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Chicago Resolution Gala: For the past six years, to kick off the year, the ballroom has been used to celebrate New Year's Eve. USO Star Spangled Salute Gala: The gala helps raise money for USO programs and the local military and their families. At the 2017 gala, Susan Schneider-Williams, widow of Robin Williams, was the guest of honor. 2018
www.uso.org. The United Service Organizations Inc. (USO) is an American nonprofit-charitable corporation that provides live entertainment, such as comedians, actors and musicians, social facilities, and other programs to members of the United States Armed Forces and their families. Since 1941, it has worked in partnership with the Department of ...
List of entertainment events at the United Center. Since its opening in 1994, the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, has hosted many local, regional and international artists, spanning a wide range of musical genres. A list of notable concerts are given in the table below, with other non-concert entertainment events also included.
February 15, 1941 (Saturday) British and German troops engaged each other in North Africa for the first time in a skirmish near Sirte. [1] A great fire broke out in the Spanish city of Santander. Italy forced the United States to close consulates in Naples and Palermo. [2] German submarine U-78 was commissioned.
Kimo Williams. Website. www.ltdanband.com. The Lt. Dan Band is an American cover band originally formed in Chicago in 2003 by Gary Sinise and Kimo Williams to perform at USO shows, entertain troops, and raise money for disabled veterans. The band is named after the character Lieutenant Dan Taylor, whom Sinise portrayed in the film Forrest Gump ...
American Negro Exposition. The American Negro Exposition, also known as the Black World's Fair and the Diamond Jubilee Exposition, was a world's fair held in Chicago from July until September in 1940, to celebrate the 75th anniversary (also known as a diamond jubilee) of the end of slavery in the United States at the conclusion of the Civil War ...
CHICAGO — Kamala Harris is slowly unveiling a policy agenda for next year if she wins the presidency. The ensuing debate is highlighting an important dynamic: She’ll need Democrats to win ...
Their first dance hall project was the 1922 Trianon Ballroom in Chicago designed by renowned theater architects Rapp & Rapp. With hopes of duplicating the success of the Trianon, the brothers opened the Aragon on July 15, 1926, once again turning to movie theater experts for building design.