| 单词 | Chicago |
| 例句 | As he approached high school, Craig had been sought after by some of Chicago’s top public school coaches looking to fill gaps in their rosters. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Now, after messing up in Chicago, I sat in his office and tried to explain how much pressure I’d been feeling. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z So I said, “So you’ll be in Chicago for a year?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “I imagine he was drunk like most of Chicago,” Officer Rariden continued in a low, bored drawl. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His constricted domestic routine, plus what he regarded as an often boring job, were becoming more suffocating as the novelty of being in Chicago wore off. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Olmsted got wind of it from Harry Codman, who in addition to being his chief operating man in Chicago served as a kind of spy, keeping Olmsted abreast of all threats to Olmsted’s vision. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When they landed at Chicago, it was dark, and she saw “Lake Shore Drive in myriad of lights...as thrilling as the New York skyline when coming in from sea in a ship.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Without turning to look at me, she says, “Ms. Finn gave me the number of a neurologist at the University of Chicago. He’s going to run some tests.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z My shaky performance in Chicago had shown me that I needed a serious turnaround in my gymnastics, and I was grateful to everyone who’d encouraged me to face my mistakes and focus on the positive. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When the train pulled into Chicago’s Illinois Central station, passengers were disgorged into the hustle and bustle of a city that was exciting but also immensely intimidating. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He urged Chicago hostesses to hire some French chefs to improve their culinary diction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The wait was electric, for Chicago was a prideful place. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A cascade of work flowed to their firm, partly because Root managed to solve a puzzle that had bedeviled Chicago builders ever since the city’s founding. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After two years in Chicago, it all felt terribly boring and rustic. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Aliya lets me know that Muhammad has dropped off my permission form for the regional Quiz Bowl and that two cars are going to Chicago on Saturday. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z This migrant family has just arrived in Chicago with suitcases and overcoats. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My father's family, meanwhile, sprawled across Chicago’s broader South Side and included an array of great-aunts and third cousins, plus a few stray outliers whose blood connection remained cloudy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z After the comfort and the company of Chicago I had had to learn to be alone again. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there’s the fact that when Arthur Clarke comes to Chicago and wants to be connected, to be linked up with someone else, Weisberg comes up with Isaac Asimov. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After two years engulfed in Chicago’s smoggy warrens, it was such a pleasant change to return to the land. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When you spend your entire life in and around the city of Chicago, as it turns out, you fail to fully apprehend certain facets of rural life. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Burnham knew how to deal with Chicago’s notoriously flimsy soil, but Jackson Park surprised even him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’m in a car driven to Chicago by the monster. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Imagine now that instead of running a day-care center in Haifa, you are running the Chicago Public Schools, a system that educates 400,000 students each year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z After leaving the White House, he and his mother moved to Chicago, traveled to Europe, and then returned home. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I went to the University of Chicago for a while after the Second World War. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, she doesn't know that Mom got pushed around by Chicago cops when she was eighteen during the 1968 Democratic Convention. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And last the murky yellow cars of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad looking cheerful as Christmas itself on the tracks beside the gate. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z While Texas had been hot and dusty, Chicago was cool and smoky, full of trains and noise. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The fair alone consumed three times as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She has been running a half marathon every day for nearly a month since Chicago, and her body is suffering. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He made his way to Chicago for an S-l meeting at the Met Lab, so tormented by back spasms that he had to be carried into the session in a chair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On the rails, Chicago was the big city, but it was New Orleans that would get people to talking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Altogether, about three thousand Black Muslims from their mosques in most sizable cities were in Chicago for their annual “Saviour’s Day” convention, regarded by them as similar to the holiday of Christmas. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z All of her attention is on the woman from Chicago. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Chicago delighted in such repartee—for the most part. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At the time of the vote, with the city’s pride at stake, all Chicago had sung with one voice. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She had just joined the band and she was from North Dakota and had been singing with a group in Chicago when Mrs. Benny Goodman discovered her, we had heard some customers say. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitchhiking occurred to me, but I had no idea which of all the routes out of Boston led to Chicago. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Since the buyer couldn’t know whose corn they were purchasing, the Chicago Board of Trade made up a category called number 2 field corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Some of the extra boxes go to a homeless shelter in Chicago. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He called an uncle in Chicago who’d been in combat in World War II and asked if he could come for a visit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She starts with questions about the Quiz Bowl and then hops to Chicago and then home-runs to gossip gathering about Dad and his brood. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Frank Millet hoped the closing ceremony would attract even more people than the fair’s Chicago Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I went into the dark Chicago streets and walked home through the cold, filled with a sense of sadness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The University of Chicago had fired his imagination. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Later Chamberlin would claim to be the first man in Chicago to suspect Holmes of being a criminal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Hit me,” my mother said on one of my return visits home from Chicago. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Even Mr. Muhammad’s original Chicago followers wouldn’t know he was at home, for he says the “hypocrites” made serious efforts to kill him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z One had been dead for nearly fourteen years—dead in a Chicago tavern, a knife kicking in his throat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “There was no regret,” observed the Chicago Tribune, “rather a feeling of pleasure that the elements and not the wrecker should wipe out the spectacle of the Columbian season.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I told Jesse the big decision wasn’t whether to apply to the University of Chicago, but whether or not to go to college. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been wearing them for a week now, but they seemed to have lost their magic, because no matter how many times I closed my eyes and clicked my heels, I was still in Chicago. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Most return to impoverished neighborhoods in the Chicago area, bringing few resources and bearing the stigma of their prison record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z According to his diary, he spent the journey introducing himself to every pretty girl he saw, including a total of five between Chicago and Ohio. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z And the blanket is unconditionally guaranteed for a period of three years by Sears, Roebuck and Company, Chicago, Illinois. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Weisberg serves as the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of Chicago. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And the snow crystals clump together into flakes as they fall, covering Chicago in their white plenty, inch upon inch... American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The architects did plan to come to Chicago for the January meeting, he told her, “but reluctantly; their hearts were not in it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But by late 1962, I learned reliably that numerous Muslims were leaving Mosque Two in Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Or I would ride with him as he drove on his daily rounds between the few grocery stores that the Muslims then owned in Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It played the same role that Columbia University did for the Harlem residents who surrounded it, or the University of Chicago did for the Southside. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Everyone knew, however, that Chicago was still 38 votes shy of the simple majority needed to win the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Other chartered trains were coming from Kentucky, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Although there are admittedly not a lot of pools in Chicago. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z They worked with other leaders nationally, but their home was in Chicago’s black community, which, by their fifth wedding anniversary, in 1900, was over 30,000 strong. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z First night since I came to Chicago, the night sounds are quiet. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Chicago’s newspapers reported ghoulish tales of doctors raiding graveyards. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A high school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, an outer suburb of Chicago, was another frequent Main Stage qualifier. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z His mother had lived in Chicago as a girl, and she had died there, half a lifetime ago. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z In the 154 miles from Chicago to Fort Wayne, Indiana, there are only three large towns, and the 240 miles across Ohio are primarily pasture, hay, and row crops of corn. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I ain’t seen Daddy smile this hard since we moved to Chicago. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z For six years after this, virtually all building ceased in Chicago. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Surprising to me, too, was how well he knew Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He argued that Chicago’s fair, unlike any other before it, would be primarily a monument to architecture. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In fact, Chicago had been trying to tidy itself for some time and had found the challenge monumental. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The airport in Nebraska was empty compared to the ones in Miami, Chicago . . . even Havana. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “Yes, they are. Many are from the Harlem Renaissance, and some”—she turns the page—“are from right here in Chicago.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “You won’t find another like her in all of Chicago, my dear.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He was from New York by way of Chicago, and was a rising new novelist. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Each time he told her he had to return to Chicago, she seemed crushed, delightfully so. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I was looking at the map, and I figure we’re maybe about eight or nine hours away from Chicago. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Yet as the Chicago Urban League reported in 2002, there is another story to be told. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When Groves met with Uranium Committee members in Chicago, they told him it would take somewhere between ten and one thousand pounds of uranium to make an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, they are, but I’m from the city. I mean, Chicago.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Together, in our cramped apartment on the South Side of Chicago, they helped me see the value in our story, in my story, in the larger story of our country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In Chicago there developed a confusion of orders—no one’s fault—just one of those things that happens, and Adam’s six cars of lettuce stood in the yard for five more days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “He has a concert. Tomorrow night. In Chicago!” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother, Aunt Maggie, my brother, and I held long conferences, speculating on the prospects of jobs and the cost of apartments in Chicago. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Offices in the newest of Chicago’s skyscrapers remained vacant. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To me Chicago has to keep existing because the people I have lost lived there, because the way of life I once loved continues there, though in a broken form. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Its northern terminus is the city of Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The radio said that colored boy’s mama up in Chicago is blaming everyone in Mississippi for what’s happened, said she said, ‘The entire state of Mississippi is going to pay for this.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “I knew a guy in Chicago,” Jinx said, “he scorched the sugar to make a richer color.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s campaign to add a nuclear reactor to Berkeley’s arsenal of atom-smashing technologies dated back to his wartime effort to wrest Enrico Fermi’s nuclear pile away from Arthur Compton and the University of Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And yet he regularly left Cambridge, returning again and again to the crack gang in Chicago. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The largest and most devastating riots of all, however, took place in Washington, DC; Chicago, Illinois; and Elaine, Arkansas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She waited a beat, trying to think, and then added, “From Chicago. I’m from Chicago.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “My parents want me to come home. Back to Chicago.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The Black Muslim National Convention was scheduled to begin that Friday in Chicago, to last for three days. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the physical divorce, I could not evade the obvious strategy and plotting coming out of Chicago to eliminate me from the Nation of Islam ... if not from this world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I have a brother in Chicago. We’ll get married and stay with him until I can get a job and Claudia can get her papers so she can look for work also.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Life's different in Chicago. I talk with white people all the time.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z It was a tiny city of its own, nicknamed Packingtown by Chicago’s residents. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When you look at the concentration of public housing in Chicago there’s nothing like it anywhere else in America. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z List might reach all the way through Texas to someplace like Chicago. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then we got a tip that they moved in with Johnny’s sister, Yvonne, in a project on the West Side of Chicago. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A few weeks after Pearl Harbor, Arthur Compton summoned Seaborg to Chicago for a heart-to-heart talk. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I flew home to Chicago that night, feeling guilty and dispirited. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When he resolved at last to move to Chicago, he was still using his given name, Herman Webster Mudgett. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I was living in Chicago when they first got Melina, and every time I came home the animal was bigger. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Riis had toured Chicago’s foulest districts and pronounced them worse than anything he had seen in New York. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It's a ceramic floor in an old Victorian kitchen in Chicago in February, and I'm sitting on an oak chair wearing a damp towel. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The story told at bedtime, whether in Chicago or Alabama, the Golden Crescent or MidPass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Dad had managed to obtain leave from Fort Sill, and surprised us by boarding the train at Chicago. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z But when it did reach out to its south and west, Tiwanaku transformed itself to become what Alan Kolata, an archaeologist at the University of Chicago, has called a “predatory state.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He read broadly in philosophy, science, art, and religion and was known throughout Chicago’s upper echelon for his ability to converse on almost any subject and to do so with great wit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Not long after that, I went to David Axelrod’s office in Chicago and sat down with him and Valerie to watch video of some of my public appearances. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “There are buildings in Chicago more than ten times higher,” said Lynn. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Colin's backyard in Chicago measured twelve feet by ten feet; this backyard went on for football fields. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I saw them one spring in Cannes and later in Deauville and then they came back to Chicago to settle down. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Swift knew that Chicago’s Union Stock Yard, opened in 1865, was the largest in the world. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As a result, the Chicago Public School system began to fire its cheating teachers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Hell, I even remember the ones who had to drop out after the Crash: Henry Winchester, whose father stepped off the ledge of the Board of Trade Building in Chicago. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Next, I would come to the microphone, specifically to condition the audience to hear Mr. Muhammad, who had flown from Chicago to teach us all in person. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z After one of my meetings, I went back to Reagan National Airport to meet Barack, who was due in on a chartered flight from Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z One of the most pernicious factors, Olmsted found, was the widespread fear that anyone who ventured to Chicago would be “fleeced unmercifully,” especially in the fair’s many restaurants, with their “extortionate” prices. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But when I got to Chicago, expecting at least a favorable response and some coverage, I met only a chilly reaction. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His letter had been addressed to the offices of Outside in Chicago; because I had written the McCandless piece, it was forwarded to me. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was taken directly to the hospital at the University of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Chicago was a break in my journey, a resumption of my name, identity, and happy marital status. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She had come to Chicago for the duration of the fair and was renting a mansion near the mayor’s. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My first glimpse of the flat black stretches of Chicago depressed and dismayed me, mocked all my fantasies. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was accustomed to the headlong civic energy of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “You remember that night—our last year—when that crazy Louise Hermanson busted in the room wearing that black brassiere she bought in Chicago?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Chicago would rebuild itself in a way that would astound the country and the world. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Of the other possible candidates, Compton could not be spared from Chicago, and Harold Urey, a chemist, was not qualified to manage a physics lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They were not in Chicago at the same time—Penn has been based in Europe since the early ’30s. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Chicago only gets this quiet when it snows, he thought. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z His first long trip was to the west, to Chicago, where he knew there had been an underground Air Force command post. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z At Sidley & Austin, I was part of the Chicago office’s recruiting team, tasked with interviewing Harvard Law School students for summer-associate jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Valentine himself was in Chicago meeting with the banks, his two sons in tow now that they were old enough to help with the farm’s accounts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Good-bye, Chicago, and all your glorious cable TV, internet, and cell phone service. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I fell in love at The Mecca one last time, lost my balance and all my boyhood confusion, under the spell of a girl from Chicago. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The entire state of Idaho had one area code; the Chicago metro area alone had three. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I interviewed the first forensics expert in the Dan Rather National Guard story, and he was then specifically picked up by The Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Globe, NYT, etc., within forty-eight hours. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z John Jones stepped up to help, leading fundraising efforts in Chicago for what became a successful defense and acquittal. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And now Olmsted’s man in Chicago, Harry Codman, upon whom everyone had come to depend, was in the hospital recovering from surgery. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Chicago police were waiting when the plane landed at O’Hare Airport that night at eight o’clock. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago was proud of its fair, and everyone knew that only three weeks remained before it would close forever. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The crack epidemic, which had ravaged African American communities in places like Detroit and New York, was only just reaching Chicago, but its course was no less destructive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Along with assorted friends and family members—for a total of forty travelers—they had piled into a luxurious sleeper car, named Benares, provided by the Chicago & Alton Railroad. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z So here I am, sitting off by myself in our private section of a jet on the way to Chicago, trying to get used to thinking aloud, and to the sound of my own voice. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I owe this progress report to Burt who had the bright idea that I could dictate this on a transistor tape recorder and have a public stenographer in Chicago type it up. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Soon he left Chicago and moved to Gilman, Illinois, where he met a young woman and began a formal courtship, which compelled him to visit Holmes’s building one more time, to seek a divorce decree. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After his failed run for the office in 1891, Harrison had acquired a newspaper, the Chicago Times, and settled into the job of editor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On a warm October night in Chicago, three deliveries were made in the same neighborhood. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z She had been visiting friends back in Chicago and thus Geyer had been unable to telegraph the news to her directly. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I hadn’t been back to Chicago in ten years; I was an only child, both folks gone, who needed Chicago? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Big Bill, whom the Defender called “the spectacular, nervy Mayor of Chicago,” publicly spoke out against the slights that blacks found so demeaning, and made a great show of celebrating their successes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed standing on a balcony in Memphis, setting off riots across the country, including in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They went to Chicago, then to Indiana, where they stopped in Logansport and Peru, then to Montpelier Junction, Ohio, and Adrian, Michigan. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Clearly the dinner was a weapon meant to ignite enthusiasm and show the easterners that Chicago fully intended to follow through on its grand boasts about the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A reporter from the Chicago Tribune followed up and learned that the kids were now publishing a different paper, the Guardian, on their own, including an Internet edition. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Hubble was born in 1889, ten years after Einstein, in a small Missouri town on the edge of the Ozarks and grew up there and in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A prominent abolitionist stopped for a day en route to Chicago and stayed for a week. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Not every result of the Chicago cheating analysis was so dour. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He has had to cross three international boundaries in order to reach Chicago. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Department of Justice and the Chicago Board of Education teamed up to try to better integrate the city’s schools. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I could hardly count my Western trip a failure,” he wrote, “for I had seen Chicago.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At home in Chicago, Hadiya lived with her parents and her little brother, about two miles from our house on Greenwood Avenue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It is simply taken for granted that, in cities like Baltimore and Chicago, the vast majority of young black men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system or branded criminals for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A committee duplicated the eight copies of The Landry News and sent sets of them along with the information sheet to every newspaper, radio, and TV station in the greater Chicago area. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Just like in Alabama, folks here are in all shades of brown, so many they call this part of Chicago the Black Ghetto, or the Black Belt. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z The Washington Park racetrack sat on a verdant strip of land along the city’s southwestern edge, within walking distance of both the Fair’s Midway Plaisance and the University of Chicago. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “His name was Jerome. My first Chicago friend.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z The editors of Chicago’s daily newspapers, upon seeing New York enter the contest, began to ask, why not Chicago? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They were the same ghettos I had seen in Chicago all those years ago, the same ghettos where my mother was raised, where my father was raised. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My mother looked after Neil when I moved from Raleigh, and flew her to Chicago once I'd found a place and settled in. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Chicago companies slaughtered and packaged only enough meat to satisfy the needs of local residents. