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... that a mock funeral was held outside company headquarters during the
1986–1987 John Deere strike in which 700 union workers ceremoniously burned a coffin and a
Christmas tree covered in company hats?
... that landscape architect
Harriet Pattison collaborated with her lover
Louis Kahn on the design of
Four Freedoms Park and the grounds of the
Kimbell Art Museum ?
... that according to campus legend, the
English Building at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is haunted by the ghost of a female student who drowned in the building's pool?
... that 1980's
Space Encounters
video game was the first that
Midway Games offered in their "mini myte"
arcade game cabinet ?
... that astronaut
James McDivitt saw a UFO during his first spaceflight?
... that
distance education in Chicago Public Schools in 1937 took place via
radio broadcasts (pictured) during school closures that were spurred by a
polio outbreak?
... that
Bill Pinkney was the first African American to sail around the world solo via the
Cape of Good Hope and
Cape Horn ?
... that
Columbia Eneutseak (pictured) , named for the
World's Columbian Exposition where she was born into one of the exhibits, starred in her film
The Way of the Eskimo ?
... that
Candace Brightman was the
Grateful Dead 's longtime lighting engineer?
... that
Ava Cherry (pictured) ,
David Bowie 's partner and muse, spent a year searching for him in Europe after he cancelled a tour of Japan on which she was to be a backup singer?
... that a former owner of Illinois radio station
WRBA carried an expired police badge to allow him to get to its transmitter site quickly if need be?
... that when
Lurie Children's Hospital moved within Chicago to a new location in June 2012, it took more than 10 hours to transfer nearly 200 children?
... that when the
fireman's pole was invented at Chicago's
Engine Company 21 , other firefighters thought its use was crazy—until 21 started being the first crew to arrive at fires?
... that the tugboat
Robert C. Pringle (pictured) was discovered "remarkably intact" 86 years after it sank?
... that the cover of
Red Meat Republic , a book on the history of
beef production in the United States, has the look and texture of
butcher paper ?
... that although
Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never met,
Whitman once wrote "I love the President personally"?
... that
Joseildo da Silva beat
Roy Dooney at the
1991 Chicago Marathon by six seconds in the slowest winning time for 10 years?
... that in the
1948 Illinois gubernatorial election ,
Adlai Stevenson II (pictured) won with a 572,067-vote margin of victory, a record at the time for Illinois gubernatorial elections?
... that pioneering Chicago abolitionist
Mary Richardson Jones (pictured) helped hundreds of people escape slavery via the
Underground Railroad ?
... that the
lake freighter
Edward L. Ryerson (pictured) is not only the last steam-powered freighter built on the
Great Lakes , but also the last built without a
self-unloading boom?
... that
City of Champaign v. Madigan was the first decision by an
Illinois court addressing whether the private emails of government officials are subject to public disclosure?
... that in the
1930 United States Senate election in Illinois ,
Ruth Hanna McCormick (pictured) was the first woman ever nominated for the U.S. Senate by a major party?
... that
Vine-Glo sold during
Prohibition carried a warning telling people how to make wine from it, and
Al Capone allegedly threatened to force it out of Chicago?
... that
Walt Whitman called one of
his lectures on Abraham Lincoln "the culminating hour" of his life?
... that in
The Trouble With Gravity ,
Richard Panek suggests that our universe's gravity originates in a
parallel universe and is leaking into our own?
... that
Elaine Van Blunk finished third at the
1994 Chicago Marathon , her second marathon event?
... that
Majestic Radios (model pictured) were so highly regarded in 1929 that the
Graf Zeppelin 's navigator bought one when his airship landed in the U.S. to take back to Germany?
... that
Faith Smith , who grew up on the
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in
Wisconsin , became the founding president of the first urban institute of higher learning led by and serving
Native Americans ?
... that one former
monument to Ludwig van Beethoven was a bust (pictured) stolen from
Lincoln Park ?
