Happy Birthday, Chicago. Tuesday marks the city’s 188th birthday. The March 4 date recognizes the city of Chicago’s official ...

Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. It took eight ballots, but Chicago was finally awarded on Feb. 24, 1890 the opportunity to host a World’s Fair. “From the start the ...

In 1893 a young historian addressed the American Historical Association, which was meeting at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago ... quoting from the Census of 1890: "Up to and including ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, which provided recipients with full tuition and fees for students studying agriculture, food or natural resource sciences at ...