Illinois Throughout The Years

 

 

Jane Addams wins the Nobel Peace Prize

 

Fire destroys the historic Pullman
railroad-car factory in south Chicago

 

Chicago Bulls win the first of three consecutive National Basketball Association championships.

 

Bonnie Blair (b. 1964) speed skater from
Champaign, wins her fifth Olympic Games
gold medal, the most by an American woman

 

1922

 

Herrin Massacre

 

 

Chicago Bears win the professional football championship; repeat in 1933, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1963, and 1986.

 

Clarence Page (b. 1947) of the Chicago Tribune is the first African-American columnist to win a Pulitzer Prize.

 

 

Commuter train strikes a school bus in Fox River Grove, killing seven and injuring thirty students.
 


1931

     
       
 

1988

   
 

1932

       
 

1991

   



1989

       
 
 

1994

   
 

1995

       
         
       

 

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