... that in 825 feet (251 m) of water, the composite-hulled bulk carrier
S.R. Kirby is one of the deepest shipwrecks ever discovered in the
Great Lakes ?
... that
This American Life producer
Sean Cole spoke with an affected British accent from age 14 to 16?
James R. Hall ... that upon taking command of the
Fourth United States Army at
Fort Sheridan in 1989,
James R. Hall (pictured) became the highest-ranking military officer in the
Midwestern United States ?
... that American fashion designer
Michelle Smith created the dress chosen for
Michelle Obama’s official portrait ?
... that
Ernest Hemingway watched the
television adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls from a flea-bitten motel as the screenwriter held the "
rabbit ears " for him?
... that in
Public Access Opinion 16-006 , the
Illinois Attorney General ordered Chicago police officers to release their private emails about the police-involved
murder of Laquan McDonald ?
... that
horn player
Helen Kotas Hirsch began performing with the
Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago at the age of 14?
... that the
Builders Building (pictured) , originally built to house construction industries, would eventually be home to the
Chicago Board of Education and later be renovated into a hotel?
... that on their display in Chicago in 1893, the vases of the
Khalili Imperial Garniture (pictured) were described as "the largest examples of
cloisonné enamel ever made"?
... that the producers of the 1990 film
Home Alone were threatened with legal action by the French director of
3615 code Père Noël , who alleged that it was a remake of his film?
Loyola's
Vic Rouse shoots over Mississippi State's Aubrey Nichols ... that in 1963, a majority-black
Loyola-Chicago team and an all-white
Mississippi State team defied segregationists to play
a historic college basketball game (pictured) ?
... that the former
seal of Zion, Illinois (pictured) was ruled unconstitutional because it contained the phrase "God reigns"?
... that
Julia Azari has shown that
U.S. presidents increasingly defend their legitimacy by claiming to have a
political mandate ?
... that
Edward Ardolino sculpted and carved
Art Deco architectural works including
Rockefeller Chapel ?
... that
Quincy native
Max C. Starkloff (pictured) used
social distancing to fight the
1918 flu pandemic in
St. Louis ?
... that
Richard J. Daley suffered his only electoral defeat when he ran for sheriff of
Cook County
in 1946 ?
... that the
Holden Block (pictured) is the best-preserved example of
Italianate architecture in
Chicago's Near West Side ?
... that no
fungi or
algae are
listed as endangered or threatened by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board ?
... that
Eugene W. Chafin (pictured) , the
Prohibition Party presidential candidate
in 1908 and
in 1912 , had a brick thrown at him during the
Springfield race riot ?
... that
Magnolia native
Charles E. Mills had dual careers in banking and explosives?
... that
Dorothy Doolittle , winner of the inaugural
Chicago Marathon , was later an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the
1992 Summer Olympics ?
... that at the
party convention in the
International Amphitheatre ,
John F. Kennedy came in second to
Estes Kefauver in the
1956 Democratic vice-presidential ballot ?
... that
WCAE , the first educational television station in Indiana, received more support from viewers in Illinois than in its own state?
... that Chicago-based Nazi propagandist and
Abwehr agent
Oscar C. Pfaus (pictured) once served in the
U.S. Army ?
... that
Ulysses S. Grant , known for
his excellent horsemanship , bought his horse Jack, or "Old Nuisance", while encamped with the
21st Illinois Infantry Regiment ?
... that
Thomas Jefferson Vance Owen , the first school commissioner of
Cook County, Illinois , and
Chicago 's first town president, was responsible for indirectly naming
Grand Avenue ?
... that
James Thompson , who made the first
plat of Chicago, declined an offer of land in the city in favor of $300?
... that
Chelsea McClammer (pictured) was the youngest member of Team USA's track-and-field team at the
2008 Summer Paralympics ?
... that
Andre Dawson (pictured) is one of only five baseball players to hit
two home runs in a single inning on two separate occasions?
