Chicago Events

On December 1, 1958, a fire broke out in the basement of Our Lady of the Angels catholic school in Chicago, educational home to approximately 1,600 students in Kindergarten through 8th gr...

The 1960s were a significant changing of the guard in U.S. leadership and also in how Americans chose their leader. During the 1960 debates between the two candidates, Americans for the ...

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706, registration N137US, was a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft which crashed on take-off from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport September 17, 1961. ...

The Kennedy was originally constructed along the route of Avondale Avenue, an existing diagonal street, and the northwest railroad corridor, in the late 1950s and completed on November 5,...

SSA was designed by one of Chicago's most celebrated architects, Mies van der Rohe and was completed in 1965. During this period, the University was expanding and architecture on the sout...

Lake Point Tower is a high-rise residential building located on a promontory of the Lake Michigan lakefront in downtown Chicago, just north of the Chicago River at 505 North Lake Shore Dr...

The First International Special Olympics Games (Summer Special Olympics) were held in Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois. These were the very first Special Olympics world games. They wer...

The 1968 Democratic National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, from August 26 to August 29, 1968. The purpose of the...

August 28, 1968 came to be known as the day a “police riot” took place. The title of “police riot” came out of the Walker Report, which amassed a great deal of information and eyewitness ...

Over the last twenty years of his life, Mies developed and built his vision of a monumental "skin and bones" architecture that reflected his goal to provide the individual a place to fulf...

13-15 August 1970 The Second International Special Olympics Summer Games take place in Chicago, Illinois, with 2,000 athletes from all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, France an...

Thirty-nine people were killed and more than 200 injured Monday when an electric commuter train that was trying to back up after apparently overshooting a station was rammed from behind b...

Willis Tower, formerly named Sears Tower, is a 108-story 1,451 feet (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of its completion in 1974, it was the tallest building in the worl...

AT LEAST 12 persons were killed and more than 180 injured Friday as four cars of a Chicago Transit Authority train toppled frown elevated tracks in the Loop and plunged to the street duri...

At just after 3 p.m. on May 25, 1979, an American Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff killing all 271 on board and two on the ground. The left engine fell off Flight 191 on take...

In 1980 a group of restaurateurs approached the Mayor of Chicago with the idea of a food festival on the Fourth of July, and Taste of Chicago was born. Inspired by a “build it and they wi...

Almost two months ago, in accepting the Presidential nomination of my party, I spoke of the historically unique crisis facing the United States. At that time I said: "Never before in o...

Ms. Pac-Man is an arcade video game produced by Midway as an unauthorized sequel to Pac-Man. It was released in North America in 1981 and became one of the most popular video games of all...

I had a random concert conversation with a colleague of mine, Jonathan. He asked me if I could guess which Chicago venue he had seen Cheap Trick in 1981. I rattled off several popular Chi...

The Chicago Tylenol murders occurred when seven people died after taking pain-relief capsules that had been poisoned. The Tylenol poisonings, code-named TYMURS by the FBI, took place in t...

The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault was a one-time live American television special broadcast in syndication in April 1986 hosted by Geraldo Rivera. The program was centered around the openi...

"Let's eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we must eat again!" —Mayor Harold Washington

Torrential downpours descended upon the Chicago region as repeat waves of thunderstorms "trained" over areas from Rockford to Chicago's North Side. When the rains finally ended more than ...

The heat wave in July 1995 in Chicago was one of the worst weather-related disasters in Illinois history with approximately 525 deaths over a 5-day period. As noted by Changnon et al. (19...

Bowersox went to the Toledo School for the Arts, then moved to Chicago at 17, where she busked and played open-mic nights, as well as Uncommon Ground, Fitzgerald's and the Friendly Tap in...

Rainbow flags and boas. Techno music. Lots of skin. Oh--and politicians. LOTS of politicians. Chicago's 33rd annual Pride Parade sashayed and strutted down Halsted and Broadway Sund...

The E2 nightclub stampede occurred on February 17, 2003, at the E2 nightclub located above the Epitome Chicago restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, in which 21 people died and more than 50 we...

