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Nov. 24
1841; This Thanksgiving Day is probably the first offical Chicago observance of the holiday.
Nov. 25
1900; Polce chief Joseph Kipley orders a crackdown on slot machines. he claims that they are to be found “everwhere.”
Nov. 26
1913: Vernon and Irene Castle give an exhibition of their dance, the Castle Walk, in the Crystal Ballroom of the Balckstone Hotel.
Nov. 27
1926: Soldier Field is packed with the largest football crowd in American history- 111,000 fans – for Chicago’s first Army-Navy Game. It ends in a tie: 21-21.
Nov. 29
1910: After a flood of protests against Mary Garden’s “incident” portrayal of Salome in the Oscar Wild-Richard Strauss opera of the name, the Chicago Opera Company cancels the three remaining permormances.
Nov. 30:
1914: Sixty-five churches on the West Side extend a formal invitation to Billy Sunday to conduct a revival in Chicago.
Dec. 2
1942: At the University of Chicago, Enrico Fermu supervises the world’s first controlled nuclear reaction.
Dec. 3
1900: Thousands crowd the exhibition halls at the Union Stock Yard on the opening day of the International Fat Stock Show.
Dec. 4
1674: Father jacques Marquette stops at the site of Chicago on a trip from Green Bay to Kaskaskia.
Dec. 5
1896: After a tour of Chicago, a representative of San Francisco’s street cleaning organization remarks that “as to Chicago streets, it is sufficent to say they do not impress me pleasantly.”
Dec. 6
1910: John L. Sullivan, former heavyweight champion, asserts that prizefighting is dead in the United States because the public is so digusted with crooked practices.
Dec. 7
1910: Chicago, with the population of 2,185,000, remains the fourth largest city in the world, just ahead of Berlin with 2,180,000
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