... that former residents of Chicago's
Aldine Square held a reunion at a hotel?
... that the director of
The Feeling of Being Watched uncovered evidence of
FBI surveillance of
Arab-American families in her hometown of
Bridgeview, Illinois ?
... that
John Moutoussamy is the only African-American to have designed a high-rise building—which featured "colorful walls and psychedelic carpets"—in the
Chicago Loop ?
... that the
Northwestern Lumberman (pictured) , known originally as the Lumbermen's Gazette, was the first
trade magazine for the U.S.
lumber industry?
... that after
Ruth Darrow 's son died from
hemolytic disease of the newborn , she was inspired to study the disease, and became the first person to identify its cause?
... that adult
apple maggot flies (pictured) use their wing patterns defensively to mimic spiders?
... that
Harry Caray called his first
Major League Baseball game on radio station
WTMV in the
Metro East area?
... that the murder of Chicago alderman
Benjamin F. Lewis was considered unsolvable for having too many suspects?
... that the correct spelling of "liliifolia " in the name of the
orchid
Liparis liliifolia has been debated for decades?
... that the 56-story
Essex on the Park (pictured) in the
Chicago Loop was built on a former swimming pool?
... that
Aurora postmaster
George Bangs 's cemetery memorial features a
mail car (pictured) , carved to scale, commemorating his leadership of the
Railway Mail Service ?
... that in 1979, fifteen-year-old
Laura Michalek became the youngest athlete ever to win the
Chicago Marathon ?
... that a young woman who went missing in a
Rosemont, Illinois , hotel was later
found dead inside a walk-in freezer?
... that
Edgecliff , an Illinois estate completed in 1930, had the highest residential property tax in
Cook County in 2014 and 2015?
... that a book chapter by
Clara Lanza about the women clerks of New York was published as a souvenir of the
1893 Chicago World's Fair ?
... that
Narcissa Niblack Thorne commissioned approximately 100
miniature rooms replicating historical interiors from Europe and North America on a
1:12 scale (detail of chandelier pictured) ?
... that
Bill "Maverick" Golden drove the Little Red Wagon ,
drag racing 's first
wheelstander ?
... that for his role in the Holocaust,
Adolf Eichmann was described as a
desk murderer by
Hannah Arendt ?
... that
Joan L. Mitchell co-invented
JPEG ?
... that Chicago alderman
Dorsey Crowe survived falling 800 feet (240 m) from a plane and being thrown through the roof of a car?
... that the
spot-winged glider (pictured) is a
migratory dragonfly?
... that in 2017,
Renee Rabinowitz successfully sued
El Al after the airline forced her to move at the request of a
Haredi Jewish man who refused to sit beside her?
... that
Sam Hornish Jr. of
Panther Racing won the
2002 Delphi Indy 300 by 0.0024 seconds, the closest margin of victory in
Indy Racing League history?
... that
University of Chicago surgeon
Dallas B. Phemister created a
bone grafting technique which now
bears his name (pictured) ?
... that
Creedence Clearwater Revival 's 1969 song "
It Came Out of the Sky " describes a mysterious object falling near
Moline, Illinois ?
... that Chicago pediatrician
Frank Spooner Churchill (pictured) believed that
breast milk could be spoiled if the mother was anxious?
... that
paper wheels (pictured) provided a quiet and smooth ride in
Pullman dining and sleeping cars?
... that the
first NCAA Basketball Championship Game at
Northwestern's
Patten Gymnasium was attended by
James Naismith , the inventor of basketball?
... that if completed, the proposed 1,422-foot (433 m)
Tribune East Tower would be the second
tallest building in Chicago , behind the
Willis Tower ?
... that Slovene-American
Katka Zupančič (pictured) wrote children's poetry about the austerity of immigrant life?
... that before the reversal of
Times Film Corporation v. City of Chicago in 1965, U.S. states and municipalities could legally censor films?
