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Pages in category "1980s in Chicago" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1980 Chicago Marathon;
Chicago's first female mayor, Jane M. Byrne, takes office. Woodstock Institute headquartered in city. [58] 1980: Population: 3,005,072. [59] 1981: Hill Street Blues television show premieres on January 15. 1982 September – October: Chicago Tylenol murders; 1983 Harold Washington became the first African American mayor. [60]
The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition (1995); essays by scholars covering important mayors before 1980; Green, Paul M., and Melvin G. Holli. Chicago, World War II (2003) excerpt and text search; short and heavily illustrated; Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013) online
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) operates public schools serving the community. [7] Ogden International School of Chicago has its East Campus, which houses elementary school, [8] in the Gold Coast. [9] Residents of the Gold Coast are zoned to Ogden School for grades K-8, [10] while for high school they are zoned to Lincoln Park High School. [11]
1980s – Operation Greylord was a federal-level investigation, followed by various corruption trials, targeting the Cook County, Illinois, judiciary (the Chicago jurisdiction). 1980s – "Marquette Ten": 10 police officers in Chicago's Marquette District were convicted of taking bribes from drug dealers.
Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970, as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...
Another once-legendary Chicago chain, Dominick's started in 1918 and grew to about 72 stores. ... By the 1980s, however, the store disappeared, rebranded as Pantry Pride. Before departing from the ...
The hotel closed in 1973 and was demolished in 1980. The building opened in May 1985 as the State of Illinois Center. It was renamed in 1993 to honor former Illinois Governor James R. Thompson. The property occupies the entire block bound by Randolph, Lake, Clark and LaSalle Streets, one of the 35 full-size city blocks within Chicago's Loop.