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Pages in category "1980s in Chicago" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. ... 1989 Virginia Slims of Chicago; 1989–90 Chicago Blackhawks ...
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]
By the late 1980s/early 90s, approximately 49 of the 139 gangs in chicago operated out of the neighborhood. [22] Eventually in the 1990s, the east side of the neighborhood began experiencing some gentrification, and crime gradually lowered around this area with the 2010s seeing notably lowered violent crime levels. [21]
The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when repair work on a bridge spanning the Chicago River damaged the wall of an abandoned and disused utility tunnel beneath the river. The resulting breach flooded basements, facilities and the underground Chicago Pedway throughout the Chicago Loop with an estimated 250 million US gallons (1,000,000 ...
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One definition has the South Side beginning at Roosevelt Road, at the Loop's southern boundary, with the community area known as the Near South Side immediately adjacent. . Another definition, taking into account that much of the Near South Side is in effect part of the commercial district extending in an unbroken line from the South Loop, locates the boundary immediately south of 18th Street ...
The Warehouse is a historic building located in Chicago, Illinois in the United States, best known for the same-named nightclub catering to the gay and alternative communities that was established in 1977 under the direction of Robert "Robbie" Williams. It was Robbie Williams who on promotional posters would describe events at the Warehouse as ...
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.