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6 days ago · Professor of Political Science and U.S. Congressman. Born in Chicago. Washington Hesing. May 4, 1849. Dec 17, 1897. Postmaster of Chicago and managing editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. Lived and died in Chicago. Janet Jagan. Oct 20, 1920.
2 days ago · Brussels International (1897) in Brussels. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large ...
2 days ago · The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" [2] [3] (the slogan from which its integrated WGN radio and television received their call letters), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region .
2 days ago · The Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building, named for Donald Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 100-story structure, which reaches a height of 1,388 feet (423.2 m) including its spire, its roof topping out ...
May 20, 2024 · The 2014–15 Chicago Bulls season was the franchise's 49th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA), [1] and fifth under head coach Tom Thibodeau. [2] In the off-season, the Bulls let Carlos Boozer go and signed Pau Gasol. [3] [4] Chicago had its first 50-win season since the 2011–12 season with a record of 50–32.
1 day ago · The Chicago White Stockings were one of the American League's eight charter franchises when the AL asserted major league status in 1901. The team, which shortened its name to the White Sox in 1904, originally played their home games at South Side Park before moving to Comiskey Park in 1910, where they played until 1990.
2 days ago · Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. [1] The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110- story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ...
