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1856: Chicago Historical Society founded. 1857 Iwan Ries & Co. Chicago's oldest family-owned business opens, still in operation today, the oldest family-owned tobacco shop. Mathias A. Klein & Sons (Klein Tools Inc.), still family owned and run today by fifth and sixth generation Klein's. Cook County Hospital opens. [1] Hyde Park House built. [6 ...
By 1870, Chicago had grown to become the nation's second-largest city and one of the largest cities in the world. Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history.
Panorama of the beef industry in 1900 by a Chicago-based photographer 1905 International Live Stock Exposition catalogue Hog hoist, circa 1909. The area and scale of the stockyards, along with technological advancements in rail transport and refrigeration, allowed for the creation of some of America's first truly global companies led by entrepreneurs such as Gustavus Franklin Swift and Philip ...
1900 – Because checking the immigration status of immigrants became so lax, more than two million unchecked people lived in the city by this year. [5] 1900 [24] – Six Sicilian brothers – ("Bloody") Angelo, Mike ("The Devil"), Pete, Sam, Jim and Tony ("the Gentleman") – the "Bloody Gennas" – immigrated to America.
Jones, Gene Delon. "The Origin of the Alliance between the New Deal and the Chicago Machine" Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 67#3 (1974), pp. 253-274 online; Kimble Jr., Lionel. A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015). xiv, 200 pp.
Illinois is known as the "Land of Lincoln" because it is here that the 16th President spent his formative years. Chicago gained prominence as a lake and canal port after 1848, and as a rail hub soon afterward. By 1857, Chicago was the state's dominant metropolis. (see History of Chicago).
Chicago American, 1900–1939, became Herald-American; Chicago Chronicle, 1895–1908; Chicago Courier, 1874–1876; Chicago Daily News, 1876–1978; Chicago Daily Telegraph, 1878–1881 (became Chicago Morning Herald) Chicago Daily Times, 1929–1948 (merged with Chicago Sun to form Chicago Sun-Times) Chicago Democrat, 1833–1861
1950 Chicago streetcar crash: a collision and explosion kills 34. [4] June 1 – Mauna Loa in Hawaii starts erupting. June 5 – Sweatt v. Painter decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, challenging the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation in education.