... that
Marco Mena , the
governor-elect of Tlaxcala , was the first Mexican to pursue a master's degree in public policy from the
University of Chicago ?
... that
Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner became a plural wife to both
Joseph Smith and
Brigham Young at the
Nauvoo Temple ?
... that
Chicago Justice 's
backdoor pilot from
Chicago P.D. was based on a true story?
... that
bolete mushrooms of the genus
Chalciporus , such as
C. pseudorubinellus (pictured) , are thought to be
parasitic ?
... that
Dwight L. Bush, Sr. was a
banker , a
bundler , and a
businessman before serving as an
ambassador ?
... that
Emily Temple-Wood (pictured) says she will create a
Wikipedia article about a
woman scientist for every harassing email she receives?
... that
an album recorded at
Guitar Center was named after a line from the film
Wayne's World ?
... that the
Kankakee mallow is
known from a single 700 m (0.4 mi) long island in the
Kankakee River ?
... that
President Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to conduct a
Passover Seder in the White House (pictured) , which he has done annually since 2009?
... that by the end of her life,
Gerri Major held joint positions as an editor at both
Ebony and
Jet ?
... that Dr.
George Fell , a pioneer of life-saving
mechanical respiration techniques in the 1880s, also had a role in designing the first
electric chair used for an execution?
... that pitcher
Ned Garvin (pictured) was fined US$100 and released by the
Chicago White Stockings in 1902 after he shot a bar owner and pistol-whipped a policeman?
... that during the start up of
Chicago Pile-1 ,
Norman Hilberry (pictured, on left) stood ready with an ax to cut the
scram line?
... that
Robert Parish 's
1996–97 season with the
Chicago Bulls allowed him to break the record for
most NBA seasons played ?
... that
Doris Calloway studied farts, space food, and broccoli?
... that the
113 East Roosevelt development will host the tallest building in the
South Side of Chicago ?
...that
the Shadows of Knight (pictured) , an early
garage rock band from
Mount Prospect , were influenced by
Chicago blues and
the Rolling Stones ?
... that Chicago's
1000 South Michigan is a supertall skyscraper planned to rise to over 1,000 feet (300 m), even though it is in
a historic district zoned for buildings up to 425 feet (130 m)?
... that
Louise Hay (pictured) was the only woman to direct a math department at
a major research university in her era?
... that despite being ranked 158th out of 164 in
his West Point class ,
A. Arnim White (pictured) still managed to reach the rank of major general?
... that prior to the
2015–16 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season , the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame named 14 players to its preseason watch lists?
... that
biological anthropologist
David Tab Rasmussen (pictured) of
Edwardsville enjoyed working in the
Neotropics because it allowed him to study both primates and birds, his two favorite subjects?
... that
Playboy magazine's lavishly designed and illustrated
Little Annie Fanny (1962–1988) began as a male character?
... that
Martha E. Sloan of
Aurora was the first female president of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ?
... that the
1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game , won by Princeton's "Team of Destiny", was the first to be nationally broadcast on radio?
... that
Harley A. Wilhelm , a chemistry professor who worked on the
Manhattan Project , was one of 80 players selected in 2006 as part of
Drake University 's all-decade basketball teams?
... that gadgets (rotary evaporator pictured) used by
Moto's chef
Homaro Cantu include a
class IV laser , a
centrifuge , and a hand-held
ion particle gun ?
... that an investigation into the case of
Juan Rivera uncovered proof of
evidence tampering when his shoes, which had the victim's blood on them, also bore DNA from the real killer?
... that in
The Machine Question ,
David Gunkel of
NIU argues that the
other minds problem implies that a proper understanding of
consciousness is impossible?
... that the
d-CON founder
Lee Ratner (pictured) started
Florida's first planned community , created a mail-order
computer programming class, and was involved in oil exploration?
