1763: The Illinois Country falls to British Troops after the defeat of New France.
1775: The
Revolutionary War begins with America declaring independence from Britain.
1778: The
Illinois Campaign is born under the command of
George Rogers Clark to lead the fight against major British outposts scattered across the country.
Rush Medical College is founded two days before the city was chartered. It is the first medical school in the state of Illinois which is still operating.
A
smallpox epidemic killed around 2,500 people.[14]
1885:
Home Insurance Building building was the first
skyscraper that stood in Chicago from 1885 to 1931. Originally ten stories and 138 ft (42.1 m) tall, it was designed by
William Le Baron Jenney in 1884[15][16] Two floors were added in 1891, bringing its now finished height to 180 feet (54.9 meters). It was the first tall building to be supported both inside and outside by a fireproof
structural steelframe, though it also included
reinforced concrete. A landmark lost to history and is considered the world's first skyscraper.
March 12, The Chicago Elevator Protective Association of Chicago was formed. Later, on July 15, 1901, to become the International Union of Elevator Constructors Local 2.
March 6: Mayor
Anton Cermak was killed while riding in a car with President-elect Roosevelt. The assassin was thought to have been aiming for Roosevelt.
May 28, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Sony proudly revealed that it was working with Nintendo to create a version of the Super NES with an in-built CD drive. The two Japanese companies had been working together in secret on the project, tentatively titled the Nintendo PlayStation, since 1989 and with the hype about CD-ROM reaching fever pitch, Sony’s announcement should have been a highlight of the trade show. Eventually leads to betrayal of the company Nintendo to Sony into Leading to the beginning of PlayStation console.[60]
Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup yet again for the third time in six years, establishing a "puck dynasty" nationwide and arguably becoming the best team in the
NHL.
May 20:
Lori Lightfoot becomes the first female African-American mayor of Chicago.
2020
February 16: The
NBA hosts its all-star game at the
United Center in Chicago.
March 16: First Chicago death due to the
COVID-19 pandemic; Governor
J. B. Pritzker and Mayor
Lori Lightfoot issue a stay at home order. Over 7,700 people in Chicago died in the pandemic.
^
abGregg Lee Carter, ed. (2012).
"Chronology". Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law. ABC-CLIO.
ISBN978-0-313-38671-8.
^John Bassett McCleary (2004).
"Anti-War Events". The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s. Ten Speed Press. pp. 602+.
ISBN978-1-58008-547-2.
^Patricia A. Langelier (1996).
"Local Government Home Pages". Popular Government. 6 (3). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 38+.
ISSN0032-4515. Special Series: Local Government on the Internet
1763: The Illinois Country falls to British Troops after the defeat of New France.
1775: The
Revolutionary War begins with America declaring independence from Britain.
1778: The
Illinois Campaign is born under the command of
George Rogers Clark to lead the fight against major British outposts scattered across the country.
Rush Medical College is founded two days before the city was chartered. It is the first medical school in the state of Illinois which is still operating.
A
smallpox epidemic killed around 2,500 people.[14]
1885:
Home Insurance Building building was the first
skyscraper that stood in Chicago from 1885 to 1931. Originally ten stories and 138 ft (42.1 m) tall, it was designed by
William Le Baron Jenney in 1884[15][16] Two floors were added in 1891, bringing its now finished height to 180 feet (54.9 meters). It was the first tall building to be supported both inside and outside by a fireproof
structural steelframe, though it also included
reinforced concrete. A landmark lost to history and is considered the world's first skyscraper.
March 12, The Chicago Elevator Protective Association of Chicago was formed. Later, on July 15, 1901, to become the International Union of Elevator Constructors Local 2.
March 6: Mayor
Anton Cermak was killed while riding in a car with President-elect Roosevelt. The assassin was thought to have been aiming for Roosevelt.
May 28, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Sony proudly revealed that it was working with Nintendo to create a version of the Super NES with an in-built CD drive. The two Japanese companies had been working together in secret on the project, tentatively titled the Nintendo PlayStation, since 1989 and with the hype about CD-ROM reaching fever pitch, Sony’s announcement should have been a highlight of the trade show. Eventually leads to betrayal of the company Nintendo to Sony into Leading to the beginning of PlayStation console.[60]
Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup yet again for the third time in six years, establishing a "puck dynasty" nationwide and arguably becoming the best team in the
NHL.
May 20:
Lori Lightfoot becomes the first female African-American mayor of Chicago.
2020
February 16: The
NBA hosts its all-star game at the
United Center in Chicago.
March 16: First Chicago death due to the
COVID-19 pandemic; Governor
J. B. Pritzker and Mayor
Lori Lightfoot issue a stay at home order. Over 7,700 people in Chicago died in the pandemic.
^
abGregg Lee Carter, ed. (2012).
"Chronology". Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law. ABC-CLIO.
ISBN978-0-313-38671-8.
^John Bassett McCleary (2004).
"Anti-War Events". The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s. Ten Speed Press. pp. 602+.
ISBN978-1-58008-547-2.
^Patricia A. Langelier (1996).
"Local Government Home Pages". Popular Government. 6 (3). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 38+.
ISSN0032-4515. Special Series: Local Government on the Internet