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Standard Time (SDT) and Daylight Saving Time (DST) offsets from UTC in hours and minutes. For zones in which Daylight Saving is not observed, the DST offset shown in this table is a simple duplication of the SDT offset.
The first Eataly location in Manhattan was established in the Toy Center Building near Madison Square Park. [4] [5] It is over 50,000 square feet (4,600 m 2) in size, [6] and opened with a large amount of press coverage on August 31, 2010.
The ploy was within the NFL's rules at the time because of the open-ended schedule. Chicago finished the season with a record of 11–2–1. However, the league sanctioned them because a Chicago player, Art Folz, had hired four Chicago high school football players to play for the Milwaukee Badgers under assumed names to ensure a Cardinals victory.
A global city, also known as a power city, world city, alpha city, or world center, is a city that serves as a primary node in the global economic network. The concept originates from geography and urban studies, based on the thesis that globalization has created a hierarchy of strategic geographic locations with varying degrees of influence over finance, trade, and culture worldwide. [1]
Cicero is a town in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago.As of the 2020 census, the population was 85,268, making it the 11th-most populous municipality in Illinois. [4]
Yerkes was born into a Quaker family [1] in the Northern Liberties, a district adjacent to Philadelphia, on June 25, 1837. [2] His mother, Elizabeth Link Yerkes, died of puerperal fever when he was five years old, and soon thereafter his father Charles Tyson Yerkes Sr. remarried a non-Quaker and was therefore expelled from the Society of Friends.
"Sweet Home Chicago" is a blues standard first recorded by Robert Johnson in 1936. Although he is often credited as the songwriter, several songs have been identified as precedents. [1] The song has become a popular anthem for the city of Chicago despite ambiguity in Johnson's original lyrics.
The Chicago and North Western (reporting mark CNW) was a Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States.It was also known as the "North Western".The railroad operated more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of track at the turn of the 20th century, and over 12,000 miles (19,000 km) of track in seven states before retrenchment in the late 1970s.