... that the
1995 All-Big Ten Conference football team included two
Heisman Trophy winners and a future head coach of the
Northwestern Wildcats ?
... that Rockford DJ
Neal Howard 's debut EP contained mixes by
Bad Boy Bill ,
Derrick May , and
Kevin Saunderson ?
... that
Alex Behring , slated to become chairman of the newly merged
Kraft Heinz Company , has a BS degree in electrical engineering?
... that unusual dishes at
Moto have included edible menus, "inside out bread", carbonated fruit, and experiments with levitating food?
... that
Time Crash of Chicago claims to be the first
Time Lord rock band in the United States?
... that Illinois schoolteacher
Abbie Lathrop 's mouse number 57 was the origin of the
C57BL/6 laboratory mouse (pictured) ?
... that eight months after launch,
d-CON was selling US$100,000-worth of
rat poison per week, a feat that was called "as brilliant a record for a new product as you're likely to find anywhere, anytime"?
... that the recently-designated
Pullman National Monument (building pictured) is the first unit of the
National Park Service in
Chicago ?
... that the Nobel laureate
James Rainwater collapsed after a lecture but a student revived him via
CPR ?
... that triple amputee
Bryan Anderson credits his smoking habit with saving his right hand?
... that the book
Three Came Home by
Oak Park native
Agnes Newton Keith was made into
a film featuring
Claudette Colbert ?
... that despite having "little film-industry credibility",
Brenda Sexton increased filmmaking-related spending in Illinois by 147 percent in her first year at the Illinois Film Office?
... that basketball coach
Jason Rabedeaux of
Aurora died the day after winning a game with the
Saigon Heat ?
... that
William Fithian , an
Illinois State Senator and
Civil War
Provost Marshal , practiced medicine well into his late eighties?
... that
Abraham Lincoln defended a slave-owner against a slave family during the
Matson Trial ?
... that
Great Depression -era economist and
Northwestern alumnus
E. Wight Bakke (pictured) focused on the social and psychological aspects of
unemployment in addition to the economic ones?
... that the
blue-fronted dancer damselfly (pictured) is not always blue?
... that while playing for the
Marlins , future
Cub
Bret Barberie missed a game after getting chili pepper juice in his eye?
... that President
Warren G. Harding appointed
Louise DeKoven Bowen to represent the United States at the 1922
Pan-American Conference of Women ?
... that feminist artists invented the
WEB in 1971?
... that
Arizona Territorial Justice
John H. Campbell of
Tuscola married the widow of his law partner and fellow Associate Justice,
Frederick S. Nave ?
... that ornithologist
Robert Ridgway (artwork pictured) consulted with inventor
Milton Bradley and Smithsonian head
Samuel Pierpont Langley to create a new dictionary of color names for naturalists?
... that
Naomi Sager helped develop the first computer program to parse English?
... that
George Weil withdrew the control rod from
Chicago Pile-1 nuclear reactor, initiating the first man-made self-sustaining
nuclear chain reaction ?
... that advertising executive
Jane Trahey persuaded
Lauren Bacall ,
Marlene Dietrich , and
Judy Garland to pose for an ad campaign, giving them each a mink coat as payment?
... that
Sinah Estelle Kelley helped mass-produce
penicillin in
Peoria for the
U.S. Department of Agriculture following the
Second World War ?
... that physicist
Warren Elliot Henry (pictured) learned quantum mechanics from
Arthur Compton , nuclear theory from
Wolfgang Pauli , and molecular spectra from
Robert Millikan —and played tennis with
Enrico Fermi ?
... that the first woman elected to the
Geological Society of America ,
Rockfordian
Mary Emilie Holmes , was also one of the cofounders of a historically black college?
... that the heroic
antislavery painting
The Captive Slave (pictured) was not seen in public for 180 years before its acquisition by the
Art Institute ?
... that
Jerry Lester was the host of the first successful
network late-night television show,
Broadway Open House ?
