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Late 1600s/early 1700s: An event involving local Native American tribes before the area was settled heavily by Europeans/whites | |
1673: Discovery by whites | |
1779: Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, an African American from Sainte-Domingue (Haiti), builds the first permanent settlement at the mouth of the river just east of the present Michigan Avenue Bridge on the north bank | |
1812 : Massacre at Fort Dearborn | |
1855: Raising the elevation in Chicago approximately 10 feet | |
1860: Abraham Lincoln Nominated in National Political Convention in Chicago | |
1871, October 8-10: Great Chicago Fire | |
1875: Mary Todd Lincoln, living in Chicago, is committed to a mental asylum by her son Robert | |
1886 : The Haymarket Riot | |
1889: Hull House was opened by Miss Jane Addams | |
1889: Frank Lloyd Wright (later to become one of the world's most prominent and influential architects) builds his first house, a personal residence in the Oak Park neighborhood of Chicago. In all, twenty-seven Wright designs survived in Chicago into the 1990s | |
1891: Daniel Hale Williams helped found Provident Hospital in Chicago as the nation's first interracial hospital | |
1893: The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago | |
1895 - The first automobile race in the United States is held along the Chicago lakefront/ | |
1897 - St. James at Sag Bridge (cemetery) -- two musicians (William Looney, John Kelly) heard galloping, rumbling carriage; tall woman in white standing in road; horses "snow white, covered with fine netting" and carriage "dark vehicle, no driver" | |
1897 Louise Luetgert disappeared | |
1900: Flow of Chicago River Reversed | |
1900 Battle for Streeterville | |
1915 : Eastland Disaster | |
1915: Charlie Chaplin movie filmed in Chicago by Essanay Studios | |
1919: The World Series resulted in the most famous scandal in baseball history | |
1924: Leopold and Loeb crime of the century | |
1925: Red Grange plays his first game as a pro football player (for the Bears) in Chicago | |
1929: St. Valentine's Day Massacre | |
1933: A Century of Progress Chicago International Exposition | |
1942: December 2: First Controlled Atomic Reaction | |
1944 Mother of man convicted of killing police officer in 1932 offers $5,000 reward for information on real killer(s) -- inspires movie Call Northside 777, filmed in Chicago in 1947 | |
1945 "Billy Goat" Sianis tries to bring his pet goat to a Cubs game but is turned away. Myth says that Sianis cursed the Cubs, saying they would never win a World Series until the goat was allowed in Wrigley Field | |
1946 -- Dr. Willis Potts of Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago) agrees to perform an experimental heart procedure on a newborn with "blue baby" syndrome | |
1955: A team led by Mercy's pioneer neurosurgeon Dr. Harold Voris completes the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the head | |
1967: The rock band Chicago is formed in Chicago | |
1968: The 1968 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party | |
1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park | |
1984 Oprah Winfrey is hired to host WLS-TV Channel 7 morning show "A.M. Chicago." | |
1990 -- John Hughes writes and produces and Chris Columbus directs the slapstick kid comedy Home Alone | |
1992 The "Great Chicago Flood | |
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