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May 22, 1881: Tribune prints entire text of newly revised, plain-English version of New Testament.
March 1, 1884: Permit issued for nine-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago, world’s first steel-frame skyscraper.
March 25, 1886: Charles T. Yerkes buys control of the North Chicago City Railway. For next 13 years, Tribune campaigns against Yerkes’ attempt to gain monopoly over public transportation system.
May 4, 1886: Unknown bomb-thrower at labor rally sparks Haymarket Riot on Near West Side; eight policemen and at least four civilians die.
July 11, 1886: Capt. George Streeter’s steamboat runs aground on Near North Side sandbar now known as Streeterville.
Sept. 18, 1889: Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr open Hull House on Halsted Street, starting settlement-house movement.
Dec. 9, 1889: The Auditorium Theatre opens.
1890
1890: Census reports that as of this year, Chicago now nation’s second city, breaking million mark with 1,099,850 residents.
Oct. 16, 1891: Theodore Thomas leads debut of Chicago Orchestra (later renamed Chicago Symphony Orchestra).
June 6, 1892: Service begins on first segment of Chicago’s “L” between Congress and 39th Streets.
May 1, 1893: World’s Columbian Exposition, a project championed by Tribune, opens in Jackson Park.
July 9, 1893: Black physician Daniel Hale Williams performs first successful open heart surgery at Chicago’s Provident Hospital.
Oct. 28, 1893: Mayor Carter Harrison assassinated.
May 11, 1894: Pullman factory workers on far Southeast Side begin protracted and bloody strike.
June 4, 1896: Henry Ford test drives his first automobile in Detroit. He later sells it for $200.
July 8, 1896: William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech at Democratic
Convention in Chicago makes party champion of social reform.
April 21, 1898: Spanish-American War begins.
May 7, 1898: Tribune scoop on Commodore George Dewey’s victory at Manila Bay; President William McKinley gets news in phone call from Tribune.
March 16, 1899: Medill dies at 76.
1900
Jan. 2, 1900: Sanitary and Ship Canal (a project long championed by Tribune) completed, reversing flow of Chicago River.
Dec. 17, 1903: Wilbur and Orville Wright’s first flight at Kitty Hawk,N.C.
Dec. 30, 1903: More than 600 die in Iroquois Theater fire; Tribune devotes entire front page next day to casualty list.
May 5, 1905: Chicago Defender newspaper founded.
February 1906: Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” exposes conditions in Chicago stockyards.
Sept. 3, 1906: Fugitive Chicago banker Paul Stensland tracked down in Morocco by Tribune’s Keeley, who persuades him to surrender.
Oct. 9, 1906: World Series pitting Cubs against White Sox begins (Sox win series, 4-2).
April 13, 1908: Chicago first city in nation to pass law requiring pasteurization of milk.
Dec. 26, 1908: Jack Johnson becomes first black heavyweight boxing champ, in Australia.
January 1909: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded.
March 1909: Plans completed for Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style masterpiece, in Hyde Park.
April 6, 1909: Cmdr. Robert Edwin Peary reaches North Pole.
July 4, 1909: Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett’s Plan of Chicago issued.
1910
Aug. 29, 1911: First appearance of “World’s Greatest Newspaper” on Tribune masthead.
April 14, 1912: Titanic sinks on maiden voyage, killing 1,517.
July 13, 1912: U.S. Sen. William Lorimer of Illinois unseated following Tribune reports of corruption.
May 13, 1914: Robert R. McCormick and cousin Joseph Patterson begin to share Tribune’s editing and publishing duties.
July 28, 1914: World War I begins.
July 24, 1915: Steamship Eastland capsizes in Chicago River, killing more than 800.
Feb. 12, 1917: “The Gumps,” for decades one of the most popular comic strips, introduced in Tribune.
April 6, 1917: America enters World War I.
Nov. 7, 1917: Bolshevik coup completes Russian Revolution.
March 31, 1918: First U.S. trial of daylight-saving time.
June 9, 1919: Under headline “TRIBUNE HAS TREATY,” Tribune scoops world
with details of Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I.
July 27, 1919: Start of five days of Chicago race riots; 23 blacks, 15 whites killed.
Oct. 9, 1919: White Sox lose World Series to Cincinnati Reds; eight “Black Sox” players later tossed out of baseball for fixing games.