... that film producer and
Art Institute graduate
Anne Rosellini wrote her first screenplay because "I didn't have the money to hire a writer, so I just decided to do it myself"?
... that
God's Choice was the fruit of a late-1970s 18-month
ethnographic study of a 350-student
Christian fundamentalist
Baptist
K–12 day school in Illinois?
... that the
2015 McDonald's All-American Boys Game is the 38th annual
McDonald's All-American Game and 5th consecutive at Chicago's
United Center ?
... that
SpotHero is a
mobile app that allows motorists to reserve
parking spaces at a discount?
... that the
1880 Greenback National Convention (building pictured) nominated
James B. Weaver for
President of the United States and passed a resolution supporting
women's suffrage ?
Northwestern Wildcats in 2011 ... that the
Northwestern Wildcats field hockey team (pictured) won four of its six
Big Ten regular-season titles in the 1980s under head coach
Nancy Stevens ?
... that prior to becoming
Kraft Foods ' chief executive officer,
Tony Vernon worked for
Johnson & Johnson for over two decades?
... that in 2012, French film composer
Alexandre Desplat received three nominations for the
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score ?
... that
Cubs coach
Dave Martinez played for four
Major League Baseball teams during the 2000 season, tying a record?
... that the
stop-time musical phrase from
Muddy Waters ' (pictured)
Chicago blues
standard "
Hoochie Coochie Man " was later used in pop songs and film scores?
... that
Jesse K. Dubois complained that
Abraham Lincoln "has for 30 years past just used me as a plaything to accomplish his own ends"?
... that
21st-century economic migration of Poles is comparable in size to the century-old
migration of Poles to the United States ?
... that
Joseph Gillespie jumped out of a
State Capitol window with
Abraham Lincoln ?
... that the
murder of Atcel Olmedo in
DuPage County remains unsolved because the suspects have never been located?
... that the
Harriet F. Rees House (pictured) in Chicago was recently moved one block north to make room for a basketball stadium and a 1,200-room hotel?
... that Abraham Lincoln encouraged physician
Robert Boal (pictured) to run as
Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives ?
...that all
Turboliners based out of Chicago were pulled from service in 1981?
... that
anti-Greek riots occurred in Chicago in 1904?
... that John A. Kennicott, the founder of
Kennicott Grove in
Glenview (pictured) , gave free
scions of his plants to interested nurserymen?
... that the
Chicago Fire of 1874 led to the reorganizing of the city's fire department along military lines?
... that
Cubs outfielder
Jacob Hannemann is a cousin of
Mufi Hannemann , the former
Mayor of Honolulu ?
... that following the
2014–15 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season ,
CBS will broadcast the
Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament for the 18th consecutive year?
... that while testifying in a 2004 lawsuit involving the meaning of the word
steakburger (pictured) , a corporate CEO was grilled on the witness stand?
... that before he was
Illinois Secretary of State ,
George H. Harlow was personal secretary to Governor
Richard J. Oglesby ?
... that
Trib columnist and "Father of
Logology "
Dmitri Borgmann earned $10,000 for coining the name
Exxon , making him (at $2000 per letter) the world's highest-paid writer?
... that when
Walter Zinn attempted to demonstrate the safety of the
boiling water reactor in the
BORAX Experiments for
Argonne National Laboratory , things did not go according to plan?
... that if built as planned, the
Old Chicago Main Post Office Twin Towers (pictured) will be the tallest building in North America?
... that the podcast
Serial , a spinoff of
WBEZ 's
This American Life , was number one on the
iTunes Store even before it debuted?
... that in World War II, Chicagoan
Zenon B. Lukosius and his crew mates captured the
U-505 submarine (pictured) , which had an important German code book on board?
... that
John Messinger , the first
Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives , helped to set the state line between Illinois and Wisconsin?
... that
University of Illinois professor
Tami Bond (pictured) , known for her study of
black carbon , became interested in engineering after her car broke down?