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When the Chicago Bulls put on a clinic and took home the whole kit and kaboodle, it means they won. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Mudge Rose saying no to Bickel because of his “antecedents” was like the Chicago Bulls turning down Michael Jordan because they were uncomfortable with black kids from North Carolina. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z This ancient refuse became ammunition in a long-running academic battle between Harvard botanist Paul C. Mangelsdorf and George Beadle, a geneticist who worked at Stanford, Caltech, and the University of Chicago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In a way, it reminded her of Lake Michigan when they lived in Chicago, with a city view in one direction and a tranquil spread of water in the other. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z One of those who read about the suffering in Chicago was a young Scot named Robert Louis Stevenson. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “How soon could you be ready to go to Chicago?” he asked. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z An English heritage would explain his extraordinary charm and smooth manner, so unusual in brutish, clangorous Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As tiring as it was, he’d loved his job for what it taught him about Chicago’s complex political system and for proving that his organizing instincts could work on a larger scale. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He reiterated his insistence that in Chicago “simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Actions and feelings of men ten thousand miles from home helped me to understand the moods and impulses of those walking the streets of Chicago and Dixie. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In this case, the Chicago Public School system obliged. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Then she got the position of director of special events for the first black mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One bright and fragrant spring day—as if on a wild equinoctial whim—Holmes suggested that Minnie invite her sister to Chicago to see the world’s fair, at his expense. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He hadn’t worn it much since, but it was one of the few things he’d kept and brought to Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Every temple had “fished” with enough success that there were far more Muslims, especially in the major cities of Detroit, Chicago, and New York than anyone would have guessed from the outside. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Comptons guests had come to the city to receive honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was all boy; Chicago Cubs wallpaper covered the bottom third of the wall. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In the very same Chicago block, a white man was dragged from a truck and killed, and a black chauffeur was hauled from his car and murdered. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Engine, engine number nine, running down Chicago line. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, I would find out that before running off to Chicago, Frankie had worked with his father at a garment factory in Manhattan. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Do you know who this older brother in Chicago is, Julio?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The first real work in Jackson Park began on February 11, when fifty Italian immigrants employed by McArthur Brothers, a Chicago company, began digging a drainage ditch. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Almost at the moment when Mr. Gatsby identified himself a butler hurried toward him with the information that Chicago was calling him on the wire. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z They all look the same: skinny and sweaty and tan, the last an abomination, because all February tans in Chicago are fake, and boys who fake tan—I don't care whether they're gay—are ridiculous. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z On Monday, as the fire was burning furiously through the North Division, the Chicago Evening Journal managed to get out a limited edition. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, I visited the office of a friendly, thoughtful man named Art Sussman, who was the in-house legal counsel for the University of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I decided to walk to the bus terminal and inquire about the fares to Chicago. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The streets of Chicago couldn’t have held more faces, the faces of strangers, bobbing like flowers in a breeze, each one indistinguishable from the next. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Oh, then who lost that farm? Who borrowed money he couldn’t pay back? Who dragged us to Chicago?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Twenty or thirty thousand in the central city is more likely, according to Nicole Couture, a University of Chicago archaeologist who helped edit the definitive publication of Kolata's work in 2003. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He is gone two to five days a week, to Boston, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Dallas, and most often Charlotte. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He dialed her number in New Chicago, one hundred miles over the dead sea. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The Commonwealth said Sheriff Smith had lots of threatening letters and phone calls from people in Chicago and Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z There was the threat of fire and weather and disease: Already foreign editors were asking who would dare attend the exposition given Chicago’s notorious problems with sewage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They asked if Barack would run the process in Illinois, opening a field office in Chicago to enroll black voters ahead of the November elections. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A writer for Chicago magazine described Barack as “a tall, affable workaholic,” suggesting that he should someday run for office, an idea that he simply shrugged off. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Okay. I just want to make sure. I mean, this is a big deal. People are coming from Cleveland, Toledo, Chicago, Pittsburgh. And don’t forget, Paul Robeson will be here, too.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Milwaukee loved Hoo's Little Foot-Eze, and so did Chicago and New York and Los Angeles, but he still had not taken his wife to China. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Libraries ain’t just for white folks. This library is for residents. That means any folks that live in Chicago.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z The thing editors could not understand was how Holmes had been able to escape serious investigation by the Chicago police. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Olmsted returned to Chicago accompanied by his usual troika of affliction and found the place galvanized, Burnham everywhere at once. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Hearing that makes my heart beat a little bit faster, thinking about Grandma and Aunt Lena and my cousins coming to Chicago. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z That anything wonderful could rise on that ground seemed beyond possibility, although Ned, like most new visitors to Chicago, was willing to concede that the city was a place unlike any he had encountered. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z So I leave Chicago out, because it is off the line, out of drawing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His letter to Rice began, “I have on hand a great project for the World’s Fair in Chicago. I am going to build a vertically revolving wheel 250' in dia.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Every newspaper in the city, other than his own Times, opposed Harrison, as did Burnham and most of Chicago’s leading citizens. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Later that Sunday night, as rain thumped their windowsills, editors of Chicago’s morning dailies laid out bold and elaborate headlines for Monday’s historic editions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Somehow, despite his powers of anticipation, Burnham failed to realize that Chicago might see his choices as betrayal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It’s a paper published in Chicago. It comes out each week and it has a magazine supplement,” he informed me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z To him, Harrison represented the old Chicago of filth, smoke, and vice, everything the fair was designed to repudiate. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Liyana had only flown short flights to Kansas City and Chicago before. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Summer was the busy season on the docks along the Chicago River. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But the ferment among the bomb scientists continued—centered, as always, at the Met Lab in Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If you were interested in finding out the ages of things, the University of Chicago in the 1940s was the place to be. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Yesterday, when we finally collected our luggage and passed through Customs, we found Baba waiting outside the international arrivals gate at Chicago O’Hare Airport. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I had only been in St. Louis a few days, and I had never been to Chicago, so I rooted for St. Louis. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Such prolonged standoffs would not be necessary, however, for he sensed that his time in Chicago was nearing an end. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One day, I was in Chicago, reporting a story about the history of segregation in the urban North and how it was engineered by government policy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Crowes waited as long as they could, but at ten o’clock they set out to catch a train for central Chicago, where they planned to visit friends. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If I were in Chicago again, I should drop by; he’d love to have me sit in on his Enlightenment class. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day in Chicago makes it harder to remember Alabama. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z I had no idea something so beautiful was close to Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Many here in Chicago consider you a self-made man, the kind of immigrant they strive to become.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Guess who’s been asked to cover for Sarah as study circle lead while you guys are gone to Chicago?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z On it, Elizebeth had noted the time her flight was leaving Chicago—hours earlier than the plane that had crashed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I’m from Chicago. I like books, pizza, and David Bowie. My favorite color is red. Your turn.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He needed an engineer willing to go to Chicago and supervise the construction effort and thought he knew just the man: Luther V. Rice, assistant engineer of the Union Depot & Tunnel Company, St. Louis. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Chicago’s German community happened to be one of the few ethnic groups that was politically well-organized. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z People who otherwise might have traveled to Chicago to see the fair now stayed home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I did a term paper on the history of jazz in Chicago when I was in eighth grade. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the afternoon of her first day in Chicago, Tuesday, June 6, the infanta had slipped out of her hotel incognito, accompanied by her lady-in-waiting and an aide appointed by President Cleveland. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Don’t want Daddy to go and leave me alone in Chicago. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Keep blacks out was the mantra of the Chicago Real Estate Board as blacks continued to pour into the city and push the boundaries of the Black Belt into white neighborhoods. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Holmes too sensed it was time to leave Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a handwritten receipt dated April 10, a week after Yakov had arrived in Chicago. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “He didn’t stop talking from the second he showed up. He was great. He loved it here. I could easily see him going to the University of Chicago.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But less than a week later, riots in Chicago erupted that made what happened in Washington seem mild in comparison. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Newspapers launched crusades against pestilent alleys and excess smoke and identified the worst offenders in print—among them Burnham’s newly opened Masonic Temple, which the Chicago Tribune likened to Mount Vesuvius. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z FBI agents were assigned to go to every hotel in Chicago. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He never seemed to see the sun in Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Families came from all over to study or teach at the University of Chicago, and many of them lived in this part of Hyde Park. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The strike against wage cuts swept west along the rails through Chicago, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, to San Francisco—100,000 workers halting commerce for forty-five days. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z It was not until fifty years later that Harris, working as a social worker and still living in Chicago, finally told his story. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She dreamed also of Chicago, a city everyone seemed to be talking about and to which everyone seemed to be moving. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Like the graphite Enrico Fermi used in his Chicago pile, heavy water can be used to slow down neutrons and create a chain reaction in uranium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “And she moved all the way to Chicago?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He is rocking back and forth on his heels, a Chicago Bears cap shielding his eyes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “Says the only Jew in Chicago incapable of telling a good joke.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “This is Chicago. Jerome’s soul is already gone.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z They found a cheap motel just outside Chicago and then, as soon as it was light, drove their huge Ryder to Richton Park. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After crossing the Chicago River for a second time and invading the North Division, the fire widened its front. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Baba strains his neck to peer through the security exit at the arrivals terminal of Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z As Colbert and Chamberlin observed, “there is a nervous system, of wires and printers’ types, which connect all together, and . . . places Chicago in close rapport with all parts of the world. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z In fields, dells, and hollows, families terrified by what they read in the papers each day about the collapsing national economy nonetheless now began to think about Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Given the calumny New York previously had shoveled on Chicago, the postponement was an act of surprising grace. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The Chicago Theatre isn't huge, not like a stadium.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “The scene of this test at the University of Chicago would have been confusing to an outsider,” Fermi later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He concluded with a warning that was particularly ominous, coming just a month after the Chicago riots. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “But... what? She didn’t say anything in her letters about Chicago.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z New York had gained fifteen votes, Chicago only six. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Chicago detectives began their exploration of the castle on the night of Friday, July 19. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Do you intend to drag me across all of Chicago in search of some disgraced rabbi?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As Fadi watched her happy reunion back with her parents in Chicago, he wished Mariam were on a plane coming home right then. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Barack, when he showed up back in Chicago, became a kind of soothing antidote. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z His father taught psychology at the University of Chicago; his mother ran an afterschool program for forty years, without pay, in a poor neighborhood. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Carrie Watson, Chicago’s foremost madam, decided her own operation merited a little sprucing up. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The killing fields of Chicago, of Baltimore, of Detroit, were created by the policy of Dreamers, but their weight, their shame, rests solely upon those who are dying in them. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Whether the Chicago police even possessed that kind of talent was open to question. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If the Pharos had somehow been plucked off the North African shore and placed on Lake Michigan, it would have topped the Chicago skyline until the construction of the Wrigley Building in 1922. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z But Chicago’s landowners wanted profit, and at the city’s center, profit meant height. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Chicago seemed an unreal city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal wreathed in palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into the dank prairie. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that West Baltimore, where I lived; that the north side of Philadelphia, where my cousins lived; that the South Side of Chicago, where friends of my father lived, comprised a world apart. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My family will be gathering in Chicago for the usual feast at my parents' house. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In Detroit and Chicago, school-age Muslim children attended our two Universities of Islam—through high school in Chicago, and through junior high in Detroit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re just about the only Jew in Chicago without a sense of humor.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Burnham and Root clearly favored one location in particular: Jackson Park, on Chicago’s South Side, due east of Englewood on the lakeshore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z With its gorgeous classical buildings packed with art, its clean water and electric lights, and its overstaffed police department, the exposition was Chicago’s conscience, the city it wanted to become. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It appeared spray-painted on subway cars, on walls, and on the sides of buildings in New York City, in Chicago, in Tokyo, in Amsterdam. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Advertisement in the Chicago Defender encouraging black men to join the Eighth Regiment, April 21, 1917. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But I was glad to hear the New York Communists express horror at the brutal way in which the Chicago Communists made demands upon the Chicago John Reed Club membership. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chicago and Petersburg, Virginia. I got me a cousin in Petersburg. He work in a library down there.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But he made that prediction before the bombs fell—indeed, it was during that grim period when the failure of the Alpha racetracks had laid him out in a Chicago hospital room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It is in order for Chauncey M. Depew to hand in his resignation as Chicago’s adopted son. Chicago wants no more of him.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some other Muslim who learned of it had made charges against Reginald to Mr. Muhammad in Chicago, and Mr. Muhammad had suspended Reginald. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They were bound for Arlington Park, just outside Chicago, in hopes that they would find some peace there. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly before he left for Chicago, he cabled Rice, “If the board of directors have decided not to run until Wednesday you may carry out their wishes.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Once he got to Chicago, he grasped another elemental lesson: All geek jobs aren’t alike. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The balloon, named Chicago, was filled with 100,000 cubic feet of hydrogen and controlled by a tether connected to a winch. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I'd been riding the Chicago el with my sister Amy, who was getting off three or four stops ahead of me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z As a young minister, I would go to Chicago and see Mr. Elijah Muhammad every time I could get off. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I got my undergrad degree at the University of Chicago. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z On June 5 worried depositors staged runs on eight Chicago banks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Just as the scientist might randomly assign one mouse to a treatment group and another to a control group, the Chicago school board effectively did the same. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Geyer set out for Chicago but felt deep reluctance about leaving Indianapolis—“something seemed to tell me that Howard had never left there alive.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One of the men asked Wright if the boy from Chicago was there. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Art Sussman, the lawyer at the University of Chicago who’d met with me a few years earlier, called to let me know about a position that had just been created there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At noon dinner that day Mary Alice and I distracted Grandma with all the excitement wed left behind in Chicago. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He thought of Chicago, where you can go days without ever once stepping on a single patch of actual earth. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Thousands were able to find temporary shelter in other parts of Chicago, while others simply abandoned the city altogether, preferring to start fresh in other cities. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Or an L, elevated trains like in Chicago,” Jay tells a skeptical Kelvin. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I’m strapped in my seat next to Mustafa for our second flight, from Paris to Chicago. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The number of cows slaughtered in Chicago grew from a quarter million in 1875 to two and a quarter million in 1890. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She envied the freedom she saw exhibited by Chicago’s women. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1867, at twenty-one, Burnham returned to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was also wearing a Chicago Bulls T-shirt. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Directly and indirectly nearly one-fifth of Chicago’s population depended on the yards for its economic survival. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “For a while I figured I was never going to see Chicago again. Dang glad you heard me.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Everywhere the train stopped—Charleston, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and many other places, ending in New York—enormous rallies were held, featuring speeches by veteran suffragist activists, each one dressed in prison garb. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It was one of Morrie’s first jobs after plowing through a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Evening visits by strangers were a regular occurrence at the Ashland house, for Harrison prided himself on being available to any citizen of Chicago, regardless of social stature. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As one man put it, Chicago “was alive to the tips of her fingers and the core of her heart and brain.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Upon graduation from high school, Chris was offered two full scholarships, one to Reed College in Oregon and the other to the University of Chicago. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Bradley, when your son’s body arrived in Chicago, were you able to identify it as him?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Maybe a Chicago sewer grate where there should have been a window, or a ship’s steam stack in place of the carved Torah ark. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Kerling asked her if she wanted to go on a road trip with him to Cincinnati, Chicago, and Florida. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z First it was Theodore Thomas, conductor of Chicago’s symphony, who saw the island as the ideal site, the only site, for a music hall worthy of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Many ended up in the Chicago River, the city’s main commercial artery. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was the happiest I’d felt since we moved to Chicago. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z At the same time the relatives were coming from Chicago and Georgia, the Marine pilots from around America began to land in Ravenel, began to arrive in transports and jets, and private planes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dante and his parents came over to our house the day before they left for Chicago. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z But the Blue Bird train pulled in from Chicago, right on schedule. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Suspecting Moishe had connections to anarchist groups in Chicago and had helped assassinate Mr. Katz, despite only being sixteen, the police put out a manhunt for him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The Press Club of Chicago invited him to present a preview of the danse du ventre to its members. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The next one could be under Chicago or Paris or Kinshasa. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She doesn’t have the contacts to get a job at the teaching hospitals in Chicago where she would get better training and higher pay. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In June a group of cowboys organized a thousand-mile race from Chadron, Nebraska, to Chicago, in honor of the fair and planned to end it in Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In this cave, Heisenberg had been trying to build an atomic pile, similar to the one made by Enrico Fermi on the squash court in Chicago. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was smoke, clatter, mud, and confusion, as if an army were massing for an assault on Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Said goodbye like I would in Chicago. Put the penny in her hand.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine coming to Chicago alone. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Would Russ, the young man in the car in Chicago, have ended up dead if he had been confronted by just one officer? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He lived in Chicago at that time, at 6116 South Michigan Avenue. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Six out of every seven people struck down by tuberculosis in Chicago were black. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter that I’ve lived in Chicago forever; the winters here are always a kick in the teeth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z One was Brand, a short, black, morose bachelor; the other was Cooke, a tall, yellow, spectacled fellow who spent his spare time keeping track of world events through the Chicago Daily Tribune. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Certain secular practices at the Chicago headquarters of Elijah Muhammad had come to Malcolm’s notice and he was profoundly shocked. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z White packinghouse workers in Chicago felt a bond with the Argo immigrants. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If the University of Chicago was terra incognita for Jesse, it was also unsettling for me, not a world I was at ease in. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dad, we’re going to Chicago this weekend. For the Islamic Quiz Bowl tournament. Are we going to see you?