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King Edward VII, then Prince of…

…Wales was the first royalty to visit Chicago (1860).

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The Chicago River is the only river…

…in the world to flows backwards. The flow has been reversed in 1900 by the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal for sanitary reasons.

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Chicago is home to the world’s largest…

…population of Poles outside of Warsaw.

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Midway Airport opened in…

…1927. Originally called The Chicago Municipal Airport, it was renamed in 1949 to commemorate the World War II Battle of Midway. It had become the world’s busiest airport by 1959.

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The first birth on record for Chicago was…

…that of Eulalia Pointe du Sable (the daughter of Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable and his wife) in 1796.

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The “Chicago Tribune” had its first…

…issue come off the presses on June 10, 1847.

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Eighty-two local businessmen opened…

…the Chicago Board of Trade on April 3, 1848 at 101 South Water St.

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Chicago has been incorporated as a town on…

…August 12, 1833 with a population of 350 people.

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Monadnock Building (a 17 story building at…

…53 W Jackson Boulevard) was the city’s first skyscraper. It was designed and built in two stages by two different companies and using two different techniques: 1889-1891 the northern half (by Burnham & Root using the load-bearing wall technique) and 1891-1893 the southern half (by Holabird & Roche using steel frame).

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In 1854 a cholera epidemic took the lives of…

…5.5 % of Chicago’s population.

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John Stone was the city’s first legally…

…executed criminal. He was accused and convicted of the rape and murder of Lucretia Thompson (a farmer’s wife) and hanged on Friday July 10, 1840 (he was 34 years old).

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Jane M. Byrne was Chicago’s first…

…woman mayor. She took office in 1979.

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Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable is considered…

…the founder of Chicago, as he was the first settler in the area. He arrived in the 1770’s, married a Potawatomi woman and founded the first settlement called Eschikagou on the North bank of the Chicago River.

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Illinois’ first hospital was established in…

…1852 in Chicago. It was called Mercy Hospital and, today, it is part of Mercy Healthcare facilities.

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One of the world’s last free zoos,…

…Lincoln Park Zoo, is located in Chicago.

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Chicago’s first formal police department…

…was organized in 1855 under Mayor Dr. Levi Boone.

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Daniel Burnham wrote (for Chicago) the first…

…comprehensive municipal plan ever in the Unites States. It was published in 1909.

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Harold Washington was Chicago’s…

…first African-American mayor. He was elected in 1983.

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Chicago is the third…

…largest city in the United States (after New York and Los Angeles).

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