... that
bowfins , which live in the
Great Lakes , can survive up to five days' exposure to air because they can breathe both air and water?
... that the horror novel
Something Wicked This Way Comes was inspired by
Ray Bradbury 's childhood encounter with a carnival magician visiting
Waukegan ?
... that motorists driving past Resurrection Cemetery (pictured) in
Justice have reported stories of
Resurrection Mary since the 1930s?
... that reports of the
Enfield Monster were used as a case study for a paper on
social contagion ?
... that the
Watseka Wonder , the alleged spiritual possession of Lurancy Vennum (pictured) of
Watseka , was called "the most remarkable case of spirit return and manifestation ever recorded in history"?
... that on November 7, 2006, twelve employees at
O'Hare International Airport witnessed
a metallic, saucer-shaped craft hovering over Gate C-17?
... that students in
EIU's
Pemberton Hall claim that the fourth floor is haunted by the dormitory's first matron?
... that the name of the
piasa (pictured) may be derived from the
Miami-Illinois name for small, supernatural dwarves said to attack travelers?
... that
Ashmore Estates in
Coles County , an abandoned
almshouse and private psychiatric care facility, has been open for tours since 2006?
... that
Illinois State Senator
Lorenzo D. Whiting was the father of journalist
Lilian Whiting ?
... that although he was the leading
Democratic candidate for most of the
1885 U.S. Senate election in Illinois ,
William Ralls Morrison only received one vote on the legislature's final ballot?
... that the
1971 Salem, Illinois derailment (pictured) was
Amtrak 's first fatal accident?
... that the
bio-hacker and
Art Institute instructor
Heather Dewey-Hagborg collects discarded hair, gum, and cigarette butts, sequences the DNA, and turns it into a 3-D sculpture?
... that the physicist
Edward Creutz , who helped develop
Chicago Pile-1 , later published a paper on a rare flower found only on the island of
Raiatea in
French Polynesia ?
... that in the
Bellevue War ,
Iowa Territory politician
Thomas Cox led a posse of several former fellow
Black Hawk War veterans from
Galena ?
... that
John Calhoun , publisher of the
first newspaper in Chicago , was originally apprenticed to be a carpenter in
Watertown, New York ?
... that a
Strati (pictured) , the world's first
3D-printed electric car, was printed in 44 hours in
McCormick Place ?
... that the Chicago-born
trans woman activist
Miss Major (pictured) was meeting with her girlfriend at the
Stonewall Inn during the police raid that precipitated the
Stonewall riot ?
... that
U of C alumnus
Darol Froman was the scientific director of the
Operation Sandstone nuclear tests at
Enewetak Atoll in 1948?
... that the
Illinois Terminal Railroad 's
Streamliners (pictured) were the last
interurbans built in the United States?
...... that the composition "
Abraham Lincoln, what would you do? " was intended to build support for
U.S. involvement in World War I ?
... that the physician
Conrad Will is the namesake of
Will County, Illinois ?
... that
Susan Leeman was the first woman elected to the
National Academy of Sciences in physiology and pharmacology?
... that aviator
John Robinson (pictured), initially a janitor at his aviation school in Chicago, later opened his own school in
Robbins, Illinois ?
... that the
Illinois Central Railroad 's
Seminole Limited was the first passenger train to provide year-round service between
Chicago and
Jacksonville, Florida ?
... that
Marshall Field and
Levi Leiter , co-founders of
Marshall Field & Co. , were both once partners with
John V. Farwell at
John V. Farwell & Co. ?
... that on its 1856 opening, the
Illinois Central Railroad 's
Great Central Station was the largest building in
Chicago ?
... that the
documentary film
Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan begins with a horse standing alone in an empty
Chicago street?
... that over 210,000 tickets were sold in the 1867
lottery in which Chicago's
Crosby's Opera House (pictured) was one of the prizes?
