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Chicago

city and county seat of Cook County, and largest city in State of Illinois, United States of America

20 dated entries naming Chicago, drawn from 17 separate years between 1833 CE and 1996 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1833August 12 – The settlement of Chicago is established by 350 settlers at the estuary of the Chicago River in the U.S. state of Illinois.source
  • 1848April 3 – The Chicago Board of Trade is founded by 82 Chicago merchants and business leaders.source
  • 1854June – The Grand Excursion takes prominent Eastern United States inhabitants from Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois, by railroad, then up the Mississippi River to Saint Paul, Minnesota, by steamboat.source
  • 1869St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago is founded, and construction on the school's main building began. It is one of only five buildings that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The building was designed by the Canadian architect Toussaint Menard in the Second Empire architecture style.source
  • 1890February 24 – Chicago is selected to host the World's Columbian Exposition.source
  • 1898June 19 – Food processing giant Nabisco is founded in Chicago by merger as the National Biscuit Company.source

20th century

  • 1901American retail pharmacy Walgreens is founded in Chicago.source
  • 1905April 6 – A violent strike by the Teamsters' Union begins in Chicago.source
  • 1905February 23 – Rotary International is founded in Chicago in the U.S.source
  • 1918June 22 – Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn.source
  • 1924October 9 – Municipal Grant Park Stadium, in Chicago, Illinois (later known as Soldier Field) is officially dedicated.source
  • 1944December 26 – The original stage version of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams premieres in Chicago.source
  • 1944September 13 – Peter Cetera, lead singer and guitarist of American rock group Chicagosource
  • 1949March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Denver and Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long-distance train to feature Vistadome cars as regular equipment.source
  • 1966July 13 – In Chicago, United States, Richard Speck breaks into a nurses' dormitory and murders eight of the nine student nurses who live there.source
  • 1967January 26 – The largest-ever blizzard to hit the US city of Chicago begins.source
  • 1968August 22–30 – 1968 Democratic National Convention protests: Police clash with anti-Vietnam War protesters in Chicago outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U.S. president and Edmund Muskie for vice president. The riots and subsequent trials are an essential part of the activism of the Youth International Party.source
  • 1969October 9–12 – Days of Rage: In Chicago, the Illinois National Guard is called in to control demonstrations involving the radical Weathermen, in connection with the "Chicago Eight" Trial.source
  • 1996August 16 – Brookfield Zoo, Chicago. After a 3-year-old boy falls into the 20 ft m deep gorilla enclosure, Binti Jua, a female lowland gorilla sits with the injured boy until his rescue.source
  • 1996August 29 – U.S. president Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are re-nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.source

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