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “That big explosion on the Navy ship in California? Port Chicago disaster, they called it. My daddy was on that. Been three years now....” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z She said nothing about her trunk, which was still in Midlothian awaiting shipment to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In this particular case, it was a song about a man driving with his friend to Chicago and sleeping in parking lots. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Reading the Chicago Tribune was a daily reminder of just what whites were thinking. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I could hear them discussing the pros and cons of New York, Atlanta, Chicago. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z This is no different from what Ian Ayres found when he did his study of the way black men were treated by car salesmen in Chicago. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Under the Common Core rubric, students in, say, Chicago’s tony northern suburbs might read New Yorker pieces—on the South Side, they’ll get train schedules. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “They’re like twenty-eight. They live in Chicago. They are both married to very fancy lawyer dudes. Or banker dudes. I can’t remember. You have siblings?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He wrote letters from New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago full of promises of homecomings, but there was obviously something wrong. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Some blacks with education and skills, like Ida Wells-Barnett, had managed to get away to cities like New York or Philadelphia or Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If it doesn’t have Chicago plumbing, it’s nonsense. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They probably didn’t know that his wife was a teacher too—eighth grade English at a school on Chicago’s South Side. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Holmes had bought the insurance in 1893 from Fidelity’s Chicago office, just before the close of the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the 1880s Chicago was experiencing explosive growth that propelled land values to levels no one could have imagined, especially within the downtown “Loop,” named for the turn-around loops of streetcar lines. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In Chicago hostesses always knew when guests had taken the cure, because upon being offered a drink, those guests invariably answered, “No, thank you. I’ve been to Dwight.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I had arrived in Chicago two years ago, but I had only lived in my apartment for the last ten months. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z From Anika78 in suburban Chicago: I was stopped at the door of my high school because I was wearing a trench coat. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1845, married and caring for a newborn daughter, John and Mary decided to move farther north and make Chicago their home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One astonished New York comrade declared: “A Chicago Communist is a walking terror!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately after the destruction of his business, he murmured, “The Times is dead. Chicago is gone, and I’m all through.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you go around Chicago in taxicabs and trolleys?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “A brigade of Chicago gorillas armed with Tommy guns might be able to get to Seabiscuit—after shooting down everybody on the lot,” said Howard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I expressed willingness, an appointment was made, and I flew to Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves asked Oppenheimer to join him in Chicago a week later for further discussion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Recognizing that the architects’ delays had put everything behind schedule, he inserted into the construction contracts clauses that made him a “czar,” as the Chicago Tribune put it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z People were flowing up to Harlem in droves, from the South, from Chicago, from everyplace. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chicago isn’t a thousand miles away from Gainesville,” Mom replied. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z In the few short decades since King’s death, a new regime of racially disparate mass incarceration has emerged in Chicago and become the primary mechanism for racial oppression and the denial of equal opportunity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The guys from Chicago listened to R&B, while the Californians were into acid rock. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In 1998, Walter and I were asked to go to Chicago to attend a national conference where exonerated former death row prisoners were planning to gather. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Chicago, incorporated in 1837, was at the center of both, for one reason: location. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “She—” Finn started to tell about how Mom was going on a business trip to Chicago. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z African American newspapers such as the Chicago Defender, the most widely read black publication, and the Pittsburgh Courier continually published editorials and cartoons showing the great advantages of moving from the South to the North. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The point is that when blacks socialized with whites in the 1950s in Chicago, it didn’t happen by accident; it happened because a certain kind of person made it happen. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The closest I’d come to violating that tenet had been a very subtle hint—which Jesse had ignored anyway—that getting an apartment in Chicago via the Net might prove risky. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But instead of hopping a freight, it was the Internet they’d ride out of town to Chicago, and it was the Middleton High Geek Club that started the trip. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Chicago, increasing numbers of Muslims were leaving Mosque Two, I heard, and many non-Muslims who had been sympathetic to the Nation were now outspokenly anti-Muslim. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote opera critiques for the Chicago Tribune. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He knew as well as anyone that train wrecks in Chicago were nearly a daily occurrence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Chicago’s water teemed with bacteria, thanks mainly to the Chicago River. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If I didn’t know better—if the gold-flecked eyes didn’t brim with many millennia’s worth of knowledge—I’d swear he was just one of the chess-playing old heads at my apartment complex in Chicago. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z T. Arnold Hill was tasked with leading the new Chicago branch of the National Urban League. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He grew up in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a pediatrician, and entered the University of Chicago at fifteen. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One day his wife, Louisa—“Lulu”—traveled to Chicago for a surprise conjugal visit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Maybe if Aimee hadn’t been such a fashion guru, her mom would never have gotten that job and they would never have had to leave Chicago. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z All of the trash was carted to the lake and dumped; not only was Chicago swept clean of the fire, but a large landfill was created in the process. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The Tribune Building was one of the newer “fireproof” structures, one which, for many citizens, symbolized the wealth and energy of Chicago. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z A front-page headline in the Chicago Tribune the next day read simply, “The Phenom.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On another perfect blue-sky day in Honolulu, we boarded a plane and flew home to Chicago, back into the chill of winter and into what for Barack was shaping up to be a political disaster. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Most of them in those years worked around Chicago in various jobs, laborers, driving taxis, and things such as that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Suppose Penn did tell me she’d been to university in Chicago. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The train approaches Chicago in the late afternoon. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Hayden came to Chicago to produce final drawings, then returned home, leaving their execution to Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The formal opening, however, would not occur until May 1, 1893, to give Chicago more time to prepare. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This was hardly the goal in the mind of the Chicago school officials who conceived the lottery. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The stories from up north painted a much rosier picture of education in Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Barack had two years of school left and said he hoped to settle in Chicago when he was done. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z According to his worn, continuously revised spreadsheet, he and Eric had two weeks left to find work and get their first paychecks before this new life in Chicago crashed like some cheap computer. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The honor of Chicago’s leading men, who prided themselves on their unsentimental—some might say ruthless—pursuit of maximum profit, was in peril. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And so I kept showing up every morning in downtown Chicago, at the corporate ant mound known as One First National Plaza. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The basement was the only genuinely dark place Colin had ever seen in Chicago—day and night, orange-gray light seeped through any place with windows. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The ticket would take me to Chicago, then to Hong Kong, then to Brisbane. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z One morning in August 1886, as heat rose from the streets with the intensity of a child’s fever, a man calling himself H. H. Holmes walked into one of Chicago’s train stations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My life in Chicago was nothing if not crowded with accomplished and eligible black women. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Initially he had been ambivalent about whether Chicago should even seek the world’s fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A Chicago landmark, the building drew readers from far and wide. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “See, Blanca, let’s just give them what money we can”—diamond ring included —“and let them go to Chicago.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Back in Chicago, I used to hang out at a lot of gas stations.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z During this period, the exact date unclear, a milk peddler named Joseph McCarthy stopped his cart near Chicago’s Humboldt Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Both knew there wouldn’t be much help available, from any source, once Jesse got to far-off Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-five-month-old Colin sat in a high chair, eating a breakfast of indeterminate vegetative origin while his father read the Chicago Tribune across their small kitchen table. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z As the practical details piled up in his mind, Conant, who had come to Chicago still imbued with the skepticism about atomic weaponry prevailing in Bush’s circle, finally began to reconsider. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was teaching a class on racism and the law at the University of Chicago Law School and working by day at his law firm, mostly on cases involving voting rights and employment discrimination. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Luther Rice joined them, as did two draftsmen and the city of Chicago’s former bridge engineer, W. C. Hughes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sure enough, conflict between them broke open at the end of January, when Lawrence appeared in Chicago with a proposal to centralize all the plutonium and isotope work, including the atomic pile, at Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Jimmy Zizmo’s funeral was held thirteen days later by permission of the bishop in Chicago. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “At present,” he said, “I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A week later, they board a morning flight at Philadelphia International Airport, change planes in Chicago, and land that afternoon in Nebraska. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Country boy’s been my name since I came to Chicago. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z At last, a cold front’s moving in, bringing cool air from Canada or Chicago or somewhere. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Over breakfast at his hotel on Thursday morning, Burnham read with uneasiness about the failure of S. A. Kean & Co., a private bank in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In 1919, Chicago was regarded as the crime capital of the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Complaining that “the Chicago people” were muscling in on his match race, Swope went into overdrive. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It continued driving the fire through the heart of Chicago, devouring churches, banks, publishing houses and printers, breweries, grain elevators, lumberyards, and department stores as if they were constructed of brittle hay. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z We said good-bye, agreeing that I would fly out to Chicago a couple of weeks after he and Eric had landed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had grown up in Franklin, Indiana, and lived there with her parents until 1891, when she set out for a bigger, more glamorous life in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Everybody else tried to kill it. Chicago built it. I am here to save it and I’ll be hanged if I haven’t.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My family lived in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, in a tidy brick bungalow that belonged to Robbie and her husband, Terry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And a school photograph—me, from seventh grade, cut from the Chicago Tribune. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z He took the coffee for the train, on the walk back ruminating about the nature of work in downtown Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Having arrived only the night before from Chicago, Barack was hoping to ride all the way to school with the girls, but he knew it would create too much of a scene. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Both are buried in Chicago, in Graceland, on a tiny island in the cemetery’s only pond. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We rode on the “L,” the trains that travel all over Chicago. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I grab my satchel and make my way fast down the stairs, through the school yard, past block after block of the cracked sidewalks of Chicago’s South Side. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z He worried that Chicago would not be up to the task. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On Tuesday, August 12, just four days after he and Codman arrived in Chicago, Olmsted filed a report with the exposition directors, who then to his chagrin made the report public. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It's where they keep a collection about Chicago's music. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The real reason, he said, was “jealousy in Chicago, and I had objected to the immorality of the man who professed to be more moral than anybody.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard someone bang on the desk, and then Professor Nemur shouted: “I’ve already informed the convention committee that we will present the paper at Chicago.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Immediately he derided my hair and accent, for since I came from Chicago I had no right to act otherwise. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Jerome died in the city. Chicago. The same city where Emmett was born.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad told me that his older children’s lack of formal education reflected their sacrifice to form the backbone for today’s Universities of Islam in Detroit and Chicago which have better-qualified faculties. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Millet hired actors to play Columbus and his captains; the crew would consist of the men who had sailed the ships to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The poor and slovenly people of De Koven Street — specifically Mrs. O’Leary and her cow — were the cause of the fire and the destruction of Chicago. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z It was nearly four o'clock in the afternoon on June 19 when a taxicab drove down the leafy tree-lined street in Chicago, Illinois. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “It’s charging for the Chicago trip. But not with me,” I say, annoyed at her blustery intrusion. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Most Chicago residents had no choice but to drink the water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “What would Mom attribute to Dad’s side? The dread Chicago side.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The librarian at the University of Chicago was happy to tell him all she knew. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z New York was the nation’s capital of cultural and social refinement, and its leading citizens and newspapers never let Chicago forget it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Chicago had recently renovated its fire alarm system, making it one of the best in the nation. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z My cousin Stacey, who goes to New Castle, says she and a friend were in Chicago and he was playing this club and he totally hooked up with both of them? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And for that, the cyclotron at Washington University in St. Louis, which Compton had built before moving to the University of Chicago, would do. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Well, yes, the painting is traveling just now. It’s in Chicago. There’s going to be a show called ‘Writers in Art’ at the Art Institute.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Burger had been instructed to move to Chicago, the location chosen for their headquarters. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He wanted Ms. Morales to fly to Chicago and back in the next five minutes and bring Mom home, just like that. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z A little girl traveling to New York from Chicago had gotten on the wrong flight and had ended up in Miami. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Mayor Harrison joined Ferris on the platform, as did Bertha Palmer, the entire Chicago city council, and an assortment of fair officials. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He’d been invited to speak in Chicago the next month to the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, a conservative and influential group of TB experts. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The eastern and Chicago architects met again on Monday morning, January 12, in Burnham & Root’s library on the top floor of the Rookery. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Once back in Chicago, Ellsworth secured formal authority to hire Olmsted and arranged to have him report directly to Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mom said we had ridden on the train once, going up to Chicago for Aunt Cecily’s wedding, way back before Susie was born. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Bobby Rush, the incumbent congressman, had tragically lost a family member to gun violence in Chicago only a few months earlier, which cast Barack in an even poorer light. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. Malloy is deep in conversation with one of the members from Chicago. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And we steamed on, riding the Wabash Blue Bird, bound for Chicago across the patchwork fields. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There was no shortage of women seeking work, for the fair had drawn legions of them to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The committee met and passed a resolution whose closing passage read: “The men who have helped build Chicago want the fair, and, having a just and well-sustained claim, they intend to have it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’m picking the lady peas for stones, thinking about how we’re breathing the same air those Chicago people breathed two days ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The work in Chicago had begun to look hopeless. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I highly doubted a Hasidic holy man was hiding in the brick-and-metal heart of Chicago, much less that Frankie, coming from the opposing Misnagdic sect of Judaism, would want anything to do with one. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He moved his family out of Chicago and hid his best china. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I hand the purse to the woman from Chicago. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z According to a Chicago Tribune report, when the Illinois group lined up to begin the march, “Suddenly from the crowd on the sidewalk Miss Barnett walked calmly out to the delegation and assumed her place.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z This, of course, was 1969, in a public school on the South Side of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Even more alarming was what the Lawrence brothers witnessed that September at the Fifth International Congress of Radiology in Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The earth moves two thousand miles, the distance from Chicago to Burnt Mill Creek, in one minute and forty seconds,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z We were holing up for the night at a Holiday Inn Express next to the interstate, with Barack leaving for Missouri the next day and the girls and I headed home to Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Dwight, meanwhile, had moved to Chicago to take a job at the Tribune. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was clear to him that now, finally, the architects understood that Chicago had been serious about its elaborate plans for the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Half of Chicago’s 185 active firefighters had spent all of Saturday night fighting a major fire, and many had come away with blistered skin, swollen eyes, and smoke-congested lungs. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Chicago takes up about two hundred twenty-seven square miles,” says Zoe. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Like they bumped over Detroit and Chicago and Denver.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I inhaled, passed it off to this Chicago girl, and when I brushed her long elegant fingers, I shuddered a bit from the blast. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Daisy was popular in Chicago, as you know. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Finally, when it became apparent that nothing could be done about it, he accepted the fact that we would have to spend our first night in Chicago at the Independence. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “This complaint is universal, and stronger than you in Chicago are aware of, I am sure,” he told Burnham. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z During the years that Venkatesh lived with J. T.’s gang, foot soldiers often asked his help in landing what they called “a good job”: working as a janitor at the University of Chicago. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I say, throwing my Chicago clothes into the laundry hamper while scouting for new hiding places for my agendas and notebooks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Before the fire was completely extinguished, Chicago citizens were already demanding answers to some angry questions. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Except for my son, Darrell, in Chicago, all my children live here in Dallas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the fire, Chicago citizens viewed their city with justifiable pride. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z To anyone who met him, he appeared to be just another poor soul crushed by the din and filth of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We’d work out our feelings, I figured, when Barack came back to Chicago, when the weather warmed up, when we had the luxury of spending weekends together again. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There was, however, one group of students in Chicago who did see a dramatic change: those who entered a technical school or career academy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When she had visited Chicago a couple of years ago, she had told Petra that all of her namesakes had grown up to be very beautiful and very lucky. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z By the time we leave Chicago, it is evening. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z To workers, Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers came increasingly to seem like saviors, Chicago’s merchant princes like devils. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Frankie had told me how he had gotten from Brooklyn to Chicago, but not what happened after his arrival. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Just four days later, Chicago proved that judgment terribly wrong. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That even made me wonder if there might actually be a train leaving to Chicago that he wouldn’t tell me about. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago had plenty of each, plus a lot more; there was some of everything there. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to Chicago and wrote Mameh a letter from there. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z All of Chicago, it seemed, was holding its breath, waiting for news. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He claimed to have deposited one package of dismembered cadaver in the Fidelity Storage Warehouse in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He wasn’t back at Dartmouth or over in one of the plush private hospitals on Chicago’s north side, where money wasn’t an issue. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z If we succeed in what we attempt tonight, tomorrow Chicago will be safe, the Bureau will be forever changed, and Tris and I will be able to build a new life for ourselves somewhere. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z His father had bought it for him at the Chicago world’s fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One of Chicago’s main hospitals was four or five blocks away, down toward the lakefront. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z When he was twenty-two he had come south to this town from Chicago and he met Antonapoulos immediately. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I saw friends from nearly every phase of my life—Princeton friends, Harvard friends, Chicago friends, Robinsons and Shieldses galore. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He put his eldest son, John, in charge of the Brookline office and left Harry Codman in Chicago to guide the work on the world’s fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "He’s the Chairman. He started this whole thing up here in Chicago. You keep coming out, he’ll be here one of these times. See you next week?" The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z This is a stately mansion on Chicago’s South Side, and it is the headquarters of the Nation of Islam movement. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z More and more of Chicago’s black gangsters were getting sent to federal prisons. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z So early on the morning of April 21, I flew west and took a taxi to the University of Chicago for an 11 A.M. appointment with the Dean of Admissions. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z People were leaving the South and heading to Chicago in parties of twenty, sixty, even more. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In the middle of the blades, a round brass boss proclaimed in curly script, Chicago’s Finest Wind Machine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “It’s an event put on by Chicago’s chapter of the Pioneers of Liberty.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I’ve also got train stubs from the time Dad took us to Chicago, and a picture of us on the shore of Lake Michigan, with the waves lapping at our feet. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Oh, he’s always headed somewhere. Washington and Chicago and Oklahoma and Kansas City—sometimes it seems like he’s never home. But wherever he goes, he remembers how I dote on tiny things.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z For years in Chicago, our date nights had been a sacred part of every week, an indulgence we built into our lives and protected no matter what. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I think Rome at its worst had nothing on Chicago during those lurid days.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There wasn’t room for it in our Chicago apartment. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to cram this weekend. After Chicago.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z We didn’t join a church in Washington, because we didn’t want to subject another congregation to the kind of bad-faith attacks that had rained down on Trinity, our church in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Burnham loved Chicago for the opportunity it afforded, but he grew wary of the city itself. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A train with a more lighthearted cargo also headed for Chicago, this one leased by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West show. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And he would be coming to Chicago pretty often, too. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Every Chicago resident who could read devoured these reports from abroad, but none with quite so much intensity as Dr. H. H. Holmes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Many people had put off their visits in the expectation that the nation’s worsening economic crisis and pressure from Congress eventually would compel the railroads to reduce their Chicago fares. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On the south side of Chicago, people wanting to sell crack vastly outnumbered the available street corners. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Chicago’s L train was nothing compared to this. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Starting the year after Lawrence met him, his renown as a theorist would land him appointments first at the University of Chicago and then at Yale University’s Sloane Physics Laboratory as director. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She created the first American settlement house, a home in Chicago where poor and middle-class women lived together. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z "It was all in the Chicago newspaper. I started right away." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He’d come back to Chicago over his summer break from Harvard, this time skipping the sublet and moving directly into my apartment on Euclid Avenue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z By the evening of February 17, 1893, as a blizzard bore down on Chicago, Olmsted was under a doctor’s care, confined to his hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She had no one to talk to in Chicago—no one, that is, but her sixth-grade class. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Mary Anne yelled from the back of the car, “You know what Chicago is, Popsy? It’s the hemorrhoid of the planet earth.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the evening I flew home to Chicago, I felt a heavy dread settling over me, knowing that I was about to step back into my everyday routine and the fog of my confusion. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I just wanted to hang out at the only place in Chicago that I liked besides the library. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Construction of the Mines Building had gone smoothly, thanks to a winter that by Chicago standards had been mercifully benign. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Richton Park, he countered, was a good transition to life in Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad invited me to visit his home in Chicago, as often as possible, while he trained me, for months. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Same for running across a member of my shul, although I doubted any of them planned to spend their evening in Chicago’s decadent underbelly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I scoffed as I scanned over an opinion piece calling for the assimilation of Eastern European immigrants into Chicago’s well-established German reform community. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Black leaders were keenly aware of white Chicago’s postwar desire to return to the days of blacks being nearly invisible in the overall fabric of the city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I waited while one white Communist called another white Communist to one side and discussed what could be done to get me, a black Chicago Communist, housed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Olmsted left for Chicago to take over direct supervision of the work while Codman recovered. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The case, then commanding headlines as far east as Chicago, as far west as Denver, had indeed lured to Garden City a considerable press corps. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He was stuck in a grim Chicago suburb almost as far from an interesting cultural life as Caldwell was. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And Mr. Muhammad with his personal jet plane from Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If you've never passed a winter in Chicago, let me describe it: You can live for a hundred straight days beneath an iron-gray sky that claps itself like a lid over the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Arthur Kinzie had just moved back to Chicago on October 6 and was one of those who had fled with his family to the northernmost limits of the city. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Not the first time I’ve been somebody’s b-bad dream. Anyway, now I know what a fish feels like. I think I like Chicago better.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z That day Burnham wrote to a Chicago architect named W. W. Boyington: “Mr. Root is quite low, and there is uncertainty about his recovery, but still a chance for him.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On Clybourn Avenue in Chicago, just north of downtown, there was a strange paradise, seemingly built for the working parent, seemingly built for me: a standard, supremely American, got-it-all strip mall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad—each time I’d go to see him in Chicago, or in Phoenix—would warm me with his expressions of his approval and confidence in me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Even this flicker of optimism was about to disappear, however, for a powerful weather front was moving across the prairie, toward Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Together they had defeated gravity and conquered the soft gumbo of Chicago soil, to change forever the character of urban life; now, together, they would build the fair and change history. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z By fall, we had a cohort of twenty-seven Allies working all over Chicago, holding internships everywhere from city hall to a South Side community assistance agency to Latino Youth, an alternative high school in Pilsen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Be careful or you will fear even the Reds of Cincinnati and the White Sox of Chicago.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Actually, I’m going to go to Chicago first. Only for one night. I want to see Constantine, her grave.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z During the Civil War, the Barnett family fled to free Canada, then resettled in Chicago when the end of slavery made it safe. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was the first clear evidence that Chicago might have created something extraordinary after all, and it renewed Burnham’s hopes that the fair at last would achieve the level of attendance he had hoped for. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Because telephones, radios, and televisions did not exist, people in the distant portions of Chicago did not know very much about the fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z She spent a year there, during which she engaged in a letter-writing campaign to the Chicago Tribune newspaper that so embarrassed Robert, he had her released. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I was experiencing Chicago in a way I never had before. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z That’s what Enrico Fermi and his team were trying to do in the squash court under the football stands in Chicago. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, she was the executive vice president at a real-estate firm and a trustee at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Buffalo Bill’s Wild West may indeed have been an “incongruity,” as the directors had declared in rejecting his request for a concession within Jackson Park, but the citizens of Chicago had fallen in love. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He moved out and took a new job with a jewelry store in downtown Chicago, H. Purdy & Co. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As one observer noted, “The Catholics of Chicago are ministered to in twelve different languages.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In a parody of Aaron Montgomery Ward’s fast-growing empire in central Chicago, Holmes had begun selling sham drugs that he guaranteed would cure alcoholism and baldness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I lie back, listening to the soaps, and after a little I try finding it again, and my stupid radio will pick up every Chicago station except the one carrying the football game. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The driver and I started on our way through dark, murmuring—and, at this hour, strangely beautiful—Chicago, along the lake. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z In 1996, the Chicago Board of Education enforced new rules saying that students had to make at least a 6.8 grade level in reading and math to move on to high school. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly Cooke dropped the Chicago Daily Tribune and pulled a long knife from his pocket; his thumb pressed a button and a gleaming steel blade leaped out. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine this balloon coming loose and chasing a little Mexican girl throughout the streets of Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Not since the Chicago Fire of 1871 had the city’s newspapers been so galvanized by a single event. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some summers there had been road trips with one or two Bengali families, in rented vans, going to Toronto or Atlanta or Chicago, places where they had other Bengali friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Our apartment on Euclid Avenue was about nine miles south of the Chicago Loop, which with its glittering skyscrapers and crowded sidewalks felt otherworldly to me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The initial ballot put Chicago ahead by a big margin, with 115 votes to New York’s 72. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In April 1893 the citizens of Chicago elected Carter Henry Harrison to his fifth term. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Chicago Defender spreads word of the Great Migration, August 19, 1916. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He met up with his brother Walter in Chicago, where he was fleeced and pickpocketed from the time he hit town till the time he left. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The guy who normally lived there was a University of Chicago law student and he’d furnished it like any good student would, with mismatched garage-sale finds. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Fannie heard seamstresses in Chicago and New York City had banded together and demanded higher pay and safer working conditions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Racial confrontation was big news, the kind of news that made headlines in the Chicago Defender and would be read by the thousands of black subscribers in Chicago and around the nation. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She wrapped up the family’s affairs, readied the children, and boarded the Illinois Central, resigned to whatever Chicago might bring. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Not only was Chicago alive, not only was it going to rebuild, but many people predicted it would be bigger and better than before. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Why would you want to go to New Jersey, anyway? Why not New York, or better yet, Chicago? Hell, it’s closer.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z First problem: how to preserve fresh meat dressed in Chicago so that it could be shipped without spoilage to customers in faraway cities and towns. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In the early 1950s, for example, Weisberg ran a drama troupe in Chicago. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1920s, Chicago alone had more than 1,300 street gangs, catering to every ethnic, political, and criminal leaning imaginable. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When the yellow-gray buildings on the lakefront were demolished, shortly after Venkatesh’s first visit, the gang relocated to another housing project even deeper in Chicago’s south side. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “The fringe is a large, sort of chaotic place between Chicago and the nearest government-regulated metropolitan area, Milwaukee, which is about a three-hour drive from here.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He was sixty-eight years old but announced, “I intend to live for more than half a century, and at the end of that half-century London will be trembling lest Chicago shall surpass it....” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And as the people of Chicago were learning, these newly arrived black citizens were making decisions that could affect them all. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Now, if I were back in Chicago, I’d just stuff a pillow over my head to block out the noise, figuring it was a neighbor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “The first words that entered this case, ’I want the boy from Chicago who did the talking at Money,’ were dripping with the blood of Emmett Till. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z It was estimated that about 400,000 African Americans in the state were eligible to vote but still unregistered, the majority in and around Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You guys are flying into Chicago tonight! I already know.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z With the development of the refrigerated car in the late 1870s, meat dressed in Chicago could be shipped to the many people living in New York, Boston, and other East Coast cities. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Five kids from New York State had been chosen to be honored at this ceremony at the University of Chicago, all based on one math test they had taken at the end of last year. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z His report explains that a professor at a Chicago observatory has spotted several gas explosions on Mars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z "This is no time to be squeamish," the Chicago Daily News reported. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “When did she die? How long was she living in Chicago?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Was being “a geek on the rise” a valued asset at the University of Chicago, known for its classic core curriculum? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This time Neylan’s target was Melvin Calvin, a future Nobel laureate who had worked at the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago and then moved to Berkeley to research peacetime applications of medical radioisotopes with John Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Defender’s founder, Robert Abbott, had been born in the South, and like the Barnetts and Gustavus Swift, he recognized Chicago as a place where he could do big things. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If we were having the wedding in Chicago, there was no trimming the guest list. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At three o’clock, about the time Harrison was giving his speech, Prendergast walked into the Unity Building in central Chicago where Governor John P. Altgeld had an office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Beyond the fairgrounds’ new fence, turmoil and grief engulfed Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When Julia went home to Chicago, I stopped trying to fool people with my pretense of being okay. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “There’s the Illinois Central. The Southern Pacific. And right there goes the queen of them all, the Rock Island Line. That’s the one that half your Chicago relatives work on, Ben. Watch where you’re whizzin’. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nancy from chemistry class told me she had never been outside of Chicago until two years ago, when she went to Wisconsin. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The city’s newspapers loved to crow about the startling increase in the number of workers employed by Chicago’s industries, especially meat-packing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “A library for colored folks? It’s a library for Chicago residents,” she says, serious. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z He obviously did not want to tell what happened, since in his own story of the laboratory, and the suit, and his trip to Chicago he never mentioned Edward at all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z You could step from a curb and be killed by the Chicago Limited. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Seems in Chicago everybody’s a baseball fan but me and Daddy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Animals and birds and more dang crickets all wanted a piece of this Chicago boy who was invading their turf. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He trawled for jobs on the Chicago Tribune site, on computer mailing lists and on geek employment agency websites. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel a familiar pang in my chest as I think about Eva, who’s going to a ballet program in Chicago. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He insisted she shop at an expensive department store in Chicago, where everything cost more than she wanted to spend, but when she complained, she got nowhere. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There is a drawing for work he must complete by tomorrow, a cross section for a high school auditorium in Chicago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He said they had better singers in the projects in Chicago. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington, D.C., and Chicago both instituted handgun bans well before crime began to fall across the country in the 1990s, and yet those two cities were laggards, not leaders, in the national reduction in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Cody upstaged the fair again in July, when exposition officials rejected a request from Mayor Carter Harrison that the fair dedicate one day to the poor children of Chicago and admit them at no charge. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Chicago was cold and my parents figured out a way to keep warm.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “But I hear there’s a blizzard in Chicago,” I said. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls and I were headed home to Chicago, returning to work and school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It gave Chicago a light to hold against the gathering dark of economic calamity. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Library’s the only place in Chicago I want to be,” I tell Daddy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Nothing going to Chicago today, boy. Closest is a train to St. Louis; that’s on the way to Cleveland.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The hall was filled to capacity with members of Chicago’s leading families. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a rich fee, considering that all Burnham wanted them to do was provide working drawings and make a few visits to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I spent hours sitting by the window, watching the world pass by as we went from the East Coast to Chicago, then across the Midwest and through the Southwest. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “You probably took a gander at the body the Chicago cops put on display. You reckon it was really Dillinger?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z President Cleveland ordered federal troops to Chicago and placed them under the command of General Nelson A. Miles, previously the grand marshal of the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I heard Dante's voice as I listened to his parents talk about their year in Chicago. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Or was this, perhaps, the work of a repeat killer—someone like Dr. H. H. Holmes, who had murdered at least twenty-seven people, many of them during the 1893 World’s Fair, in Chicago? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They stayed in El Paso with Apá’s distant cousin and worked at a restaurant until they were able to save enough money to take the bus to Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The sun rose on Monday, and Chicago continued to burn. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Corbett was the boxer who had downed John L. Sullivan in the great fight of September 1892, a battle that had consumed the entire front page of the next morning’s Chicago Tribune. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Frankie would be glad to know he wasn’t the only Jew in Chicago incapable of telling a good joke. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Fifteen thousand delegates, spectators, and news reporters filled Chicago's huge Interstate Industrial Exposition Building. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Sister Betty X, of course, knew all about this, so there was no reason for her to think anything of it when it was arranged for her to go to Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Terry, meanwhile, had once been a Pullman porter on one of the overnight passenger rail lines running in and out of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “But I think the Chicago experiment, in particular, has been a success for so long that they’ll be a little reluctant to just ditch it now. It was the first one with factions.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Judging from his comments to his associates, his remarks about Chicago’s infernal July weather, and his general aversion to racing in “the West,” Riddle was almost certainly not considering the Arlington offer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For the most part, White and others insisted, Chicago had remained civilized and orderly. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z In 1855, when he was nine, the family moved to Chicago, where his father established a successful wholesale drug business. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Other cities came to Daniel Burnham for citywide plans, among them Fort Worth, Atlantic City, and St. Louis, but he turned them down to concentrate on his last plan, for the city of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We became good buddies in a speakeasy where later on I was a waiter; Chicago Red was the funniest dishwasher on this earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z On West Harrison Street in Chicago, two miles west of the city’s downtown, there is an ornate, block-long building designed and built in the early part of the last century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “It’s the record room. They keep some of the Chicago experiment data in here.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In this plea, Chicago was aided by the combination of telegraph and newspapers. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Soon blacks were gathered at Quinn Chapel, celebrating the first-ever wage scale in Chicago that gave equal pay to black and white waiters. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "I saw it in the Chicago newspaper," he said. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z On July 5, Oppenheimer sent a telegram to top Manhattan Project physicists in Berkeley and Chicago: “Any time after the fifteenth would be a good time for our fishing trip.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I was coming from Chicago, after all, where winter stretched through April, where it was normal to keep a snow shovel stashed in the trunk of your car. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z With the Chicago fair always in mind, Olmsted examined every detail. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Despite the fact that Mr. Muhammad, convalescing, could no longer work the daily long hours he had previously worked in Chicago, he was now more than ever burdened with heavy decision-making and administrative duties. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But the summer brought him a letter, with no return name or address, but postmarked from Chicago. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z In 1833, when the village of Chicago voted to incorporate, it was a muddy little trading post with fewer than 100 inhabitants. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’m one of their best customers down there. I rode the train to Chicago in 1903.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z On one visit to Chicago, I met one of Jesse’s oldest Idaho friends. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He started with the old issues of the Chicago Defender boxed up at the back of the cowshed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z When I found them I bought a ticket for a night bus to Chicago, paying the fare as far as Scranton, Pennsylvania, which was as much as I thought I could afford. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I have another favorite thing to do besides riding the El: going to the Art Institute of Chicago. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z One of them was from my alma mater, the University of Chicago. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Half of the soldiers were black, mostly from Chicago, the other half white, mostly from California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Emmett pauses, closes his eyes, then mutters, “I begged my cousins not to tell my uncle and aunt. ‘I don’t want to be sent back to Chicago,’ I said. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z In Chicago, like the rest of the country, the War on Drugs is an engine of mass incarceration, as well as a major cause of gross racial disparities throughout the system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Parents who couldn’t show up at the ceremony in Chicago might buy a gift, might slip their kid a little money. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z In November 1890 Holmes learned along with the rest of Chicago that the directors of the World’s Columbian Exposition had at last reached a decision as to where to build the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He met up with his brother Walter in Chicago, where he was fleeced and pickpocketed from the time he hit town till the time he left. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly it seemed as if an Eiffel Tower in Chicago was a certainty—that Eiffel himself was to do the out-Eiffeling. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “She take her to a... orphanage. Up in Chicago.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The people on the sidewalks seemed better dressed than the people of Chicago. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The result was an absolute disaster at the Democratic convention in Chicago. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Hastily, Root and Burnham conferred and chose five Chicago firms to join the effort, among them Adler & Sullivan. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My brothers and sisters in Detroit and Chicago had all become converted to what they were being taught was the “natural religion for the black man” of which Philbert had written to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dream of acting white, of talking white, of being white, murdered Prince Jones as sure as it murders black people in Chicago with frightening regularity. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In Chicago Sol Bloom received a cable from France that startled him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then a Japanese man came to Chicago and started a school to teach Japanese Americans how to sex chickens. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Barnett excelled, attending Northwestern University and opening his own law office right there in Chicago when he was just twenty years old. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you go to the University of Chicago?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The fair was to be Burnham’s redemption, and Chicago’s. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If the fair failed, Burnham knew, the nation’s honor would be tarnished, Chicago humiliated, and his own firm dealt a crushing blow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He caught a train for Chicago but quickly found that he could not work as a druggist in Illinois until he passed a licensing examination in the state capital in Springfield. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Fully 70 percent of men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in the impoverished and overwhelmingly black North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side are saddled for life with a criminal record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In 1917, Charles S. Johnson, a black sociologist and later the first black president of Fisk University, captured some of their stories in interviews with Mississippi migrants about their move to Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Down at Grandma’s the only thing that reminded us of home and Chicago was Nehi. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It was Easter Sunday in Chicago, and my sister Amy and I were attending an afternoon dinner at the home of our friend John. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Robert Horton had marveled, even before the migration, at the power of blacks living in Chicago to elect their own. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The boy who I once considered to be my closest friend had only ended up in Chicago because he’d stowed away on a train from Grand Central Depot. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The Great Chicago Fire took nearly eighteen thousand buildings and left more than a hundred thousand people homeless. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It’d be nice if everyone helped Carlos feel welcome here in Chicago.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Two decades later, though more than thirty thousand blacks were living in Chicago, only five hundred had jobs in the meatpacking industry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The kids who skated the handrails at the park back in Chicago would’ve been impressed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z We were connected to the institutions that supported us by means of pneumatic tubes which ran under the streets of Chicago. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole of Chicago’s black community and a few white friends turned out to celebrate. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And just before the heat wave, a rising young British writer had published a scalding essay on Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Much later, my mother would tell me that every year when spring came and the air warmed up in Chicago, she entertained thoughts about leaving my father. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The light from the blaze was finally getting the attention it deserved from Chicago’s citizens. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z After an hour’s ride, the train pulled into Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So frequently do these acts recur that when I was halfway through the first draft of Native Son a case paralleling Bigger’s flared forth in the newspapers of Chicago. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then, if you have any liking for the road, go over the ground covered by the book, spending a few days in Chicago, Detroit, and Indianapolis. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But the Pullman strike halted all train traffic through Chicago, and the perishable foods rotted in their traincars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Just before leaving Chicago Holmes acquired a life insurance policy, from the Fidelity Mutual Life Association of Philadelphia, to insure Pitezel’s life for $10,000. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Holmes understood that powerful new forces were acting upon Chicago, causing a nearly miraculous expansion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Chicago was on the move, becoming biggest at just about everything: world’s biggest lumberyard, world’s busiest grain center, and, when the Union Stock Yard opened in 1865, the world’s biggest stockyard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But as soon as the 10:50 bus from Chicago parked itself, everything stopped. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Our time in Chicago with other exonerated former death row prisoners was energizing for Walter, who seemed more motivated than ever to talk about his experience. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z At lunch on the day of my Chicago visit, Jesse and I could hardly stop talking about what had happened at Littleton. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Chicago, under the law, most places were open to both blacks and whites: children attended school together, and adults rode streetcars together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was not until I went to live in Chicago that I first thought seriously of writing of Bigger Thomas. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE and not Chicago in 2006 CE? An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I’d gone out with a couple of guys in law school but hadn’t met anyone special upon returning to Chicago and had little interest anyway. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Hey, if somebody in Chicago is doing my night work for me, you can write a letter,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With these majestic violins, you’d think we were in some castle on the English moor instead of a dingy church basement in Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Gradually, enough were made interested, though, that each month, a few more automobiles lengthened our caravans to Temple Two in Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Jacob Riis, the New York journalist who had devoted himself to revealing the squalid housing of America’s poor, came to Chicago bearing counsel of a graver sort. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She would tell me in her maniacal westside of Chicago accent that she really liked me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Compton settled the argument by fiat: the pile would move to Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He realized that if he was to build something extraordinary, he must make Chicago his home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Eads discovered that workers began experiencing the bends at sixty feet below ground, roughly half the depth to which a Chicago caisson would have to descend. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad, when I went to see him in Chicago, had to chastise me on some point during nearly every visit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The fair’s capitulation pumped steam into America’s—and Chicago’s—already-boiling labor movement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Jesus, I thought, jesse took on a University of Chicago dean over free will? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chicago Tribune reported that two-thirds of the dead were white. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In October he visited in Chicago with Fermi, who had just flown in from Italy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We talked about the Knicks and how we were going to cop some tickets for the Garden when the Chicago Bulls came in. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z It was the beginning of the deadliest period of racial violence in Chicago history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Upon completing his graduate work at the University of Chicago, Venkatesh was awarded a three-year stay at Harvard’s Society of Fellows. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They should be moving forward with their plan and well on their way to Chicago. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z On a trip to Chicago in 1893, short, round fireball Ida Wells got to know tall, debonair, easygoing Ferdinand Barnett as they worked together on a pamphlet calling out racial inequities. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t care whether car A or car B gets to Chicago first. It’s a boring problem.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Buffalo Bill, resplendent in white buckskin and silver, was there to greet him, along with the rest of the Wild West company and ten thousand or so residents of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And despite his own paper’s editorial, not even the editor in chief of the Chicago Tribune, Horace White, smelled a good story in the smoke that was blowing into his neighborhood. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a space of beach about a half mile in length between Twenty-Sixth Street and Twenty-Ninth Street that was a favorite for people who lived on Chicago’s South Side. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I wonder how much gas it would take to go all the way to Chicago,” I said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I pick at the yellowed pages of the Chicago Defender papering over the wall. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Swann was unhappy anywhere he could not be the prima donna,” recalled the Berkeley physicist Leonard B. Loeb, who was a faculty colleague of Swann’s at Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As the leader, Kerling tabled the decision, reassuring Neubauer that it would be discussed later when the group was reunited in Chicago on July 6. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I noticed that almost all of the locations on the trees were either Chicago or Mexico. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z As reported in the Chicago Daily News, black leaders believed in black people’s freedom to spend their money “wherever the white man’s money is good.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z More than 70 percent of all criminal cases in the Chicago area involve a class D felony drug possession charge, the lowest-level felony charge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was twenty-two years old, born in Ireland in 1868; his family emigrated to the United States in 1871 and in August that year moved to Chicago, just in time to experience the Great Fire. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Chicago data shows that male and female teachers are equally prone to cheating. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Driven to the Bristol Hotel, Malcolm X checked in, and the adjoining suite was taken by members of the police force who would keep him under steady guard for the next three days in Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I never dreamed that the Chicago Muslim officials were going to make it appear that I was throwing gasoline on the fire instead of water. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago and its students pride themselves on the university’s intellectual rigor and demanding standards. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “About a year ago, in Chicago. He retired seven.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “I’ve been trying to get an address for her family in Chicago,” she say, “but nobody can tell me anything.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The final outcome of the Chicago study is further testament to the power of incentives: the following year, cheating by teachers fell more than 30 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Northwestern would be a long shot, but a shot. Don’t let him apply to Chicago. He’ll get rejected and discouraged. Believe me, he hasn’t got a chance.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "In Chicago —" "But he might not —" "No, no, darling, he won't —" "But he might!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z While FBI agents raced to the home of Herbie Haupt's uncle, Herbie had already gone to the draft board and registered, and was in a taxi on his way to the FBI office in Chicago. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Among Chicago’s leading men, profitability was a matter of personal and civic honor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Chicago meeting was the watershed moment in the atomic bomb project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I had never been to Chicago, but I knew one or two boys who went to Chicago University, and it seemed the sort of place where unconventional, mixed-up people would come from. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z We would start a family business in Chicago’s garment district. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z An important breakthrough occurred in a squash court under the west stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field, where Enrico Fermi had erected an atomic pile. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At about the same time, Alexander Frear, a New Yorker who was in Chicago visiting his sister-in-law, was leaving the Sherman House and crossing the square where the Courthouse stood. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “He’s a gangster from Chicago. Killed a lot of people on Valentine’s Day.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Being Chicago people, Mother and Dad didn’t have a tar. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A drunken Fire Department is . . . responsible for the destruction of Chicago.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Once back in Chicago he went directly to his office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They'd also raised enough money to launch a new chapter in Chicago, becoming one of the first organizations to receive federal funding through the AmeriCorps service program created under President Clinton. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Although Chicago was rapidly achieving recognition as an industrial and mercantile dynamo, its leading men felt keenly the slander from New York that their city had few cultural assets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the Chicago riot, 38 people of both races died, all of them men; 537 more were wounded. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z During the continuing Great Migration of African Americans from the South, Chicago had already received more blacks than any other northern city, a total that would grow to more than twenty-five thousand. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The institute had a certain cachet, but the village of Dwight was no Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She pulled a pencil out and said, “OK, this is how one figures the amount of time required to walk to Chicago. Now—” She pulled a third book out. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Two years later, the workings of the conspiracy, and its underlying intentions, were exposed during a trial in Chicago. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z The white boy is raised in a Chicago suburb by parents who read widely and involve themselves in school reform. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Yes, I would pose as an innocent boy; I would tell him that my aunt was taking me and my paralyzed mother to Chicago. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At Chicago, the students hoarded their meager supplies of chemical reagents and worked behind closed doors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Why spend all that time downloading a movie playing all over Chicago? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But I didn’t realize that Chicago’s very existence could be harmful to people outside who just want to be thought of as whole. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z After graduate work at Penn State and the University of Chicago, he was hired as a Harvard professor at age twenty-five. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “The bills she sends to her clients. Mom said she was going to Chicago. Maybe you can find out which clients she has in Chicago.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Nemenyi was a friend whom Regina had first met when she was a student at the University of Colorado in Denver and then later reconnected with in Chicago. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But first I went to Chicago to see Mr. Muhammad’s second youngest son, Wallace Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Out on the sidewalks in front I can pretend Chicago ain’t so bad, but in the alleys and around in back of the buildings, ain’t no hiding the dirt. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z It was established that my wife was to fly out to meet me in Chicago for a short break in my journey. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chicago Tribune reported that increasing turbulence in global markets had raised concerns in London that a recession, even a full-blown “panic,” could be in the offing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Bloom went to New York to meet the ship and reserved two traincars to bring the villagers and their cargo back to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I can see the faint and hazy Chicago skyline across the lake. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But now, with just us two in Chicago, I know Daddy better than I ever hoped to. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Back then when Bodega was a teenager, the Young Lords were an urban guerrilla group that had its origins in Chicago, but they made all their noise in El Barrio. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z While I was studying to be an anthropologist, I was also working as a police reporter for the famous Chicago City News Bureau for twenty-eight dollars a week. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He got a few issues of the Chicago Defender every month or so from his cousin Lewis, who sometimes worked as a porter on trains from Chicago to Dallas and was something of a radical. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He returned to the University of Chicago to brood, declaring that he would continue working on the Super independently. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence had already telephoned Arthur Compton to set up a meeting in Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Glenn Seaborg arrived in Chicago to take up his assignment from Compton on Sunday, April 19, 1942. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Chicago society, however, was just getting warmed up. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Black street gangs in particular flourished in Chicago, with membership in the tens of thousands by the 1970s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Which means that you stand a greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Suddenly it was just as dangerous to live in parts of Chicago or St. Louis or Los Angeles as it was to live in Bogota. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Hudluns, one of Chicago’s early black families, standing outside their home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Petra paused to think about seeing herself on a talk show, or having her picture on the front of the Chicago Tribune. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Jesse e-mailed me after reading a Newsweek-online story about how applications at the University of Chicago had jumped more than 30 percent in the past year. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Each refusal was a general loss for the black man, and, for the Nation of Islam, each refusal was a specific loss—and each refusal was made because of Chicago’s attitude. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago’s Commercial and Financial Chronicle reported, “Never before has there been such a sudden and striking cessation of industrial activity.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "Oh, you poor darling! It isn't a game, really you have no cause to worry, we're free. He's in Chicago, seeking his lost youth, no doubt," she said, bursting into laughter of self-surprise. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago, I was learning, was a much bigger city than I’d ever imagined it to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In October, Chicago’s all-black Eighth Infantry Regiment prepared to leave on the long journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the European continent. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As one black minister commented, “It is not simply the shame of Chicago, but of the nation.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Well, this hippo had a ball back in Chicago. Whoa Jesus, ninety-nine!” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first week of May a powerful storm dropped an ocean of rain on Chicago and again caused the Chicago River to reverse flow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z All of my father’s brothers and sisters are scattered across the United States—Texas, Los Angeles, North Carolina, and Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As might be expected, throwing open the doors of any school to every freshman in Chicago threatened to create bedlam. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He was worried about what they would think about his girlfriend, Gerda, whom he left behind in Chicago, and the secret he was keeping about her. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It seems that Claire’s family had not been in Chicago very long because her father had his wife and children wait while he asked directions from a man and woman who lived down the block. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Dear Ari, Okay, I really am sort of in love with Chicago. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z He had sworn not to shave until Chicago got the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, the streams of fleeing slaves became rivers of newly freed southern blacks entering Chicago each day. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If this were an American Dream story, Dandy, who arrived in Chicago in the early 1930s, would have found a good job and a pathway to college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Consider now the answer strings from the students in two sixth-grade Chicago classrooms who took the identical math test. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Just west of Chicago’s Black Belt sat the white immigrant communities known as Packingtown. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If any city could make good on the elaborate boasts circulated thus far, Chicago was the one. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We headed into the summer, with the University of Chicago Class of 2003 having gotten their acceptance letters and awaiting news about roommates and registration. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The final authority for them all was vested in Chicago’s bishop. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Even though I want to move far away from here, moments like these make me love Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “No tears. You know that I’ll be back soon. I’m only going away for four years. I’ll write you and send you postcards of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, St. Louis and Chicago.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack and I were excited to stay in Washington but would build a legacy on the South Side of Chicago, which would become home to the Obama Presidential Center. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Evangelists from all the surrounding counties, from as far south as Florida and as far north as Chicago, came together in one place to break the bread of life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z By day’s end there was every indication that Chicago’s fair would become the most heavily attended entertainment in the history of the world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z By some miracle, the adultety talk which was so widespread in Chicago seemed to only leak a little in Boston, Detroit, and New York. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was used to the almost-night of Chicago—with the glow of streetlights and the flicker of neon signs outside my window. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He tried to maintain contact with his siblings, but as they migrated to Chicago and New York, and he moved from place to place, their letters became less frequent. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z During a rally on May 4 to support workers seeking an eight-hour workday, a pipe bomb exploded in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, panicking both the demonstrators and the police, who opened fire. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z It’s still freezing, so of course no one is around, only a few annoying tourists who, for some stupid reason, thought it was a good idea to come to Chicago in the winter. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Chicago might as well be a million miles away from Flint and Miss Hill might as well be a squashed, crunched-up mess in a washing machine when it came down to helping me now. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Chicago’s small but vocal censorians feared that impoverished parents would turn the building into a depository for unwanted children. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The train and my new pretend brother got farther and farther away, chugging to Chicago. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Lawrence confided to Lilienthal that they were so close that he stayed at the McCormick country mansion when visiting Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He said he didn’t know nothing about poems, but when he left everything else behind, he kept the words she wrote tied in a ribbon and brought them all the way to Chicago. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Before this, I’d only spent the odd weekend here and there with Dad at his house in Chicago. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I remember with what pride we led twenty-five automobiles to Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In Chicago, I told him, geeks were probably one of the least odd subcultures around. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With architecture and construction such a fascination in Chicago, cornerstone ceremonies became extravagant affairs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She still dined at regular intervals with the woman who ran the first boardinghouse in which she had stayed after her arrival in Chicago and considered the woman an intimate friend. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Before any of us had come to Chicago, a family of six had lived in our garret room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z More isotopes were being shipped by the Rad Lab across the country, to Chicago, Boston, and New York, than across campus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He fulfilled this obligation by moving to Chicago, where he became an “employment specialist,” placing black workers in a variety of jobs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I apologized for the lateness of the application, and warned that Jesse’s grades weren’t great, probably well below the standard University of Chicago hopeful’s. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrico Fermi’s Chicago experiment had proved that it was possible to spark a chain reaction in uranium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “What Chartres was to the Gothic cathedral,” wrote Thomas Talmadge, a Chicago architect and critic, “the Montauk Block was to the high commercial building.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It was just sad. But then she moved to Chicago and my mom let it go.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Second best city in Illinois, Corporal. After Chicago,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “D-d-didn’t I tell you I had white friends up in Chicago?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z To the kids growing up in a housing project on Chicago’s south side, crack dealing seemed like a glamour profession. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “You know they’ve got some great record stores in Chicago,” Dad said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The railroads had made it known early and forcefully that they had no plans to discount their Chicago fares for the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In San Francisco a twenty-one-year-old entrepreneur named Sol Bloom realized that the Chicago fair would let him at last take advantage of an asset he had acquired in Paris two years earlier. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In Chicago, city officials did nothing to soften the idea that the fire was caused by the city’s poor. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Everyone hoped attendance would continue rising and that the number of people drawn to the closing ceremony of October 30 would break the record set on Chicago Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Out of her prison of a hometown in rural Wisconsin, into the clamor of big-city Chicago and ultimately New York. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z At one session in Chicago the committee asked Davis to estimate the final cost of the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In Chicago, there was cash in your pocket and a steady stream of new job openings if the current one wasn’t working out. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The school sat on the edge of the University of Chicago campus. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after four o’clock, Chicago standard railroad time, the Tribune received its first cable. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In Chicago he found, to his surprise, that the city’s police department knew nothing about Holmes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Before the summer is over, twenty-six riots take place, most notably in Chicago; Washington, DC; and Elaine, Arkansas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “He come down from Chicago to visit family for a spell.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z An analysis of the entire Chicago data reveals evidence of teacher cheating in more than two hundred classrooms per year, roughly 5 percent of the total. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In Chicago, a middle-aged couple clutched each other's hands as they watched. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chicago is like the man who marries a woman with a ready-made family of twelve,” he said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He didn’t know who the mayor of Chicago or the governor of Illinois was, nor did he care. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Did these visitors to the Fair, strangers to Chicago, find their way to Holmes’ Castle in answer to delusive advertisements sent out by him, never to return again? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The African American woman in question was Ida Wells-Barnett, who planned to come from Chicago to Washington, DC, to march side by side with her suffrage sisters from Illinois. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In 1903 the Chicago House Wrecking Company bought the wheel at auction for $8,150, then reassembled it at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Cooke was sitting on a rickety stool, munching an apple and reading the Chicago Daily Tribune. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Desperate for a fresh start, she boarded a train to Chicago. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They theorized the remains might be the last traces of two Texas women, Minnie and Anna Williams, whom Chicago police had only recently learned were missing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We also hired Michael Smith, a talented interior designer we’d found through a Chicago friend, to help us with furnishing and redecorating the residence and the Oval Office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Before I had left Chicago I had thought of a thousand arguments to present for the retention of the John Reed Clubs, but now the retention of those clubs did not seem important. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago is finally beginning to thaw—most of the snow has melted, except for a few dirty patches—and everyone looks brighter, more alive. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Barack and the girls and I were back in Chicago, at home on Greenwood Avenue, caught in the purgatory of waiting for an entire nation to accept or reject us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “They’re from Chicago. Gangs run that town, you know,” she told the kid. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Next year I’d be in line for a summer job in Chicago, if I could find one. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z When I saw the map I realized with a jolt that Richton Park was the next-to-last stop on the Chicago Metra. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When word got out that Guiteau was originally from Chicago, reporters in that city dug into his past, interviewing those who had known him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The programs from shows in Chicago and London are in a separate binder. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z When a Soviet agent in Chicago made contact with Hiskey, the meeting was observed by FBI agents. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Like it’s difficult to drive three hours to Chicago, answer some questions, and drive back? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I couldn’t imagine him going to a colored school, and maybe in Chicago he didn’t have to. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z But they amounted to only a tiny fraction of Chicago’s blacks, and their ranks were slow to grow. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Chicago Tribune made fare reductions a crusade and openly attacked the railroads. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mitch: Well, it all started when my friend Michael moved to Chicago. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a double play combination like the famous Chicago Cubs’ Tinker to Evers to Chance. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z John Jones rose before them, joined by a few other leaders of Chicago’s black community, and laid out a plan of defense. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I let her know that we had two little girls in school in Chicago and that I was pretty attached to my job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The good thing about February in Chicago is that no one thinks it's weird if you're all bundled up. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you left for Chicago, Dante told me that someday he wanted to marry another boy.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z He had worked as a journalist for a German-language newspaper in Chicago. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z This task fell to the beleaguered York, who served as their go-between, shuttling between Berkeley and Chicago, where Teller had set up his Super lab in exile. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Train after train now entered Chicago bringing statesmen, princes, and tycoons from all over the world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Starting in 1846, the Chicago harbor was designated by an act of the United States Congress as an official port of entry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The creditors now hired an attorney named George B. Chamberlin, counsel for Chicago’s Lafayette Collection Agency, who had been pestering Holmes ever since he failed to pay the furnace company for improving his kiln. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z All of a sudden liking fall in Chicago and being in a band and having friends made me feel like a traitor. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I thought a lot about American optimism when, on a flight from Chicago to San Francisco, I watched one of those video magazines stitched together from a week's worth of soft network news reports. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z His trip to Chicago was primarily a business trip with some traditional pleasures thrown in. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All the houses we have to clean are in Lincoln Park, one of the richest neighborhoods in Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Holmes acquired a ticket to a village called Englewood in the town of Lake, a municipality of 200,000 people that abutted Chicago’s southernmost boundary. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He moved around North America, through Chicago, New York, Canada, riding the tough horses, the sour ones, and the nervous ones, but his statistics continued to slip. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m so glad she didn’t come to Chicago. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z As the nineteenth century drew to a close, he saw a massive new wave of men flooding into Chicago, fleeing oppression in eastern Europe—from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I supposed I had screamed, for he materialized suddenly, and I asked him to help me and we’d run away to California or France or Chicago. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought I knew what loud was until I came to Chicago. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z And Charley, who still had vestiges of his Chicago grooming, waded in the water and became his old dirty self again. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, man, this is like the projects in Chicago,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Must've been a good speech,” I said when we walked out of a restaurant in Chicago to find that a crowd had gathered on the sidewalk to wait for him. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Holmes was handsome, warm, and obviously wealthy, and he lived in Chicago, the most feared and magnetic of cities. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Though the Respectables had steady work, their wages were consistently low, as they found themselves shut out of higher-paying factory jobs in Chicago’s fast-growing industrial base. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The whole tempo of the University of Chicago is too slow.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He didn’t know a soul in Chicago and made it there on his own. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The driver of this Jeep Cherokee apparently did not see the red light at this busy intersection near the University of Chicago. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The University of Chicago was tough to get into if you had top grades and tough to stay in, famous for its grueling workload. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z During that winter my brother came home from Chicago; I was glad to see him, though we were strangers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The stage in Chicago even then was being set for Muslims to shift their focus off the epidemic—and onto me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My team and I visited community colleges and some of the big urban high schools around Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z You wouldn’t think we’d have to leave Chicago to see a dead body. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z If he got rejected at Chicago, would he muster the confidence to try again, perhaps at a slightly less selective school like Loyola or DePaul or the U of I? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the mid-1920s, gangsters were ruling the roost in big cities like New York and Chicago. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He had lived in Chicago for ten years, but still didn’t have his papers. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The work advanced slowly, impeded by the worsening relationship between the fair’s two ruling bodies, the National Commission and the Exposition Company, and by the architects’ failure to get their drawings to Chicago on time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Yeah, Uncle Q. He owns Q over there on West Chicago. That’s his club, practically his block. That’s where he runs his business. And that’s where I first fell in love.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The four of us took the Buick south on the expressway, following the road out of Chicago, exiting about forty minutes later near a sterile-looking shopping plaza. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At school, when anyone asked where I was from, I answered, “Chicago.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z That Holmes lived in Englewood, not the heart of Chicago, was at first a disappointment, but here too there was a vibrancy far beyond what she had experienced at home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At every opportunity she took Jim and his siblings to Des Moines and Chicago so they would know that the world was larger than it seemed from Muscatine. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The city had such an evil reputation that the Thompson submachine gun was better known as a “Chicago typewriter.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A black administrator for the United States Employment Service echoed the concern: “There has not been a single vacant job in Chicago for a colored man.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On March 14 Burnham joined Davis for dinner with Japan’s delegate to the fair, at the Chicago Club. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I believe that she had as large a funeral as Chicago has seen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesse went to the Chicago Film Festival where he met a friendly and attractive Finn, but she barely spoke English. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d worked as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune before turning to political consulting and would lead the messaging and media for Barack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Sullivan saw it as a sign that Burnham did not truly believe Chicago had the talent to carry the fair by itself. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “So, they paid for him to fly all the way to Chicago. Did they pay for his hotel? I hope it didn’t cost you anything, Maureen.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z In the rush to rebuild, Chicago never got around to realizing his vision. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “There was something else I wanted to talk to you about. What happened in the alley. In Chicago.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z To find ways to accelerate the work, Burnham called the eastern architects to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way east and how a dozen people had sent their love through me. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Exhibit A, star of the show. Can’t have you run down by one of these motorized Chicago cowboys or mugged and rolled on State Street?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Well, we’d love to have him visit Chicago again,” Mama was saying. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z We might as well be sitting in Chicago right now. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Once the fair closed, many thousands more would join them on Chicago’s streets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But now when summer comes our family gets on a plane, flies to Africa Hawaii Chicago. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “Do you know whether the painting is in Chicago now?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z On May 21, 1917, they made a secret trip to Chicago, where a rabbi married them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Chicago promptly established a formal corporation, the World’s Columbian Exposition Company, to finance and build the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The exposition work was still far behind schedule and a major source of worry, but Olmsted’s health and the pressure of other work had forced him from Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was Saturday morning and her parents, still in pajamas, their heads almost touching, were absorbed in an article in the Chicago Tribune. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “My dad’s going to be a visiting professor for a year at the University of Chicago. I think they’re interested in hiring him.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Now, however, each quarter of Chicago was insisting on a location within its own boundaries, and the squabbling had stymied the board. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In Paris and Western Europe, the story was “essentially a one-day sensation,” with the West German press handling it “as if it were in the Chicago gangster tradition.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Add Chicago and the great fair, and the combination became too alluring to turn down, no matter what Anna suspected about his and Minnie’s relationship. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’m applying to three schools in New York, two in Boston, and one in Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z On some level, I think, he’d decided that if he couldn’t go to a school like Chicago, then perhaps he ought not go at all. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about Constantine, after living fifty years in the country, sitting in a tiny apartment in Chicago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Within minutes, local agents in Chicago and New York were dispatched and on their way. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He traveled to Chicago, Asheville, Knoxville, Louisville, and Rochester, each overnight leg compounding his distress. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was the law of the machine, as immutable as the forces that propelled the Chicago Limited across the prairie. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And with more loved ones getting sick and word spreading of an even worse strain of influenza heading west from Chicago, Indianapolis, and Des Moines, those wives and mothers were determined to protect their families. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Reiterating that police had framed him as a part of a drive to oust Communists from Chicago, Erlone demanded that the charges upon which he had been originally held be made public. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-five years after its inception, Public Allies is still going strong, with chapters in Chicago and two dozen other cities and thousands of alumni around the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I wish I could tell Carlos that Chicago has a Riverwalk, too. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z He returned to Chicago broke, in a cattle car, and joined the firm of an architect named L. G. Laurean. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Like many things in Chicago, Katz’s death slipped from public memory, and everything returned to as it had been. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The University of Chicago was an elite school, and to most everyone I knew growing up, elite meant not for us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Depew sent an immediate response: “I am at your service when ordered and quite ready after today’s events to contribute my body to Chicago science.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He told us that he was a member of the Communist party, a member of the Detroit John Reed Club, that he planned to make his home in Chicago. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Me too. I live with my mom too. My dad’s working in Chicago.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Prendergast bought more postcards and sent exuberant notes to the men who soon would be his associates and clubmates—the judges, lawyers, and merchant princes of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He could not leave Chicago; all roads were blocked, and all trains, buses and autos were being stopped and searched. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Swift & Company, along with the other big meatpackers, moved out of Chicago to locations south and west. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In June two businessmen committed suicide on the same day in the same Chicago hotel, the Metropole. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When the oath controversy erupted, Teller, a brilliant theoretician, had just agreed to leave the University of Chicago for a faculty post at UCLA. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There aren’t as many houses as before, and finally, I see West Chicago. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Even though they didn't want to, it was time to return to Chicago. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Worst-case scenario? The money runs out and we live on the streets of Chicago. Or we call our parents and borrow $125 for the Greyhound. Given the two choices, I’d probably opt for the streets.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him, “If you move to Chicago, you will move alone.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And she won a scholarship to take a six-week summer course at the Chicago Conservatory of Music. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z She was looking out the window at the lights of Chicago. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Theodore Dreiser reached Chicago about when Holmes did and was struck by this landscape of anticipation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z All the city’s wealth, however, had failed to shake the widespread perception that Chicago was a secondary city that preferred butchered hogs to Beethoven. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The destiny of his family in Chicago was wedded to the movement of trains through the Midwest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither of them had ever set foot in Chicago or met anyone else who had. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an architect and had done his work pretty well in Chicago, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Manila, and many other cities. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The yards embodied everything Anna had heard about Chicago and its irresistible, even savage drive toward wealth and power. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On days when school got out early or when homework was light, we flocked from Whitney Young to downtown Chicago, landing in the eight-story mall at Water Tower Place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There were a couple of New York City stations that still broadcast, but Alex preferred the ones out of Washington and Chicago, which now came over loud and clear. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z One weekend a few months after he’d moved, I heard on my car radio that a vicious blizzard had hit Chicago, closing the airports, shutting down public transit, stranding cars on highways. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Peewee said he’d go, but he knew Harlem couldn’t touch Chicago. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "I used to have me one in Chicago —" "Now you ain't never been to no Chicago, gal," the other one interrupted. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes had been to Chicago before, but only for brief visits. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Chicago Tribune’s editorial page criticized the group of senators who hadn’t managed to vote that day, calling them “a bunch of gutless sheep.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Back in Chicago, separated again from Barack, I still sometimes went to my old happy-hour gatherings, though I rarely stayed out late. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In Chicago, despite the tireless efforts of his young lieutenant Harry Codman, the work was far behind schedule, the task ahead growing more enormous by the day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then it was on to the annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Chicago in the glare of the 1933 World’s Fair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1878, he started Chicago’s first black newspaper, the Conservator, and called blacks to action: “We are no longer slaves. We intend to act the part of free men.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Chicago men understood the challenge that this soil presented; the New York men, accustomed to bedrock, did not. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This equation is very useful when you are calculating how long it will take to get from New York to Chicago on a train that moves exactly 120 miles an hour. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Knowing my tendency to panic in the roar and crush of traffic, I started into Chicago long before daylight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago is more beautiful than I ever thought. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z The word “writer” was enough to make a black Chicago Communist feel that the man to whom the word applied had gone wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The rational explanation laid blame on the forces of change that during this time had convulsed Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was this big talk, not the persistent southwesterly breeze, that had prompted New York editor Charles Anderson Dana to nickname Chicago “the Windy City.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “These are the Chicago family trees,” she says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z If I didn’t look around, if I kept my eyes locked on Eddie, I could imagine I was back in Chicago. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In 1893, Ida Wells-Barnett launched the first black women’s club in Chicago, recruiting an aging Mary Richardson Jones to join as honorary chairperson. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Initially Root planned to employ a technique that Chicago architects had used since 1873 to support buildings of ordinary stature. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She wished she had never come to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mr. Larson’s wife was active in the Chicago teachers’ union, and each elementary, junior high, and high school in the metropolitan area received a copy of the press release about the hearing and the charges. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z And after dark in Chicago, the place is loaded with cops. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been hired to be the executive director for the brand-new Chicago chapter of an organization called Public Allies, which itself was basically brand-new. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A few million years ago, the present site of the city of Chicago was buried under three kilometers of frost. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In a way, it reminded her of Lake Michigan when they lived in Chicago, with a city view in one direction and a tranquil spread of water in the other. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She’d thought all of Chicago was going to be made of marble and metal and glass, like something out of a sci-fi movie. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z We crossed Jackson Park Highlands and Hyde Park, where the University of Chicago campus sat hidden behind a massive wrought-iron gate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I told him what was really going on in Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z What evolved was a style of building, known as “Chicago School,” that was not just handsome, but truly fire-resistant. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I read about Dr. King going to Chicago to protest segregated neighborhoods and being attacked by a mob of angry white people who threw rocks at him. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Or maybe because he didn’t mention that the concert was in Chicago. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z When the Joneses reached Chicago, they befriended a group of abolitionists, black and white, working together as “conductors,” assisting slaves to freedom on the hidden tracks of the Underground Railroad. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Chicago had the resolve to make this exposition a reality, the same resolve that had made the city the second largest in America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It’s called a bedroom community of Chicago because it’s only thirty miles outside the city. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z On Fridays, back in Chicago, we had a standing date night, usually meeting downtown at a restaurant called Zinfandel after we’d both finished up work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Exposition Company’s decision raised a groundswell of greed throughout Chicago’s South Side. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Cameramen began filming Nation of Islam scenes around our mosques in New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the spring, I’d been promoted to become a vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z School choice came early to the Chicago Public School system. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As they mulled over their future, southern blacks looked to the Chicago Defender, a source of inspiration and the unvarnished truth about the world around them, for guidance. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Prairie Avenue sat less than four kilometers from my tenement, on the other side of the Chicago River. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I had an important keynote scheduled at an Islamic conference in Chicago, so I was happy to find some modest options tucked in the racks of elegant dresses. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z And then, on the day he was due to fly back to Chicago, his body was found outside the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z When the family moved up north, Eugene had found that some of the other children at his school had roots in New York or Philadelphia or had been born right there in Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Piper remembered a wintry day in Chicago last December, when the three of them had landed in Millennial Park on their first quest. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At the same time he knew Root had little interest in the business side of architecture and in sowing the relationships at the Chicago Club and Union League that eventually led to commissions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I mean, Chicago had some impressive skyscrapers, but this was incredible. