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NICHOLAS PERROTLOUIS JOLLIET & JAQUES MARQUETTEAUGUST 15, 1812
BATTLE OF FORT
DEARBORN
FORT DEARBORN MASSACREAUGUST 12 , 1833
THE TOWN OF CHICAGO
IS INCORPORATEDMARCH 4, 1837
THE CITY CHICAGO
IS INCORPORATEDJANUARY 15, 1831
COOK COUNTY
IS INCORPORATED1779-1780
JEAN BAPTISTE POINT DU SABLE
SETTLED CHICAGO1850 -
INFLUX
IRISH
IMMIGRATIONMAY 14, 1832 -
BATTLE OF
STILLMAN'S
RUNPOPULATION IN
CHICAGO REACHES
1,000,0001845 -
GERMAN
IMMIGRATION1850 -
INFLUX
GERMAN
IMMIGRATION1860 -
INFLUX
GERMAN
IMMIGRATIONCHICAGO'S
1ST
AFRICAN AMERICAN
COMMUNITYAPRIL 6, 1832
THE
BLACK HAWK
WARAUGUST 27, 1832 -
BLACK HAWK WAR ENDSAUGUST 2, 1832 -
THE BATTLE OF BAD AXEDECEMBER 4, 1969
FRED HAMPTON
IS ASSASSINATED1837 -
POLISH
IMMIGRATION1860 -
INFLUX
POLISH
IMMIGRATIONJAN 1, 1878
FERDINAND LEE. BARNETT
ESTABLISHES
"THE CONSERVATOR"1940 -
MEXICAN
POPULATION
DEPORTEDOCTOBER 5, 1813
TECUMSEH
SHAWNEE CHIEF
FALLS IN BATTLEMARCH , 1768
TECUMSEH
SHAWNEE CHIEF
IS BORNSEPTEMBER 1, 1939
WW2 BEGINSJULY 7,1937
WW2 IN UTERO1696
PIERRE FRANCOIS PINET
FOUNDED
La Mission de l’Ange Gardien
(THE MISSION OF THE GUARDIAN ANGEL )1916 - 1919
INFLUX
AFRICAN AMERICANAPRIL 4 , 1968
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
ASSASSINATEDNOVEMBER 22, 1963
JOHN F. KENNEDY
ASSASSINATEDJUNE 6, 1968
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
ASSASSINATED1963
ASHLAND
VIKINGS
EST.JULY 27 , 1919
CHICAGO
RACE RIOTS
BEGINAUGUST 3 , 1919
CHICAGO
RACE RIOTS
ENDMAY 4, 1886
HAYMARKET AFFAIR
BOMBINGS - RIOTS1940 - 1952
GAYLORDS
EST.1964
LA FAMILIA
WARLORDS
EST.1920's - 1954
LATIN KINGS &
LATIN QUEENS
EST.1950 - 1960
HARRISON
GENTS
EST.1950 - 1952
SPANISH COBRAS
EST.1955 - 1957
LATIN COUNTS
EST.1930 - 1959
SAINTS
EST.1950 - 1959
AMBROSE
EST.1950 - 1959
VICE LORDS
EST.1920's - 1960
TAYLOR JOUSTERS
EST.1950's -1960's
INSANE DEUCES
EST.JANUARY 1969
BLACK GANGSTER
DISCIPLES
EST.FEBRUARY 21, 1965
MALCOLM X
ASSASSINATEDMARCH 19, 1943
Francesco Raffaele Nitto -
FRANK NITTI
COMMITS SUICIDEJUNE 25, 1950
KOREAN WAR
BEGINSJULY 27, 1953
KOREAN WAR
ENDSSEPTEMBER 1, 1945
WORLD WAR II
ENDS
65 MILLION DEADDECEMBER 7, 1941
JAPANESE ATTACK
PEARL HARBORJUNE 28, 1914
ARCH DUKE
FRANZ FERDINAND
ASSASSINATED
JULY 28 ,1914
(THE GREAT WAR)
WORLD WAR I
BEGINSNOVEMBER 11, 1918
(The Great War)
WORLD WAR I
ENDSFEBRUARY 14, 1929
ST. VALENTINE'S
DAY MASSACREMAY 11, 1920
Giacomo Vincenzo Colosimo
JAMES BIG
JIM COLOSIMO
"Diamond Jim"
ASSASSINATED1870 -1880
CHICAGO'S
1ST
CHINESE COMMUNITY1920 -
INFLUX
CHINESE
IMMIGRATION1900 -
INFLUX
CHINESE
IMMIGRATION1910 -
CHICAGO'S
1ST
MEXICAN COMMUNITY1959 -1962
BLACK P. STONE
RANGERS
EST.1966 -
LATIN DISCIPLES
EST.1950's - 1963
LATIN EAGLES
EST.
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