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The company acquired the Chicago Daily News in 1959, publishing that newspaper until it folded in 1978 (the same year the company sold World Book Encyclopedia). Marshall Field IV died in 1965. [5] From 1969 to 1980 investment banker Peter W. Smith was a Field Enterprises senior officer. [6]
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) Chicago Democratic Press (1852–1857) Chicago Evening Mail (1870–1875, merged to become Post & Mail) Chicago Evening Post (1865–1875, merged to become Post ...
The Gogo Building, formerly known as the River Center, is an 840,000-square-foot (78,000 m 2) commercial building located at 111 N. Canal Street in the West Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.
The 1970s was a particularly tumultuous decade in Chicago for violent crime, and against Chicago Police officers [19] who faced some of the highest fatality rates in many decades, often as a result of gunfire. [20] The center stage for much of this crime, frequently stemming from gang activity and drug dealing, would be Humboldt Park. [21]
In February 1965, the new Chicago campus opened and was named the University of Illinois at Congress Circle (UICC) referencing the nearby Circle Interchange of I-290 and I-90/I-94). [19] Shortly before opening, the Congress Expressway was renamed the Eisenhower Expressway and the campus was renamed to University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC
The Crain Communications Building is a 39-story, 582 foot (177 m) skyscraper located at 150 North Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, Illinois. [1] It was also known as the Smurfit–Stone Building and the Stone Container Building.
The company was founded by Chicago broadcasting veteran John Weigel, whose career dated back to the 1930s. With $1,000 of his own money and another $1,000 from his attorney, Daniel J. McCarthy, Weigel bought the broadcasting license for what became the first UHF television station in the Chicago area. WCIU signed on the air on February 6, 1964.
The Wrigley Building was Chicago's first air-conditioned office building. If one walks through the center doors, one will enter a secluded park area overlooking the Chicago River. In the 1957 science fiction film Beginning of the End, giant grasshoppers attack downtown Chicago, and in one scene are shown climbing up the side of the Wrigley ...