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z One girl who had been making two dollars per week in Meridian wrote home to say she was now working in the Chicago stockyards and making two dollars per day. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The club’s telegram reached Depew in Washington twenty minutes after the final ballot, just as Chicago’s congressional delegation began celebrating at the Willard Hotel near the White House. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Upon returning to Berkeley later that day, Ernest asked Teller to leave Chicago and help him establish the second laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then once Chicago had gorged itself on your suffering and sucked you down to the marrow, it would leave you for dead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He made us leave four hours early and drove us the hour and a half to Chicago way before Thaya Jaan’s flight was due to arrive. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But why would Anansi give such a powerful item to a nerdy black boy from Chicago? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z First Minnie and Harry took her on a tour of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Riots in Chicago, Memphis, Baltimore, D.C.—everywhere, everywhere, things were falling apart. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Two summers ago we went to Chicago, where the real painting takes up one entire wall of the Art Institute. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The carping had subsided, he wrote, but few of the carpers had as yet made the “amende honorable” that now clearly was due Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Once when Doc was at the University of Chicago he had love trouble and he had worked too hard. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What stays with me is that sense of comfort, the unusual calmness of that unusually warm November night by the lake in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Despite Haupt's own predicament, at this particular moment, he was just happy to be back in Chicago after a long train ride. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z According to a study by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, each year the average jockey is injured three times and spends a total of almost eight weeks sidelined by injuries incurred on the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That morning, the Pentagon Papers had popped up in the Midwest, on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Tribune said Root was “easily” Chicago’s “most distinguished architect, if indeed he had his superior in the whole country.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After an exhausting journey from Manhattan, I had turned up at the Chicago address my father had made me memorize. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Those who stayed in Chicago, setting up house and looking for work, found that only the lowest jobs were open to blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I shuttled between meetings with various department heads, worked with the staffs of city commissioners, and was dispatched sometimes to different neighborhoods around Chicago to follow up on personal complaints received by the mayor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Dear Dean O’Neill, It occurs to me that the people who will be reading this letter are faced with a difficult decision concerning my admission to the University of Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Initially the Chicago police had no answers, other than the obvious: That in Chicago in the time of the fair, it was so very easy to disappear. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Malia was happy at her University of Chicago Laboratory School, making friends and loading up her own little calendar with birthday parties and swim classes on weekends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Three days later another large Chicago bank failed, and soon after that a third, the Evanston National Bank, in Burnham’s town. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Okay, give me a full replay of Chicago when you come. Aliya’s version wasn’t impressive. Plus, why are you ignoring my messages on Facebook? What’s up with your nonhijab pics? Is someone shaming you?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “In Chicago, sir. Can I go get it?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Always sun. Never snow. The sky is wide open and blue. No skyscrapers. Not like Chicago.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z She was the thirty-sixth person in Chicago killed in gun violence that year, and the year was at that point just twenty-nine days old. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Neil was old when she moved to Chicago, and then she got older. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z One month after the fire, Alfred Sewell took another hike through Chicago and returned in a jubilant mood. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z One of Chicago’s founding fathers, William B. Ogden, argued strenuously for expatriation-sending the freed slaves far, far away to countries in Central and South America. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On long-distance telephones, reporters reached the Chicago mansion headquarters of Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z First, I entered a zip code in downtown Chicago, clicked “location,” and asked for a radius of twenty miles. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “You don’t have to go to Chicago after all?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was the beginning of what one observer would call a massacre and what the Chicago Tribune would term “a crusade of death.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z His assignment: to visit Chicago’s poorest black neighborhoods with a clipboard and a seventy-question, multiple-choice survey. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Holmes broke them all—and with such forthright lack of shame that it became clear to Myrta that the rules must be different in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The original jibarito sandwich was created in Chicago by a Puerto Rican named Juan Figueroa. It wasn’t a traditional Puerto Rican sandwich, but he made something new and original with it. Now it’s very popular.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Alvarez was torn by his loyalties to both men; he had received his doctorate at Chicago under Compton and then had become a trusted staff member at Lawrences Radiation Laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then she became executive director of the Chicago Council of Lawyers, a progressive legal group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago police telegraphed District Attorney Graham that their search of the Holmes building had uncovered the skeleton of a child. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Will we be friends? When I come back from Chicago?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “My,” Smith replied, “but you must be having rainy weather around Chicago.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago was just beginning to settle in for the night. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When Garfield arrived in Chicago, he didn't expect to leave as the presidential candidate. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He remained in Minneapolis until May 1886, when he left for New York City, planning to take “a part of the material there,” and to leave the rest in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When the crowd outside the Tribune saw that Chicago led New York by 43 votes, it exploded with cheers, whistles, and applause. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Chicago had been built largely on soggy marshland that flooded every time it rained. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The date was July 27, 1919, day that would forever change the life of John Turner Harris and cause the whole city of Chicago to rethink where it had been and where it was headed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They definitely didn’t have trees like this at Aimee’s school in Chicago. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z I cringed at the thought of becoming a gravedigger, but it was better than searching for work at Chicago’s sweatshops and slaughterhouses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When the work in the post office ended, I was assigned by the relief system as an orderly to a medical research institute in one of the largest and wealthiest hospitals in Chicago. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Among Chicago’s leading citizens there was always a deep fear of being second class. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Don’t say that. I am glad to see you. I’ve been expecting you. I didn’t know when, but I knew someday you’d come back. Ever since I read that you had run away in Chicago.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He could have been a “gambler or lawyer or maybe a gangster from Chicago.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z This year’s prize was a large silver mirror Valentine had picked up in Chicago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In Chicago, before the news arrived, brokers spent a good deal of time discussing the morning’s strange weather. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Fires were common in all cities back then, and Chicago was no exception. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z In Chicago, some kids speak Spanish at home, never at school. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Convinced that Chicago was too hot in July and August, people were postponing their visits until the fall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Yet even in Chicago, jobs for women were in short supply. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Since Burger was an accomplished artist and violin player, he was instructed to set up a studio and advertise his services as a commercial artist in the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I love my aunt’s condo—a two-flat walk-up in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Chicago probably would have been resurrected in the image of its old — and dangerously flammable — self, if two events had not intervened. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z She moved to Chicago in February 1893 and took a job as a stenographer for a law firm. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As we, the people, move forward, the ghosts of the Chicago riot of 1919 and of the other riots across the nation in that Red Summer whisper in the streets, calling us all to remember. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Since arriving in Chicago that morning, he couldn't shake off the feeling that he was being watched. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It was late, but a bone expert from Chicago had presented that night and they might still be carousing in the local saloons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I want it to be at the University of Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next ten days, Chicago would remain a battle zone, with sporadic incidents of violence taking place throughout the city. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z But the next week, I held another Harlem rally that was even bigger and more successful than the first one—and obviously this only increased the envy of the Chicago headquarters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The two of them had met only a handful of times, beginning six years earlier when Auma had visited Chicago, but they had a close bond. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Did a school like the University of Chicago ever make exceptions? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The drought that had lasted weeks and made Chicago as dry as kindling had finally broken. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He described his own vision of the fair and Chicago’s resolve to make that vision real. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One of the first to reach the fire was a twenty-year-old reporter for the Chicago Evening Post named Joseph E. Chamberlin. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z More precise dates did not come in until the 1950s, when Willard F. Libby, a chemist at the University of Chicago, invented carbon dating. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In 1957, I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents had spent almost their entire lives living within a couple of square miles in Chicago, but they had no illusions that Craig and I would do the same. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Ellsworth insisted that what Chicago had in mind was something far grander than even the Paris exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the past, a semi-skilled black man in Chicago could earn a decent wage working in a factory. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I always just took the broken-down sectors of Chicago in stride, as evidence of what happens when people are without community. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z However, it might have to be sent to someplace like Milwaukee or Chicago or some other city whose name Ignatius associated with efficient repair shops and permanently smoking factories. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One cyclotroneer joked that “its neutrons would reach Chicago”; another wondered, less facetiously, if its beam would be so potent that the targets would be “too hot to handle.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the years immediately following the events in Washington, Chicago, and Elaine, it became increasingly clear that, rather than be diminished by the riots, African Americans were emboldened by them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It was no ordinary Sunday morning when presidential candidate Barack Obama stepped to the podium at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And, because he was in Chicago and I was in El Paso, it was easy to be okay with it. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z So it was Jesse who’d gone on the Web and, between bouts of Quake II, tom through various search engines and relevant Chicago websites. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A later report by a Chicago building inspector noted, “There is an uneven settlement of foundations, in some places as much as four inches in a span of 20 feet.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She promised she’d make Carlos take us to his cousin Leo’s house because he’s a Chicago cop and might be able to help with Olga. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The Bureau, once in charge of the experiment, will now keep order in Chicago’s city limits. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I’m not big on woods. I’m from Chicago.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I was there when the bus from Chicago pulled in at 10:50. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I’m about to close it to show Soon-Lee a real episode when I hear the niqabi say, “...back from a weekend in Chicago.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z It’s not his fault his family moved to Chicago. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Detroit Temple Number One Muslims were going in a motor caravan—I think about ten automobiles—to visit Chicago Temple Number Two, to hear Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of Chicago would not allow it. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When it came time for me and Craig to think about college, we didn’t even consider applying to the University of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She laughed again and said, “Good, because I don’t think her new husband would appreciate the competition. Charlemae . . . Miss Hill is currently living in Chicago, Illinois.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He had a small office in the statehouse and a part-time staffer in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Ernest drew up a preliminary list of first-year grants covering almost every cyclotron in the country save his own, apportioning $10,000 each for Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, and Princeton. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Children who, back in Chicago, would be in kindergarten. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “And when we have the fair, and those lunatics come down from Chicago and up from Saint Louis. If you ask me, it’s the city types that bring the crime with them.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z This is not such an easy task when the snowdrifts are piled high as a Chicago skyscraper! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Now I knew nothing about Chicago except that’s where people headed when they went north. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Three white men and a woman had gone to his uncle’s home and asked if the boy from Chicago was there. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “We have family in Chicago,” her dad says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Fizz posted a picture of the quiz team in Chicago on Instagram. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Reports from his sources indicated that the riot was going to grow, and the Chicago police force was too small to handle it alone. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Nothing the firemen or citizens of Chicago did seemed to stop the fire’s insatiable quest for fuel. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Chicago had rebuilt itself in a way that dazzled its citizens and the world. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Frankie had always spent his Saturday evenings taking the week’s earnings to various fences throughout Chicago. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I was born on March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Ill. U.S.A. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You reach for the next rung of the ladder, and this time it's a job with a salary in the Chicago offices of a high-end law firm called Sidley & Austin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When Regina refused to move, she was arrested by an officer of the Chicago Police Department for disturbing the peace, and she, Bobby, and Joan were forced to move out. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z While I was in Chicago last summer, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad invited me to have dinner at his home. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Many of the people I knew in Chicago—the kids I'd gone to Bryn Mawr with, many of my friends at Whitney Young—knew something similar, though it was not explicitly discussed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z More than once, I had heard him rave about the Chicago Daily Journal and the Chicago Times, English-language papers where he saw the future. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z These men had been born and raised in Chicago, and though they still spoke the old tongue, their accents were Americanized. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Jerome told me we had two choices: we could move to Chicago or we could go to Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After the family moved to Chicago when Welles was three, she exposed him to the city’s finest music, art, and theatre. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z An article entitled “The Effect of the Fire upon Real Estate” concluded that “Chicago property now stands better classified, and its future more distinctly marked, than could have been possible before the fire.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z It was time, he said, to acknowledge the truth: “Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I’m from from Chicago. I just told you.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It reminds me of growing up in Chicago and having to shovel snow. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The eastern and Chicago architects reconvened that night at the University Club for a dinner in their honor hosted by the fair’s Grounds and Buildings Committee. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When the phone rang that afternoon and Long Distance said Chicago was calling I thought this would be Daisy at last. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z When he talked about Chicago, it was in a completely different way than he discussed DePaul. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just last week, they found Victor in the Chicago River,” Frankie called after me as I threw open the doors and stumbled into the deliriously bright sunlight. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The Chicago admissions office would not be looking for input from the press office or, for that matter, from a magazine writer. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ned’s new employer, Dr. H. H. Holmes, seemed a perfect example of what everyone called the “Chicago spirit.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Progress on the atomic pile gave reason for optimism, but Fermi—unhappily relocated to Chicago on Compton’s orders—was still building only prototypes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Twenty years earlier, at the request of Chicago’s South Park commissioners, Olmsted had studied both Jackson Park and, to its west, Washington Park, and the broad boulevard that connected them, called Midway. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After the seventh ballot Chicago was only one vote short of a majority. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I would pay two dollars and a half a week for my room and I would save the balance for my trip to Chicago. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sullivan had come to see Chicago architecture as dominated by only two firms: Burnham & Root and Adler & Sullivan. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That year, a young dentistry student named Walter Noel presented to his doctor in Chicago with an acute anemic crisis, accompanied by the characteristic chest and bone pain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He wanted the best architects America had to offer, not just for their talent but also for how their affiliation instantly would shatter the persistent eastern belief that Chicago would produce only a country fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He made a show of reading an old copy of the Chicago Defender. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Out of static came the sweet strains of cocktail hour music from the Empire Room of the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The police are protecting the good citizens of Chicago, and thank God for them. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Still unsure of where I hoped to land, I typed up letters of introduction and sent them to people all over the city of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There was so much to do in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Just beneath the crust lay a twenty-foot stratum of the same quicksand Chicago builders always confronted, only now it was ice cold and a torment to workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The architects arrived in Chicago late Friday night, January 9, and took carriages to the Wellington Hotel, where Burnham had arranged rooms for all. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He followed it up with, "George has already made preparations for us all to go to Chicago." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In 1989 he began to pursue his PhD in sociology at the University of Chicago. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Who was in the car the whole way back from Chicago and didn’t say a word to me the entire time. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “The first summer I was here was the summer of ninety-five, when Chicago had a heat wave that killed hundreds of people, and of course the hospital wasn’t air-conditioned,” Reilly remembers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Chicago—and perhaps the world—had never seen anything like it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One summer, I traveled out to Chicago to see your mother. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Its reputation went far beyond the borders of the city; Chicago was known throughout the United States and the world as the Queen City of the West and the Gem of the Prairie. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z In 1886 the big packing-house strike broke out in Chicago and Adam’s regiment en- trained, but the strike was settled before they were needed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “No, Mama said she quit. Back in April. Went to live up in Chicago with her people.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Winter had once again clapped itself over Chicago, siphoning the warmth from the air and the blue from the sky. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “From there,” the item continued, “she went to Dwight, and from there to Chicago, where she met her fate.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Nearby, at the distribution warehouse of the Chicago Inter Ocean, a widely read and respected newspaper, a young Irish immigrant—and staunch supporter of Carter Harrison—completed his workday. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I told him he was a Chicago fool. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not imagine an even better job market up north, but she urged her son to go to Chicago and see with his own eyes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Somebody called and asked about ordering an ID card, the cottage industry that at fifty bucks a pop will help underwrite their contemplated move to Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Valerie Jarrett was the newly appointed deputy chief of staff to the mayor of Chicago and had deep connections across the city’s African American community. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Contractors had begun erecting two of the firm’s newest, tallest Chicago skyscrapers, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union Temple and the Masonic Fraternity Temple, at twenty-one stories the tallest building in the world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Edgar Lee Masters, Chicago attorney and emerging poet, called the Court “an inexhaustible dream of beauty.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Barack and I checked into the University of Chicago hospital, bringing both Maya—who’d flown in from Hawaii to be there the week I was due—and my mom for support. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A butler overheard the president speculating on what he’d do if Japanese forces advanced as far as Chicago. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “But I thought—” “Yeah, you thought I helped kill that Chicago boy. Well, Mr. Sisbaby, I guess I missed my chance.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The show had been on for one season and not a single soul among Chicago's three million residents had ever recognized him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I mounted the stairs to a door that was lettered: The Chicago John Reed Club I opened it and stepped into the strangest room I had ever seen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Root returned to Chicago while the architects were in Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I offered Swann an apology but, as the leader of the Chicago John Reed Club, I was a completely sober and chastened Communist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Our newspaper Muhammad Speaks ’ full back page carried an architect’s drawing of a $20 million Islamic Center proposed to be built in Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not going to the University of Chicago if I can help it. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z That perhaps at the end of his second term in office, they would move to Chicago and he would practice law again. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As is often the case just before catastrophe strikes, that Chicago summer Sunday morning was like any other, carrying no hint of the trouble ahead. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “But he loved that house. Remember the tour? The Chicago designer? The purple living room?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Admissions quotas set by the Chicago school board called for a student body that would be 40 percent black, 40 percent white, and 20 percent Hispanic or other. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Most of Chicago felt the same way that Claire did — exhausted, stunned by the immensity of the damage, lost and alone. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z In February 1995, almost a year before the trial of Johnny and Tyrone, we went to the Juvenile Court building in downtown Chicago to find out more about the Eric Morse case. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day the skies over Chicago grew dark as the dust cloud traveled eastward, and a few days later people in upstate New York looked up, astonished, into skies the color of rust. