Chicago’s least-snowy winters occurred in the winters of 1920-21 and 1921-22. The 1920-21 winter recorded 9.8 inches of snow. The snowiest month was December, with 4.4 inches, followed by 3.2 inches ...
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Chicago leads America in homicides” or that it was the “murder capital of the world.”² “No other city in the United States,” its police superintendent conceded in 1913, “is more open to the ...
Once described as able to “fight her weight in wildcat,” University of Chicago graduate Gertrude Beasley came out swinging in her 1925 memoir, “My First Thirty Years.” In the first sentence, she ...
The story of the most populous cities in the United States is an evolving one that reflects economic, cultural and demographic shifts. Few nations have experienced such profound changes as the United ...