FUN FACTS ABOUT CHICAGO
; In 1779, Chicago’s first permanent settler was Jean
Baptiste Point du Sable, an African-American businessman
from what is now Haiti. In du Sable’s home, which he
shared with his Native American wife, the first marriage
in Chicago was performed, the first election was held, and
the first court handed down justice.
; The world’s first skyscraper, the Home Insurance
Building, was built in Chicago in 1885. At 10 stories high,
the building might not be considered terribly impressive
today, but it represented a remarkable achievement at the
time. Among other features, it was the first tall building to
use structural steel in its frame.
; The 1893 Columbian Exposition grounds were so
strikingly attractive and popular that they launched the
“City Beautiful” movement, which promoted the incorpo-
ration of parks, boulevards, and other green spaces into
American urban planning.
; In 1900, Chicago successfully completed a massive and
highly innovative engineering project—reversing the flow
of the Chicago River so that it emptied into the Mississippi
River, instead of Lake Michigan. Each year, the Chicago
River is dyed green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day; how-
ever, to celebrate the historic Chicago Cubs 2016 World
Championship, the river was dyed blue for the first time.
; Chicago’s Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African-
American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Brooks was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 for her vol-
ume Annie Allen.
; The first televised U.S. presidential candidates’ debate
was broadcast from Chicago’s CBS Studios on Sept. 26,
1960, between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard
Milhous Nixon.
; Chicago native Sen. Carol Moseley Braun became the
country’s first female African-American U.S. senator in
1992.
; The “Historic Route 66” begins in Chicago at Grant Park
on Adams Street in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.
; In 1931, Chicago’s own Jane Addams, founder of the
Hull House, became the first American woman to win the
Nobel Peace Prize. The Hull House opened in 1889 to aid
Chicago immigrants.
; The term “jazz” was coined in Chicago in 1914. The city’s
native musicians included bandleader Benny Goodman
and drummer Gene Krupa.
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