The 75th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2002, were held on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It was produced by Gil Cates and hosted for the second ...

Pride At Work, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender constituency group of the AFL-CIO, is organizing a group to march in the 34th annual Chicago Pride Parade Sunday, June 29. The p...

The Jay Pritzker Pavilion serves as the centerpiece of Chicago’s Millennium Park, and is among the world’s most technologically advanced outdoor concert venues. The 52,000 square foot pav...

Millenium Park opens with a three-day celebration that included an inaugural concert by the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. 300,000 people took part in the grand opening festivities. The...

This year marked another successful year for the Taste of Chicago. Record crowds gathered near the lake front event for the annual food and music summer festival the City of Chicago proud...

Every detail of Chicago's 36th Annual Pride Parade and the 10th Annual Chicago Dyke March is in place. According to a press release from organizing group PRIDEChicago, the Pride Parade...

2005 World Series 2005 will always be remembered as "The year of redemption in the Windy City." That was the season in which the Chicago White Sox shocked the baseball world after winn...

Gray skies and light rain could not dampen the spirits of the approximately 400,000 individuals who turned out for Chicago's 37th Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade, held June 25. The p...

Live Music Schedule Fri. June 30, 2006 City of Chicago, WGCI FM & V103 Present The O'Jays 3PC Risque 5:30 P.M. Sat. July 1, 2006 Chicago Country Music Festival City of Chicag...

Day 1 Recap It's in the mid-80's, not a cloud in the sky, a backdrop of some of the world's most inspiring big-city architecture, and music in styles ranging from the gorgeous, "rainin...

This project consists of relocating utilities and installing a new sewer system in order to complete construction on approximately 3,200 feet long by 75 feet wide taxiway. The taxiway con...

This project, which is constructed by a Walsh-DeMaria Joint Venture, consists of a 200-bed inpatient expansion to the existing VA Westside Medical Center. Work includes a new 20-bed ICU, ...

The 2007 parade is scheduled for this Sunday, June 24 and kicks off at 12 noon, stepping off at the corner of Halsted & Belmont in the east Lakeview neighborhood (otherwise known as "Boys...

One of the largest tourist attractions in Illinois begins this weekend: the Taste of Chicago. For ten days, over 70 restaurants from all over Chicago set up tents on a half-mile strip nea...

Patrick Fitzgerald, the Chicago-based U.S. attorney, will make an appearance on Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!, the Chicago-based Saturday comical hour on National Public Radio. With nat...

Pearl Jam’s Fierce, Political Headlining Set Brings Lollapalooza 2007 to a Fitting End Lollapalooza’s day three special collaboration arrives courtesy of My Morning Jacket, which welco...

First designed and built in the early 1960’s, the Dan Ryan Expressway is the busiest expressway in the Chicago area. Accommodating over 300,000 vehicles per day, it is the City's major tr...

This is the festival that traditionally kicks off Chicago's neighborhood festival season. Located at the intersection of Ashland and Barry in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, the festiva...

Bike The Drive is a recreational, non-competitive bicycle ride held each year in Chicago, in which Lake Shore Drive is cleared of motor vehicle traffic and opened exclusively to bicyclist...

Celebrating Turkish Culture in the City of Chicago Those who visit Daley Plaza in the heart of downtown Chicago on May 28th through May 31st 2008 will be treated to a celebration of Tu...

This is a fun time and I go every year for the beer! and brats too! Be warned, the music is loud but it's outside so you can get far enough away from the stage. When I have been, the musi...

LINEUP Friday, May 30 -- Jay Pritzker Pavilion 6 p.m.: G3 (God Gets the Glory) 6:40 p.m.: Walt Whitman & The Soul Children of Chicago 7:20 p.m.: Percy Bady presents: "Gospel's...

Belmont and Sheffield has long been Lakeview 's epicenter for all that 's "happening" in Chicago among adults 18-34. Some of Chicago's most popular nightclubs, including Sheffield's Wine ...