Chicago timeline
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Walt Disney is born
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901–December 15, 1966) was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice... Read more
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Fire kills over 600 people at Iroquois Theater in Chicago
The Iroquois Theater Fire (December 30, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois) was the deadliest single-building fire in U.S. history. The blaze took 571 lives... Read more
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Chicago Crib Disaster
The temporary Crib used in the construction of the Southwest Land and Lake Tunnel System, situated on the line of the tunnel seventy-five hundred... Read more
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Robie House Completed
The Frederick C. Robie House is a U.S National Historic Landmark in the Chicago, Illinois neighborhood of Hyde Park at 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue on... Read more
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Chicago Garment Workers Strike
Nationally, between 1880 and 1920, the needle trades were the third most strike-prone industry after mining and the building trades. By the end of... Read more
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Wrigley Field Opens
Originally known as Weeghman Park, Wrigley Field was built on the grounds once occupied by a seminary. -- Weeghman Park was the home of... Read more
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Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Two Children Murdered
On August 15, 1914, one of Wright's recently hired domestic workers, Julian Carlton, murdered Mamah, her two children, three of Wright's... Read more
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'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is Published in Poetry Magazine
He has actually trained himself AND modernized himself ON HIS OWN. The rest of the promising young have done one or the other but never both. Most... Read more
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S.S. Eastland flips over on Chicago River, killing over 800 people including 22 entire families
Early on the morning of Saturday, July 24, 1915, with a light rain falling and the air filled with much anticipation and excitement, thousands... Read more
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Al Capone Marries Mae Josephine Coughlin
In 1918 Capone married Mae Coughlin, an Irish girl, who gave him a son that year, Albert "Sonny" Francis Capone. The couple lived in Brooklyn for a... Read more
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Chicago Race Riot of 1919
After World War I ended in November 1918, thousands of American servicemen, black and white, returned home from Europe and looked for jobs, as... Read more
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Al Capone Moves From New York to Chicago
Capone's departure from New York, with his family, to Chicago is believed to have occurred in 1921. Capone purchased a modest house at 7244 South... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Marries Hadley Richardson
She was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and married Ernest Hemingway on September 3, 1921. Together they moved to Paris, France, and in the fall of... Read more
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Al Capone moves his gang's headquarters to Cicero, Illinois
After the 1923 election of reform mayor William Emmett Dever, Chicago's city government began to put pressure on the gangster elements inside the... Read more
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Gene Tunney Defeats Jack Dempsey in the Battle of the Long Count
The following year, Dempsey made an attempt to regain the title in a rematch that became known as the "Long Count" fight. One hundred and four... Read more
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Capone's most notorious killing was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, four Capone men entered a garage at 2122 N. Clark... Read more
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Al Capone Convicted of Federal Tax Evasion
The U.S. Treasury Department had been developing evidence on tax evasion charges - in addition to Al Capone, his brother Ralph "Bottles" Capone,... Read more
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The Century of Progress International Exposition Opens in Chicago
A Century of Progress International Exposition was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Chicago. Its... Read more
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First Major League All-Star Game
The first All-Star Game was held as part of the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois, and was the brainchild of Arch Ward, then sports editor for... Read more
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Chicago Elevated Train Wreck
Twenty persons were killed and more than 60 injured here late this afternoon when a North Shore elevated electric train crashed into a wooden... Read more
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Moves to Chicago
In 1938 the Armour Institute of Technology, a modest technical training school on Chicago's near south side, engaged German- born architect Ludwig... Read more
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Billy Sianis and his Billy Goat Murphy are Ejected from Game Four of the 1945 World Series, Starting the 'Curse of the Billy Goat'
The curse was allegedly placed on the Cubs during the 1945 World Series by Billy Goat Sianis himself. Sianis happened to be a Cubs fan and... Read more
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Naperville Train Disaster
The Naperville train disaster occurred on April 26, 1946 at the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad station in Naperville, Illinois when the... Read more
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860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments Built
860–880 Lake Shore Drive is a twin pair of glass-and-steel apartment towers on N. Lake Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Streeterville... Read more
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S. R. Crown Hall Completed
S. R. Crown Hall, designed by the German-born Modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is the home of the College of Architecture at the... Read more