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was fast and noisy, a less patient place than Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At the time of his death, he says, he is in Chicago to address a large crowd on the subject of flying saucers and the true nature of time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And I know that Kate stole aboard a boxcar in Chicago, while Sticky stowed away on a river barge. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Her blue sedan stops at the curb, and then two Chicago cop cars pull up behind her. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you for allowing her to stay in Chicago. She’ll get the rest she needs before driving back.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She delighted in moving about the city unrecognized by Chicago’s residents. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “What is this that Sarah is saying, that your father has invited the quiz team to stay with him in Chicago?” her dad asks, semiglaring at Muhammad. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In Chicago the editors of The Inland Architect tried to be reassuring: “Existing conditions are only an accident. Capital is only hidden. Enterprise is only frightened, not beaten.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mindful of his father’s warning that if anything would send Jesse packing for Idaho, it would be Chicago’s winters, I called that afternoon to ask the boys about their first big snowstorm. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Eugenia, I told you, her sister was sick so she went up to Chicago to live with her people,” she says. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Throughout the spring of 1893 the streets of Chicago filled with unemployed men from elsewhere, but otherwise the city seemed immune to the nation’s financial troubles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the space of ten years, new railroad lines were laid, track by track, four thousand miles, sprawling east, west, south, and north from the central terminus: Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He came to Chicago to see the fair but got sick and spent eleven days in his hotel room, then left without ever seeing the White City. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We’d been waiting in Chicago for our connecting flight for about three hours. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z By the 1850s, the canal and the railroads were drawing a throng of new businesses to Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z To Burnham and the others the new Chicago, as symbolized by the White City rising in Jackson Park, required new leadership—certainly not Harrison. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And the weird thing was that when I remembered we had another fall in Chicago, I didn’t feel as unhappy as I thought I would. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The band was by no means big, but they had a following in the Northwest and in various college towns between here and Chicago. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My trip to Chicago to plead his case took on greater significance than ever. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Which is not a bad way to be in this part of Chicago. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sheriff Smith come round askin’ questions yesterday, stuff about some black boy from Chicago. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Holmes thanked him, paid him, and promptly sold the skeleton to Hahneman Medical College—the Chicago school, not the Philadelphia school of the same name—for many times the amount he had paid Chappell. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was their second move in just a few months, and this time, Jesse and Eric were actually moving to the Chicago they’d thought they were heading for six months earlier. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them recalled, “The packing houses in Chicago for a while seemed to be everything.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When I first came to Chicago, I pretended to have to go to the bathroom just to flush the toilet and watch the water spin in circles down a little hole. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Haas, an archaeologist at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, had plucked the fabric from the earth minutes before, two graduate students immortalizing the operation with digital cameras. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Patrolmen from the new Chicago police precinct house on Wentworth walked past Holmes’s building each day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Shortly before her departure, set for Wednesday, June 14, she wrote to her mother, “I am going to leave Chicago with real regret.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Chicago is widely considered to be one of America’s most diverse and vibrant cities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Arlington Park in Chicago also bandied around the idea. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago newspapers wasted little time before they pointed the finger of blame at her. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The board seemed unaware that Chicago now risked becoming a national, even global, embarrassment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Once there, Regina called her father and told him to bring Joan back to Chicago to join them, but the hospice refused to provide housing for the older child. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Above us, the Chicago skyline loomed against gray clouds. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z It was the most quick and thorough publicity job that I had ever seen the Chicago officials initiate. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He says that these “hypocrites” forced him to flee to Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The final buyers were a number of zoos, mainly the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago and the soon-to-open Minnesota Zoo, but odd animals were going to Los Angeles, Louisville, Oklahoma City and Cincinnati. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At a theater in Chicago I once sat beside a man who watched the movie while listening to a Cubs game on his transistor radio. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z We watch boats sail down the Chicago River. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Oh, shut up, Gonzalez. Did you get my plane ticket to Chicago for the Bears' game with the Packers?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Frank hailed from Chicago, the men called him Gangster. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Chicago's daily Tribune sported two full pages of beach bathers with wide smiles and dripping swimsuits, proclaiming, “KEEP COOL! There's room for 250,000 like these at Chicago’s Beaches Today.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “We shall be ranked among those nations who have shown themselves careless of appearances,” wrote the Chicago Tribune's Paris correspondent on May 13, 1889. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Forming the west side of the quadrangle, King Hall had been built almost thirty years later for the University of Chicago’s education department. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z After surviving his tour in Vietnam, he had returned to the States and found work as a newspaper reporter in Chicago. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Millet was never far from Burnham’s mind, nor was the event that had brought the two of them together: the great Chicago world’s fair of 1893. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z By the end of the month, half the steel industry, including almost all the mills in Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Wheeling, West Virginia; Lackawanna, New York; and Youngstown, Ohio, had shut down. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The University of Chicago is walking distance from the Ida B. Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, there were riots in Chicago, in Savannah, in Washington, in Toledo, in Detroit, in Pittsburgh, and in New York. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z According to the evening broadcast, an elderly woman in Chicago had just notified the authorities about receiving a strange delivery. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z For months after my father’s death, long after I had arrived in Chicago and found a home in the stained brick and wharfs of the Levee, I had imagined my father still underwater. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z From there the married couple continued on to Chicago by train. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Or I was on long-distance to Mr. Muhammad in Chicago, reading from my notebook and asking for Mr. Muhammad’s instructions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of men waited in line outside the Chicago Urban League office. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In Chicago Myrta saw at once that the stories Holmes had told of the city had only barely captured its glamour and dangerous energy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Eight days after the inauguration, Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed in a public park in Chicago, not far from her school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Brown was so stubborn about his decision that even after the fire he was able to write arrogantly in a letter that “I am still standing the watch that burned Chicago.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I, meanwhile, stayed home on Euclid Avenue, living upstairs from my mother as another leaden Chicago winter descended, shellacking the trees and sidewalks with ice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Critics claimed the fair extinguished the Chicago School of architecture, an indigenous vernacular, and replaced it with a renewed devotion to obsolete classical styles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It didn’t hurt that Duncan had grown up in Chicago. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And when Constantine left her at the place up in Chicago... four is... pretty old to get given up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She charmed the temporary people with stories of Greenbriar, Stanford, and, to a lesser extent, Chicago. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z To have done otherwise would have been an act of disloyalty to Chicago and the nation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Barely two weeks had passed post-Olympics, and I was with my family in Chicago at the largest Islamic conference in North America helping to staff our Louella booths. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z And one more jump-start: In late winter, I Sent Jesse the e-mail address of Jane Mahoney, a junior at the University of Chicago whom I knew from my town in New Jersey. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is true that the Chicago students who entered the school-choice lottery were more likely to graduate than the students who didn’t—which seems to suggest that school choice does make a difference. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They sent Colin to a psychologist at the University of Chicago. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Take the case of Wilbur Storey, the owner of the Chicago Times newspaper. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z There are no real hills in Chicago, but the park used to be a quarry, so it has a decent slope. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “He said he was in Chicago and wanted to come down and talk with me about something.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It became the most celebrated building in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As Professor Ross Miller notes in his book American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago: “Subsequent ‘antifire’ legislation disproportionately penalized the working poor who owned their own wooden homes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The issue of the Eiffel Tower arose: What could Chicago do to equal that? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They planned to take off the next day, headed back to Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I am going back to Chicago; I’ll think it over and let you know.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He and Phil, Harry’s brother, arrived in Chicago at the beginning of February to find the city locked in brutal cold, the temperature eight degrees below zero. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The actual time on the way from Chicago was short, but the overwhelming size and variety of the land, the many incidents and people along the way, had stretched time out of all bearing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter if they lived in Chicago, St. Louis, or Philadelphia. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I happened to tell a University of Chicago professor at a cocktail party about the raid as I had seen it, about the book I would write. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Write me right away,” she added, “and address to Chicago, and the letter will be forwarded to me.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Constantine’s gone, Skeeter. She went to live with her people up in Chicago.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z First and foremost, Burnham knew, the fair had to be finished, but in the meantime lures had to be cast to encourage people to shed their fears of financial ruin and come to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then she went to work for Mayor Richard Daley — where she is to this day — as Chicago’s Commissioner of Cultural Affairs. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them was that Chicago was overrun with rats. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In Chicago, meanwhile, the political chatter was starting to kick up again. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Young women drawn to Chicago by the fair and by the prospect of living on their own had disappeared, last seen at the killer’s block-long mansion, a parody of everything architects held dear. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then, just a day ahead of the announcement, Rolling Stone published a piece on Barack that included the reporter making a visit to Trinity Church in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z New York was home for Czerny, the same way Chicago was home for me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When Mario’s family moved to Chicago, we managed to see them every now and then before eventually stopping. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z In April 1891 Chicago learned the results of the latest mayoral election. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Two other professors from Beekman who had arrived in Chicago just this morning joined us. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z One of the most surprising and perhaps dismaying revelations was that Chicago’s chief of police, in his prior legal career, had represented Holmes in a dozen routine commercial lawsuits. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For the first time in a decade, over half a million black voters in Chicago went to the polls, proving that they had the collective power to shape political outcomes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Sharpening the tenor of the discussions in Chicago were signals that the government was considering shutting down the Met Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Well, Mr. Milam had that pistol, and he asked me if I had the boy out of Chicago. Then one of the men said, ‘I wants that boy who done that talk at Money.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I watched the Katrina coverage with a knot in my stomach, knowing that if a disaster hit Chicago, many of my aunts and uncles, cousins and neighbors, would have suffered a similar fate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The more he browsed the University of Chicago catalogue online, the more classes he saw that he’d like to take, and the more boring his routinized office job seemed by comparison. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And in Chicago a young handsome doctor stepped from a train, his surgical valise in hand. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At that time, Chicago headquarters was even discouraging me from staging large rallies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave notice that same day, and a week later she was gone—to Chicago, said her parents, to find a better job and to have a better life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He assigned some of the blame for the incomplete landscape to himself, for failing to install a trustworthy overseer in Chicago after the death of Harry Codman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She would be leaving Chicago soon for a camp in Wisconsin where she worked every summer as a counselor. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z All of Chicago’s attention would be on the fire at the Cold Storage building. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Teens hanging out in Namche carrom parlors are more likely to be wearing jeans and Chicago Bulls T-shirts than quaint traditional robes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Back in Chicago, Adam re-enlisted and asked to be assigned to his old regiment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Before going to law school, he’d worked in Chicago for three years as a community organizer, earning $12,000 a year from a nonprofit that bound together a coalition of churches. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I told Mr. Muhammad, when I visited him in Chicago that month, that I was thinking about a very serious step. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “As I look back on those days, most people in Chicago felt that way. Chicago was host to the world at that time and we were part of it all.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The International Psychological Convention at Chicago is only a week away. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I thought Chicago was big, but New York is vast, enormous, overwhelming. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I learned that the Chicago Muslim officials were further displeased with me because of the newspaper reports of me in die Cassius Clay camp. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence countered that Chicago’s experience with large-scale nuclear research was meager compared with that of the Rad Lab, which had support facilities to spare. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Amazingly, Chicago’s acting chief of police continued to insist that he was “very well pleased with conditions.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Jesse was as close to Gary, Indiana, as he was to Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Or eat hot dogs with while cheering the Chicago Bears? Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z No thanks, I demurred, I already have an accountant in Chicago. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Church leaders and the Chicago Defender urged blacks to remain calm. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Everyone in Chicago knew the last thing you wanted was to get caught in a riot when the police came in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Instead, Hadiya Pendleton became one of three people who died in separate incidents of gun violence in Chicago on that one January day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “So your brothers and sisters live in Chicago?” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z At Midway Airport in Chicago, it would top 100 for six straight days and hit an all-time high of 109 on July 23. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was Sunday and an unusually warm evening for October eighth, so Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan left his stifling little house in the West Side of Chicago and went to visit neighbors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s a documentary about two boys from the Chicago projects who had a passion for basketball. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z When Welles was eleven, his father enrolled him in a private boarding school for boys near Chicago. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Most important of all, the resistance that African Americans demonstrated during the riots in Washington, Chicago, Elaine, and elsewhere were the first stirrings of what would develop into a movement that would change America forever. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “The science museum in Chicago has a rocket simulator.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In Brazilian terms, it was like abandoning a glamorous expatriate life in Paris to come back to Chicago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The woman from Chicago has a smile on her face. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Walowick would rather stay over here than go to Chicago,” Sergeant Simpson chimed in. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I was around Chicago when they built the high-rises. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There it was witnessed by a nonplussed Luis Alvarez, whom Compton had brought to Chicago to help him organize the bomb project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Over the years many aspects of his Chicago plan were adopted, among them the creation of the city’s lovely ribbon of lakefront parks and Michigan Avenue’s “Magnificent Mile.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Jobs were hard to come by, limited at least somewhat by the fact that managers at some of the big factories in Chicago regularly hired European immigrants over African American workers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Back when I had first come to Chicago, Frankie had made it his mission to acquaint me with the city. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But the citizens of Chicago soon realized that they didn’t have much time to feel self-pity or even to reflect on the scope of the tragedy. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z As Chicago moved into the twentieth century, the golden days for Joyce and the other butcher aristocrats were over. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Most of them had gone to school in Chicago or Japan to get this job. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He told her about the letter in the Chicago Defender and what Lewis had told him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She takes a deep breath, moves the white bowl a little closer to her, says, “Constantine sent her up to Chicago to live. She couldn’t take care of her.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Barack is viewed in part to be the white man in blackface in our community,” Donne Trotter told the Chicago Reader. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Minutes after it began, six armed, masked bandits robbed two freight cars full of liquor from a rail yard in Chicago. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Newspaper headlines around the country shone a light on Chicago’s shame for all the world to see. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I figured one place was like another, except, according to the television, if you lived in New York or Chicago or any big city, you had to be plenty tough. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Not long after the end of World War I, when Haupt was five years old, his family moved to Chicago's North Side. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I had expected us to root out the exorcist within the shuls and tenements of Maxwell Street, but Frankie surprised me by hailing a carriage that took us to Chicago’s outskirts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The dream was an appealing one, the architects agreed, and no one doubted Chicago’s sincerity in imagining this fantasy precinct of lagoons and palaces, but the reality was something else entirely. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This was the tail end of the 1960s on the South Side of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But Chicago had started to feel less and less like Oz. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Five more children would be bom there in Detroit, and, finally, the last one in Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago’s mayor, Robert B. Mason, had been up all night receiving reports about the spread of the fire and praying for a miracle. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z There was an ongoing gang war in Chicago. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Harsh and sour, it brought to mind my first year in Chicago. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He arrived in Chicago, and there, for no reason, rented a furnished room for a week, stayed in it for two days, went to Buffalo, changed his mind, and moved to Niagara Falls. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I made it clear to the housekeeping staff that our girls, as they had in Chicago, would make their own beds every morning. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We stopped that night on the outskirts of Chicago. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Both in New York and Chicago, non-Muslims whom I knew began to tell me indirectly they had heard—or they would ask me if I had heard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The invaders had swept west to Buffalo, Chicago, and St. Louis. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z By May 29 the eight of us had flown off to Chicago to receive the Robert S. Abbot Award conferred by the Chicago Defender newspaper. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, more than a month into the trial, a Chicago criminal lawyer who was Scoville’s friend agreed to join the defense team. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Burnham had shown them himself, in Chicago, through the hardest sort of work. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Because Lulabelle needed to know the truth. She needed to go back to Chicago where she belonged.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was incredibly cold and an icy gale swept up and down the Chicago streets with blizzard force. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Early on the morning of December 2, 1942, two figures crunched over the frozen snow covering the campus of the University of Chicago. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Malia had been eight when Barack sat on the edge of her bed in Chicago and asked if she thought it was okay for him to run for president. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And now with so many immigrant men at war, no longer needing a place to stay in Chicago, immigrant wives lost the extra money the family had taken in from boarders. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Barack had flown back to Chicago to be with me for as long as he could around my dad’s funeral before returning to finish at Harvard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Even when not barred by law from holding specific jobs, formerly incarcerated and convicted people in Chicago find it extraordinarily difficult to find employers who will hire them, regardless of the nature of their conviction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That book had fancy pictures like the ones that came with the calendars I seen hanging up in the druggist in Chicago. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Here we were skimming along a country road out past Cowgills’ Dairy Farm, and we were hearing music being played in the Chicago Loop. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Gold traveled by train to Chicago, caught a plane to Washington, D.C., and jumped on a train up to New York City. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first hint that radio time isn’t moving at the same speed as reality, the announcer says that the Chicago observation occurred at 7:40 p.m., Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z After interviewing numerous firefighters and other eyewitnesses, the inquiry found that there had been drinking following the Saturday night fire, a ritual that was common not only in Chicago, but in all cities back then. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z A year after my graduation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a terrible mistake was made and I was offered a position teaching a writing workshop. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In Chicago, people would take me for what I was. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Two hours before the train reached Chicago, during a brief stop, McKim received a cable notifying him that his mother, Sarah McKim, had died unexpectedly in her home, at seventy-eight. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We were willing, though going to the pictures for us was the Oriental Theater in Chicago, featuring a first-run movie, a pipe organ, and a stage show with a dog act. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She's used to the timid little freshmen in her literature classes at the University of Chicago. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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