the Chicago Stock Exchange ( after being the Midwest Stock Exchange ), reflecting its roots and identity within the Chicago financial community.

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 ).

Similarly, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has maintained a dominance in trading of Eurobond interest rate futures despite a challenge from Euronext. Liffe.

** In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank ( now part of the LaSalle Bank ) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.

* May 16 – The first financial derivatives exchange, the International Monetary Market ( IMM ), opens on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

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 ).

Currently there are six exchanges trading in UNFCCC related carbon credits: the Chicago Climate Exchange ( until 2010 ), European Climate Exchange, NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe, PowerNext, Commodity Exchange Bratislava and the European Energy Exchange.

The Nikkei 225 Futures, introduced at Singapore Exchange ( SGX ) in 1986, the Osaka Securities Exchange ( OSE ) in 1988, Chicago Mercantile Exchange ( CME ) in 1990, is now an internationally recognized futures index.

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

Dow Jones sold a 90 % stake in its Index business for $ 607. 5M to Chicago-based CME Group, which owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in February 2010.

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

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.

`` And besides, Thorstein Veblen was one of the Chicago professors ''.

Even after the incident between Bang-Jensen and Shann in the Delegates' Lounge and this was not the way the Chicago Tribune presented it ''.

The other was by Chesly Manley in the Chicago Daily Tribune.

The check had been mailed from Chicago, the envelope bore no return address, and the check was not signed.

In his fight for the Illinois and Indiana delegations, Hearst made several trips to Chicago to confer with Andrew Lawrence, the former San Francisco Examiner man who was now his Chicago kingpin, and once to meet with Bryan.

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.

In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.

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.

Though there was an occasional good-natured chuckle about Marvin Goulding, the Jewish officer from Chicago, singing tearfully about the ould sod, no one really thought it was strange.

But because it was a suspense gangster story of the Capone era, many of us felt that it might catch on for a run in Chicago, continue as a road company, and eventually become a movie.

The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.

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.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

The element was chemically identified at the Metallurgical Laboratory ( now Argonne National Laboratory ) of the University of Chicago.

It was used as entrance music by various American sports teams, most notably by the Chicago Bulls during their 1990s NBA dynasty.

Improv was created by Viola Spolin when working with Neva Boyd at a Hull House in Chicago, Illinois.

The team was established in Chicago in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in.

The franchise has two NFL championships, both while it was based in Chicago.

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.