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Honorable mentions. 530.5 feet (161.7 m) Park Place Tower in Lakeview is the tallest building in Illinois outside of downtown Chicago. 513 feet (156 m) Park Tower in Edgewater is the second-tallest building in Illinois outside of downtown Chicago.
It was also revealed that the city of Chicago had paid Joe $20,000 in settlement which proves his doubt of Atwater's story. Atwater tearfully insists that he thinks about Joe's son every night before he goes to bed — but he also thinks about the clerk who Joe's son robbed, too.
Part of the 2009–10 North American winter. The February 5–6, 2010 North American blizzard, commonly referred to as Snowmageddon, [1] was a blizzard that had major and widespread impact in the Northeastern United States. The storm's center tracked from Baja California Sur on February 2, 2010, to the east coast on February 6, 2010, before ...
Previously reproduced in Dornfeld's book, Behind the Front Page (previously titled, Hello Sweetheart, Get Me Rewrite! ), and in the June, 1959 Trib magazine. City News Bureau of Chicago ( CNB ), or City Press (1890–2005), [1] was a news bureau that served as one of the first cooperative news agencies in the United States.
The NYSE preserved a way to put people in charge -- and take control away from the computers -- in the event of a big percent change in a stock's price. Putting a person in charge of trading a ...
Politics in Chicago through most of the 20th century was dominated by the Democratic Party. Organized crime and political corruption were persistent concerns in the city. Chicago was the political base for presidential nominees Stephen Douglas (1860), Adlai Stevenson II (1952 and 1956), and Barack Obama, who was nominated and elected in 2008.
Business and economy China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launch a Free Trade Area. (New York Times) (Xinhua) Disasters and accidents At least 19 people are dead and five are injured as mudslide hits an island resort near Angra dos Reis, Ilha Grande. Large numbers also killed elsewhere in Brazil. (BBC) (The Washington Post) Health A study suggests that teenagers who go ...
May. May 1 – 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt: Car bomb fails to go off in Times Square, New York City. May 6 – The "flash crash" occurs at the New York Stock Exchange, temporarily depleting 1,000 points off of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is the largest intra-day fall ever.