... that the
Meadowlark (pictured) was the last
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
passenger train to serve
Southern Illinois ?
... that Prospect Group's purchase of
Illinois Central Railroad in 1989 was part of a plan devised by
Edward L. Moyers to return the railroad to profitability?
...that between 1923 and 1969, the official
language of Illinois was "American"?
...that the 1911 kidnapping and murder of
Elsie Paroubek inspired
Henry Darger 's 15,000-page fantasy novel The Story of the Vivian Girls, in the Realms of the Unreal ?
...that the staircases of the
Monadnock Building (pictured) , built in 1893, were the first structural use of
aluminum in construction?
...that when it was first created,
Edwards County, Illinois extended north to
Lake Superior ? (pictured)
...that
Crow Island School in
Winnetka is the home of
Sebastian Hinton 's second prototype
jungle gym ?
...that the
Illinois High School Association was one of the last high school athletic associations in America to retain a one-class competition system, grouping all schools together regardless of size?
...that the
Park Grill is the only full-service restaurant in
Millennium Park ?
...that the
Robert Weber Round Barn is one of 31
round barns constructed in a four county area centered on
Stephenson County, Illinois ?
...that the former
Schiller Piano Factory (pictured) in
Oregon, Illinois has been a
shopping center since 1975?
...that
William W. Powers State Recreation Area 's
Wolf Lake co-hosted a
BioBlitz by over 150
scientists who unofficially counted 1,815
species in a day?
...that there are
fords at
Illinois '
White Pines Forest State Park (crossing pictured ) allowing visitors to drive through the
stream ?
...that
Frank Lloyd Wright 's design for the
Francis J. Woolley House was influenced by his first teacher,
Joseph Silsbee , and the
Arts and Crafts movement ?
...that
Roseland Christian School changed from a completely
Dutch-American student body in 1884 to a completely
African American one by the mid 1980s?
...that the
Egyptian Theater in
DeKalb, Illinois is purportedly haunted by
ghosts ?
...that two officers have quit their jobs over purported
paranormal activity at
George Stickney House , home to the
Bull Valley, Illinois Police Department?
...that the
Illinois Senate passed a resolution confirming
Metropolis, Illinois as the "Hometown of
Superman "?
...that the original capitol of Illinois was
Kaskaskia , which is now a
ghost town west of the
Mississippi River ?
...that the
Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is the largest
African American
parade in the
United States ?
...that the
Arts Club of Chicago arose from the success of the
Art Institute of Chicago 's handling of the Chicago showing of the
Armory Show ?
...the
Art Institute of Chicago Building was co-financed by the financiers of the
World's Columbian Exposition , which occupied the building for its first six months?
Aleksey Suvorin ...that
Chicago 's
Crown Fountain (pictured ) displays
LED images of faces, which typically create the illusion of puckered lips spouting water?
...that
2006 Winter Olympics
speedskating champion,
Shani Davis ', welcome-home celebration was held at the
Harold Washington Cultural Center ?
...that the
Historic Michigan Boulevard District came to be one of the most famous one-sided streets as a result of the legal persistence of
Aaron Montgomery Ward ?
...that the preservation movement that resulted in the
Chicago Landmark designation began with the 1957 adoption of the
Frank Lloyd Wright
Robie House ?
...the
AT&T Corporate Center is the tallest building built in
Chicago in the last quarter of the 20th century?
Burnham Park ...that
Meigs Field in
Chicago ,
Illinois , sits on the site of
Burnham Park (pictured) , which was a serious contender to host the
United Nations Headquarters ?
Chicago Theater ...that
Ronald Reagan announced his engagement to his first wife,
Jane Wyman , at the
Chicago Theatre (pictured) ?
...that 141 West Jackson Boulevard,
Chicago, Illinois , the address of the
Chicago Board of Trade Building , has been the address of two different buildings that at one point was the tallest building in Chicago?